Illustration leeched from JeremyVille

The numbered edition of 200 were originally published on the occasion of the exhibit “Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture“, 2004-2006 and were sold for $150 each.

These rare AP editions are available for $250 per print, only at Equal Dist.

The A.skate Foundation is once again looking for artists to donate work to their annual “1 in 91″ art show. For those unfamiliar, A.skate is a non-profit, grass roots organization that “allows children with autism to be a part of the social world through skateboarding. They hold clinics for children with autism at no cost to the families, give grants to children with autism for skateboard gear, as well as promote awareness and educate families about the skateboard industry”. A worthy cause for sure. I donated a piece to last year’s event and will definitely be participating in round 3.

This year’s auction will take place at The Lab in Costa Mesa, CA on Saturday, April 21st.  Email  info@askate.org for details of how to donate work.  Art is due no later than April 12.

If geologists rated skateparks the West Hobart Bowl would be classified as Jurassic. It is a crusty, meandrous beast that will happily spit you (and your flesh) into the stratosphere if you hesitate or make an error in judgment. It is a lumpy 100m roller coaster ride that takes you from a shallow dish, through the belly of a snake, past the demonic ‘Thrasher’ corner into the actual bowl. The West Hobart Bowl, (which is actually more of a snake run) has been sessioned for thirty three years now…. (continued here)

I had a lot of fun working on this with Broken Fingaz Crew (Israel) and Em Riem (Cambodia) at Lé Moon rooftop bar Phnom Penh as part of this week’s Tiger Translate event.

My newest zine of some of my favorite things–Booze, Dudes & Bears, published by The Secret Headquarters in Silverlake, is now available online and at the store for $5 buckaroos.  The zine features 20  of some of my favorite drawings, all of which for some reason, involve booze, dudes & bears.  No false advertising here.  Hey, maybe they’re some of your favorite things as well.  Anyhow thanks for the support.

Buy a copy now!

This year i decided to make some Print Exchange Program shirts via the Film Por Vida! brand. I have made three so far. above is the latest and below are the first two i made that are on sale now!

email me if you are interested jaitanju@yahoo.com or check out the blog filmporvida.blogspot.com to see lots of cool mail correspondence!

I took a trip down to Kinetic this weekend to peep the new 5Boro vid and to personally congratulate long time underground ripper and FDR local Willy Akers, on joining the pro ranks.  Always humble and permanently stoked, he may be the one guy out there who could give Theotis a run for the “nicest pro skater” title.  Delaware’s finest for sure – the kid kills it on all fronts.

And the whole Join or Die video is super sick.  With gritty super 8 footage of the Big Apple and a rugged soundtrack of classic tunes, it definitely delivers that raw, east coast vibe you’d expect from the good dudes over at 5Boro. Easily one of the most underrated squads out there. Tookmanian, Falla, Jimmy MacDonald, Pensyl – everyone on the team kills it with style.

If you haven’t caught it already at one of the premiers, the new 5Boro video, Join or Die, will be up on the Thrasher site this Friday, Feb 24. Don’t sleep on this one.

So the first ever show of art and music I’ve curated goes up this Thursday at the Gasometer Hotel here in Melbourne, please come around if you are anywhere nearby. Besides there being art and bands, the Gas also has kick ass BBQ and cheap beers – plus there will be good smells, so all five of your senses are gonna be stoked. Seriously, anyone who lives here and reads this blog please come say hey, I’m intensely proud of this.

The Friends of the Roc City Park are stoked to be putting on GET A GRIP III, a fundraiser for the Roc City Park. The Opening night is Friday March 2, 2012 from 5-9pm at The Yards in the Rochester Public Market.

The show runs March 3-25th, with open hours on Tuesdays, thursdays, and Saturdays from 10am-2pm.

If the shows anything like previous years, get there on opening night, because works sell quickly!

Find out more on the Facebook page for the event.

Brought to you by:
Roc City Skatepark
The Yards
Krudco.
1975
Etiket Clothing
DukSauce
Inside Skateboards
Mckay’s Photography

STANCE socks features some of their riders and new feet coverings in this well produced commercial.

HIGHLAND PARK, LOS ANGELES: There’s a huge upcoming group show THESE FRIENDS 3 coming Friday, February 24th at THISLOSANGELES gallery in Highland Park.  Too many talented artists to name, so make sure to take a peek and drop by.  They’ll also be giving away some tote bags that I designed to the first 100 folks who arrive.

Sneak peek of the weird hairy hunter guy I did for the tote.

