We never knew how much wall rubbing went into Randy’s work. Apparently, he likes getting a feel for the space. . . Uh, sorry. Someone just told us that Randy wasn’t actually “rubbing the wall” at the beginning of the clip, he was sketching the mural out before he began painting. Whoops.
[Link: Lookforwardtothepast]
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Last night, while the finals of the The Pro-Tec Pool Party were blazing away at The Block in The City of Orange a more serene scene was unfolding in Costa Mesa, California at the opening reception of Still Life With Snow Part Duex at The ARTery @ The Lab.
With their successful gallery showing in The Village at Mammoth Lakes on the weekend of May 2, 2009, Torrey Cook and The Machine Design wanted to give people in SoCal the chance to view and purchase images from the Still Life With Snow show so they brought it south.
The ARTery is an intimate gallery made up of three shipping containers placed off to the side of Orange County’s Anti-Mall The Lab and is a perfectly understated venue for the works of some of snowboarding’s best photographers.
Still Life With Snow Part Duex includes images from a who’s who list of shred soul stealers including: Trevor Graves, Mark Gallup, Cheyenne Ellis, Shem Roose, James Cassimus, Chris Carnel, Danny Zapalac, Jeff Curtes, Jesse Loomis, Ryan Hughes, Alisa Mokler-Harper, Cole Barash, Christy Chaloux, Tim Zimmerman, Embry Rucker, Ryan Boyes, Susie Floros, Rob Mathis, and Matt Clausen.
In fact, Torrey Cook has gathered so many iconic images that cruising the show is like floating through snowboarding history. We remembered many images from the magazines, but seeing them together and on a gallery wall was impressive. Each photo cued another memory. Our favorite was the classic James Cassimus photo of Jake Burton airing out one of his original designs (nose rope included) under the blazing Southern California sun at Wrightwood. It seems so long ago, then again, not really.
Still Life With Snow, Part Deux runs through May 24, 2009 at The ARTery @The Lab, 2930 Bristol Street, Cosa Mesa CA 92626. Daily Hours: 5pm to 9pm (closed Mon/Tues).
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Brown Cannon is a professional photographer who likes to put his water photos on surfboards an then show them in galleries, according to a story in the Marin Journal.
Cannon’s images of whales and waves and water, of sea life and coastal environments – “the full scope of a person’s relationship to the ocean” – adorn classic surfboards that are both fine art and functional – sculpture that you can actually surf on. . . He has been creating these custom boards for two years now in collaboration with GP Surfboards, a company in Capitola near the rideable waves of Santa Cruz.
Currently Browns work appears to be on display at two locations (Richardson Bay Audubon Cetner in Tiburon, CA and Casa Romantica in San Clemente, CA) with a third at The Bolinas Museum going up on May 20, 2009.
[Link: Marin Journal and Brown Cannon 3]
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Timebomb Trading, Canada’s action distributor of Etnies, Emerica, és, thirty-two, Dragon, LRG and RVCA, has a brand new original art piece in their HQ thanks to Randy Layborne. And it looks pretty nice.
Check out all the details on Randy’s flicker account.
[Link: Lookforwardtothepast]
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Corey Smith’s new art show Air Superiority and Obsolete Dreams opens at Portland, Oregon’s Backspace Gallery May 7, 2009. And we’re pretty sure it’s going to be extremely arty.
Backspace Gallery, 115 NW 5th, Portland, OR May 7, 2009 6 PM.
[Link: Backspace Gallery via Yobeat]
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When students of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California were asked to redesign the school bus and to “improve the efficiency and safety of buses and to imagine at least two other functions for them in addition to transporting students,” Andrew Kang knew exactly what he wanted to do:
Andrew Kang, sponsored by Subaru and DC Shoes, designed a bus that can be converted into a mobile skateboard park, with ramps that unfold. The bus also functions as a portable art classroom whose interior can be repeatedly painted.
A bus like that would make going to school worthwhile.
[Link: New York Times]
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Photographer Chris Burkard and surfer Eric Soderquist took a surf journey down the California coast (the entire coast) and have created a book about their experience called The California Surf Project. Here’s what Surfer Magazine Editor Joel Patterson said about it:
“Surf exploration has become so focused on the far-flung and unpronounceably exotic, it’s reinvigorating to see some California natives rediscover their own backyard. Few coastal stretches offer the sheer variety of waves, colors, urban densities, and attitudes as the Golden State, and to see it all through the prism of Burkard and Soderquist made me want to put in my two-weeks notice, buy a VW bus, and hit the road. The California Surf Project will stand as a unique time capsule of California’s post-modern surf culture.”
The authors are currently on tour again with the book and tonight (April 22, 2009) they’ll be in Capitola at the Capitola Books Store. For more information on their trip, check out their blog.
[Link: California Surf Project via Surfline]
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Andy Jenkins and Girl have developed a second round of Product (Red). This time it is two limited edition Girl Mike Carroll decks.
With every board sold, Girl givs a majority of its profits to the Global Fund.
[Link: Join Red via Club Mumble]
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Designer Aaron Draplin was just written up in Creativity Magazine for the design work for President Obama’s American Recovery project. The story even included a Mark Welsh photo of the man himself.
Draplin, a Minneapolis College of Art and Design grad has worked as art director of Snowboarder magazine, as a senior designer at Portland’s Cinco and on his own at Draplin Design Co. since 2004. He still has ties to the slopes as graphic designer for Snowboard magazine (not to be confused with Snowboarder), and designs boards for Ride, Gnu and Lib Tech. He also does identity and collateral work for Grenade Gloves, Union Binding Co. and Coal Headwear.
Yes, he does. And everyone loves his work. Don’t they?
[Link: Creativity Online]
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There are times we see stories that we really wished we had done first, but never did. Slap Skateboard Magazine’s Ron Cameron Portfolio by Mark Whiteley is one of those pieces.
Ron Cameron could be one of the most underrated skateboarding artist/designers ever to work in the business. From the Nothing Is Cool design for Blockhead Skateboards to the RVCA logo (yeah, he’s responsible for the V and the Artist Network Program), Ron has been working behind the scenes creating some of the most original designs in action sports. It is Ron’s take on the commercial side of skateboarding, however, that spoke most to his deep history in skateboarding. Here’s part of what he says:
It really is difficult to earn a living in the skateboarding industry. I always just egotistically thought my talents. . . like I would produce great work and the money would come and that’s not true. A lot of times if you don’t go in with money you don’t go out with money. And that’s the hard lesson I learned. And you need to take care of business no matter how ugly it feels to you. And if you think you’re going to become a businessman asshole. You’re not. You’re just taking care of that part so you can continue to do art.
Wise words. Follow the link for all the images and an audio interview with Ron.
[Link: Slap Skateboard Magazine via Skatedaily.net and Ron Cameron]
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