by The Editors on December 3, 2008
It’s tomorrow night, it kicks off the Tampa Am. It’s the Annual Welcome to Tampa Art Show and Party. This year coming as a shock to no one the art part of the party is about beer. Here’s the word from Creative Loafing.
The exhibit, playfully dubbed 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, is the brainchild of Chad Cardoza, a local artist who’s been a player in some of the year’s most engaging art offerings. . . The collection of approximately 99 bottles — produced by roughly half as many artists — will go on display at the Skatepark’s recently revamped snack bar during the party. Cardoza expects each piece to sell for about $40, though some may be priced higher or lower, making the bottles an affordable entrée to collecting art.
The bottles shown were painted by Jimbo Phillips, Mike Aho, Durke Schmidt, Travis Millard, Ky Baker, Don Pendleton (two red and white abstract bottles), Mike Le Merde and Jennifer Alfonso. It almost makes us want to blow a Southwest free ticket and fly out for the art show and check out the Tampa Am on the side. The Castle is calling.
Thurs., Dec. 4, 8 p.m., Skatepark of Tampa, 4215 E. Columbus Drive, Tampa, (813) 621-6793,
[Link: Creative Loafing]
by The Editors on November 30, 2008
Shepard Fairey sure knows how to work it. We don’t even want one of these boards and we’re still linking it up.
[Link: Stereo Sound Agency]
by The Editors on November 13, 2008
Ed Templeton has a new show opening November 15, 2008 at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, California.
For Map of the Inner War, Ed Templeton saturates the gallery with over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper. Templeton documents his life, and the lives of the people around him, in a rich stream of images – images of himself and his wife, Deanna, in their day-to-day lives, and images of others, at home in Orange County, California or during the many tours he makes as pro-skateboarder and artist.
Ed will be signing books Saturday from 6-7 PM and the opening reception begins at 7 PM. Roberts & Tilton, 5801 Washington Boulevard Culver City, California. (Click for map).
[Link: Roberts & Tilton via Emerica]
by The Editors on November 10, 2008
According to the LA Weekly kids lined up “several hundred deep” outside the Active Westwood store on November 8, 2008 for the release of the Bam/Kat Von D model Element Skateboards. The tattooed cele-bro duo reportedly signed autographs for a while and then Mike V.’s band played.
Check the link for the entire 34 images slideshow of the three horsemen in action.
[Link: LA Weekly]
by The Editors on November 10, 2008
According to a story in the North County Times, nearly 500 people packed into Oceanside, California’s Crest Theatre for a California Surf Film Festival showing of the classic surf film Endless Summer narrated live by its legendary creator Bruce Brown.
Brown, 70, wearing a lei and a Hawaiian shirt with an Endless Summer motif, also attracted a standing-room-only crowd. . . . “It caught the imagination of a lot of people,” Brown said about what he called his first “big budget” surf documentary.
Kind of wish we could have attended this one. . .
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on November 5, 2008
Volume two in Surfline.com’s World Wide Waves book series The Pipeline will be rolled out at Billabong Headquarters in Irvine (click for map) on Saturday, November 8, 2008 with a special guest appearance by Gerry Lopez (and other Pipe Legends featured in the book).
Through 200 pages of captivating and timeless images from over 50 of the world’s best photographers, combined with words from surfing’s most renowned writers, “The Pipeline: The World’s Most Respected Wave” tells the stories from almost five decades of heart-stopping action: the first rides, the first contests, triumphs, deaths, localism, foreign invasion, performance revolution, with a special chapter by Surfline’s Sean Collins on how and why Pipeline is the wave that it is.
The only downside is that it’s a pretty spendy evening. It costs $35 just to get in, $100 includes a book, and $200 includes a limited edition of the book and some 2008 Pipeline Masters gear. Click the link to buy a ticket.
[Link: Surfline.com]
by The Editors on November 4, 2008
One of our favorite style shops, Univ, based in Encinitas, California has recently introduced its collab with Dave Lee’s Signal Snowboards.
The board is manufactured in partnership at Signal’s state-of-the-art “The Lodge” Factory in California, USA. . . . UNIV and Signal founder Dave Lee are old friends and we could not imagine a better brand to affiliate with. Signal’s dedication to snowboarding and “keeping it real” is commendable.
The 155 cm board looks good to us, even at $500 a pop. Click here to buy one.
[Link: Robust Flavor]
by The Editors on November 2, 2008
It’s a party. It’s an art show. And the money is going to a good cause. Plus, Bob looks like he could still use a Tijuana Panthers crew cut, baby.
[Link: Hurley]
by The Editors on October 29, 2008
He’s come a long way since the days of South Shore debauchery, and now Forum staff photographer Ian Ruhter is giving lectures. On Saturday, October 25. 2008 Ian along with photographer Chris Wellhausen and cinematographer Kyle Schwartz spoke to students and snowboard fans at the Lake Tahoe Community College.
The night began with an Artist reception with Fine Art prints on display, and concluded with a visual presentation by each artist on a 20 x 30 foot screen in the Duke Theater. Ian broke down to the audience his philosophies of Art and how he maintains that integrity principle when managing large advertising campaigns.
We’re proud of Ian. Nice work. Almost makes us tear up a little. . .
[Link: Forumoragainstem]
by The Editors on October 23, 2008
This just keeps getting funnier. Today approximately 100 people reportedly gathered at Burton Snowboard’s offices in Burlington, Vermont to “demand that the two lines of snowboards be pulled from the market,” according to a story on Fox News.
Women’s groups and a group of men working against domestic violence have joined a growing chorus of criticism directed at the snowboards. . . . Two community groups have withdrawn their participation in a Burton-sponsored program to introduce disadvantaged kids to snowboarding.
Burton CEO Laurent Potdevin even released a statement to The Burlington Free Press saying that Burton “stands behind it’s products and has no plans to recall the Love and Primo models that have caused anger in portions of the community.”
And why would they after all this free promo?
[Link: Fox News and The Burton Protest via The Burlington Free Press]
