Curated by Arkitip has enlisted the art skills of Craig Stecyk for a new line of Incase iPhone 3 and Macbook protective coverings. If only they’d made some iPhone 4 cases we’d order one up directly. For more info click the link.
[Link: Curated by Arkitip via The Skateboard Mag]
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Camerabag.tv profiles skate photographer/videographer Patrick O’Dell of EpicallyLaterd and gets the straight up story on the man behind the lens. Don’t miss it.
[Link: Camerabag.tv via Altamont]
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This Friday night, July 30, 2010 from 6 – 10 PM we are recommending that everyone cruise down to San Diego’s Subtext Gallery and check out the opening of Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins art show Look.
Friends and fellow artists Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins will grace the walls of Subtext in a joint venture of unrelated themes. Brittain’s portraiture of some of skateboarding’s greatest names through the years features icons and underground heroes. Higgins’ poster-art focuses on his work with punkers, musical heros, and charitable causes. Together, the collective work suggests what it would be like to eavesdrop on these guys hanging out, having a beer, and comparing broken wrists and paper cuts.
Party starts Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 6 PM.
Subtext Gallery, 2479 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, California 92101
[Link: Subtext Gallery]
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During his career artist Ari Marcopoulos has had the uncanny ability to roll in to the right places, with the right people, at the right times: always. He was with Andy Warhol near the end, assisted Irving Penn, shot the The Beastie Boys in the mid 80s, skateboarders in the late 80s, Terje Haakonsen and the snowboard heros of the late 90s. He helped with the creation of Frequency The Snowboard Journal, and directed Where The Wind Blows a tribute film to Craig Kelly.
His work is included in the collections at The Whitney in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Most recently he been shooting short films for Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati.
Though Ari is always affable, we’ve never been able to get any kind of solid read on him. That’s why we we’re linking up this interview he did recently with Dossier Journal’s Elisa Lusso. Among other topics covered he mentioned the Internet:
The Internet allows for instant visual reference. It is a cool tool for communication. I guess we’re going to see more and more pixels. . . Every piece of information will eventually be on the Internet. Soon they’re will be no need for the press as we know it. . . Our minds are melting into the Internet, becoming like a hive mind. We should avoid that and stay individuals.
He also says that Terje Haakonsen was the most confident person he’s ever photographed. Click the link for the rest.
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Los Desperados and Bat Skates are presenting Transition at Hurley in the heart of Velcro Valley tomorrow (July 10, 2010) from 6 to 10 PM titled. The free gathering will feature art, music, and skateboarding with some hot rod flavor. It all goes down at 1945 Placentia Ave. in Costa Mesa, California.
Bring your skateboard, some inked-up friends in Brixton hats, and you’ll fit right in. Follow the jump for all the details.
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We weren’t in Dublin, Ireland last night so we missed this opening for a showing of Glen E. Friedman’s photography at The Lighthouse Cinema. The opening of the show is in conjunction with a screening of Jem Cohen’s Fugazi documentary Instrument.
[Link: Boing Boing]
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Photographer Chris Brunkhart has spent most of the past year working on a retrospective collection of his snowboarding photographs that plans to release later this year as quality art book. The work is titled how many dreams in the dark? my life on the road with the legends of snowboarding?
Here’s how Chris describes it:
I have been shooting photos now for over 20 years, experiencing and sharing in the lives of my friends. The camera has always been there to document their every move. From Alaska to Chile, from Japan to the Czech Republic, I shared moments more intimate than i ever thought possible. i discovered visionaries thinking, painting, reading, and laughing. I paused in fleeting moments to forever capture cityscapes, at twilight, sunsets on beaches, and sunsets atop mountains. This book is a result from those experiences, created in part to expose the roots that spurred the growth of snowboarding. It is the story of my youthful adventures made while documenting the youthful discoveries of others.
Rather than looking to corporate sponsorship to get the book published Brunkhart has turned to a website called Kickstarter. The site allows people with cool projects to easily gather funding from anyone who wants to support them. And if enough money for the project isn’t raised then no one pays anything. It’s like a no-risk donation.
Right now, Chris is offering up gifts including t-shirts and buttons, autographed copies of the book, and even signed and numbered limited edition 20×30 inch prints depending on the level of support people give. He’s only looking for $5,000. Click the link, check it out, and make a donation to help Chris make how many dreams in the dark? happen.
[Link: How many dreams in the dark?]
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NYC’s Milk Gallery is hosting a photo show in collaboration with Vice Books’ publication of Full Bleed: New York City Skateboarding Photography that runs July 6 to July 13, 2010. The show includes pretty much anyone who ever shot or appeared in a skateboarding photo in NYC.
An homage to the great ones that have built NYC skateboarding into what it is today, the book and photo show FULL BLEED: New York City Skateboard Photography includes photographs by: Spike Jonze, Giovanni Reda, Tobin Yelland, Thomas Campbell, Larry Clark, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Angela Boatwright, Sammy Glucksman, Allen Ying, and more. Skateboarders featured: Steve Olson, Eric Koston, Keith Hufnagel, Harold Hunter, Jerry Hsu, Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales, Rick Howard, Jason Dill, and more.
If you’re sweating it out in the heat of the city, be sure to roll by.
Milk Gallery, 450 West 15th Street New York, NY 10011
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Now hipster artists who love the random artiness that Lomography cameras produce can take those retro rigs underwater thanks to a collab between Rip Curl and Lomography.
Using Japanese fish eye optics, the analogue camera built using rugged materials is definitely for the adventurous with its bright block colours the camera takes crystal clear shots with a 180° view whether you’re 1cm or a mile away. As well as a special multiple exposure switch allowing you to take unlimited shots on one frame making sure you don’t miss a thing. The Rip Curl Fish Eye can even take pictures underwater (with its specially designed waterproof casing) making it the definitive camera for holiday goers looking for an edgy, fun camera to let their imagination run wild.
Only 2,000 were made so act fact, click here and buy one immediately. They are only $85.
[Link: Ripcurl.Lomography.com]
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Photographer/filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has created a short commercial edit featuring products from a continuing collaboration between Quiksilver and the Standard Hotels. Vignettes just make everything better don’t they?
[Link: Standard Hotels]
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