Here’s two simple and clean boards for Steve and Nardelli at 5boro. Pick one up with your morning coffee at the corner bodega on Monroe and Market by the Manhattan Bridge skatepark. Seriously. You can get grip and hardware there too.
Posted on May 21, 2008 at 09:53 AM | Comment (2 comments)
Vibing off of Mare139’s Jam of The Week post with Miles and Coltrane, Les McCann (piano and vocals) and Eddie Harris (tenor sax and even an electric sax) are two of my favorite jazz players. They’re relative underdogs in the often snooty and purist jazz world, but man did these two have the funk. Collaborating on one of the biggest-selling jazz albums of all time, Swiss Movement (1969), their styles complimented each other perfectly. Here they are performing Compared to What in 1969.
And here is a link to download their second and last album together, Second Movement (1971).
Posted on May 20, 2008 at 01:34 PM | Comment (0 comments)
With Police Informer putting up some serious shit lately and the recent screening of Deathbowl to Downtown, there’s a lot of good 90’s skate show-and-tell going on. Nostalgia is what it is, but some stuff really does hold up well. Here’s one from my dusty shoebox: Mike Hernandez downtown at the Stock Exchange shot by Gabe Morford, circa ‘94.
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 09:25 PM | Comment (2 comments)
In the spirit of Kimou’s great post about the May 68 uprising in Paris, this is a comic from 1984 by American artist Seth Tobocman. Its obvious that no matter what the country, language, culture or era there are universal ideas about basic human rights and expression that, if the people are denied these rights long enough, there will be a reaction. No justice? No peace.
Posted on May 14, 2008 at 06:33 AM | Comment (2 comments)
Robert Rauschenberg, Dies at 82.
Some people just have a way of putting things together and inventing. Robert Rauschenburg’s collage, sculpture, painting and screenprint had a big impact on me growing up. There are the well-known pieces, but so many random ones: a light-exposed six-foot tall sheet of blueprint paper from 1950. From the New York Times: “No American artist, Jasper Johns once said, invented more than Mr. Rauschenberg.” Big statement (if its true, Juan is a close second), but this is seriously good stuff, man. Rest in peace.
Posted on May 13, 2008 at 08:02 PM | Comment (1 comments)
Just wanted to say thanks (Mom and Dad). No matter what I was up to, you two were always in my corner. Love you!
Posted on May 11, 2008 at 04:39 PM | Comment (1 comments)
