Archive for July, 2009

So this is what having a 24 hour a day edit facility in the office means, apparently.

As a product of 90′s skateboarding, Sean Cliver is responsible for the better part of my personal favorite board graphics. Not only a fine illustrator but a true skate historian, Sean is also behind the most comprehensive and authoritative book on skateboard graphics ever, Disposable, which was released in 2004. Things just got more awesome as his second book, The Disposable Skateboard Bible was just released.

Over the next ten days I’ll be bringing you Sean’s top ten skateboards that he’s designed over the years, along with his thoughts on each of them. Enjoy.

8. 101 Adam McNatt Bad Babies For anyone who has read the preface to my first book, Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art, you know I don’t particularly care for blowing philosophical smoke up a graphic’s ass. On this particular board, though, I guess you could say something about the angelic innocence of newborn babes and how at anytime one can grow up and go on to do really bad shit (“bad” being used in the theoretical sense because what’s so bad about a double-ended dildo, anyway?). Or you could just take it for face value and go, “Ha-ha! The baby is holding a double-ended dildo!” So it’s a win-win either way.

Check out disposablethebook.com for info on The Disposable Skateboard Bible.

We just got added to the “INDUSTRY” section of ShredOrDie.com. If any of you Club Mumble members have a video that you want me to add to our channel hit me up and I’ll upload it.

For now I’ve uploaded the Honoris Professio piece that Josh Friedberg filmed and I edited. Remember that honorary pro thing that we’re doing? We’re working on the second one right now. Top secret…

http://www.shredordie.com/clubmumble

The Public Works art show opens this Friday in Chicago. If you live anywhere near there, go. Sure wish I could.

“Public Works is a group show that features four artists who’ve spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities: Cody Hudson, Justin Fines, Andy Mueller, and Chris Eichenseer. Longtime friends, the four men have parlayed their street-level art styles into careers as internationally recognized graphic designers. The new pieces presented in Public Works are wholly representative of the dual-influences of fine and commercial art in the artists’ lives, the gallery covered in an egalitarian display of screenprints, a digital pastiche of color blocks, Greco-Roman statues, sardonic portrait photography and Dungeons and Dragons references. Accompanying the new work is a wall thick with retrospective rock posters, album covers and street images that bump and overlap, a physical manifestation of the artists’ intertwined pasts and common futures.”

Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago
July 31st – August 29th
Noon to 5pm Wed – Sat or by appointment

Opening
Friday July 31st 2009 6pm to 9pm

Derek and I spent a day at Venice beach a while back with Ryan Spencer, Darien Brown and Vince Martinez Duran. We went to a whoopty ledge and If you have been to this spot before you know how sandy it gets. So after a couple custom made leaf brooms we made a little pathway to his backside crailtail. Conveniently, Ezekiel Clothing needed an photo for an ad in the next couple days, so it got laid out almost instantly. If digital photography wasn’t instant gratification enough, seeing it in print a month later makes it all that much sweeter. Thanks to Derek and all the broom makers.

The Directors Bureau has just opened their Department of Advice.  Go ahead, ask them anything.

www.thedirectorsbureau.com

As a product of 90′s skateboarding, Sean Cliver is responsible for the better part of my personal favorite board graphics. Not only a fine illustrator but a true skate historian, Sean is also behind the most comprehensive and authoritative book on skateboard graphics ever, Disposable, which was released in 2004. Things just got more awesome as his second book, The Disposable Skateboard Bible was just released.

Over the next ten days I’ll be bringing you Sean’s top ten skateboards that he’s designed over the years, along with his thoughts on each of them. Enjoy.

7. 101 Adam McNatt Charles Manson Brown Over the years I’ve had a number of people come up to me and tell me how much they loved the graphics I did in the early ‘90s for World Industries, Blind, and 101. They’d then rattle off a number of graphics, the majority of which were actually done by Marc McKee. But this one is often remembered, too, and it’s the one I’m always proud to lay claim to.

Check out disposablethebook.com for info on The Disposable Skateboard Bible.

In case you have been under a rock, little GT turned pro last week. His board is in shops now. Poser.

The World Premiere of MAKE IT COUNT – Chapter 1 is here!

Screening at the Lido Theatre in Newport beach tonight, the 28th of July, 6pm.

Check out the trailer here http://www.elementskateboards.com/makeitcount/

MAKE IT COUNT blog http://www.elementskateboards.com/makeitcount/?page_id=43

When I was a kid I wasn’t the kid in this ad.