Category Archives: Zen Garage

The shoot is live! For the whole set, visit: http://zengarage.com.au/2011/12/bettina-banks-zen-garage/

Video by the amazing Tith Brothers!

Illest shoot @ Zen Garage went down today with professional piercer, model and gogo dancer Bettina Banks + Photographer Alain Sihaphone from BLOW&TREES. Bettina was a champ, her energy was awesome. What a gal!

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/bettinabanks01
http://www.facebook.com/blowandtrees

Photowall fun from last Saturday’s Zen Garage Grand Opening, more photos here: http://zengarage.com.au/2011/12/photowall-zen-garage-grand-opening/

Race Harness for crowd control.

Calm before the storm, a shot Sergio took earlier this morning with his iPhone.

People were queuing up since 11am for a 1pm launch!

DJ Dirty Dim Sum was spinning killer tunes all day, he hadn’t slept from a gig the night before. Dedication!

The first 30 people got a show bag full of goodies.

Sergio’s EVO.

Zen Garage RPRSNT!

Sergio’s been a great help getting the space ready, and running the day today too.

BBQ didn’t last long! I missed out and ate lunch at 6PM!

PlusSixOne RPRSNT!

Kory and Matthew, caught with the lens cap on.

The counter.

At one stage there were people all along the counter, 4 rows deep waiting to pay for goods.

Busy busy!

Gamers.

Photo by Geoffrey’s Wang (rest pf the photos are his too, our man outside).

Diverse crowd today, so awesome.

My old uni buddy James dropped in, blast from the past was great… and what a ride!!!

Wing it.

SO exhausted right about now. On a high, so tired from the stress, the joy, the excitement… what a day! We honestly could not have hoped for a better launch. The community really came out to support us, and we sold so much stock over the 3hrs, it was nuts! I only managed to rattle off a few shots, there were a LOT of photographers in attendance though, you’ll find more pictures on JDMST and Facebook.

Kinda like a big deal, we’re finally opening our doors to the public this Saturday. Nervous, excited! Drop in if you can, would love to have LOTS of people over. More details here.

Clifton & Timmy helping out.

All 3 of us on it at the same time.

Finishing touches.

All done!

Tunes @ Zen! I’ve donated my Bose iPod stereo from home.

Beer’O’Clock came early at Zen Garage today as ELMO, our handy Japanese overhead projector came out to play. Luckily for us Clifton and Timmy dropped in to hang out, unfortunately for them they were instantly put to work! It took us way longer than we thought it would but the results are awesome. We’ve now built a change room too! More progress and photos over the weekend.

Ill right?

Super excited today as our Illest Stock arrived at Port Botany! That’s early as we were expecting stock mid December. In anticipation I’ve uploaded some of our stock onto the Zen Garage online shop. I’ve been a bit of a data entry monkey all day, feeling like a robot… but hey I’m charged and I want one of everything for myself (I need a new wardrobe anyways!).

Visit: http://zengarage.com.au/shop – Would really appreciate it if you spread the word, even better,, buy stuff!!! :)

Sean and Rob worked on installing some wooden flooring for the shop which was very kindly donated to us by VWGolf.net.au member Stephen Lee.

Flooring installed.

We’re getting there!

Rob also got busy installing carpet tiles in the office.

It’s a dramatic change and acoustics are now much improved (less echo!).

My new ergo chair has a billion and one adjustments!

I was sweating it out in the gallery installing a picture hanging rail system.

The gallery is now all ready to go! Keep an eye out on our first gallery opening soon.

The Capozzi Brothers came in to drop off some awesome JDM FD literature for our library, they ended up helping us paint the front of the space too.

Sergio and Claudio are huge car guys, so too their Dad who owns this refreshingly different Lancia Montecarlo.

2 of 4 shop counters.

A well deserved beer.

Yesterday we took delivery of some shop fit-out gear. Rob, John and I put 2 of the 4 big counters together. I was fearing the worst (got to hate putting together IKEA flatpack goods) but to my surprise, despite horrible instructions the stuff came together really nicely!

At one stage, we were sweating it and Rob and I were talking about Dayton from The Malt Shovel Brewery, and whether or not it would be rude to call him up to let him know that we were out of beers, then literally 10 minutes later Dayton appeared, with cold beers! Our positive Zen manifestation skills must be gaining strength!