What better a way to celebrate my birthday than to be granted an interview with American Photographer, Artist and Biologist Natacha Merritt. We talk about her risqué first book, porn vs. art, and of-course, her new book SEXUAL SELECTION. Hope you enjoy the read! Zen Garage – I picked up your Digital-Diaries book at my [...]

Dynamic Japanese Photographer Yasumasa Yonehara (aka YONE) founded a very globally respected photo collection magazine “OUT OF PHOTOGRAPHERS” in the 90s, later he was editor of “smartgirls: where he became famous for taking sultry pictures with an Instax Mini camera as his main tool. Links: http://www.loveyone.blogspot.com.au http://cexwork.com/ http://www.theselby.com/5_16_09_YasumasaYone/index.html

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47. I’m devastated, you’ll be missed MCA. For all the fans, keep it on and on… “Well I got to keep it going keep it going full steam. Too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean. On the tough guy style I’m not too keen. [...]

Terry Terry Terry Terry Terry! Terry just shot supermodel and Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton in his studio. God we love Terry! More: http://www.terrysdiary.com/

We’ve just been featured on THE-LOWDOWN.COM! CULTURE: WHAT IS ZEN GARAGE? – “That’s a tough one,” is the first thing Justin says in answer to my question. Justin Fox is part owner of Zen Garage, the newest Sydney haunt for a whole range of sub-cultures. “Since opening last December, there has been a lot of [...]

Just in time for the cold snap. Illest Winterwear just dropped @ Zen Garage. We’ve got tee’s, crewnecks, hoodies and zip hoodies too. Once again we’ve matched US prices. All hoodies $65, crewnecks $55 and tee’s $30 + our low $5 flat rate shipping Australia Wide (no matter how large your order!). Stock is extremely [...]

Last night’s JDMST EOMM @ WSID Eastern Creek was massive. Cars were pouring in from 6PM and the queue went all the way out to the main road for hours. At it’s peak, around about 8PM the carpark was almost at full capacity (that’s a 2,000 space car park!). Due to the way cars were [...]

The full-length trailer arrives For ‘Prometheus’… and it’s SO FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Directed by Ridley Scott, Prometheus stars Michael Fassbender, Charlize Therone, Idris Elba, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green and Ben Foster and is due to be released on June 8th, 2012. In the distant future, two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for [...]

Ridiculously sexy sultry work by South African Photographer, Director and Founder of Mirage Magazine Henrik Purienne. His work is often coined “Terry Richardson-esque”… my ass! Purienne’s work is in a class of it’s own! See Like Me: How would you describe what you do? Do you think of it as a job? Henrik Purienne: no [...]

Photographers Ly Heng (aka XN7RIK) and Maxi Huynh have just released their shots from the Jaimee Pham shoot @ Zen Garage. Be sure to visit, and like their respective facebook pages for more. Enjoy! Links: Maxi Huynh Photography XN7RIK Jaimee Pham

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. [...]

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 [...]

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

Raised in Washington, half Chinese half Vietnamese/Thai 20yr old NYC based Tiffany Luu is making waves. She runs her own Tumblr, it’s awesome. She tweets too. She’s got that right here, right now thing going strong. Signed to New York Model Management Group, we’re sure you’re going to see much more of her over the [...]

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 – [...]

In March 2009 LA based cyclist and photographer Onur Armagan started TheFiXFiXFiX on Flickr, uploading a set of photos of a babe and her fixie. The internet went wild. The images went viral and appeared on a plethora of velovixen/babe-on-bike style forum threads and cycling blogs world wide. New photo sets kept coming, photos got [...]

Just for the fun of it, we thought we’d attempt to put together a top 10 list of cars which we’d love to one day own. In trying to make this challenge a little more interesting we thought we’d try to keep it semi-realistic and also focus on true drivers cars. IE: Affordable and readily [...]

Shinya Kimura is a Japanese born custom bike builder that builds 2 wheeled art, famous for founding the “zero-style” movement. He runs his own shop, Chabott Engineering out of Azusa California. Zero-style – A zero-style bike is typically based around a rigid gooseneck, a pre-1984 Harley Davidson engine, springer front end, spoked wheels and often [...]

Cars, Bicycles and… Weddings. Not that I’m a dinosaur (yet), but when you’ve been around for a while you notice a lot of change. One of the things I’m still having trouble accepting is the DSLR movement, and the plethora of people who have promoted themselves to “pro” just because they think they know how [...]

Japanese Illustrator Shohei Otomo creates some of the most visually thrilling illustrative work coming out of Japan, all with a ballpoint pen. His highly detailed black and white imagery (sometimes with a dramatic splash of blood red) merges traditional Japanese culture with manga, yakuza inspired violence, punk and sexuality, all the while wrapped in black [...]