What a fun couple days with The Bold Italic magazine’s West Coast tour, The Bold Rush! They took LA and the Poketo store by storm—awesome food, fun and ping pong in our lovely city—Now, they are off The Ace Hotel in Portland to continue the tour.

Check out some of the hightlights from The Bold Italic Bold Rush party!

Ben, Dave, and Andres of Beachwood Sparks performed live at Poketo! It was such a fun, happy vibe, they just slipped right into groove.

Sean of The Pie Hole and Allison of The Social Type.

Valerie and Ming Ming of Vietnamese street food team, Rice Paper Scissors taking a break from the craziness…

They came out to play with American Tripps Berlin style ping pong…. they were banging on the table, recruiting more players… at one point, there were close to about 15 players in one game.

DJ Kat of Donuts Party on the ones and twos.

Bobby and Kyle from TheFoxisBlack and LAImYours with photographer Justin Sullivan.

Vega here rocking sunglasses that were part of Pop Up event.

Eric and Quynh.

Angie loves the Bold Rush burrito!

Last week was the 3rd annual Bloomfest in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. Each year, this event gets bigger and bigger, expanding the streets and I believe they estimated about 20,000 people this year! Every LA food truck lined 3rd street, two music stages were set in the heart of the district, and hundreds of different vendors selling art, clothing and handmade goods were on the streets. Of course, the Poketo Store is in the heart of the district and we naturally were part of the festivities. Hundreds of people streaming in and nout, it was busy morning to night. Super fun seeing all of LA descend on the Arts District.

The Poketo Store was packed, non-stop!

Nathanel in the middle there, he’s the man behind Woodsmithe. Together they build amazing stuff.

A cool kids wall for painting fun!

I had to grab a pic of this gentleman wearing our Axelhoney x Poketo tee… old school! We may not have it in mens any longer, but, we do have the womens cut.

The Poketo crew that held it all together… Mariel, Nichole, Sonya, and Joyce.

Food Trucks galore… seemed like almost all of them in LA.

I had this one for the first time… pretty dang good.

Our neighbor Jeremy at District Millworks taking a pic of me taking him…

More friends, family, and all around awesome faces from the Poketo Grand Opening party last week… so many great pics!

Nathan and Gia of Proxart Magazine.

Ken, Nichole and Charlie of Poketo, and Michael of Handsome Coffee.

Love these girls… Anna and Nathalie Roland of HeadphoneRecord!

Tom Vadakan and the family!

Thanks Mister JT!

Tim and Patria…

Oh to be young again… wondering where she got that Jason Schwartzman Coconut Records bag?

Bri Emery, Jen Gotch, and Bonnie Tsang!

Patrick Hruby of this amazing site.

Angie and Thomas Im…you’ve seen his awesome bags on our site…they are selling like hotcakes at Poketo!

Lovely Sonja Rasula of State of Unique.

Charlie of Poketo here is always snapping away. Your Poketo order, she had her hand in getting it to you on time! She also runs this amazing vintage site.

Cake is Sweet!

Angie and Jocelyn of Clare Vivier!

Leslie and Karl of Rogue Territory. Look out for special things from them in the shop soon!

Sarah Shewey of Pink Clouds!

Ken and Sarah!

One of our interns Lily Sin. She just got nominated as a semi-finalist for Adobe’s designer of the month for IdN!

More of our awesome Poketo crew and interns…Faith, Lehua, Justine, and Sonya!

Elizabeth is interning with us for the summer from MICA!

Lovely Ellen, rocking the backpack she picked up at Poketo!

You guys make me smile…