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Ivan Jimenez
www.worldwide1977.com
+34 610909768

WE MOVED /NOS HEMOS MUDADO

YOU CAN CHECK THE WHOLE NEW WORLDWIDE WEBSITE AT THE MAIN WEBAGE

PODEIS SEGUIR WORLDWIDE EN LA NUEVA PAGINA WEB


HTTP://WWW.WORLDWIDE1977.COM

Los Angeles Day 1/2

Finally made it to L.A. This Air France flight has been the worse I have had in all my travelling experience, and I have travelled everywhere. First the Paris thing. I ended up in the Eiffel Tower by myself. Have you ever felt weird by just being somewhere you were not supposed to be?
You make this whole scheulde in your head and something happens, and you get it all twisted.


At least the tower was amazing. And at night this view rocked and was worth every euro I spent on two cabs... from nowhere to the Eiffel Tower, and from the Eiffel Tower to nowhere.

By the way FUCK B&B Roissy hotel.

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And from Germany with love, bombing the city with the best stickers ever...

...thanks Kazuma!

Trapped in Paris

What happens when some frenchies decide to be on strike for some hours and make an Air France plane delay for 3 hours? What happens is that you get stuck in the middle of somewhere's hotel with a non working Tv and a lot of pissed people with you (not in the room,in the hotel i mean).

Lost connection to my L.A flight and will delay one day.Never ever this happened to me before. Funny thing is being 2 hours in a cue to get another flight and rescue the situation I meet this girls, one of them when she found out had to stay one night in Paris started crying and left the place.

Viva Air France...

But checking Eiffel tower tonight!

Changes

For some of you trying to enter from www.worldwide1977.com, everything is going to be undr works for some days as the whole site is going to change. I feel as this blogger.com page is not enough and that I need a total makeover.
So stay tuned... as this will change soon.

Worldwide website 2.0 coming...

One of the reasons Spain sucks

New editorial contributions

I love writing. I love publishing stuff. No matter how stupid a subject might sound, if you write about it in a good way, it will "look" good. Thats the power of the press. I have been shooting and writing for magazines for years, from spanish, japanese, english, american, french to german mags. For a long period of my life I was a heavy contributor for many magazines, mostly skateboarding, but also fashion, newspapers, or even fanzines. And I loved it.
For some reasons I stopped. An urge to find myself forced me to stop shooting photos, writing and everything in between, and here I am, a couple years later coming back to the publishing world with the new UNO magazine articles:


This is my review for the amazing FX35 from Panasonic I did. I have a gadget review section and I will be reviewing gadgets every issue based on my everyday use. The Fx35, despite what they say, it has the same optics as the Leica cam. Different branding that is...

The "shoppinG" section where I review different stupid shit I find in every city I visit. Next one will be Los Angeles maybe, or even Madrid, who knows. Is just small stuff that makes a city full. In this case I did New York, and you cant go wrong with the brownies, the Supreme hat or the Nintendo pez, oh, and of course the STARKS laces!


And Leah from MOB, full interview and article about the brand. More coming.

Planetbase vist

I paid a little visit to the people at Planetbase in Barcelona. back in the day I was working with them and together we launched the skateboard mag "UNO".
It has rained a lot since then, and today had a business meeting.
Some pics of their offices.

L.A

My good friends at Los Angeles brand FOREIGN FAMILY reppin the "Worldwide Marathon" tee with Bobby Hundreds who finally answered one of my mails. Im heading to their land soon on biz related trip.
Stay tuned Los Angeles, WORLDWIDE coming...




And this is the new window display (one of them), that Foreign Family did for ATTIC store in San Diego. Good job guys.
By the way, I will be packing SUPER light on my L.A trip so Chad and Yoshi get on work and produce some more of those sweat shorts in more colorways because I want them all.

