Zen Garage played host to a horde of sweaty cyclists last night as our man cave marked the finishing line for the Cops and Convicts Alleycat race through Sydney CBD. For those not familiar with an Alleycat race, think “The Amazing Race”. Starting in Hyde Park, participants were given a map of checkpoints they had [...]

On Wednesday we had our first Mothers Demo Day for 2012.  Four cars were booked in: Peter’s RX7, Nick’s S13 Silvia, Scott’s Ma70 Supra and Albert’s DC2R Integra. The day was slow to start with the horrendous Sydney CBD 9am traffic, everyone was late! Scott missed the traffic and was first in followed by George from Mothers, Nick, [...]

Smirnoff are about to roll out 2 limited-edition gift box designs that are due to hit shelves on the 1st of March next month. Designed by Australian artists Nanami Cowdroy and Brad Eastman, the interactive boxes (which twist and turn) will be available for a strictly limited period of two weeks from Coles, Woolworths and [...]

OK this one was always going to split people, but the staff @ Zen have deliberated hard over what we believe to be the top 10 best music videos of all time. Being a group of diverse ages, experiences and tastes we hope that at least some of your fave clips made it into our [...]

Now in stock! We’ve got a limited run of 10 of each colour. Find them in-store in Leichhardt, or in our online shop: http://zengarage.com.au/shop Looks like unicorn vomit.

Motomethod Community Motorcycle Repair Shop in Vancouver, BC is a full repair shop, for nearly all makes and models of motorcycles, old or new. Motomethod is the first in the industry to allow the rider to come in and ‘rent a bay’ and repair their own bike, or learn how. The Motomethod Story from Zenga [...]

Hot hybrid art using both traditional and digital methods by the crazy talented Sara Blake, aka “ZSO” who’s an illustrator, fine artist and art director based in New York. Her tattoo collection is damn impressive too. Links: http://www.hellozso.com http://www.zsostudio.com http://vimeo.com/hellozso http://www.facebook.com/HelloZSO

Always have been a fan of Monster Children Magazine in print (it comes out 4 times a year) but I’m more of a fan of the Monster Children website (designed and coded by my INfront partners Damien Aistrope and Zann St Pierre) – well worth the bookmark and daily visit, even if it is just [...]

Kien D Luu, Willtown and John X are Dopesource Media. A start up video production company onto big things. What started as a bunch of mates making videos for fun has quickly escalated to professional creative production and promotional videos. Their super sexy Girls we DiG – Dirdy Birdy clip has had a whooping 213,321 [...]

Raw and sexy, yet sensual work by Sydney based Photographer Akila Berjaoui. Links: http://akilaberjaoui.tumblr.com http://akilaberjaoui.blogspot.com

Manifesto The OBEY sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as “the process of letting things manifest themselves.” Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured; things that are so taken for granted that they are muted by abstract observation. [...]

HoonTV feature Kevin San’s 2000 GT Hakosuka GT-R replica. What a guy, what a car, what a video, what a way to start the new year! Links: http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?7768-Babalouie-s-Project-Hakosuka http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUj2ehptYnk

What a way to wrap up 2011! JDMST had it’s final End Of Month Meet (EOMM) of the year last Thursday night. Like an underground doof, the venue was revealed a mere 2 hours before the event. Despite the late notification over 300+ cars filled the Botany Bay Boat Ramp carpark, the lucky few who [...]

Since May this year, ADVAN have sent out an open invite to all Australian track whores to crack the fastest lap time they could on street legal ADVAN Neova road tyres and last night we wrapped it all up by hosting the ADVAN Neova Cup Awards Night at Zen Garage. With directional spots and dynamic [...]

Presenting professional piercer, model and gogo dancer Bettina Banks (what a gal). Fresh hot pixels by photographer Alain Sihaphone from BLOW&TREES (what a guy!). Bettina wears Illest gear and ANJA sunnies available at Zen Garage Sydney (and also in our online store!). Illest Cursive Remix in Royal Blue + ANJA Euphorics. Illest Cursive Remix in [...]

If everybody looked the same, we’d get tired looking at each other. Happy photos from the photowall we had set up at the Zen Garage Grand Opening last Saturday

Thanks to the support from local automotive, bike and design communities, yesterday’s Zen Garage Grand Opening was a huge success. Despite not having any sleep from a gig the night before, DJ Dirty Dim Sum was cutting sick on the decks all day long. The rain held out, the BBQ and Squires Beers were smashed [...]

We love self portraiture. Russian-born Photographer Ira Chernova is just as well known for being a Model, as a Photographer. Is that a bad thing? We don’t think so! Links: http://chernova.tumblr.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/30379261@N02 http://dread-me.livejournal.com

We had THA TITH BROTHERS attend our Forza Night last week and they’ve pumped out this amazing video for us. We hope you enjoy it Be sure to also check out the rest of their vids. It’s obvious these guys love what they do. Video by THA TITH BROTHERS

As much as I love sexy fashion editorial photography I’m always well aware that most, if not all of it, is fake. The insane amounts of photoshopping done to make models commercially ‘perfect’ is technically impressive, but it’s also quite sickeningly deceiving. Enter MeInMyPlace, my new fave photography site. The concept is wonderfully simple – [...]