It’s been raining a lot in Australia lately. Pretty shit really seeing as it’s summer and well, you know, the beach is awesome.

Soo we just finished our Filmbot Grip 2011 Holiday Catalog with just a couple products. We don’t make many things, but were happy with the things we do. Hope you enjoy! Thanks for visiting.

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

all him ADUL SCORC, LUDA CROOKS, or CHET CHILDRESS? Bottom line his art is radical. These turned out killer! I am so stoked to be able to be the first to put out prints for The one and only LUDA CROOKS. GET EM WHILE THERE HOT! HERE

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.

We teamed up with the super creative folks at “Blood of the young” zine in Toronto, Canada to offer these new watches, a touch retro and a touch classy (gold trim inspired by the mumble collab we did awhile back) want one? more here use “mumble” at checkout for a little bonus discount!

NEW YORK, NY: I’ll be participating in an upcoming group show, Rabid, Wild & Docile, which opens at myplasticheart  NYC February 24th, from 6-9pm.   The show features various bear-inspired works from artists such as Luke Chueh, EVOKER, Tim Sullivan, Flying Fortress, and many more!

Rabid, Wild, & Docile
A collection of bear inspired artwork
February 24 – March 25, 2012
myplasticheartnyc
210 Forsyth St
NYC 10002

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!

I decorated a cake last week and fellow Melbourne skateboarder, Tim Hillier spent a few days filming the process and editing it down into this short clip. Jason James created the animated title at the start and awesome SF skate rock band Hightower unknowingly contributed to the tunes.

Here’s the clip http://vimeo.com/35732344

Artist and designer Jason Vivona is showing some new work this month at the Slingluff Gallery in Philly – the opening party’s this Saturday night, February 4 from 6-9pm. Stop by if you’re in town – should be a pretty sick show.  11 W. Girard in Fishtown.

Jason Vivona, recently left the fine city of San Francisco and currently resides in Providence, RI. where he paints and draws on paper, then cuts it up, stains it with wine or coffee or tea or whatever he is drinking, then sews it all back together. The end result being a completely cohesive, realized quilted image, often laced with curtural reference and satirism. he also rides his skateboards and bikes around and makes music sometimes. He was the curator for the new incarnation of 6ALLERY (Gallery 6)in downtown San Francisco,CA.

His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries across the United States, Japan and Mexico, such as 111 MINNA in SF, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, White Walls Gallery SF, The Museum of New Art in Detroit,New Accident Gallery (Japan), and Vitale Gallery in Florida to name a few. Although mainly in group exhibitions, his work has been featured solo at Syracuse University and 6ALLERY SF among others. Vivona’s work has been published in Juxtapoz, Transworld Skateboarding, WARP, DIW, Skyscraper, RELAX, Portland FunBook 3 and many more.

Vivona directs a portion of his energy to freelance design. In the past he’s worked for such companies as Consolidated Skateboards, Fuel TV, Arena Rock Recording Co., Innes Clothing, and Converse. Currently he is producing work for Nike 6.0, Volcom, Concrete Company (Spain), Altamont Apparel, LSR Skateboards, Welcome Skateboards and Drop City Productions acting as art director and character/set designer for new animated commercials and television programs, partnering up with Adult Swim alum and director of photography, Jeffrey Gardner and writer/photographer, Tod Brilliant.

The Quiet Life’s end of the season sale is here, act now to get some great deals on what’s left of their fall catalog.

I’m super excited to announce Booze, Dudes and Bears, a new zine of drawings, to be published with the help of the awesome folks at The Secret Headquarters. We’re going to debut it for the LA Zine Fest Feb. 19th alongside Nick Thorburn’s new zine What A Gas.

Honored to introduce Los Angeles to Chicago “image manufacturers” Nick Butcher & Nadine Nakanishi, the designer/artist/printmakers operating Sonnenzimmer, a Chicago based printmaking studio. In conjunction with their CalArts visit, Sonnenzimmer will be exhibiting a collection of works at a ONE-NIGHT-ONLY pop up exhibition hosted at the Keep A Breast loft in the Downtown LA Arts District. Please join us in welcoming Nick & Nadine to LA, add a few Sonnenzimmer prints to your collection, hang out and talk shop with fellow LA printmakers.

 Image Manufacturing from Chicago
A Sonnenzimmer Pop Up Print Exhibition

Wednesday, Feb 1st, 7-10pm

Keep A Breast Loft
811 Traction Ave Loft 2A
LA CA 90013

Thanks to Keep A Breast and Boxed Water for the generous support!!

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.

