Vert skater, TV host, and photographer Neal Hendrix will present a showing of his images titled Exhibition: Photo at The Garage at UNIV in Encinitas, California on Friday December 14, 2012.
Neal Hendrix has spent the last twenty years living his dream as a professional skateboarder. Over that span, he accumulated a lot of broken bones, a couple million frequent flyer miles, a handful of X-Games medals and a passion to bring home amazing photos from the far-flung lands where skateboarding has taken him. Neal currently skates for Elephant Skateboards and is the Brand Manager at Camp Woodward. . . “Skateboarding has shown me the world. I started out with crappy film cameras, moved to equally crappy digital point-and-shoot cameras, and eventually evolved to respectable tools of the trade,” says Neal. “Throughout that evolution, my creative passion crystalized: looking through a lens is no longer about documenting the places that I’ve skateboarded, but about capturing moments in the lives of people who live so differently from me, who get through their day in unusual ways, and who have never even seen a skateboard.”
For a limited time, when you subscribe to Frequency: The Snowboarder’s Journal you’ll get not only a full year of snowboarding’s most beautiful, thoughtful, and deep print media, you’ll also get an 8″ x 10″ signed Mike Parillo print.
For $69.99 receive a limited-edition, 8” x 10″ signed Mike Parillo print from Asymbol Gallery—the same “Tetons in Blue” image featured on the cover of our December release, Issue #10.3—and a year’s subscription to the timeless coffee table content of frequency TSJ. Or, get two years and a print for $99.99. With only 150 hand numbered and signed prints available, this offer will surely sell out—and maintain its appeal long after that matching slipper-and-bathrobe set has gone the way of baseless bindings.
Not only that, it something you can order and deliver online. And we all know those are the best presents ever.
Tonight, December 6, 2012, Thomas Campbell is posting up at the Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, California to celebrate the release of his new surf photography book, Slide Your Brains Out. There will also be a musical performance by the stunning smooth Mattson 2.
Party begins at 6 PM. Thalia Surf Shop is located at 915 Coast Highway in Laguna Beach.
If you’re going to hang out with skateboarders you might as well bring a camera and get the shot. At least that’s what Arto Saari has been doing lately. And, from the looks of his photos it would appear that Saari has another epic skate career in the works.
The artist/filmaker Thomas Campbell aka T Mossian has a new book out titled Slide your Brains Out.
The first of ten projected volumes in Um Yeah Press’ surf photobook series, Slide Your Brains Out compiles work from the past 15 years. Often lo-fi and gritty, other times lush and saturated, Campbell’s compositions–which include portraits and action shots of some of the best surfers in the world–are always surprising and full of emotion, from melancholy to exultation.
This edit is for anyone who has wondered how Vans Classic Tales get all their interstitial animation wizardry. Artist Jay Howelland director/animator Jim Dirschberger explain exactly how all the magic happens, including how you get Geoff Rowley‘s brain to pop out of his head and splash down on the floor.
It’s always good to get a peek into the minds behind the cameras and this short on Matt Georges from the Pirate Movie Crew is no exception. The big question: Does Matt consider himself an “artist” or a “tool”? Watch the video and you’ll get the answer.
Former Snowboarder Magazine online editor (and award winning photographer) Laura Austin is curating a photographer show at the Lomography Gallery Store LA during the month of November 2012. The show is titled Everyone’s A Photographer. The show features images from Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin herself.
The opening party for the show kicks off Friday night, November 2, 2012 at 7 PM and features free drinks from Pabst, Peligroso Tequila, and O.N.E. Coconut Water with DJ Aaron Castle and others spinning through out the night. The event is free but they’d like you to RSVP to store.losangeles@lomography.com.
Surf journalist Steve Barilotti is working on a documentary on the life and times of seminal 60s psychedelic artist Rick Griffin (creator of the surf comic Murphy) and he needs your help on Kickstarter.
The Film: “Griffin” is a feature-length documentary that explores the art, life and eccentric spark of one of the world’s least known and most influential 20th Century surrealists. Over the time-warped span of the 1960’s, one-time teen cartoonist Rick Griffin created defining icons for three pillars of west coast counterculture: surfing, psychedelic rock and underground comix.
Barilotti has reach is original Kickstarter goal of $20,000 but there are three days left so you can still help him out with getting this project completed. Click the link for more info.
On Mammoth Mountain’s opening weekend (November 9, 2012) Spring Break Snowboards will be hosting a pop-up art show “featuring primitive abstract powder snowboards, photography from Spring Break contributors and original artwork. Musical performance by Luke MacMaster of The Romany Rye, and plenty of on snow fun to kick off California’s first day of shredding this season.
The show opens at the Mammoth’s Grand Sierra Lodge at 5 PM on Friday, November 9, 2012. The Grand Sierra Lodge is located at 1111 Forest Trail, Mammoth Lakes, California.
