Two of skateboarding’s most colourful characters came through our office at the very end of November unannounced, so we took the opportunity to find out exactly what Dirty Sanchez duo Matt Pritchard and Lee Dainton got up to throughout 2011 and the highlights throughout the year.
They have spent time on the road performing their Pritchard vs Dainton stage show where, quite frankly, they get hurt for the pleasure of many onlookers, annihilated themselves for charity and have still made time to love skateboarding. Click play for a Reflections feature and also find out more about the Kill City Skateboards DVD release ‘Rookies’ that will be dropping this December into your local skate shop.
The man who kicks off 2011’s ‘Reflections’ end of year features needs almost no introduction. The feral Scottish ripper who should pick up an award this year for nailing every transition like a raging bull has spent this year hitting the trail in California and living the dream.
Enjoy some of Div’s memoirs and get hyped on his out of control chariot entertaining your eyes and ears in 2012.
Best personal moment of 2011?
Skating the best parks in the fuckin bizz.
Favourite skate trip?
Scotty and the Scots, cause there wiz a Scott and a couple a Scots kickin aboot the States.
Most satisfying trick made?
Every time I go skate!
Best song you listened to most in 2011?
Dystopia – Stress Builds Character
Story of 2011?
I hud a garage sale this year and this vet dude cruised to get some shit told me he used to do underwater rescues for missing persons. He used to free dive, nae breathing apparatus! They were looking for this Asian dude and he says he found him in the shallows stuck in a cave in Mission Bay. When he seen him he was clenching on to his chest. So he tells me they pulled his body out and and opens his fist and he was holding on to a lucky rabbits foot!
Newest trick?
Breaking back trucks like a mother fucker!
The trick that got away?
Hurricane fakie over/round the love seat at Washington Street. (WSVP)
December 1st marks the day that Gary Scott Davis aka GSD, invented the Boneless (originally called the Boneless One).
To celebrate one of the best tricks in skateboarding, various skate mags, blogs etc will be celebrating this day by publishing photos and footage of bonelesses thanks to our friend at Soletech, Don Brown who came up with the idea. So if you want to be involved in this fun, send your pics and footage or both to us and we will run them on this thread below.
The boneless has been hucked out and mastered by so many amazing skaters over the years in so many different ways that we could be here talking about it all week. Thankfully we have a week to do exactly that so start thinking about who does the best bonelesses out there and throw them into the comments below.
To reminisce a few classics, the Gonz has a cute boneless and loves to chuck them into random situations. Neil Blender has an awesome boneless in his trick tank and then you have the likes of Tony T, Sean Goff, Jeff Phillips, Ludacrooks, Jeff Grosso, Lance Mountain, Ben Raemers….fuck there are so many who huck the bone.
Get involved in this for the hell of it and we will host your photos below. Your submissions don’t have to be new, as boneless ones never age. Get amongst it and dig out one for the sheer hell of it today. It goes without saying, but please share this link with friends you know who love a boneless.
To make sure we don’t piss off any photographers, please have permission to send your snaps to us by letting us know you have permission to post this on our site and please leave us with the photographer’s name for a credit.
Thanks Zac.
Photo of Meanwhile One above by Ray – below Raemers at Rom by Tom Halliday
First out of the blocks 20 mins after this was posted is Jack Isaac who hucked one down the Cardiff Sports Cafe steps and at the Cardiff Plaza:
Sam Roberts was caught by Alex Burrell’s lens skills here:
Luke Jarvis hucks one out at Royal Oak for Hula’s camera
Dickson at Shralp Ya Bass in Scotland sent in these 3. First up, Colin Adam gets hip on Falkirk’s concrete.
Colin Adam again boosts one over the funbox at Blantyre Skatepark.
Creature’s Stu Graham loves a Boneless. Dickson caught this one off the cradle at Saughton.
Stevie Thompson prefers dropping them backside.
Pooch drops a large one over Jak Tonge for AD’s lens at Skaterham – Photo Austino..
Craig Davis finds time for a boneless at the St Mirren bowl down in Cornwall.
Ben Wilkes snapped one of Revolution Skatepark’s Joe Hubbard at night time.
Forking Hell. Carl Wilson finally makes this backside B shot by Jono.
Daniel takes the stairs with one sent in by Liam Clarke.
Mini ripper Luke Schoonbrood keeps the old school rocking at Saffron Walden’s curves. Pic by Tom Halliday. Send yours in now.
