The Mark Gonzales priest exibition has been moved from DPMHI for a temporary viewing at the Kemistry gallery in Shoreditch, and started today. (26th July)
The collection of handpainted priest figures, each uniquely painted by The Gonz himself will be in the Kemistry gallery for a short time, so if you haven’t seen them already, do.
For details, www.kemistry.co.uk, or give them a ring on 0207 729 3636
Kemistry
43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD
Just another reminder that Toy Machine and their incredible team land on our shores on August 1st, and will be invading what was Epic, is now Creation skatepark in Birmingham.
Ed T, Billy Marks, Johnny Layton, The Butcher, Austin Stephens and new wunderkid Nick Trapasso will entertain you with a demo, Toy Machine cinema, prizes for Best Trick and craploads of free stuff for you to throw back at them to sign, or just put your best mate in a headlock over.
Ipswich has always been renowned for producing some amazing skateboarders, so to document this videomaker Sam Barker has made a film featuring the local talent. No, not hookers.
Ipsvillage will be premiering on August 3rd at the Cock and Pye, and features the likes of Lee Blackwell, Nick Williamson, Paul Roe, Dave Davies & Adam Howe.
The premiere will also have a huge party with some local bands and plenty of boozing. Go and support your local scene if this is, and if not, go anyway.
The Kill City boys are on tour in the South West this August, so pop along and have a look at them kill it.
Cashman, Leyden, Rigby, Cornell, and a crapload more riders be hitting up Aberdare, Bude, Penzance and Bridgend from the 8th.
Check the flyer and www.myspace.com/killcityskateboards
It’s not often that a truckbolts or griptape company come out with a video, and if they do, it usually isn’t amazing.
But the Randoms video trailer is fucking insane! It’s actually made me want to go and buy their bolts if it means I will become even a fraction as gnarly as them. I suppose I shouldn’t be so surprised; with a team roster as long as my arms and including the likes of Peter Hewitt, Steve Caballero, Darren Navarrette, Tony Trujillo, Daniel Cardone, and Salba it was always going to be good.
Following the very successful Gypsy Tour a while back, Cliche have hit the road again with their bindles like the Littlest Hobo on the Gypsy Tour 2.
They’ve uploaded a photo montage on their site to tease you, or make you feel ill. There’s dog shit, bonfires, and skateboarders washing in rivers. Nice.
The torrential rain of the last few weeks has fucked over quite a few people, with houses getting evacuated and people canoeing their way up the High Street.
Seeing my old hometown of Abingdon, Oxfordshire on the news last with people inches away from having their shagpile carpet ruined was a bit shocking. Reports from the brand new, less than two weeks old skatepark, cleverly built on the Thames floodplain, seem to show a different story. Expecting that the already pretty minimal skatescene would have been washed away, it seems that if anything, it has strengthened it. Abingdon local, Jono Wyborn, sent this report from the new park to us this morning:
“Although the skatepark itself is dry, the area around it is more like the Florida everglades than an English field in summer. The water surrounds the park, and has claimed the life of a couple of boards, including my own which now feels like its-not-made-from-wheat-made-from-oats-instead-abix.
The water is not completely bad news though, the Abingdon skate scene has not suffered, and in someways the water has added to the session, its all about powerslides, not switch coffin grinds kids.
So yeah, skateboarding is even more fun down the park now, one of the recent favourites was playing a mass game of skate, and the loser has to sit in the water for a minute!
It is also quite fun to challenge people to do tricks near the water, ” Go on Nick, front rock on that quarter” knowing that there is a possibility of his board going in the water! Incredibly harsh, but quite amusing at the same time.
Flooding is gay.
The park was two inches underwater on Sunday, didn’t think it was possible for that much to dry that quickly (we skated there Sunday night)
Finally but definitely not the least important point: I was blessed with seeing a fat ginger kid slide off his BMX because of a little puddle at the bottom of the BMX jump thing. God has returned to his routes and is using the Noah and the Ark method to clear away the evil! The evil in this case being a fat ginger BMXer!”
Photos: Jono Wyborn
Straight off the Unabomber website:
Nowt’s been done update wise on the website for a while. Here’s an edit of some leftover footage edited by Ryan Gray from the last DVD… Urbane Robbed… Gonna start updating the website as soon as any of the team actually send me summit, to put up. More news and maybe some footage soon if yer lucky.
Jim Phillips, skateboard artist extraordinaire, has released a new book featuring the graphic artwork that we’ve grown up with and scraped off our boards for years.
This retropspective on Jim’s skateboard art bombards the reader with colourful skateboard decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding from the urethane revolution up to the present. You are invited for a ride, an inside view of Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio artists, and examine their graphic assignments. The story traces the roots of skateboarding with more than a half-century of Phillips’ involvement. It provides insight into the creative evolution of the sport and the worldwide interest and influence that has occurred from this California artist.
The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips is available now through Schiffer Books at www.schifferbooks.com
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