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If you are on the Gold Coast in Australia, you’re not going to want to miss this.

Photo shirts come and go and while some capture the specific feeling of a specific moment few capture the feeling of a scene. Dan Boulton‘s series on London’s South Bank captured that feeling and this shirt highlights one of those moments that can only be experienced at South Bank. Produced by Dozen Co. out of England.

So, yeah, last summer I was curating a few chunks of that huge skateboard art show in Paris called Public Domaine… This one.  Among other things, I was in charge of a deck exhibit downstairs under the moniker Agents Provocateurs -an anthology of offensive/controversial/political/message-charged skateboard graphics from then (1990-ish) to now. So that could have been that.

But the venue in question bares a souvenirs-type of shop, and I thought it’d be cool to pick a few of the graphics exhibited and make super high-quality silk-screen prints of them, just a run of 100 prints for each. The two chosen ones ended up being the Sean Cliver “Charles Manson Brown” done for 101 in 1993, and Todd Francis’ “Nature’s Revenge” deck for Julien Stranger out on Antihero.

To make sure this awesome art was going to be treated right, I really wanted to work with Anagraphis/Les Freres Lumineux, whose outstanding portfolio print work for legendary alternative cartoonists (Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton etc) is mind-blowing, albeit of course not cheap at all.

Prints were made, they looked great, a bunch sold at the show… But the leftover was pretty much promised to rot in the shop’s basement once it was over. It killed me to see it going to waste. So in broke-ass, yet super-hero-ish fashion, I went and salvaged the about 50 prints of each graphic left. The only thing I forgot is that I might not have at all the money for it but fuck it, I bought them all back -scooped them up American Pickers-style, minus the profit. And here they are now, available exclusively on Memory Screened!

Back in 1991 in Blagnac, France, the H Street team came and did a demo. We all got really perplexed when we saw that Danny Way didn’t bring a vert board. Instead what he carried was one of these straight-railed, round-tailed, mini-wheeled (and no riser pads ! The heresy…) set-ups that hadn’t really reached France yet. “He just switched to street skating,” we thought, right before D.Way dropped on the monstrous vert ramp and killed it like nobody before –two tricks from that day even ended up in Questionable. Just one out of a million anecdotes testifying D.Way’s progression-oriented mind, as I’m pretty sure a certain documentary will soon assess better than my unsignificant 2-cents… For the rest, from H-Street to Plan B through Alien Workshop and Blind, Danny found a bit of time to discuss his own five favorite graphics. It’s all on Memory Screened.

Dreamland, an Exhibition of Artworks by Claudio Kirac.

‘Dreamland’ revolves around two key themes; the thrill of travel and the longing for home. While ‘on the road’ for periods at a time, and mostly without the leisure one would assume with travel or ‘holidays’, Claudio grasps the moments around him; wholly embracing local cultures and traditions, venturing ‘off the beaten path’ and stepping outside the comforts of everyday life. While befriending strangers and capturing those special moments one only encounters on ‘the journey’, work and play blur into one. Soon comes the challenge of missing the familiarity of home, the everyday norm, the common voices of close friends and the touch of a loved one. But it is this that makes us appreciate the everyday and helps restore our balance and soon we are home again where we can reflect on the journey and the places that became home for those moments in time. The works of ‘Dreamland’ express and investigate many of these notions.

Feb 23rd – March 6th 2012
Comb Space Gallery
Kirra Point, 23 McLean St, Coolangatta, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.

The Quiet Life is having a Facebook photo contest; upload two of your photos that you think would look fantastic on a tee shirt to their Facebook page and you’ll be entered into the contest. Winner get his photos on a Quiet Life shirt and $100 in QL gear. Enter now!

This Saturday, December 3rd  at Bitchcraft Trading Post’s Winter Sale  in Atwater, Los Angeles, CA, Pearl and I aka (Fight To The Death) will be releasing two of our newest collaborations. Our newest print in the Drug Monster series is Mt. Lushmore.  This collaborative print was made from a collaborative drawing and design by Pearl and I.  It’s a - 1 color silk screen on custom sprayed backgrounds, numbered and signed out of an edition of 40.

Also available at Bitchcraft will be Pearl and mine’s first collaborative zine, Fight to the Death, Issue #1, 36 pages of sketchbook drawings, 2 color silk screen cover, edition of 50.

Mark Whalen aka Kill Pixie is releasing a new lithograph with Gallery A.S. you can check it out here.

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After hearing about this project from Jeff Hamada, I recently hosted a screening of the video An Island, filmed by Vincent Moon about the amazing band Efterklang. This film is certainly an inspiring look at how important sound is to regional cultures. They are now releasing a limited edition DVD/EP designed by Hvass&Hannibal featuring the photos by Antje Taiga Jandrig packaged in a custom-made cover printed by Stumptown Printers in Portland, Oregon.

The DVD is limited to 5000 copies and they are all individually numbered. The cover holds a 35 page booklet with lots of photos along with background info written by Efterklang. When ordering the DVD you get the new EFTERKLANG EP ‘Live at Roskilde Festival 2010? as a bonus! An Island is also available digitally after the Pay-What-You-Want model. Available via www.anisland.cc/home

Portland-based Grove and I teamed up for the newest iPad 2 leather cover cases, featuring one of my Northern Grizzly Bear Men characters.  Check it out here. They come in both London Tan and Black and are available for the holidays for $79.00.  Anyhow check out Grove for artist series cases and/or to design one of your own! You can upload and customize your own iPhone or iPad case.