Richard Utterage goes frontside at Kennington’s legendary concrete. Ph:Tim Peet
Nyjah Huston just released his Pay-per-view part entitled Rise & Shine but whether you like it or not, there is a clear divide between those who look at Nyjah’s skateboarding with anger and those who praise the teenager as the second coming.
You can download it here on i-Tunes for £1.50 (or £1.99 for full HD)
The question is, which side of the fence do you sit on?
THOSE IN FAVOUR:
Ever since his mainstream debut as a spritely pre-pubescent dread head, Nyjah has displayed undeniable talent on a skateboard. The young boy has grown (quite a lot actually) into a young man and his ability on board has only grown exponentially. The rails are much bigger, the drops are steeper, the jumps are further and the dreads are longer. Rise & Shine is the icing on the cake that sets a new level for skateboarders going big. Back to back never been done tricks at hollowed ground and the faculty to roll away from a ten-foot drop like he was rolling off a curb are the standard Nyjah has set for his peers to follow.
We have all witnessed the ease with which Nyjah can tackle spots thanks to his Street League performances, but sometimes you need to pay to play and Rise & Shine features a couple of crippling slams that act as a stark reminder of the risk Nyjah runs as he pounces down 18 stair rails. Whilst most of us would need a stretcher to cart us off to ICU, Nyjah takes it in his stride and continues to shred the shit out of an array of spots spread across the globe.
This is Premier League skateboarding with all the camera flashes, flood lights and media frenzy a top player witnesses on the job. Nyjah has not been slacking this year with a Berrics Battle Commander, a Thrasher Firing Line, a Skateboarder Mag interview and plenty more. Rise & Shine wraps it all up and delivers a package to the skateboard community that could see Huston added to the exclusive roster of Skater of the Year trophy winners. Now wouldn’t that be a great way to end an incredible year?
THOSE AGAINST:
You can compare Nyjah Huston’s Rise & Shine part to Premier League Football with it’s ego-centric Lil’ Wayne soundtrack, multiple angles, camera flashes, generator lights and peanut gallery cheering him on from the sidelines. The top players have legions of fans and Nyjah will no doubt recruit a few more now. But keep in mind that some skateboarders and football fans feel completely detached from the hi-life and don’t buy into the big bucks hype. Some of us are very happy supporting and playing in our local leagues. We might watch the likes of Nyjah on the television on a Friday night, but Saturday afternoon we’re having a kick about with our mates and couldn’t care less. You only need to take a look at the stats to see that Nyjah is not messing around. Stats nerds registered approximately 36 tricks performed on handrails, 16 on gaps, 8 on ledges or manual pads and 1 on a handicap ramp, so 60% of Rise & Shine involves a grind or a slide down a handrail, 25% sees Nyjah flying through the air (sometimes over a handrail), 12% requires a balancing act and a mere 3% is the closest you’ll get to a jump ramp session.
There are groundbreaking manoeuvres on display but the spontaneity of it all is completely lost (Some people have doubts about the enders being performed back to back). Nyjah is a part of this new Top Gun crew of skateboarders that use the tactics of shock and awe rather than fun and games that the toy that is a skateboard should provide. Even if the wild underdog Maverick made Top Gun, Tom Cruise is still a knob. Perhaps people are bitter from the relentless media spin that has slowly brought Nyjah’s Rise & Shine to a boil. Berrics Battle Commanders, Thrasher Firing Lines, (awkward) Ricta commercials, Magazine interviews… The list goes on.
With the release of Rise & Shine, some members of the public can’t help but think Nyjah’s entire year in skateboarding has been carefully planned out and crafted to place him nicely on a platter for the ultimate title of Thrasher’s Skater of the Year. If this is the case, then has skateboarding lost a large piece of its soul? You decide.
The Massacre was heavily missed by many last year so organisation for this one started as far back as the beginning of August to make sure it was going to happen. With no room for a mini ramp at Vauxhall’s Hidden Club, Matthew Bromley’s idea to have a skate sticker exhibition caught on amongst 12 of London’s best skate art illustrators and the Toxic Wasters exhibition took its place. We did miss the ramp though, so next year we will try our hardest to get it back into the mix for you.
Highlights for this explosive night are rife. Cornish 4-piece Crowns made some new drinking buddies by serving up cold pints of Clash inspired, seafaring punk rock. Tomb Crew got stuck into Front Magazine‘s room by dropping the beats on the earlybirds whilst Illaman MC had more words that a dictionary to spill across Rack N Ruin‘s set too. 3 hours of grime, dubstep and bass reigned supreme before Cerebral Ballzy took to the stage in the Vans room. The results were no surprise.