Frankfurt

I am in Frankfurt for the "bright" tradeshow.Its locared in an old
police station in the middle city and every brand has a room.there are
a LOT of rooms, can't think why a police station had this many rooms.
Lot of brands,lot of crap, lots of girls promoting, and some homies
around like the Akomplice guys, dream team, Chris from Freshjive, and
all the SB fam.
And tonight I will be back home ready for a goodbye dinner spanish style with tapas and good food.

And working a little bit in this hotel room wont hurt me. I really enjoy working at hotels. They are peaceful, and they always have nice tables to work at, oh, and a lot of natural light.
So Im here working now on some internet stuff and some stuff coming soon as promo.
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Thanks for all the emails ordering the "Amy" tee, never thought it would be such a smash hit! Thanks.
shipping 1st week of august.

Highsnobiety

Highsnobiety blog talking about the tee. Thanks man. By the feedback Im getting with this one...looks some people is feeling the Amy thing. Good.

"Amy is the new Sid"

New T-Shirt from WORLDWIDE. This time is the infamous Amy Winehouse the star of the tee mixed with the dead Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious.
Abuse, use, and all the cliches that some of todays youth are on these days. This tee is just a call out to what happens when you play with dangerous stuff.... Amy is the new Sid.

Accepting orders this week only. Shipments will be 1st week of august.

Sizes from S to XL. Color black. And this one, being extremely limited will come with Worldwide stickers in every tee.
EMAIL: worldwide1977@mac.com

Friends

Jeff Staple posted some pics in his blog and asked readers to match the pics with the text. Heres my part...
By the way, excellent salad and steak. See you soon.

Chad, you still here man, tonight we go to have a final dinner with your Bruce Lee look, and then we kick you out of our country.

We all have dreams. One of mine was to develop, grow and do something out of my heart, my skills and my passion and I called it WORLDWIDE.
Worldwide was born, and then my stuff was sold in Digitalgravel.com, Supreme NYC, Reed Space, a shop in Russia, some shops in Spain, and few other stockists around, and this dream came true.
I will always remember the comment of this fool who called himself my friend and said "I shit on Ivan's tees".
After that, I have been pushing a trillion more buttons to keep all this big machine working. Im not just doing tees now, but this tee shirt game is the last on my priorities now, as me and my team we doing website building, graphic design and anything possible to keep stacking the goodies. The tee game is what I have fun with, so this will always go on.
Still a few tees from last season at DG! Hurry up!
With that in mind, two new projects coming out this month: The Digital Gravel water Project and the "Amy is the new Sid" ultra limited t-shirt dropping exclusively at DIGITAL GRAVEL.

Dreams are still alive. Im just trying to expand. And its working. Just updating you all on the mails Im getting asking for more Worldwide stuff... its coming!

Thanks to all my friends, fam, you all know who you are. The L.A family, always and forever guys. This is just getting better every minute, and I dont have to be "cool" to get there.

B&B

So yesterday was the last day of B&Butter. Thank god.
The weather is really hot, really humid, and there's a lot of people in the city. It just stresses me out.
Few friends in town, so what best than kicking it with them? Chad, Nima and Buba we just recordered some video at these guys apartment in the ghetto streets of Barcelona. You will see it up soon.
Im there just letting them know how to use a washing machine and talking about new projects, and what the inspiration and shit about them.
Yesterday went to the Trustnobody party, hella fun. We all were there, thanks Tonete was great.
Chad has been updating day by day, better check his blog out.

Thats it for me. Tomorrow Im out to the beach.
Monday back to office number 1, then office number 2, and another day...


Ruth's boots for the night.Patent leather and high heels.What what?!

Isaac, blogger extraordinaire rocking the Hustlers Marathon tee!

This guy asked me in the bar some random questions, heres the transcription of the chat we had:
Guy: "Wow man, amazing Tshirt from Supreme you wearing! kermit! yeaaaaaah!"
Me: ".......thanks......"
Guy: "What brand you from?"
Me: "What brand? Well, Im from Barcelona and I have this brand called WORLDWIDE"
Guy (Completely excited although he has no clue about my brand): "Wow man, you are amazing"
Me: "Are you serious?...Thanks"
Guy: "You have a business card with you?"
Me: "No."
Guy: "I will find you and I will email you. I want to work for you!"
Me: "ok great...." and left.

