Naomi took me out for a drive in her dad's 1960 Frogeye Sprite today. A car which, in that 'small world' sort of way, I had photographed with her dad driving almost two years ago on the Old Tokkaido Road. At that time I had thought 'wow, very nice'. Little did I know I'd get to have a thrash around in it one day. Today was great […]

At the risk of repeating myself…. On New Year’s Eve day, late in the afternoon, quite a number of years ago, I stopped for gas. An elderly gentleman was tending the pumps, and we struck up a conversation. Innocuously, I alluded to the fact that I had “made it through another year.” He snorted and looked [...]

I'm torn to say that To Darrin Hudson will be shutting down.I've made the decision to move everything to a centralized www.stapledesign.com website. The new Staple Design website will encompass my blog, my Twitter Feed, the Design Studio, the Clothing Collection, Reed Space, Reed Pages...basically the whole Staple Universe! So while I have loved To […]

I have this thing that I don’t really remember anything that happened between 2006 and 2008.  I mean, 2007, what were those 12 months really good for?  Through those lackluster years, it was all kinda blurry, wasn’t it? But 2009 was different, by far the biggest milestone year of my personal life, shrouded by both tragedy [...]