Moby Richard Photoshoot

Photoshoot for our new summer shirt, "Moby Richard" and our two v-necks that are now available in Zumiez stores across the country.

We had the shoot late-night at Drew's pool he manages and sits kids in time-out at. It's ancient, circa 1938. A guy once got dead on the deck of the cabanas we shot in. He was old and living in them during a harsh winter and got drunk and died and was found frozen solid to the floor. So it goes.

What you all can't see in the photos is the insane hell storm that was wrathed upon all of us like 20min into the shoot. As Phil would say, "it was IWRESTLEDABEARONCE weather". Still, it was one of the funnest shoots we've been on, despite the torrential typhoon.

Special thanks to Danielle for coming out to the shoot after having never experienced a Choonimal or it's makers, all the face12 homeboys, and of course Phil who does an amazing job capturing souls with his technology.

Check out the complete photo set at the Choonimals Flickr page.

Want to purchase this shirt?
www.choonimals.bigcartel.com

Photos © 2009 Phillip Chester

MOBY RICHARD!

Moby Richard by Choonimals, originally uploaded by PhillipChester.

Exclusive new Choon shirt, "MOBY RICHARD" available NOW!!!!

$5 OFF for anyone that picks it up from us at Comfest this weekend!

Otherwise head over to www.choonimals.bigcartel.com and get yours quick, because they are flying out of the boxes faster than a ShamWow and Paul Allen getting an axe TO THE FACE!

More pictures to come from this new gems photoshoot this weekend, so stay tuned or be a doomed.

Love,
Ahab

Bamboozle 2k9

Yep, we were there, and this is how we roll(d).

Chomfest

We will be present once again at this years Community Festival held the weekend of June 26th - 28th at Goodale Park here in Columbus, OH. During last years event we had a blast, and this no doubt will continue to be one of the highlights of our year. The music is great, the food is spectack and the boobs are plentiful. Come find out booth, present this coupon and receive $5 off any Choon purchase.

To download coupon, right click and "save picture as". If you are having trouble, email Alex@choonimals.com and I will email you one. See you there!

ps. Here's where/when you will be able to find me throughout the weekend:

Friday
Offramp Stage - Noon - Oldworlds
Offramp Stage - 3:20 - Wing and Tusk or Bozo Stage - 3:20 - Josh Fitzwater and the Shambles
Offramp Stage - 7:00 - Brainbow or Bozo Stage - 7:00 - This is my Suitcase
Offramp Stage - 7:50 - Nick Tolford and Co.

Saturday
Offramp Stage - 1:20 - Bookmobile
Offramp Stage - 2:00 - Karate Coyote
Offramp Stage - 5:00 - The Receiver
Solar Stage - 7:10 - Time and Temperature
Solar Stage - 10:10 - Couch Forts

Sunday
Offramp Stage - 5:20 - Moons
Offramp Stage - 8:20 - The Slide Machine

"dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum THEY SAY IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum

On this day, the seventeenth of the sixth month of the ninth year of the second millennia, Alexander Berning Weinhardt has officially become a man.  To celebrate this momentous occasion, he has humbly requested a few select gift items.  Some of these include, but are not limited to:

1. Zombies (Romero Style) 

Fuck all that new school fast moving Zombie shit.  I want the old fashioned slow moving, dumb walking dead.  This ain't about guts and gore, it's about survival, and I'm ready.

2. A Margarita from Casa Nueva in Athens Ohio

This little worker owned cooperative nestled the the heartland of Ohio makes the banginest margarita I have ever had.  On Wednesday's they are $2.00, and I shit you not, drink three of these and you'll be ready to open mouth kiss your grandmother.  

3.  The Get Up Kids to play "Something to Write Home About" from start to finish in my parents basement

These guys recently got back together and I saw them play for the first time this past May while Choons were Chooning at the Bamboozle Fest.  But I was like 100 yards away, Matt Pryor was balding....it just was not the same as it would have been 10 years ago when these guys were all young guns playing basement shows.  I think they should do a basement show tour, make a stop at my parents house in Westerville, Ohio, and we can all have an air hockey tournament after the show.  James Dewees, you're going down. (My girlfriend actually got this album for me on vinyl for my birthday which is most definitely the next best thing)   

Making of Breakthroughs in Modern Art Trailer

My band Six Gallery will be releasing our first full length album in ohhhhh about 2 weeks.  This is the trailer for a video about the making of the album.  

Chooxico City

I can't let Chris have all the blun (blog fun) so I decided to hop in. This post may not compare to Drew going to the post office, but it is a close second.