Chicho rocking the SNT silver star we made like..maybe 12 years ago



***Chad called me and asked me to take this pic out. He was crying real hard on the bberry. Chad, stop crying.**
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And this is blue belt Shanon fight in the Anaconda Fight Club in Barcelona..... I will be back!

A week in photos

The hustlers team. From Barcelona to L.A

Long walk to get to a second party the same night.

Subway is faster sometimes...

Peter from Frisco from the Netherlands rocking the "Spades" tee in XXl size. Got you man.

Some homeless guy with a need for glasses.

I found the very same guy in B&B

Near the harbor. Amazing guy just reading.

Yeah, it says premium.

MArried to the Mob Crew in Barcelona

That goes for you, you and you. Peace and love to friends and fam.

B&B Week

More updates this week. B&B is here. life is going to be crazy this week, with trillion of parties, friends and things to do.
Nima is here without luggage, Chad arrives wednesday, and I got 3 invitations in the same morning for 3 different parties.
Lets take a breath...

Houses

New shit coming

Been here thinking about life... and where, how and when to drop my new stuff...
...yes. You heard it first, new WORLDWIDE stuff out really soon.
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And next week Bread and Butter again, this time with a video camera and a photo camera. I know Nima will be here too, Leah from MOB, and maybe the one and only stunt double of Data from The Goonies aka Chad from Foreign Family.
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New toys, big toys. Just working to make new things happen.

My new business

As you have seen before, im expananding my business ventures. This time is a new restaurant in the coast.

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Secret bbq

Far away from the city, somethings cooking...
Out the traffic and stress far away from downtown, near the sea...
Enjoying life for a minute.
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Photo safari

Yes. I went out. And I went out to the 2nd American Apparel x Vice party.
Julio already posted about this, and he sent me a sms saying "Blog roll!!!!" to remember me I should post the pics I got on my personal photo safari. Here they are...



The crew

Yes...he could be my father...


"yeah, Im always reading at parties with my paper hat on"


queen of the party and company

Are those pink?



And the award goes to..."Too drunk to fuck" t-Shirt bitches crew

Barca

So my homie Julio already wrote about the very same thing I was about to: The new American Apparel store in Barcelona.
Heres his piece from his blog:
"So yeah today they opened American Apparel in Barcelona and somehow it was some sort of a big deal. at first at was like wow now i dont have to go to nyc or london to grab some decent shirts and then i was like great now all this borderline poeple i cant stand are gonna rock the same tees i rock... just great.
I finished work over 4:30 and i was planing on getting some sushi first but Ruth showed up with some bags saying "Julio you are sooooo gonna love, it is packed of hot chicks", in my mind i had all those half naked girls from the cathalogs all over the places and then when i got there "pfffff" just a bunch of fags and people i knew chilling and laughing about their no chasing policy, because seriously THIS IS BARCELONA! gipsy land. Wen end up betting about how long is it gonna take until they have to alarm every single thing in that store (furniture included)."

In my personal experience, I tried to get some present for my girlfriend. All the underwear in that shop is "ready for porn" style, and every now and then we all need some pice in our lifes. So I asked to some close to model clerk, the girl was retarded and didnt understand really well my amazingly good spanish. Great. She was a foreigner. Somehow she maaged to say "Ask the other girl". I asked the other girl, who was anorexic or a junkie, and asked her for something sexy. Her dress was a plastic bag from the supermarket I usually shop at (Close ressemblance). She was cool thou. She helped me and she even told me what she considered sexy.
Got something, and went to pay. I got the "Boy short" for girls. And when in line...baaaam! This 20 years old guy with moustache and a head band who worked there comes to me and tells me "this is not for a guy uh?"... ... ... ...
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"I know".
I paid and I left.

I will be back to get more sexy presents.
Also, I love to see these type of socialities who think they hype and cool and take for granted can live from their parents money forever.