I’m really stoked on the Allister Lee x ATLAS decks.  Each of the two decks in this artist series is signed and numbered in an edition of 50 and comes with an original piece of art, shrink-wrapped with each deck.  Get them at Atlas Skateboarding in San Mateo and check-out the fine installation that Allister and the Atlas crew setup in their shop. Up until March 12, 2012.  Mahalo to Allister and to Ryen, Mike and Nick at ATLAS! 

ATLAS SKATEBOARDING
209 2nd Ave.
San Mateo, CA 94401
Tel: 650.401.7110

Decks are also available at Equal Dist., where you’ll find Allister Lee’s infamous 500 Marker Poster as well as original artwork inspired by his love and expertise in the dark-arts.

Talk about a well-curated skateboard shop…!  Allister Lee also designed the ATLAS shop-decks shown below. 

The Quiet Life’s Facebook photo contest is down to the final six. Go to their Facebook page and vote for your favorite!

“We thought Solitary Arts and their 50mm 87A “Black Eggs” wheels were rad. So much so that we were inspired to create this clip and bridge the gap between 2 skate crews: Solitary Arts and Circle A.” Featuring Sean Connolly, Rich Hart and friends.

Ken Goto came through and snapped photos of both Geoff McFetridge (in LA) and myself for the Solitary Arts in issue 09 of SLIDER Magazine out of Japan.

The cover for this issue of SLIDER is the classic J.Grant Brittain photo-cover from Transworld (June 1987) of Tod Swank. Issue 09 features 6 luminaries in skateboarding photography and a photo retrospective of their works, along with a 20 page article on Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, Matt Rodriguez, and Chuck Treece’s (BLKTOP Project) most recent tour of Japan, all shot by Goto.  You can order it through their site as it’s well worth it. Comes with a nice calendar too!

Below, Geoff McFetridge and Yong-Ki Chang, shot by Andrew Paynter. Thanks Andrew!

Fellow Mumbler, Don Pendleton did a series for Stereo that will be in shops soon. If you’re any sort of fan of Don or Stereo, you know how awesome these are. Nice one Don. Stereo’s full Spring ’12 catalog.

Share Your Beauty, a You Are Beautiful exhibition
January 14th – February 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco CA 94110

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.

Proudly hailing from Liverpool, no wonder Geoff Rowley’s career has been maculated with various winks at football culture -the most famous being of course his use of Gerry And The Pacemakers’ “You’ll Never Walk Alone” song in his Really Sorry part, which doubles as Liverpool Football Club’s anthem, duh. How did that one tune come into the picture? Geoff explains on A Visual Sound.

I had loosely suspected it before. It became really obvious when I started working on curating the board exhibit for that one show in Paris last summer: in 2011, there aren’t that many skateboard graphics that have something to say. I mean, by “newer” artists -which immediately sets asides the Templetons, Eli Gesners, Mike Hills, Todd Francises, Clivers, McKees and Aly Moores of Droorstalgic times past.
Not to tout the expired stale fart trumpet again, but my theme being called Agents Provocateurs -a journey through offensive/political board graphics- I sadly only had a couple names in mind when time came not to make this an all-90s board exhibit.
Thanks lil’ Baby Jesus though, there’s still a handful of artists who still carry the maculate torch today. Among the Siebens, the Winston Tsengs (enjoi) and the Whoever-thinks-of-these-sick-Skatementals-concepts, Ben Horton has remained one of my personal faves since he launched $LAVE Skateboards.  The brilliance of it all, the video, Ben Raybourn : the guy behind it had to be a Midas of sorts, I thought.  Well, he is. But he’ll never admit it. Enjoy his interview over at Memory Screened.

On the rare and condemned practice of trying to suckle on one’s own tail

Here’s some new drawings I’ve done, some of which are inspired by ouroboros, some by saxophone playing, and some by well . . . I think you can figure that part out. 

Again on the forbidden and shunned practice of suckling on one’s own tail

A scene in which a merman practice the forbidden and shunned practice of reverse suckling

Tomorrow night this opens in San Francisco. Last weekend I help art director, Porous Walker set up some of the installation and documented the progress. Photos can be seen over on my COLOR blog. More on Porous, the art department and the installation coming soon.

About the installation from the gallery:

FIFTY24SF Gallery, in association with Upper Playground and American Zoetrope, are pleased to announce TWIXT sc. 83, an exhibition and installation coinciding with legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s newest feature film, Twixt. The exhibition opens January 13, 2012 with a public reception at 7PM.

