Eric Nakamura
Bryce Kanights
Matt Irving
Andy Jenkins
Mark Whiteley
Sean Cliver
I recently did a little Q&A interview with Brooks Sterling of We Love Creativity . Here’s a quick excerpt, but you can check out the rest here.
Is there anything else about you that you would like the world to know about Michael Hsiung?
When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be a fire dog.
Artist and skateboarder Alex Duke in having an art show in Philly and the opening bash is this Saturday night, Sept. 3 so stop by if you’re in town. You may recognize his work from the board graphics he’s done over the years for Consolidated, 1031 and Death Skateboards, among others. The opening’s from 6-9 pm at the Slingluff Gallery, 11W. Girard Street – should be a good time.
The Solitary Arts is proud to introduce our family with both Jef Hartsel (Hawaii/Venice Beach Original – The West) and Bob Lake (Virginia Beach Original – The East).
Elemental Awareness hits the road once a year for their Rez tour. On the annual trip, they visit Native American reservations across the country to give back to the communities. Check out the video to see what’s gone on in the past, and for more information about this year’s tour, “The Long Strange Trip”, which has four stops, go to Elemental Awareness.
Jef Hartsel created the artwork for the latest Gravis, “Filter Duro” shoes with four customized, “Cloud 9″ insoles (Arto Saari, Dylan Rieder, Jake Johnson, Sammy Winter). Check them out below and ask for them at your local skate shop. Also, check the EZ Ryder blog, HERE for more details and photos from this awesome project.
Today I finished a drawing for this year’s annual Yarrr art show, which I am keeping under wraps for now. My friend Micah Pearson runs a small Tshirt brand here in Melbourne, called Yarrr.
Each year, he gets a number of different artists to design a Tshirt print and produces a limited number of each shirt which he then sells via his website. He also holds an annual exhibition where the original artworks are on display. Despite some bad luck at times (dodgey beer sponsors trying to get in with what I guess they percieved as the cool youth/skate market, and then deciding not to deliver 1 hour before the event) it’s always one hell of a party.
Last year (apart from having to supply beer for everyone at the opening, out of his own pocket) Micah also produced a calendar so each artist got given a month to base their design on. I was given April, so I based my drawing very loosely on Easter…. and of course skateboarding, heavy metal and a bad pun. I was hardly breaking new ground. I think my caption was something like “Easter Metal – celebrating the death of Jesus for over 2,000 years.” Real cerebral stuff.
Bunnyhana
Isaac McKay-Randozzi recently completed interviews with the entire Lakai team, each one unique. Click HERE for the Get Familiar intro page.
Giant Moa Has A Giant Wishbone by Sarah Larnach
My friend and fellow Element advocate, Sarah Larnach, lives over in New Zealand, where there was some pretty gnarly earthquakes not so long ago. Here is an email that she sent out about this painting that she has donated which is currently being auctioned…
“Hello!
‘The giant moa has been extinct for about 250 years, but these massive birds were once the worlds largest. I’ve painted this moa in the style of a museum taxidermy guide, for my Wonder Cabinet (Wunderkammer) series. The special detail in this painting is the wishbone (which would be about 50cm tall on a Moa) , here symbolically painted in gold for hope and good wishes. This is the first original piece in this series to go up for sale.
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