As you all know, Chris and I had a moving race. I won. I have been in Mexico City now for 3 nights vs his one night. I'm sure everyone knows all about Mexico City (nope), so I will skip the details. Lets just say that it is the second largest city in the world, and that it is supposed to surpass Tokyo for the largest in a few years. It is estimated to have over 20million people here. Not counting me, there are 5 choonimals wearers. 5/20,000,000 is .00000025. Thats a pretty good stat. Thats a real nice stat.



Anyways, I will continually post as I get swined, stabbed, and kid napped. Then there was a ghost.

Matt

Choon York City

See that light over there? Top-rightish, yellow, kind of. That's the light on in my new bedroom. I think.

Jokesies. I have no idea where I'm at in relation to this picture. But that is not the point. The point is that I'm in there somewhere, dreaming of tentacles, lazy eyes, and unnecessarily sharp, plentiful fangs.

But with the help of google, I can show you things we thought only aliens could see:

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I can see the entire city from out of my window at the moment. My new roommates are awesome, and the people in this neighborhood must have just watched that Pay It Forward movie or that one commercial with similar ideas, because within seconds of being in the street a woman offered me her parking spot, a man opened my gate for me, and another gentleman thought I looked lost and asked me if I needed directions. The vibes are good.

I've been here one night, and every time I think about a future here a gnarly gaggle of butterfly's start moshing to metal music in my stomach. And of course these butterfly's are cross eyed and fang-tastic and eat all the other butterfly's that waste their time bonging pollen instead of listening to the new IWRESTLEDABEARONCE album.

OK so this post may or may not stop making sense a long a time ago. That's a good sentence. Matt's Elly would like that sentence.

Here's the thing; this is a huge step for me and a giant roundhouse kick for Choonimals. I don't really have a game plan, I don't really know what to do, but it feels right. I have my Sharpie markers and a million little Choonimals running around my brain, waiting to escape onto my sketchpad and inevitably onto some new shirts.

I went into the Zumiez at Woodbridge Mall in New Jersey yesterday and saw our Choonimals shirts being sold there. I felt happy.

I referred to this city as The Emerald City on my facebook page yesterday, and said that my next step was to find the Wizard and give him a Choon shirt. But Miss Madyson politely corrected me and told me that her city, Seattle, is "the Emerald City". So fine. This is the Topaz City. And the Topaz City Wizard is about to get Chooned.

El Fin.

Probably the greatest thing known to man, ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5gmbugmxM

Drews trip to the post office

Yos, this be my first blog post so listen ups. So i go to the post office to ship some merch to our loving fans, (peoples, not electric wind generating machines) and i go up to the lady who looked like she could care less that she was there, and i go to pay with the Choonimals credit card, which i might tell you has matts name on it and choonimals clothing, soooo she needs to see some ID so she can charge it, and i was likkke wellll its in matts name but also has choonimals on it and i showed her my massive stack of cards in my walley and she had to go talk to some other lady who is a troll that lives under a bridge, but has a part time job at the post office, anyways after some swindleing by mes i get her to swipe it. ughk what a process for the most simple task. and then alter i left there was a bum who wanted some moneys and i told him nopes to you and he gave me a snarely look and i shot him one back then got in my GTi and left.

Johnny Cupcakes

The members of Choonimals Clothing Company are all fairly new to the business world. Let's see, before we started this company a year and a half ago we worked for;

-dry cleaners

-hotel bellman

-valets

-lifeguards

-red bull

-GNC

-various sales jobs

-bars

-artwork framer

Although some of us do still have full and part time jobs, Choonimals is something we would all love to be able to make a living off of. We work very hard to make this company what it is, and stories like the one of Johnny Cupcakes always motivates us to keep the dream alive and that maybe this idea of putting silly animals on t-shirts was not a bad one.

http://www.johnnycupcakes.com/the_story/

Spring/Summer '09 Line Photos on Flickr!

1 254, originally uploaded by Choonimal.

Put your eyeballs on and check out some savvy fav's from our Spring/Summer '09 photoshoot by Phillip Chester and Angela Wayner.

Choonimals Available in Zumiez!

