Archive for October, 2010

Opening reception of the new art show from NECKFACE!
Skate demo with Altamont/Baker/Deathwish teams, haunted house and art show.
Where: Oh Wow gallery, 101 S. La Brea Av, Los Angeles, CA.
Time: 7pm till 11pm.
Free entrance, all ages.
oh-wow.com

After party with The Goat & The Occasional Others
Where: Three Clubs, 1123 Vine St, Los Angeles, CA.
Free entrance, 21 and over only!
threeclubs.com

Check the video for the NECKFACE “Into Darkness” art show.
http://vimeo.com/15886483

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Every day for the last few months I’ve been creating Community Service Announcements and posting a new one daily to my Facebook page. Here is the new installment for Club Mumble, I do hope you enjoy them!

G’day mates, If you’re in Sydney, Australia next week, check out “The Happy Tree” exhibition featuring Element Advocates from Australia, Europe and The United States.

Monster Children gallery,  November 4th. It’s going to be Rad!

I just wanted to take a moment this morning to thank relatively new Mumbler, Erich Lehman, for fixing the site! We got hacked a few weeks back and if you noticed the site was inaccessible for a minute while we struggled to fix the hack and get it back up. As this has become more of a labour of love than anything for me, I’ve had my head in projects that are putting food on the table for my family and didn’t have time to figure out how to fix this problem that is obviously very technical. Erich came in and handled this beast! He sifted through rogue code and spent many hours making adjustments and bringing this thing back to life so that we can all continue to enjoy it and share with each other.

In short, if you get anything out of this site then Erich should be your new hero. Thank him!

Elemental Awareness helps support the after school skate program at Century Middle School in Inglewood, LA. Last week EA rocked up, giving the kids new boards, wheels, and even shoes to help and promote their cause… The after school skate program offers a drug free, safe place for kids to learn how to skate from inspirational mentors and peers.

There were plenty of smiles to go round as we played ‘Dizzie ollie’ and gave out prizes. The kids with the most thrashed skateboards, actually won new ones!

Thanks for the good times!

Check out more photos here

A drawing created yesterday for French surf and skate magazine Desillusion, http://www.dslmag.com

A more detailed view can be seen here.

Mathew Barker is a treasure; a true romantic with a touch of sinister. He’s been writing poetry for as long as I have known him, and is about to tour the United States for the first time, performing his music. If you are in any of these cities, please go see this little Aussie… I promise it will make your heart bleed.

www.myspace.com/watermusicband

Every day for the last few months I’ve been creating Community Service Announcements and posting a new one daily to my Facebook page. Here is the new installment for Club Mumble, I do hope you enjoy them!

While in NYC earlier this year, we had the chance to hang out with Don Pendleton, and film him doing some illustrations. Here are some images I shot as Don let loose on some unsuspecting paper.

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My buddy Jimmy calls this a “Yeah Rob!” moment, but I’m okay with that this time.

I’ve been running a nomadic gallery called 1975 for the last two years, and I was recently approached about an article for our local paper. The article came out today and talks about how the gallery came about, Rochester’s alternative-space art scene, and how all of this mess started with a skateboard and a homemade Misfits shirt. I am stoked and honored that it made the front page of the Living section!

Photo by Matt Wittmeyer for Democrat & Chronicle

The pic shows a nice cross-section of my collection, but I was most stoked to sneak in my very first skateboard, a blue banana board I learned how to push back and forth on back in 1987 and opened up a whole new world for me.

You can read the story here: http://tinyurl.com/1975inDC

In an interesting tangent, I’m very much steeped in new media, but something like this, an article presented in traditional media, is still something I can give to my Dad and have him understand. As folks muse about the death of print, etc., a facet like that can’t be forgotten!

And I want to give a huge shout out to all the folks who pushed and supported me, the 75+ artists I’ve gotten to work with over the last two years, and all of the influences that lead me in this direction, including so many folks associated with this site!