This was the most chaotic show we have ever seen at any Crossfire night. From the off, a sea of bodies collided as the hardcore was sprayed into the crowd. Surgeons, zombies, military officers, pirates, even bananas, were smashing into each other forming one of the biggest bundles ever seen thanks to the dance music podiums that were used as launch pads! This legendary set was ended with a piñata smashing of the highest order and a set of absolute bangers by Stereo:Type who mashed up every classic in the book. The Vans room was covered in beers, stickers and sweets and ended up destroyed.
The Last Resort DJs dropped 90’s rock classics across 2 rooms and had the place rolling alongside a fierce stoner rock set from James Sherry, whilst Talita Two Shoes and Pheobe Winter freaked everyone out with their Child’s Play and dropped a great selection of metal! It’s always fantastic to see the DJs and bands dress up for this occassion. Pheobe’s and Talita won it for the girls and Enter Shikari‘s Rou Reynolds was a serious contender for the boys prize. Shikari have spent the last 2 weeks on tour around the UK but still had the energy to jump on the decks with us for 90 mins. Rout and SGT Rolfy had the place jumping before handing over the decks to High Rankin & Tigerlight who were dressed for Ultraviolence and continued the frenzy with bass driven beats mixed with a ton of wob!
Overall, not many people were ejected on the night. We are listening to all of your feedback on our facebook page and twitter so keep them coming and share your pics on there with us this week.
Thanks so much if you came down to make this night the huge success that this year’s Crossfire Halloween Massacre in association with Vans turned out to be, and also for dressing up in some of the best costumes we have ever seen! Big ups to all at Vans and Front Magazine, all at Hidden Club and Found series, Chloe Leeks, James Sherry, Paul Parker for his incredible artwork and all of the illustrators involved in Toxic Wasters exhibition, all the DJs and bands mentioned above, everyone at Division PR, Sophie Kostrowski, Scott Kell, Tom Halliday, the lovely guys at WE Audio, Kerrang, Rocksound, Clash, Metro, NME, Time Out, The Londonist, TNT, Sidewalk Mag, XFM, Gallows, We Are The Ocean, Hawk Eyes and all of the other bands out there who retweeted our shit and anyone we forgot. See you in 2012!
Enjoy the gallery photos below thanks to the long hours put in by Tom Halliday and Scott Kells. If you use these images, please credit them.
Watch the full video from the night courtesy of Sophie Kostrowski and Matthew Bromley:
Watch a clip of Cerebral Ballzy exploding in the Vans room. Caught on iphone from above.
TOM HALLIDAY’S PHOTOGRAPHY:
Enter Shikari blow up the Front room
Sweet Dreams played party nightmares!
Our photographer Tom Halliday is a Misfit!
High Rankin dropped bombs!Cerebral Ballsout played
SCOTT KELLS PHOTOGRAPHY:
Crowns brought dead sailors up from Cornwall!
Tigerlight in the house!
Next 3 pics shot by James Sherry.
Final photo by Tom Halliday.
“It was a great night had by all with some amazing outfits, a truly hilscarious event!” – Sgt Rolfy (Enter Shikari)
This weekend’s Vans UKSA Championships at Hemel Hempstead’s new XC skate park saw the creme of the UK scene in attendence and of course, with that, some amazing skateboarding.
The 20 skaters that made it through the semi-finals brought chaos to the street section. Conhuir Lynn, Dave Snaddon, Daryl Dominguez, Joshua Young, Ross McGouran, Keith Walsh, Alex Barton, Kris Vile, Neil Smith and Gav Coughlan fought it out in two groups of five people jamming for just over 10 minutes a piece.
Devestating runs followed, the sweat descended, the tricks erupted and the points were racked up fairly deeming Joshua ‘Manhead’ Young in first place for all round trick annihilation, Ross McGouran in second and Conhuir Lynn in third. This year’s best trick comp was won by Korahn Gayle whose fakie flip fakie nosegrind down the ledge took the dough on the night alongside the same trick with a fakie 50-50 that you can see below from my crap cam.
The girls comp was won by Lucy Adams riding for Lovenskate with Helena Long and Lois Pendlebury taking second and third respectively. The Writer’s Tailblock fastest trick speed challenge went to Eddie Belvedere with a whopping 28mph nollie flip!