Over his past three films, Francis Ford Coppola, famed director of The Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, has set-out to create self-written, self-financed, self-produced, and self-distributed films with his own intimate crew. Developed through personal experiences, a love of American Gothic, Edgar Allan Poe, and Coppola’s own trials as a horror genre author, Twixt is the story of B-list author Hall Baltimore’s process of writing his new mystery while researching an old murder case in a remote Northern California town. While Baltimore (played by Val Kilmer) is seemingly rewriting history with the help of the an eccentric town sheriff, he finds himself embedded in his most personal, demanding story he has ever written. Filmed around Northern California with locals as actors, as well as sets built on Coppola’s own property in Rutherford, Twixt examines the process of storytelling as it applies to personal experience, artistic influences, and the classic American genres that have become staples of modern cinema.

Working within their own self-financed restraints and freedoms, the team behind Twixt had the unique experience of researching and building sets in and around Coppola’s home in Northern California. Many of the sets were built in Coppola’s backyard, while some required the small town backdrops of Northern Napa and Lake counties. In keeping with the original spirit of American horror, some scenes were created with intentional kitsch, while some dream sequence were shot with highly-detailed, ornate sets and original post-production work.

For TWIXT sc. 83, members of Twixt‘s tiny tiny Art Dept, (Jimmy DiMarcellis, David Hopp, and John Paul Goorjian) will be rebuilding the set of the film’s dramatic climax sequence, scene 83. The center of the gallery will feature a remake and stand-alone installation of the film’s clock tower, shown in the film as an impromptu 3D experience. Also on display from Twixt, will be bat and birdhouses from Nice, California artist John Hathaway, whose front yard/gallery/shop “The Woodpecker”, was a key set in the film. TWIXT sc. 83 will also feature a series of other pieces from the film’s set department that were found around different locations in Northern California and in the Coppola archives, as well as behind the scenes photography by the film’s executive producer, Anahid Nazarian and set photographer, Kalman Mueller. The gallery will run trailers of the film, along with other enhancements to bring Twixt‘s horror scenes to life.

John Freeborn has just released Random Zine #10, with a bit of a twist, this is the first time he’s releasing this zine as an iBook only.

Along with 19 other artists, he kindly asked me to participate in this issue. I submitted one piece, which I would call pretty random for me, it was fun! 100 pages with artwork by (in order of appearance) Hershel Baltrotsky, Sonia Yoon, Clint Woodside, Ryan Wallace, Rich Jacobs, Jim Houser, Kendrick Shackleford, Tom Maher, Ben Horton, Eric McDade, Chris Sembrot, Joseph Hart, Matt Sohl, Dave Delaney, Sam Croswell, Carlos Miaco, Matt Curtius, Amy S. Kauffman and Jordin Isip.

It’s only $.99 in the apple iBook store, click here to get it!

Here is a “Behind The Seams” video that I shot with my wife, Amber B. In it she walks you through the process of creating the stop-motion animation in the Eden video, piece by piece.

Amber and I co-directed the video, which tells the story of Element Eden. The project was a fun break from skate videos, and an opportunity to work together on something creative. I’m really looking forward to see where Amber takes her new found passion for animation and filmmaking.

To view the Eden video, click here. And for an in-depth article, click here.

Please check out my good friend Justin Visnesky’s wonderful print for sale on the Collect.give site. Collect.give is a place to collect contemporary photography and donate to worthy causes at the same time. 100% of the proceeds from Justin’s print will go to The Sprout Fund, a nonprofit organization supporting innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that are catalyzing change in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Sounds good to me!

Kirk and I spent our holidays road tripping down Highway – 1 through Big Sur. It was our third time and I am even more in love with that place after this trip. We saw Otters, Sea lions, Elephant Seals, Harbor Seals, California Condors and the Grey Whales migrating down to Mexico… It really is the Wild West.

Check out more photos from our trip over at amberbcreate.com

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!

Joe Castro

This Saturday night in Philly is the opening for the Slingluff Gallery’s For Penn Treaty group show. Lots of great artists involved, including fellow Mumbler John Fellows, Jim Houser, Nosego, Shawn Beeks, Kevin Margitich, the Slingluff’s and more. Above is my contribution – a new painting entitled Iodine.

Anyway, the party’s from 6-9 pm with beverages provided by Art in the Age distillers and East Girard Gastropub. A portion from each sale will go toward helping maintain Penn Treaty Park in Philly, which is in need of a pretty serious face lift.  Should be a good time so don’t blow it – stop by if you’re in town.  11 W. Girard, Philadephia, PA.  You can also RSVP on facebook if that’s how you roll.

Jim Houser

NoseGo

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