Skate Fam again

The sneakers blog "Suelas de Goma" htalking about the new blog where a bunch of guys connected with skateboarding post.... and yes, Im there!



Its a good blog to see what spanish locals do, and are about, specially people from Barcelona, but also from Madrid, and Vitoria (Que pasa Sergio!).

Brooklyn

Update:
Been featured in UNOPOMAG.com, with the amazingly amazing video piece. Thanks.


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Afternoon in Brooklyn from IJ on Vimeo.

Shot with the Panasonic SD9 one afternoon in Brooklyn on my last visit to the city.
Tried to show how desert was, and all the random people walking around the area.
Nima, I know you love it...

Snipers

A weekend of relax, videogames, sniper rifles and friends. And yeah, a heavyweight session of Call of Duty 4 (Saturday and sunday), even online!
Im getting some experience points to get better guns so watch out out there.

I went to check the last rifle from Moski, the best car shaper/painter out here. This thing was ridiculous, it even had some tripod legs and the plastic bullets were fast fast.
A nice view when you enter the body painting place and see a guy hiding behind one of these machines ready to shoot.

IM back

Podemos con Obama


I had never seen, or known, of any presidential campaign so "out of the system" like this. A soon to be president, backed up by a lot of people into the creative world (Designers, actress, singers, musicians...), and a lot of videos, songs, videoclips to support him raiding the internet.
Amazing. Simply amazing. Never a presidential campaign was so creative. Ever.

Out again

South of Spain this time.
Its been getting quite difficult updating this blog for some reasons,one of them because of travelling.
This time the south of Spain will have me as a guest for a week, and then i will be home for some time.
Meetings and planning for already spring season. Talk about future...! So today the planning for like 6 months in advance begins, and u better have most of ur game set.
I do.
Fuck it.

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Out on bail

Thanks to Mr 44 from FF for the song.

EY, Yoshi's birthday is june the 4th!!!!!!!!!

Lost again

Yes. In the north shore enjoying a weekend with friends,waves and surf. Its been my first time surfing, and let me tell you this surf thing is soooo hard but fun to do.
Besides surfing enjoyed a session of paintball and got hit three times when i jumped from a hidden position and went out Rambo style shooting in a capture the flag game.
You can see my chest today...got a third nipple. Shit hurts. And i was wearing some kind of bullet proof vest...
Tomorrow back to the city, and the next week out the city again for another week.

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Can I vote?

Nima, you will get a new president soon...

Stress

These days life is been kind of strange, with not so mny things to do and lots of stuff in my mind.
Someone posted a message about why I wasnt skating or why I never posted pics of me skating... the answer is simple, I barely have that many free time to be skating. Last time I skated was in the Amsterdam skatepark and I had such a rush and had such a good time...


And life goes on with trips cancelled, new stuff in hands and just a couple things I have in mind. These last months projects have been coming and leaving, and all I can think of right now is having fun and travel, see my friends and enjoy life.
My friend Chad might be crying right now. But thats the way things go these days.
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And this new project finally jetted off and I wanted to drop the news before the official release is out: Skate Family is a new project based on a webpage/blog where some of the "old school" from the skate community will be blogging and dropping bullshit without any "politically right" approach. I will be posting regularly there, I even have a bio and pics! Amazing. I even look serious (Loving my hair cut thou!). Its entirely in spanish, and entirely shot with LUMIX Panasonic cameras (Loving that camera!). Expect big things from this project...besides tour pics and some nonsense.

Drinking coffee

Here Ruben new guy running all the quickstrike and tier zero that drops in Spain. Drinking a coffee and having chit chats.
Its friday.
We ready for war!
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Out the city

Greatest weather for a great escape.
Out the city for some days. Trying to get some energy to drop some stuff pending.
Life should be easy.waking up, a coffee and a bagel,and walk around under the rain wondering what to do next.
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Been looking for answers

"Do you know where all the dreamers have gone?"