Quote of the Day was from Nic Powely whose first words when I arrived were, “…those knobheads broke a lift in the hotel and they want £3000 out of me to pay for it!” Maybe Manhead will be donating his prize money, or maybe not. When asked what he would do with his £3000 win in the car park on the way out, his response was: “I will probably spend it on Xmas presents” and with that only a few weeks away we will see you at the Xmas Jam on the 10th December in London for more carnage like this. Well done to all involved, enjoy this gallery of heads from the finals day.
Over the last 2 months Matthew Bromley has been beavering away in here contacting who we thought were the best 12 illustrators out there to produce a deadly, toxic, nuclear mutated sticker ahead of our TOXIC WASTERS skate sticker exhibition that will be held at our Halloween Massacre on October 28th.
In the end, invitations were sent out to Paul Parker, Mr Gauky, Kyle Platts, Sam Taylor, Matthew Bromley, French, Stu Smith, Fos, Craig Scott, Dan Singer, Paddy Jones and Tom Slater. All of them replied with excitement as who else has thrown a sticker exhibition in years? They make up one of the most important parts of skateboarding. Read our recent feature on skate stickers here for proof. The illustrations came back swiftly and Stu Smith at Lovenskate was waiting for them. Watch this video of how these stickers were printed and get hyped on the results.
Only 100 limited edition, collectors sticker packs have been made, all cut and made by hand. Visit our store to pick up an exclusive slice of skateboard sticker history now before they get snapped up, available now for pre-order at £10 (+postage) before Halloween on 31st October, or £15 (+postage) after Halloween.
Not only will you receive 12 limited Toxic stickers, but also 2 bonus x Vans stickers, 1 x Front Magazine sticker and a Crossfire in the packs!
Thanks to all of the artists involved and for your support in making this work!
When you think of the word “stickers”, what does it mean to you? For me personally stickers were my gateway drug into skateboard culture, a small way of satisfying my addiction that came packed with a massive punch. Back then, they were as valuable as pound notes were to a six year old, it’s probably no different for many of you reading this article right now.
They sat behind glass counters, glistening in the light saying “buy me, buy me!” At school they were a must-have. Everyone used to check out each others new skate stickers from the weekend at first break. There were only 5 of us in our year who actually skated back then. Most other kids thought we were dicks in the 80’s due to our obsession with skateboarding and punk rock; we felt completely ostricised at the time. Skateboarding was considered uncool but the more creative kids could see that our stickers had appeal. They were intrigued, like us, by the garish colourways and the bold designs, mostly drawn by Jim Phillips. At the time Jim was regarded as the master of all skateboard graphics, whose work was made famous worldwide for companies such as Santa Cruz, Independent Trucks, Bullet’s, OJ Wheels and many more.
Hanging out in skate shops at the weekend was essential. For us, popping into ‘Mud Machine’ in Croydon to sit at the counter for hours on end, glaring at the ‘drugs’ that were glowing in colour was part of the weekly drill. We would session Fairfields, the Norwich Union bank and then skate as fast as possible to that shop to feed our addiction. Lakai and Blueprint’sDanny Brady grew up in the seaside town of Blackpool as a kid and shares the same experience a generation later:
“Stickers are an essential part of skateboarding. When I was a kid they were always so sought after, even the crappy logo stickers were quickly hoovered up at the end of a demo or product toss, but then there were the special stickers; the ones they had in the skate shop behind the counter. I remember fiending for a Flip sticker, the one with the genie lamp. The best part of this is when I finally owned it, the biggest problem was trying to decide which possesion I owned deserved to have it plastered on it! I still love finding a good sticker, but these days I tend to only use the crappy logo stickers as the extra incentive from photo’s. Helps me pay the bills! Haha!”
Danny is not alone when reminiscing the days when free skate stuff didn’t arrive in a sealed box by a courier with his name on it. Manchester’s Joe Gavin still enjoys ripping open his allocation of freebies sent by Etnies and The Harmony to find stickers laying at the bottom of the box awaiting keen fingertips.
“I love stickers! Stickers are the cheapest thing you can buy in a skate shop. To a kid with a quid in his pocket, they’re the thing he can buy and still feel like he’s repping that company hard. I used to be this kid at one point. Back in the day, most ads in mags had a line at the bottom: ‘send address for free stickers’. I was keen and used to clean up pretty good. Now I get packages with packs of cool stickers in, the kid in me is still pretty damn hyped on them. Especially Spitfire! Haha!”
