Here is a more in depth look at the first 3 (of many) custom colored NHL new era fitted we will be designing for Cap City. First up is a take on the NJ Devils. I decided to marry my favorite team with my favorite color palate of purples, sea foam and black. Why is a team from Jersey my favorite when I grew up in Brooklyn? Well for one they were one of the first NHL teams to go heavy on bringing over Russian talent in the 80s, which as Russian kid caught my attention and heart. But besides that, the Devils are run exactly how I think all sport teams should be… team first and built up upon smart drafting and their own farm system of talent! Couple that with the fact that Cap City is in Jersey and I just think the devils logo is one of sports best logos of all time and it was a no brainer!

This one will probably bring me more ire from NY sports fans as the Canucks are who battled the Rangers for the cup in ’94. Pavel Bure, the Russian Rocket is my favorite player of all time (along with Alexander Mogliny). He was an unstoppable goal scoring machine and one of the fastest players ever to lace up his skates.  The Canucks have since switched logos to an orca like C in the past few years, but I’ve always loved their old skate logo from the 80s and 90s. I used various tones of green with a pink accent to pay tribute my favorite player. I just had a thing for green while designing this cap.

The Minnesota Northstars (now the Dallas Stars) were a team whose logo, uniform and color scheme I admired much more than the team. It was simple, impactful, sleek yet classic. A great example of less is more when it comes to sports logo design. I really just wanted to take their classic N and marry it to a very unconventional hockey color scheme… orange! I think the results came out quite nicely.

Like we mentioned on our frontpage these are the first of many custom colors we’ll be doing for Cap City. There will only be 30 produced of each and they will ONLY be available at Cap City, with a handful making it down to our Pop-Up Shop.

Cap City
5806 Bergenline Ave.
West New York, NJ

The Mishka Pop-Up Shop
218 Bedford Avenue (entrance on N. 5 th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Open daily from noon to 8 PM.
L Train to Bedford Ave.

We all liked to get ‘spaced out’ once in a while, get a lil’ ‘cosmic’ – see ‘stars’ or what not. So this is a top 10 list of my astronomy photos of 2007 while ‘space traveling’ YA HEARD!

10. A Comet Bursting Forth

Apparently comets are very hard for the naked eye to see. I say this is probably what Belushi and Farley saw before they took a permanent dirt nap. Pretty innit?

9. Black Hole on Mars

If I was a rapper and battling someone on Freestyle Friday on 106 & Park or some shit, I would carry a picture of this and claim that my guns could blow a hole as massive as this black hole on Mars. Science Thugzzz

8. A Giant Red Star Named Mira

I dunno if this shit is giant or red even, but I do think that ‘mira’ means come over here in spanish or something? Raekwon says it in ‘Ice Cream’

7. The Lover’s Embrace of ARP 87

Reminds me of British people saying, “The Lover’s Embrace of HARP 87″ I picture popping a few valiums to feel like how this looks.

6. Lightning at Weikerscheim Observatory

Doesn’t this look like one of those motivational posters you got as a kid at the book fair or something?

5. A Meeting of the Moons

You know it’s a gangsta party when Jupiter’s moons meet up like the after-party is just gettin’ started. There be some dusty mirror’s, solar system groupies, ice sparklin’ from light years away, COSMIC BALLIN’

4. Dark Matter Makes an Appearance

2 words, CHUCK ANDERSON

3. Chaos in Vela

This image shows the devastation wrought when a star explodes. The Vela Supernova Remnant formed when a massive star 800 light years away blew up 11,000 years ago. That’s some ‘Holy Shit’ action, son. Believe that.

2. Stereo Eclipse

When I was in highschool, the older kids would tell us how if you did more than three grams of shrooms, you would go to ‘the gate’- and how going there would change your life forever. I picture this before entering the gate, the eye of psychedelia saying, “You fucking think you are so awesome don’t you? Real proud that you got to the gate, you braindead fuck up”

1. The Beautiful Face of IC 342

This picture is pretty rad, but really, the real number 1 for ALL of my lists for 2007 would be this:

Hello, so we’re back and running. You may have noticed the lack of posts this past week and a slew of glitches here and on our site. The reason for those was that we chose to update to new servers this past week. With so much focus already on the Warehouse Sale and Christmas coming up, we felt that this would be the best time for some scheduled downtime.

Unfortunately, we lost about 2 days of posts during the move, some really awesome ones by Prolly (which perhaps he’ll re-post), photos from the 10 Deep Christmas party, info on the new Doombox and I forget what else! We also lost a few photo sets from our gallery. Our online shop is also experiencing a few glitches which shall be resolved soon along with International and domestic shipping rates.

Stand by as we try and bring back those missing posts and a host of new ones over the next couple of days!

We are having a HUGE warehouse sale this Friday, Saturday & Sunday! We are clearing out all old gear, new gear, samples (Fall, Holiday, SPRING!), and anything else that might be lurking around. Prices are craze! $10 T-shirts! $20 Hoodies! $20 New Eras! 50% off Jackets, Bags, Samples, etc!

Make sure you get there early since all the good stuff is gonna go quick! The Warehouse Sale is located, at our warehouse, duh!

MISHKA WAREHOUSE
350 Broadway (Storefront)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
J/M/Z to Marcy, G to Broadway, or L to Lorimer.

Friday, December 21st from 12-8pm
Saturday, December 22nd from 11am-8pm
Sunday, December 23rd from 11am-8pm
CASH ONLY!

The Pop-Up Shop on Bedford will still be open from 12-8pm and chock-full-o-Holiday Goods, Exclusive Tees, and all the other Mishka goodies that the kids will love!

I myself have been trying to cop Guitar Hero III for my wii (Nearly impossible might I add) So imagine being some lucky kid that is about to get the most awesomest gift any teenage boy this day and age can get this year-until your unsuspecting dad catches you getting high with your pals! Zoinks, gift go bye-bye! Read about it HERE. What a fucking bummer dude :(

I don’t know Prolly… little too much Ghost With the Most for my taste.

Will Batman have to say Joker 3 times to get him to go away?

I’m going to have to disagree with My Pal the Crook on this one. Dark Knight looks fucking brutally awesome.

So I usually just send links to Mike Jones whenever I find these. Rather than wasting his precious time, I’ll just post them on the Bloglin….

I’ve kind neglected doing this for oh like the past 6 Fridays, but cut me some slack, Ive been traveling! So I’m gonna get back to it even though it’s Saturday.

Cabaret Voltaire – Sensoria

The Faint – Agenda Suicide

The Melvins – Lizzy

Skinny Puppy – Tin Omen

Testament – Over the Wall

Here is a sneak peek of a few styles you can find at the Pop Up Shop this weekend!

Vomitgorium by MCA of Evil Design

Electric Wizard by MCA of Evil Design

Get Adicted

You’ll also find our recent Monkey Bizz collab along with a few other exclusive goodies that you’ll have to come by to see!

The Mishka Pop-Up Shop
218 Bedford Avenue (entrance on N. 5 th)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Open daily from noon to 8 PM.
L Train to Bedford Ave.