Select Choonimals Clothing are now available in the following Zumiez retail stores:

BENTLEY MALL- FAIRBANKS, AK
DIAMOND CENTER- ANCHORAGE, AK
ARIZONA MILLS- TEMPE, AZ
ARDEN FAIR - SACRAMENTO, CA
CAMARILLO OUTLETS-CAMARILLO,CA
DESERT HILLS OUTLET-CABAZON,CA
EASTRIDGE MALL - SAN JOSE, CA
FASHION FAIR - FRESNO, CA
GILROY PREMIUM - GILROY, CA
GREAT MALL OF THE BAY AREA, CA
IMPERIAL VALLEY - EL CENTRO,CA
INLAND CENTER -SANBERANDINO,CA
MALL AT YUBA CITY - YUBA C, CA
PLAZA BONITA-NATIONAL CITY,CA
SHERWOOD MALL - STOCKTON, CA
STONEWOOD CENTER - DOWNEY, CA
VALLEY FAIR - SANTA CLARA, CA
VICTORIA GARDENS -RAN CUC, CA
VISALIA MALL - VISALIA, CA
BUCKLAND HILLS- MANCHESTER, CT
CLINTON CROSSING OUTLET - CT
TRUMBULL S/T - TRUMBULL, CT
CONCORD - WILMINGTON, DE
DOVER MALL- DOVER, DE
ORLANDO PREMIUM - ORLANDO, FL
PEMBROKE GARDENS-PEM.PINES, FL
SAWGRASS MILLS - SUNRISE, FL
ROYAL HAWAIIAN- WAIKIKI, HI
BOISE TOWNE SQUARE - BOISE, ID
CHICAGO PRM OUTLET- AURORA, IL
CHICAGO RIDGE, IL
NORTHWOODS- PEORIA, IL
ORLAND SQUARE-ORLAND PARK, IL
WHITE OAKS- SPRINGFIELD, IL
CASTLETON SQ.-INDIANAPOLIS, IN
HAMILTON T.C - NOBLESVILLE, IN
SOUTHLAKE MALL MERRILLVILLE,IN
WRENTHAM VILLAGE - WRENTHAM,MA
CENTRE SALISBURY-SALISBURY, MD
WHITE MARSH - BALTIMORE, MD
MALL OF AMERICA-BLOOMINGTON,MN
ROSEDALE CENTER - ROSEDALE, MN
DEPTFORD MALL - DEPTFORD, NJ
GARDEN STATE - PARAMUS, NJ
JERSEY GARDENS OUTLET-ELIZ, NJ
JERSEY SHORE - TINTON FALLS,NJ
LIVINGSTON MALL -LIVINGSTON,NJ
ROCKAWAY TOWNSQ - ROCKAWAY, NJ
WOODBRIDGE - WOODBRIDGE, NJ
GALLERIA AT SUNSET-HENDERSN NV
LAS VEGAS PREM - LAS VEGAS, NV
POUGHKEEPSIE GALLERIA - NY
ROOSEVELT FIELD-GARDENCITY,NY
STATEN ISLAND:STATEN ISLAND,NY
WALDEN GALLERIA - BUFFALO, NY
PENN SQUARE -OKLAHOMACITY, OK
WOODLAND HILLS MALL-TULSA, OK
CLACKAMAS TOWN CTR-PORTLAND,OR
SALEM CENTER - SALEM OR
VALLEY RIVER CTR - EUGENE, OR
PARK CITY - LANCASTER, PA
PROVIDENCE PLACE-PROVIDENCE,RI
BAYBROOK MALL - FRIENDSWOOD,TX
CIELO VISTA MALL - EL PASO, TX
HOUSTON OUTLETS - CYPRESS, TX
HULEN MALL - FORT WORTH, TX
LACANTERA - SAN ANTONIO, TX
MIDLAND PARK- MIDLAND, TX
NORTH STAR MALL-SAN ANTONIO,TX
ROUND ROCK- ROUND ROCK, TX
WILLOW BROOK MALL-HOUSTON, TX
GATEWAY MALL- SLC, UT
PATRICK HENRY- NEWPORT NEWS-VA
POTOMACMILLS OUTLT-PRINCEWI,VA
BELLIS FAIR - BELLINGHAM, WA
NORTHTOWN MALL - SPOKANE, WA
REDMOND TOWN CTR - REDMOND, WA
SEA PREM OUTLETS - TULALIP, WA
SOUTHCENTER MALL - TUKWILA, WA
TACOMA MALL - TACOMA, WA
SOUTHRIDGE MALL- MILWAUKEE, WI

and www.zumiez.com, of course!

Support Choonimals and pick up a shirt from your local Zumiez today!

HELL CITY '09!

One of the most amazing events we've been at in a while. My little cell phone pictures don't even begin to capture the gnar, but here are a few anyways.

The above picture was taken before all hell breaks loose...


OK now it's loose.


BFF Jills


My first decent gorilla (gorla) Choonimal.


Thas a good mustache.


Rainbow S. new Choon sleeve


Simple Matt's Choon's.... lulz


Crowd Control.



Can't wait till next year. Until then, check out a selection of beyond beautiful pictures of the event by the talented Cherry, I saw these and had to post them on here because they're so awesome! Can't wait to see Alissa Brunelli's pictures either!

http://spillinglight.com/adventures/tattoo/hellcity-and-innerstate/