There’s much more to stickers than just the lure of them sitting behind a counter though. They can also come in handy for all sorts of experiences that need instant assistance. Speaking to Chris ‘Avi’ Atherton in Accrington this week, he had a different take when describing his own feelings towards our favourite gummed paper:
“Skateboarding stickers are many things. They are art, money, trade, history, repair tape, first aid, advertising, a means of making explosives and sometimes even treasure. Although others held them in high regard, I found practical uses for all my stickers, rendering my stickerbox pretty weak. Good quality stickers smell nice and the art of sticker stretching has been completely lost.”
That may be the case for Avi, but how many others held on to their stickers without peeling and stretching them whatsoever? There must be reams and reams of unpeeled gems in skate shoe boxes, under beds and stored in cupboards all over the country. What will happen to them? Will they just get aired once every summer when your old skate pals come to visit with their kids on sticks? Will they be used in another retrospective exhibition or gathering of like minded skate nerds like most of us generally are? Whatever the reason, they will be cherished and celebrated more than most other objects and that is what makes stickers so special.
Heroin and Emerica‘s Casper Brooker confirms this when speaking to us this week: “Go to a competition and if there’s stickers going about, kids go insane. It doesn’t just happen with kids, the old Rad Dad’s go mental for old Santa Cruz stickers! I find that in itself, so rad!” Casper has also grown into skateboarding addicted to stickers from an early age, to the extent where not having them in his presence brings a feeling of disatisfaction. “Anyone who knows me really well knows that I find it super hard to ride boards with out any stickers on. As odd as it sounds, I find stickers a huge part of skateboarding. For example you don’t get basketball players going crazy over stickers do you? Using stickers can almost make the board personal to you too. It’s almost like you get to design your own board as well as reppin’ companies. It’s a win, win situation.”
Winning stickers is part of the entire phenomenon. How many times in your life have you lept in for a sticker? Are you the type of skateboarder who looks on from the sidelines watching them flutter into the pit at a demo, or are you the undaunted type who would be smack in the middle of that sticker toss, ready to fend off anyone for a freebie?
Every year when we throw skate jams, I personally get so excited about the product toss. It’s the main event. When the stickers cascade into the pit, the frenzy that develops reflects the desperation to feed the addiction. As a kid going to my first ever skate event, I learned the hard way. I learned as a 13 year old that you had to get amongst it and battle with grown men to get a sticker as well as other kids the same age. To this day when we roll out a product toss, unfortunately I still have to make grown men feel embarressed in the middle of the melee as they push teenagers aside to grab some free stuff. I guess this will never change.
Unabomber Skateboards have one of the best UK skate logo’s ever designed for a sticker; the infamous winged hands. Vans team, rider Joshua Young who used to fly the flag for the Bomber remembers his first sticker toss. “I was about 14 or 15 and it was a massive Flip demo and product toss in Leeds. I wasn’t ever daft enough to fight or dive for a sticker though. I remember that a kid at Kelvin Grove in Bristol dived onto a sticker that was thrown out on the Vans “Are We There Yet’ trip. He had a board, backpack and freebies in hand when he dived on to his chest for that sticker!”
Etnies rider and Kill City am Caradog Emanuel is another skater who wasn’t down for the scrap. The Welshman who is always up for a laugh said: “I was always too scared to get involved man, because they always looked to gnarly for me. I remember at one demo there was a 4ft x 1ft Globe sticker being thrown out, and I was sitting about 10ft away from the product toss. I saw this rolled up sticker get hurled into the air and it was heading straight for this one kid, who was stood there in awe just waiting for this sticker to fall into his hands. As he jumped for it, this other kid just leapt over his head and snatched it straight out of his hands! As it turns out they were mates!” That says it all really. When you have to have a sticker, it doesn’t matter who is your way, you are just going to take it!
Death Skateboards’ rider Steak had the best story this week from various conversations about fighting for stickers: “Sticker tosses are so special because everyone has been there. When you’re on top of a ramp throwing what looks like a bunch of litter to some stray, savage looking kids at the flatbottom, you remember how badly you wanted one when you were down there! Parents and onlookers look at you like you’re crazy, and for those few seconds, you kinda are! You’ll do whatever it takes, use violence if neccessary, climb on top of the biggest kid there to get higher up, even rip a prosthetic limb off someone to use as a weapon so you can get some stickers to slap all over your board, pencil case and bedroom door!”
