Archive for June, 2009

There is a group show featuring a number of artists and myself at Virtuoso Studios (323 nw 6th Ave Portland, OR) opening this Thursday July 3 from 6 to 9 pm.

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For the past five years, Patrick O’Dell has been religiously posting photo sets on his web site, Epiclylaterd.com. I think that his show on VBS.tv that you are likely familiar with (which shares the same name) was originally supposed to be more random like these photo galleries.

A little while back I asked Patrick if he wanted to join Club Mumble and post stuff on here occasionally but he said he was too busy SO I’ve decided to take things into my own hands and share some of his Laterdness with you myself. Every day for the next 30 days I will be poaching one image that he’s posted on his site in the last year and showing it to you here, while encouraging you to visit his web site.

Sorry, Patrick (and thank you).

Thank you to the almost 3,000 skateboarders that came through to Emerica’s first international Wild In The Streets in Vancouver, Canada. It was truly an epic day for skateboarding in our city as Emerica team riders Andrew Reynolds, Heath Kirchart, Ed Templeton, Kevin “Spanky” Long, Bryan Herman, Leo Romero, Jerry Hsu, Brandon Westgate, Jamie Tawncony took over the streets with Vancouver’s skateboarders. The mass ride throughout the city and events of the weekend was meant to raise awareness for skateboarding and for Lee Matasi, a local skateboarder who was murdered in 2005. Through donations, food, and t-shirt sales, $7000 was raised for the Lee Matasi Foundation and Leeside, the skateboard park built in his memory. We believe in the ability of skateboarders to empower themselves to do great things, and everyone stepped up.

Timebomb Trading Inc would like to thank the Emerica team, Michelle & Antisocial, Sole Technology, Timebomb staff, NLA, Mayor Gregor Robertson & Sarah Blyth for declaring it Skateboard Week, the Vancouver Police Department for letting us do our thing and the police escort, Underworld, Color Magazine/SBC/Concrete for the coverage, Red Bull for the sound and hot dogs, all the media that helped push this event, Cyrus Thiedeke, Mike Mckinlay, everybody else that I missed. Thank you for supporting!

Official Wild in the Streets Video by Mike McKinlay

Photos and coverage on the Emerica site

Photos on the Timebomb Trading site

BIG NEWS

Two of my favorite people, Tiffany Cambell and Andria Lessler, have just finished an amazing new surf movie.  It’s called  “Dear and Yonder: Daring stories of ladies united by the sea”, and it is on tour right now!  Me and Nat Russel worked together to create the title sequence and I did some other little animated tidbits with other people’s artwork.  I haven’t seen the film yet but the trailer is soooooo beautiful.  Have a look. Check out the tour dates, they might be coming to your town!  It will look incredible on the big screen I do declare..  www.villavillacola.com for more details..

I got mine. Get yours Wednesday! More info here!

well i think its the 1000 post? bob is this true?

anyway since bob is doing 30 days of  Patrick O’Dell i thought id jump in on this one! i first meet Patrick in Ohio at Chenga World. i was there with the vans guys hanging out in the parking lot drinking beer after skating the park & he came up to introduced himself &  gave me this zine! i just remember thinking he was very tall? i must have looked at this zine 50 times on the rest of the tour & somehow it made it home with me & into my bookself.  thanks patrick  part 1 of 3

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Sympathy For The Unusual makes its debut by launching it’s Summer 2009 Flash Collection, the outcome of an international collaboration between the brand and 6 designers to make 6 “unusual” t-shirts. Sympathy designers include: Matt Joyce // Rubens Cantuni // Ed Nacional // Andy Smith // Unusual Design Movement // Lorena Vigil-Escalera.
Innovative graphic art, quality cut and trim size, 100% cotton and a distinctive feature: a special print inside each left sleeve, just roll it up to uncover it. http://www.sympathyfortheunusual.com/ as a bonus, for a limited time mumble readers can use the code MAGNETISM to get 33% off!

For the past five years, Patrick O’Dell has been religiously posting photo sets on his web site, Epiclylaterd.com. I think that his show on VBS.tv that you are likely familiar with (which shares the same name) was originally supposed to be more random like these photo galleries.

A little while back I asked Patrick if he wanted to join Club Mumble and post stuff on here occasionally but he said he was too busy SO I’ve decided to take things into my own hands and share some of his Laterdness with you myself. Every day for the next 30 days I will be poaching one image that he’s posted on his site in the last year and showing it to you here, while encouraging you to visit his web site.

Sorry, Patrick (and thank you).

I don’t remember if I blogged this (blogging seems to be my pathetic way of scheduling my life) but Louie Barletta, Derek Fukuhara and I went to Portugal a month or so back. It was a rad 10 day trip, with not very much drinking, or partying, just more skating, chilling and hanging out with friends.. It was rather nice change. We were taken to this awesome huge metal sculpture which was the town center for this little port for sailors or something. Had a beautiful view of the refinery with millions and millions of boats floating on the water.

How this photo came around, was we were shown the spot on night before, where it was too dark to skate, but I was able to shoot some cool sunset photos of the spot. Then the next day, we just came back about an hour earlier, about dusk, and the guys just messed around a bit, and we shot some cool silhouette/sunset photos. This photo I really enjoyed shooting, maybe it’s even… artsy? Haha.

Hendrik shot one from the other side of the structure, that recently ended up to become a cover for a German Magazine called Monster. Thanks Louie and Skateboarder for the hookup! I will end this post on his quote that is in the magazine:

“This spot was in Portugal and the run was was right in front of this really old blue collar bar. After every attempt, I would have the entire bar heckling me. I tried to explain that their jeers were falling on deaf ears because I couldn’t understand Portuguese. Well as luck would have it, I landed my trick and one of the guys from the bar, with concrete all over his well-worn overalls, came over to me and said in perfect English, “That was nice but I’d much rather have seen a hardflip.” - Louie Barletta, No Comply.