On Friday, October 26, 2012, the Encinitas, California based UNIV style shop will host a skateboard photography show features works from Ryan Lusteg, Alex Schmidt, and Jason Hainault. The Collection of Reflections show, held in conjunction with The Skateboard Mag begins at 7 PM.
UNIV is located at 1053 S. Coast Highway, Encinitas, California.
[Link: UNIV]
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The AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach, California will be hosting the opening reception Thursday, October 4, 2012, for their latest show Futureland 2012: A 22 Gun Salute to The American Flag.
The show features flag influenced art from Gordon Holden, Dennis McNett, Nick Simich, Electric Coffin, Sticky Shaw, Zach Egge, Emily Hoy, Craig “Skibs” Barker, Sophie St. Onge, Taylor Reeve, Adam Mars, Russ Pope, Patrick Carrie, Carl E. Smith, Trace Mendoza, Danny Schutt, David Blake, Matt French, Corey Smith, Daniel Rolnik, and The Brainfarts.
Music will be provided by Low Volts, the 2011 San Diego Music Award winner for ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Blues Album’. Low Volts is one hombre, a 60’s Silvertone & a 20’s kick drum laden with tambourines. You have to see him to believe him.
The opening reception is October 4, 2012 from 6 – 9 PM. AR4T is located at 210 North PCH, Laguna Beach, California.
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For those who haven’t had the opportunity to crowd around a light-table with The Skateboard Mag’s legendary skateboard photographer Grant Brittain as he goes through slides, this profile on Push.ca is about as close as you’ll ever get. It is part one of their Photographer Series and we can’t think of a better photographer to start with. Watch and learn.
[Link: Push.ca]
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Wrench Pilot is the bomb in a collaboration between Girl Skateboard’s Andy Jenkins and LA style boutique The Hundreds. Three shirts and a snapback is about all you need. It’s all good. Check it, or click here for an interview with Andy Jenkins from The Hundreds Magazine.
[Link: The Hundreds]
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Wondering what Ed Templeton’s book Deformer looks like? Well, thanks to Have A Nice Book (and the fastest fingers in the page turning business) we all have the chance to glance through the entire book one page at a time. Check it out. [click to continue…]
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We’ve all experienced surf, skate, or snowboard films that seem to be in perpetual completion, however, no one has Andy Warhol beat. Forty-four years ago, Warhol filmed San Diego Surf with collaborator Paul Morrissey, in La Jolla, California. This was “just months before” he was shot, according to a story on Artinfo.com. And now, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is finally premiering the film as part of their 10th Annual film preservation festival.
The Warhol-directed feature, whose loose narrative centers on an acrimonious married couple played by Superstars Taylor Mead and Viva who rent their beach-side home to a group of surfers, was only partially edited at the time. Morrissey was then commissioned by the Andy Warhol Foundation in 1995-96 to finish editing the film, with the help of Foundation curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley.“Even twenty five years after his death Warhol continues to surprise contemporary audiences,” Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner said in the premiere announcement yesterday. “This never-before-seen film expands Warhol’s filmic legacy and demonstrates Warhol’s read on the west coast and its surfing culture.”
We’re guessing it’s going to be an amazing time capsule of a crazy New York artist’s version of the San Diego surf scene. But hey, Tom Wolfe did it, why not Andy? San Diego Surf will be shown for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on October 16, 2012. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.
[Link: Art Info Now]
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New York City’s Roosevelt Island features a memorial park that was designed 40 years ago, by an architect (Louis Kahn) who died in 1974, according to a story in the New York Times. Just look a this place? It’s difficult to believe that Kahn wasn’t thinking of skateboarders when he designed this.
Next month, on that triangular plot on the southern end of Roosevelt Island, the four-acre Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park will open, a belated and monumental triumph for New York and for everyone who cares about architecture and public space.
Apparently, the NYT’s architecture critic Michael Kimmelman is already worried about skateboarders.
Preserving the site will be a challenge. The park is pristine to a fault. Policing graffiti artists and skateboarders must be weighed against the park’s freedom theme.
Someone might want to get down there to skate it before it gets completely shut down. Has Jaws dropped this 23 set yet? And just wait until it snows. . . . More images after the jump. [click to continue…]
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Legendary snowboard lensman Jon Foster will present a solo show titled Free Movement: Timeless Moments in Surf and Snow at Bottlecraft Beer Shop and Tasting Room in San Diego, California’s Little Italy neighborhood on Saturday evening August 25, 2012.
The show will feature a sampling of Foster’s 1970’s classic surf style and 1990’s classic snowboarding style images. Show begins at 6 PM. Bottlecraft is located at 2161 India Street in San Diego. If you’re in the SoCal zone, don’t miss this.
[Link: Jon Foster Photo]
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Tonight at San Francisco’s Fecal Face Gallery graphic artist, illustrator and tattooist Mike Giant officially opens his show Confessions Of An Old Dirty Skateboarder. The show features “a wide assemblage of recent drawings and also a rare opportunity to view Giant’s personal collection of skateboards he illustrated the graphics for, including boards from his early career.”
Here’s what Giant says:
“I’m a product of my generation. I grew up through the 80s and was drawn to the punk rock and hip-hop cultures simultaneously”, Giant said in a recent interview. “I threw myself in headfirst. A lot of those things were about personal expression, and also an anti-establishment attitude like, “We don’t need you, we have our own thing.” That’s the backbone of who I am to this day”.
The opening begins at 7 PM. The show runs from July 20 – August 12, 2012. Fecal Face Gallery is located at 2277 Mission St. in San Francisco, California. For the rest of the info click the link.
[Link: FFDG via Skate & Annoy]
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Swedish snowboard photographer Daniel Blom is celebrating his 10 years in the action image capturing game with a book titled Drifting Decade.
Drifting Decade, a hardcover 240 page book portraying some of the most influential riders of the 21th scenery, on and off the mountain, mixes documentary style images with crisp action and snapshots. This book presents the full spectrum of this subculture’s ramifications including big mountain lines in Alaska, stadium contests in Germany to urban riding in Finland.
The book ships out at the end of September. But you can pre-order a signed copy now by signing up on the website. Looks like it’s going to be a good book. Especially for those who prefer pictures over words.
[Link: Drifting Decade]
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