Archive for January, 2010

rest in peace

J.D. Salinger

With Mumbler’s in mind I was leaked some exclusive advance imagery and info from the exceptionally talented TWO ONE’s next solo show. It is coming up at Gorker Gallery here in Melbourne in a few weeks. “The show will include a series of 20 limited Lino cut prints. Prints are all hand made by the artist. Hand drawn, hand cut, and hand pressed. However each print have only one character… a little off registration makes beauty of imperfection.”

At Gorker Gallery, opening on 25th of February.
More details will be announced soon.

Never A Dull Moment
opening February 6th, 2010
7 - 11PM
show runs through February 27th

I’ll be in San Francisco Feb 6th for the opening - come out and say hello!

For more information, click here!

I’ve posted a link on Mumble before to an episode of Dave Ackels’ Absorb video series but I finally got a chance to sit down and talk to him a little bit about the series and get his views on the history of skateboard videos for Level Magazine.

You can check it out here.
Dave’s Absorb Vimeo channel can be found here.

La Cumbre and Doug Smith. Good combination.

A couple of new series from my board sponsor “the 4 skateboard company”. “4″ is the plywood excursion navigated by West Australian Brett  Margaritis, who actually just mentioned to me that he has also just updated the Modus Bearings site.

The Pencil Series (up top) and *The Celebration Series (down below).

by james hensby

by ben mclachlan

*The celebration series is to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the first 4 board being sold. Happy 4th birthday 4!

We are currently filming for the full length 4 video, check the rider pages on the site for a little taste of what is to come.

You probably don’t know this but as well as being the founding editor of Club Mumble I also do a hyperlocal web site that focuses on the city I love, Vancouver BC Canada. The site is called Vancouver Is Awesome and essentially we talk about all things that makes the place, well, you know. Awesome.

Generally there’s no crossover between Mumble and Vancouver Is Awesome but today I feel like I have to tell you about this interview that I did with Michael J. Fox, who is one of our finest exports, because over the years I have heard SO many people say that they started skateboarding because of the Back To The Future movies. We talked about Joey Shithead from D.O.A., his favourite things about this city and those much-talked-about Nikes that he wore in Back To The Future 2. Have a READ.

Ten more of Michael Leon’s hand-poured gypsum skulls out of the edition of 100 are now available at Igloo!

Untitled, 2009
Metallic blue flake over individually hand-poured solid gypsum.
6 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches; 7 pounds
Edition of 10 from a varied series of 100
Hand engraved signature and number by the artist.

As time has passed, mid-’90s Toy Machinist Satva Leung has found a few different outlets for his creativity than just nollie backslide flipping through grannies’ ankles in Union Square -see Welcome To Hell again, thanks. A slashy-award winner DJ/videographer/director, he still found some time to put together the list of his five tunes in a skateboard video for A Visual Sound.

From The Globe and Mail on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.