Here’s the final installment of our 3 part “Year In Review” series. I can’t believe that tonight is going to mark the end of 2009 already. After going through our archives of blog entries for the past year, I came to the realization that our blog had just turned 2 years old just about a month ago. As we enter the new year of 2010, we at the Skate All Cities Kamp wishes everyone a safe and happy 2010. Here’s the final rundown of what we’ve been up to from September until the present. Keep it movin’…
After summer we were still doing what we do best, killing it:
RICKS
We already gave you a sneak peek of our upcoming 2010 board collaboration with world-renown toy designer and overall graphics guru David Flores:
Skate All Cities x David Flores
Definitely found some good skatespots that came and went:
Ventura Ghetto Park – Ventura, CA
Skate & Painted, Skated & Painted:
Clip Of The Week by Steve Cuellar (09/27/09)
ANML x RICKS
Found out that our boy Tony Karr recently got on STEREO skateboards:
Tony Karr x STEREO
Released our first ever fitted baseball cap produced by the heads over at SAIKO in Los Angeles, CA:
Skate All Cities x SAIKO
Was suppose to release 2 new t-shirt designs before the end of 2009, but I guess we’re keeping them for 2010 instead:
DESTINED FOR SK8NESS
Still managed to keep it moving by traveling out to Las Vegas, Nevada for a friend’s wedding as well as some gun shooting:
The Gun Store – Las Vegas, NV
Thanks to our boy Gabriel Martinez and Jason “Gramma” Suh out at WESC NYC we have a display showcasing our products at the WeSC Concept Store near SoHo:
We Are the Superlative Conspiracy
Snuck in another magazine interview with the heads over at Four G’s Magazine in their latest issue #3:
Four G’s Magazine – Issue #3
Went out to Frisco again to get some skateboard footage in:
Timmy Jak – Laidback Grind x San Francisco, CA
Can’t forget the painting:
SLOUCH SAC
Skated some more:
Jesse Silvey – Frontside Pop Shove-It x Los Angeles, CA
Here’s the second round-up of our 3 part series for our “Year In Review” between the months of May through August. It started off with a bang needless to say.
Let’s just say that we had a “close call” to start it off:
Upset The Setup
Can’t fuck with the LA Backyard BBQ’s that went down throughout the summers though:
Pros & Cons
Car Meets were going down all over:
HellaFlush Meet – Venice Beach, CA
Freights were still being smashed on a regular (obvi):
RICKS
Our 3rd board collaboration in 2009 with Seattle based graffiti writer MYTH was born:
Skate All Cities x MYTH
We visited San Diego for a second time in a row, but this time it was more for a skateboarding mission:
Jeremy Cannon x Melba Bishop Skatepark – San Diego, CA
Had a chance to visit Boston yet again and murdered my first wholecar alongside YETI & KEMS:
YETI
RICKS
KEMS
After coming home from Boston came one of the best, week long, roadtrips in a rental van with 10-12 heads (from the crew) out to Portland, Oregon:
Piss Break
You know that we had to connect game with some of the heads out in the PDX and put it down simply for the love of the game:
RICKS – Portland, OR
To our surprise, our shit came out on the June 2009 issue of JUXTAPOX Magazine:
JUXTAPOX – June 2009
Back from Portland, OR and quickly went to work, back home in the “City of Angels”:
Skate All Cities x WAIsted x Allday Everyday – Los Angeles, CA
Had an interview on Born Ugly Magazine Issue #2:
Born Ugly Magazine Issue #2
Skated a shitload of skateparks over the hot summer:
Sunny And Clear x Fillmore Skatepark – Fillmore, CA
Squeezed in a nice little fishing trip/getaway out to Mexico:
“Orale!”
Definitely partied our asses off (literally):
“RICKS is MAJOR”
And even got down with a Skate All Cities theme song compliments of P-Able:
2009 is/was definitely a year to remember. With all of the accomplishments that we have done as a team/crew we look forward to making it an even better year in 2010 and beyond. The following 3 blog entries leading towards the new year of 2010 are going to be a reflection of what we’ve done-did in 2009. So take a seat, grab some coffee, and enjoy the ride down memory lane.
First week of the year calls for our first piece in 2009:
Long Beach, CA
Our first roadtrip for 2009 was out to San Francisco with a couple of crew members. We ended up having so much fun our mornings kinda looked like this:
After a nice stay out in San Francisco, it was back on the road towards San Diego for the AGENDA Tradeshow to partake in a little bit of business & partying. Who am I kidding. We went there to get fucked up:
AGENDA Tradeshow – San Diego, CA
During our stay in San Diego you know that we had to clock in some graf:
Qualcomm Pits – San Diego, CA
Writer’s Block – San Diego, CA
We also got started on the Twitter game around this time of the year:
“Tweet, Tweet”
And for some strange reason, ended up back in San Francisco for the 2nd time in less than a month right after San Diego:
GIANT – San Francisco, CA
In between all of this we found some time to go watch a game with the NBA Champs (LAKERS) back in the “City of Angels”:
LAKERS vs SUNS
Amidst of all this traveling, skating, and painting, we were still able to find some time to release a board collaboration with well-known graffiti artist SEVER through his own personal brand Loss Prevention:
Skate All Cities x SEVER
Skate All Cities Krew member “BOCKCHOY” found himself with some new shoes for his whip. $4,000 VOLKS to be exact:
EVO-X
We also caught some coverage in some magazines:
BLAZING Graffiti Magazine (Issue #18)
Advertised for the first time thanks to the heads over at Four G’s Magazine:
Four G’s Magazine
Recruited 2 new young bloods into the crew; Mark Villero & Tony Karr:
Mark Villero
Tony Karr
Caught a nice little landmark spot on the 110 Freeway that is still running till this date. That’s going to be almost a year when the clock hits 2010:
GASH x RICKS x DREOS
Released yet another board collaboration within a 2 month span by world-renowned graffiti artist, REVOK:
Skate All Cities x REVOK
Found ourselves on a mini skate/graf tour through 3 major cities out in the East Coast:
A.) “The Big Apple” aka New York City
5Pointz – New York, NY
B.) FDR Skatepark in Philadelphia, PA:
Philadelphia, PA
C.) Boston, MA
“Behind Enemy Lines” – Boston, MA
More to come to this 3 part series tomorrow. I’m pooped…
I swear that there are benefits of running an online blog that gets heavy traffic. Occasionally heads will shoot out products our way to review and/or to place onto the blog for coverage. The heads over at Silent Wrytes based out of Philadelphia were nice enough to send us their latest issues of their graffiti magazine to check out. This magazine has nothing but straight-up, raw, street photos of graffiti. You can purchase them online on their website over here if you happen to have $4.95 lying around.
On our way to the post office today, while sending out everyone’s orders from our 30% Year End Sale, we received a lovely package from the homeys over at Born Ugly Magazine with their latest Issue #4 that can be viewed for FREE over here. Not sure if you’ve ever caught our interview from their previous Issue #2, but their latest installment has some pretty interesting skateboarding articles to read up on as well as an extensive interview with well-known San Diego graffiti writer; PERSUE. PERSUE has been doing graffiti in the streets and designing for the skateboarding industry for quite some time now. Companies such as DROORS, CIRCA, PLAN B, and VOX are just a couple of clients that are under his belt. Now who said skateboarding and graffiti don’t go together again? As if…