Foreign gallery

MY good friends in L.A are opening a gallery. Be sure to pass by and say hi to Yoshi and Chad and Elia and the korean crew they hang with.
They will be giving away free lemonade and selling XS Tshirts, but that is not important: The important thing is they opening a gallery, selling their new line there and havinga good, humble and honest time.
Foreign Family rock on!

New blogger

So I have the honour to be one of the bloggers of a new blog/webpage/magazine/whatever you want to call it that will see the light at the end of may. Im really excited.
The project is aimed to create a space where a bunch of skateboarders, industry related individuals linked with skateboarding will be blogging and posting everything they feel like. I can say that this is going to be a cool page, just wait.
The tools to do so is a new LUMIX camera, and my spanish skills, because is a spanish written blog (Finally!).
Hopefully my mistakes writing will be solved soon (yeah, I know my english sucks sometimes...sorry).
So some pics of the new tools I just got my hands on...



This beauty is amazing. Seriously. Put a hotshoe for an extrenal flash and you have the best camera I have ever tried.
Shots by Panasonic Lumix Fx35!

Video days

Imovie 8 in full effect to create this...

One of my mornings from IJ on Vimeo.


Working on video these days... Nima, the video war begins...! 1Bring it on!

PD- And no, a simple mic won´t do it... Next week full HD video and more craze!


This is my lady little chicken after a bath.

Sunday

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Bitting

As has been written before in many places: big companies copying and bitting from small and cool individuals. This time take a look and tell me who at "zara" clothing chain copied...fafi?miss van?
Bad thing is that this will go on forever.
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What up peoples.
Coming soon something new is dropping. New WORLDWIDE stuff dropping for a good thing. Just wait, the project is good enough to have its own press.
In the city things are weird: We have really good weather but I cant be out as much as I'd love to. Need to get on my skateboard soon. This work-work-work scheulde aint good.
What up Chaddy Pooh, hope u better. What up Yoshi, see u in a min. Nims, dont stress w your fake watch.

Some stuff going on these days:

New tee dropping with a really nice touch. Just wait.


Got some new software: "Final Cut express 4" (thanks for the pro vs express Nima) and "Logic Express 8" to make music. Im getting deep into digital video in a minute, so watch up for some videos posted here. Also getting deep in a new project that will see the light in a few weeks. Going kind of deep into the internet thing. When you sum up fun, skateboarding, photos, video and more fun, you get what Im working with...


Limited Edition Playmobil I got in Germany. Ever since I got the Glow in the dark one in L.A with Elia and Chad, I need to get as many as I can of these Glow in the dark edition... Its a dead pirate. cant go wrong with dead pirates, I know that ever since I saw "The Goonies".

Breastfeeding at 8

No comments. Disgusting.

What up

Thanks to technology, I can communicate with friends from all over the world. Luckily for me, to be able to do that, I dont have to spend a lot of money or time. It is important communicating with friends you have, in case you need to vent, or a simple chit chat about the state of things, politics, sex or even whats going on in their cities. I have friends in the west coast of America, and thats 10.000 kilometres away from my house, away from my "barrio". mY Blackberry, AIM and THE "SEND voice note" from Blackberry keep me these friends a little bit closer. Nima and the "Foreign Family" are what I can consider true friends. Sounds crazy having true friends in the other side of the world, but thats the way things go... they have the honor to be on my small list! Im pretty sure I fall into the same category, because I know they miss me.

While talking yesterday night with Nima about what he been up to lately (Im not going to say anything about Nadia Styles), he mentioned he was giving the final touches to some video... and here it is.
The vid was filmed in the FFxDG trip to San Francisco. Nima, soon HD video wars in the net!
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Yesterday my homie Flavio Rodriguez gave an amazing concert. I have been seeing this guy for months in events and at the office, and the dude is so chill and so humble I couldnt believe he would be that show killer. Amazing concert. Amazing everything. It was one of my best concerts after K.West. Serioulsy.
Flavio, you just killed it.