Inspiration trip with Eric (Backside L.A.). We mobbed through Port of Spain (one of the highest murder rates in the world) where we hit a club and girls ground on us like I never knew existed, one girl asked if I was okay ’cause I was so shocked by her booty and the way it moved, but it’s just for fun it doesn’t mean anything more than a dance.

-Mike Akomplice

We then headed in the bush, waaaay out there in places that serve pig tail, for real pig tail, we got some.

We finally ended up in a small village called Cumama (Google it). This is where we met Mario, super real dude who catches hammer-head sharks and hunts big iguanas with his bare hands, city slicker E and I were awed, so much that we brought him on our journey with us.

We took a fishing boat across the Atlantic/ Caribbean ocean confluence to Tobago, something most Trinidadians shook their heads at, shit was tough!

Tobago was hoppin with festivities, we hit a day called “Harvest” where everyone shares food and drinks with anyone, the entire island is a family for a day, that night us and some of the Trinidad crew hit the club, gettin prepped.

Mobbed back on the official transport boat to Trinidad, Eric flew back to LA and I departed to Suriname.

Suriname

Dinner

–Mike Akomplice

Designs That Didn’t Make The Cut But Maybe Should Have: Guantanamo Ronald. Still in the developmental stage but you get the idea. Please cast your vote by emailing: info@akomplice-clothing.com

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Patrick, Celeste, and some chick and a pilot and me on a small plane kinda close to the Bermuda triangle, shit was kinda tense for me, but also amazing. We’re about to get into Trinidad/ Tobago to meet with Eric co-owner of Backside and Eight X Ten magazine. Eric and I always take at least one inspiration trip together a year .
-Mike Akomplice

When I travel it helps me design. New influences pull you out of habit and ritual, opening your mind for new ideas, different creative processes. Many don’t know this but Patrick and I work from everywhere, we started Akomplice in the middle of the woods.

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This reminds me of Eric’s car.

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Apparently this tree was imported to St. Croix from Africa a few hundred years ago, people used to host rituals around the trunk.