“The craziest toss I ever saw was at a Death demo at Revolution Skatepark in Broadstairs. We were chucking stickers out from the top of a flatbank and the kids were going mental! Literally fist fights breaking out, wrestling to get these stickers! There were ripped shirts, bloody noses, the lot! As it was coming to the grand finale, we pulled out some of the really big Death skull stickers. The ones that will cover pretty much you’re whole board and the kids looked ready to kill! Sensing that a kid was going to get hurt, Dan Monk settled the situation by announcing: ‘whoever kicks the most crap out of Dibble wins a big sticker’, and then threw him off the quarter pipe like a Christian to the lions! Needless to say, kids were stoked, Dibble was half dead and fun was had by all!”
So why the big article on stickers this month? It seems that every week there’s an art show in London about skateboarding, photography, film, shoes, books etc and we love it, but nobody ever does anything with the fundamental, most basic form of skateboard culture which is the good old skate sticker. So this month, we decided to invite 12 London based illustrators to design deadly, toxic, nuclear mutated stickers as part of the TOXIC WASTERS art show curated by Matthew Bromley.this show can be found at this years Crossfire Halloween Massacre in association with Vans.
We will leave you with a quote from Heroin and Landscape Skateboards head honcho Fos who has contributed art to the show.
“You don’t even need to ask anyone what they’re doing on Halloween, cos if you’re in London then you’re going the Crossfire Halloween party. Kinda goes without saying really. It’s become such an institution over here. I guess it took over from where the Night of the Living Dead jams left off.”
“I had some stickers with me at Stockwell one time and asked this guy if he wanted some. and he said something like: ‘I’m 23, don’t you think I’m a bit old for stickers?’ I was like: ‘What are you talking about, I’m 32 and not too old for stickers, stickers are rad!’ Then he saw them and immediately retracted his statement and was then asking me for them.’Cos at the end of the day everyone loves stickers. It’s yet another part of this popular culture we all live in that was born from skateboarding. Who had the coolest stickers first? Skateboarders did. We had Jason Jessee Neptune stickers on our school books when all the other kids were still running Panini football stickers of Ian Rush, Kevin Keegan and shit. Now every company makes stickers, they’re a global commodity.”
“I still love stickers, that’s why I agreed to be in this show. It’s not another “Design a one off board for this show”, yawn, been done a million times mate, but ‘Design a Sticker’, with a Toxic waste theme to boot? An area that I’m very familiar with of course! Stickers rule!”
There are probably thousands of stories from stickers over the years. If you have one, leave it in the comments at the end of this article and share yours with everyone. Tickets for the Crossfire Halloween Massacre in association with Vans and Front Mag can be picked up at the shop at Slam City Skates over the counter or online from their store.
Watch our recent Day in the Life video features on the artists involved and look out for more in the coming weeks.
Mr Gauky here:
Paul Parker (who designed the wonderful Massacre flyer this year) here.
August’s epic Vans Downtown Showdown in London’s Spitalfields market attracted thousands and also welcomed various Vans pro’s on the day too. In the melee over East, we bumped into Baker Skateboards’ Australian ripper, Dustin Dollin and sat down for a quick chat about his skateboarding life.
Dustin is one of skateboarding’s most animated characters and also backs it up with some of the best skating out there, so it was a pleasure to share a beer and shoot the shit with him in a noisy bar.. This is the second part in a 3 part series from the Showdown (part one is here). Get a beer on the go, click play and find out more about the Mayor of the Piss Drunx.
Thanks to Steve Gourlay, Ben Michell, Jack Tarlinton and Corbin Harris down under.
Well, you are in for a treat this week as London based artist Mr. Gauky has allowed us into his studio to see what goes on behind the scenes of his incredible work.
Mr Gauky is the man behind the Battle Royal themed Superdead decks that are currently out right now and has become one of the most talked about artists in town this year. So, with this in mind, we decided to get the lowdown from the man himself as he is also one of the artists we have picked to be involved in our Toxic Wasters sticker art show at this year’s Halloween Massacre.
Watch this Day in the Life video that will give you a sneak peek at some of his drawings, illustrations and work in progress followed nicely with some dangerous rooftop coffee and cake time and a few pumps at his local cement hole- Cantelowes skatepark in Camden.
Two of skateboarding’s most colourful characters came through our office at the very end of November unannounced, so we took the opportunity to find out exactly what Dirty Sanchez duo Matt Pritchard and Lee Dainton got up to throughout 2011 and the highlights throughout the year.
