Palace designer and longtime London ripper Will Bankhead has come good with this new mixtape today for i-D.
The Palace lads have taken over the second room at Deviation’s night in East London’s XOYO venue on Friday night, have a taster of what dancefloor hits are on Bankhead’s decks right now.
Tony Alva, Stevie Williams, Arto Saari, and Brandon Biebel all appear in this poolside shoot filmed by Playboy staff photographer Tony Kelly. This could go down as one of the most random edits of the year so far.
Those filthy punks Metz (who are currently out on the road with Mudhoney) are returning to the UK in November for a full UK tour as announced today. If you have not heard their mind blowing self-titled debut album on Sub Pop yet, then search it out. It screeches raw energy and froths at the jugular.
Tickets go on-sale Wednesday 12th June at 10am.
NOVEMBER
22nd – Deaf Institute, Manchester
23rd – Broadcast, Glasgow
25th – Brudenell, Leeds
26th – Start The Bus, Bristol
27th – The Haunt, Brighton
28th – Village Underground, London
The new Sherborne skatepark in Dorset had an opening jam this weekend courtesy of the hard graft from 1 Skateparks. Press play and skip to 3.39 for the skating with Churchill, Nowik and co in Dorset.
Volcom team riders Dennis Busenitz, David Gonzales, Dustin Dollin and many others bro down for some mini ramp riding and gelling in this new clip.
Last night, we were invited to the Hayward Gallery above London’s Southbank for the opening of their new exhibition, the Alternative Guide to the Universe. It’s a fascinating journey of art through the minds of many select, self-taught artists and architects, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom offer bracingly unorthodox perspectives on the world we live in.
The biggest surprise of all, found between the numerical masterpieces of George Widener, and the alien-obsessed numerical pattern art from Paul Laffoley, is the “Letter Racers” sculpture by the late New York hip hop musician/graf writer Rammellzee. The art piece itself is made up of many Vision Skateboards Gonz decks (and others) hanging from the ceiling, and all laid out like a fleet of battleships in space. The decks have all been cut down from their original 10′ widths to form a slimline cut, and are then sliced in half, and stitched back together to form a kind of longboard, similar to what we have all just witnessed in A Golden Egg‘s extended decks recently. These structures all come equipt with 80s nose guards and skid plates, stacked high with various objects that look to be recyled from a plethora of household goods – from vacuum cleaner parts to empty tubes, to toy dolls and much, much more. It’s a fascinating sight and quite overwhelming.
Labelled with letters, the Racers are intended to pit each individual letter in galactic battles against each other, symbolically challenging the accepted standards and functionality of the 26-letter alphabet.
Go and see it for yourself. It used to sit in Rammellzee’s loft and can now be viewed at this incredible exhibition showcasing the strongest of the strange from the outsider art world. The Alternative Guide to the Universe exhibition runs at the Hayward gallery from Tuesday 11th June until Monday 26 August 2013. Admission is free if you are a member, or £11 (with £1.75 booking fee) if not.
If you ever had the pleasure of meeting Pat Duffy you would appreciate this mini clip even more. The much anticipated Plan B video is incoming and Duffy and co are out there putting the footage together. Have a peep at one of the many sessions involved in making what will most definitely be one of 2013’s best skateboard flicks.
The Magenta team headed to SF for a shred and came back with the second Hill Street Blues video for your enjoyment.
Watch footage filmed and edited by Yoan Taillandier of Leo Valls, Soy Panday, Vivien Feil, Jimmy Lannon, Zach Lyons, plus friends Ben Gore, Carlos Young, Evan Kinori, John Lindsay, Zach Chamberlain and more.
It does what it says on the tin…
The Southbank Centre’s artistic director Jude Kelly is asking for compromise this weekend in a new video to assist the Southbank’s new press campaign to rival the ongoing push to keep skateboarders in the same place at Southbank.
This weekend, the BBC ran a piece on the ongoing issue of relocation.