Filed under: Books, Skateboarding | Tags: art book, bart simpson, Book, coffee table book, Fine Art, Photography, Skate Culture, Skateboarding, Skatebook
“skatebook (a league on it’s own)” – worldwide skateboarding
“I just recieved my Skatebooks and am changing my underware as we speak” – John Mcmahon
“My copies arrived and I can safely say these books are the greatest tribute to skateboarding. The amazing work in each ‘issue’ will be remembered forever and ever. I haven’t been this inspired by a skate publication since I was a kid* in the 80s/early 90s where I’d read the mags cover-to-cover over n’ over… Hats off to all involved and more power to you!” – sahlan78
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Filed under: Books | Tags: Andy Warhol, Book, Fine Art, Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, Phoebe Hoban, The Factory
I mowed through this book. Lots of name dropping and more focused on the art and club scene in New York in the 80′s, but enjoyable to read nonetheless.
Filed under: Art & Photography | Tags: Ed Templeton, Fine Art, Map of the Inner War, Roberts and Tilton, Skate Culture, Skateboarding, Toy Machine
Filed under: Art & Photography | Tags: Beverly Hills, Fine Art, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, Photography, Taryn Simon
In American Index Of The Hidden And Unfamiliar, Taryn Simon exposes the complexities of people, places, things and organizations that exist all around us everyday as we go along our merry way. Some of the most painfully plain images explode into life as the revelation of what your eyes are looking at is revealed in the subtext that accompanies the pictures. Part of the wonder is how a civilian photographer could even gain access to capture some of the images within the collection. A definite must see.
Filed under: Art & Photography | Tags: Art, Art Walk, Contemporary Art, Downtown Los Angeles, Emerging Art, Fine Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Art Scene, Molly Schiot, Paintings with Prose on Paper, Phyllis Stein, Urban Life
Last night we went to see our dear friend Molly Schiot‘s opening at Phyllis Stein Art in downtown Los Angeles. Artwalk has become quite a scene. Considering the gloom and doom propaganda that pervades popular media it was delighting to see just how many people showed up to see and snatch up art by some of LA’s emerging artists.
PS: Please excuse my photos as they do not represent just how incredible the works looks in person.
Filed under: Art & Photography | Tags: Alexandra Grant, Becca Mann, Blum and Poe, Christopher Lapp, Contemporary Art, Culver City, Ed Templeton, Fine Art, Honor Fraser, Jorge Prado, Julian Hoeber, Kehinde Wiley, Kim Light, Kori Newkirk, Price Latimer, Roberts and Tilton, Samantha Thomas, Simmons and Burke, Wilsons Food and Wine
SELF PORTRAIT at Kim Light Gallery featuring SIMMONS AND BURKE
KEHINDE WILEY at Roberts and Tilton Gallery
Yesterday Price, Justin, Samantha, Christopher, Chelsea and I went trippin around Culver City to see some openings. Click inside to see a sample of some of the marvelous work we saw. (more…)
Filed under: Art & Photography, Skateboarding | Tags: 303 Gallery, Autumn Bowl, Cheim & Reid, CRG Gallery, Fine Art, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Kevin Spanky Long, Maccarone, Pop Art, Vice Photo Show, Yossi Milo Gallery
Price and I have been in NYC since late July. Since arriving we’ve been working and visiting with friends. I even went and skated the Autumn Bowl last night. I only managed to bust open my knee, bash my chin, and I may have possibly re-broken my wrist. Quite frankly I suck at skating. Bravo to all the Lakai boys and whoever else is over 35 killing it on their shred sled, cause it is extremely cumbersome for me to skate these days. I don’t know how they all do it. As well we’ve been visiting with artist, going to gallery’s and museums. Here are a few pictures of some of the are we’ve seen. Enjoy, cause we sure have. Images are from the gallery’s listed below. I’m no art critic just a casual observer.
Gavin Brown‘s Enterprise and Maccarone
“Pretty Ugly” group show, curated by Alison Gingeras
CRG Gallery
Robert Buck, “第二自然”
303 Gallery
Jane and Louise Wilson, “The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards”
Yossi Milo Gallery
Asako Narahashi, “half awake and half asleep in the water”
Cheim & Reid
“I WON’T GROW UP” group show, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald
Baechler
Filed under: Art & Photography | Tags: Art, City Life, Fine Art, Frank Lloyd Wright, Guggenheim, Lifestyle, Louise Bourgeois, Manhattan, New York City, Pop Culture, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Yesterday we spent about 2 hours at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan tripping out on Louise Bourgeois’s work. Certainly a must see. Image, a birds eye view of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s architectural design from above. 
Filed under: Skateboarding | Tags: Fine Art, Los Angeles Lifestyle, Paul Rusconi, Salman Agah, Skate Culture, Skateboarding
Adapted from my Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year Cover. 
painting by Paul Rusconi
Filed under: Daily Gonz | Tags: Skateboarding, Mark Gonzales, The Gonz, Krooked, Krooked Skateboards, Lifestyle, Skate Culture, Fine Art
These little presents were in my email inbox today from world famous grits consumer Mark Gonzales. Enjoi…
