Happy New Year! 2009 everything will be just fine.

The writings on the wall...

I shot this picture with my cell phone camera just after getting a nice good cut here in Point Richmond...they say NO two barber poles are the same, and I beleive that.

Interesting...the internet say's the darndest things!

While searching for images related to Barberin, I came across the one below...but the blog that it is from is the interesting part. John Kricfalusi or John K as he is commonly known...was the creator of the 90's cartoon Ren and Stimpy which came out of Spumco, which was a cartoon animation studio.

Well John K has his own blog which is filled with cartoon and animation insight, history and info. He also offers advice and damn helpful lessons and such...pretty cool hands on way to disseminate and connect with a vast audience.

click here to view john k's blog

I just got a Woody.

I am not sure I really get this...but I like it.

Shave a pig, make a wig, sell the wig and buy some snuff...hmmm...okay.

click here to see more of this comic book artists interesting work

Not a bad strategy, distract the kid with a comic...then cut his ear off.

Get Shorty

So after re-reading that article below, I decided to learn more about the place where Shorty Maniace cuts it up, the F.S.C. It turns out to be much more than a your local neighborhood barber shop, it is a mighty fine establishment.

click here to learn a little more about the F.S.C.

Why do you think they are called the Knicks?

This online NY Times article was sent over to me today, thanks...good looking out.

click here to read the article

click here to view the slideshow

Guess who's back...

3 months ago when I purchased the domain, I set up this image as a placeholder for the site...not many people saw this, as I was not running around telling people to go to a site, which was not up yet. The post it note is no joke...those things haunt me.

Someone asked me why it reads 2009, I simply replied, patience is a virtue and all good things take time...oh and I probably won't get anything going until then which seems about right.

It's alive!

Today lightning sparked life to the official Barber Shop Clothing website.

Click here to check it out!

This was my first time designing a site, and although I am happy with the simplicity and layout I am working on an updated site to launch in Spring, along with my first line of goods.

Hustler Barber Shop?

Now I am all for hand painted murals...

But the picture of a guy alone smoking a cigar in a bathtub drinking champagne and watching TV...holding electric clippers in one hand and a comb in the other...for some reason does not connotate a hustler to me.

Let it be.

Stuart Davis is one of my favorite artists...

Stuart Davis (1894-1964)
Barber Shop Chord, 1931
Lithograph
Signed in pencil.
Edition: 25
13 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
Cole and Myers 14

Norman Rockwell kept it high and tight...

bric-a-brac barber style

It's actually a pretty cool little sculpture, dig the sleeping dalmation.

Lord High Executioner executioned in a barbers chair.

If you like to read, click here for the story.