August 16, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Graffiti, Lifestyle | No Comments
By this time during the trip there was alot of shit that had happened and was left undocumented. Either my camera battery died and needed to be recharged or I just never brought it around to take photos while we were out. I mean who plays cameraman all the time? All I know is that an abundance of VIP partying went down at the clubs on Las Ramblas (The main strip of Barcelona. It’s somewhat equivalent to Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, CA) that we never took pics of, as well as late night painting missions. (Doesn’t this sound somewhat similiar to our most recent European trip just this past May?)
AROE x REVOK
On the day that these photos were taken, it marked the official opening of the Bread & Butter show. Basically it’s an all out 3 day/night party & business event. Everyone and their moms come here to check out the new fashion that’s coming out of their favorite clothing brands. Skaters, Writers to Business Owners from all over the world were here. Don’t forget the mad local hotties as well. Barcelona woman just have that something to them that makes them so attractive. Maybe I’m just horny right now? Just kidding. I get mines. Back to the topic at hand, imagine pure pandemonium & alcohol mixed together with a bit of everything and anything in between. That’s the best description that I can give you about what goes down at Bread & Butter. Can we say, “Ricky was almost having an anxiety attack?” Here are some photos of the finished pieces the other day that the Seventh Letter heads did. Some applied finishing touches to their pieces while some were already done.
AROE HA, MSK
Character by AROE
www.REVOK1.com
RYS by REYES MSK
HENSE MSK
PUSHER MSK
SEVER MSK
After everyone was done painting there was a second group that had to paint. The wall wasn’t big enough to have everyone rock their pieces at the same time and have it running throughout the whole event so they had to go over each other. Next up was RIME, RUETS and a couple others. You can see them doing their outlines and barely filling in right here in front of a huge audience.
RUETS PDB, AL, OTR
After having a short attention span from watching the homeys paint we walked around the area. Our first stop was the MONTANA booth. They had an installation that looked pretty similar to a bathroom with white tiles surrounding it. They had markers and cans laid out for everyone to get up on. Looks like someone got the best spot over towards the right though. Next to the Montana reps table where everyone that’s interested in purchasing has a meeting at. Strategic Placement is Key my friends.
After the MONTANA booth we stopped by the New Era booth to see what types of new and upcoming fitteds that they had in store. Here are some of the ones that we spotted. I’m not that much of a baseball cap collector and don’t know what makes a hat limited or not (besides the hype) but the ones below caught my eye. Remember that these blog entries were from last summer in 2007 so I’m sure that these are probably already released and available at your favorite cap store by now.
New Era Booth
Los Angeles
San Francisco
RIME MSK
RUETS PDB, AL, OTR
KRUSH MSK
The photo below reminded me of a pretty funny story. HAEL (seen below) and I were looking for some food over at the Reggae Tikki Shack looking thing in front of him. They were BBQing chicken and had a long ass waiting line for 8 euro plates! That’s equivalent to about $12 in the USA. Ridiculous pricing. That’s what happens when you’re in events like these I guess. After all the confusion that was going down from massive people ordering food we got tired of waiting and just swooped up the 3 plates on the counter without them knowing. You snooze you lose. LOL! Free food anyone? Hahaha, smooth move HAEL. Then we went back to watch CEAZE, POSE, STEEL & EWOK bust.
CEAZE MSK
POSE MSK
STEEL MSK (Westside Vandals)
EWOK MSK
Handstyles by RETNA
EKLIPS from The Seventh Letter created these paint buckets full of Limited Edition stuff and was giving it away at the BBB show. I think that there were only 100 made or so? Not quite sure on the quantity but everyone gobbled it up like savage chickens when they were tossing them out. Just check out the crowd in the pictures below. Everyone was feening for one of those Seventh Letter paint buckets. I should have grabbed one myself before they even tossed them out. I wasn’t even thinking. Probably because I was lacking sleep!
After the hectic product toss we all gathered up and decided what we were going to do that night. I think we went to a VIP party that the Royal Elastics crew was throwing. Full Bar and Hip Hop music.
More to come tomorrow…
August 6, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Graffiti, Lifestyle, Skateboarding | 1 Comment
This past weekend we had the opportunity to stop by The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA to check out the X-Games. Thanks to my boy Brandon over at Artsteez.com for hooking up the tickets! This was my first time attending so I didn’t know what to expect. All I can say is that it was EXXXXTREEEEMMMMEE! Hahaha, nah just playing. But seriously if you’re into having lots of tattoos, wearing DC’s, cap backwards with sunglasses, sportin Ed Hardy gear and all then this is the spot for you! Bro City son! Don’t they have a saying for the OC aka Bro-C? Just fucken with ya’ll. I got nothing but love for everyone. Sarcasm is key. With all the shit talking aside I still had a good time watchin the BMXers and Moto-Xers rockin the course as well as Bob Burnquist doing huge Switch Frontside 180 Indy Grabs on the vert ramp. Geezus! See ya’ll there next time!
Ummmm, excuse me girlies. Can I take a picture with you for my blog? Photography: ArtSteez
I swear that I’m on the “VIP” list dog. Double check that for me.
No Available Seating…
Bra Boys and Nachos
TBK (Taco Bell Kids)
The Moto Course
After chillin in the crazy heat for over 2-3 hours we were kinda over it. So we decided to beat traffic and go home early and just chill out. (I think I’m getting a little too old for this shit to be honest.) X-Games “BRO”VERLOAD. While being held up in traffic we benched some flicks of graffiti that were on the freeways.
FISHE & VERSUZ - KOG’S
JEVEL HOF
ISRL, SCRIPT, JEVEL
SCRIPT (This kid is getting up lately.)
JETR, GIROE
Aaaaggghhhh!!!
August 5, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Events, Graffiti | 2 Comments
We are proud to announce another shop account to our list of retailers that are carrying SAC products by the name of MAINTAIN skate shop located out in the Silver Lake area in Los Angeles, California. This shop is right up our alley fusing both the skateboarding & graffiti cultures together as one. We just recently dropped some products down to them so go check it out and pay a visit. You won’t be disappointed. I’m sure that alot of you guys are already purchasing your paint from them anyways. Haha, don’t act like we don’t know!
MAINTAIN
3318 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Tele: (323) 906-9257
MAINTAIN
The Paint Selection
On the way home we decided to get something to eat down the block and saw this wall that some of the homeys from The Seventh Letter rocked. Some of the writer’s mentioned below (ROID & JIROE) are from Europe and also have their own graffiti blog (Maintained by the boss AROE) called Heavy Artillery. Lots of good European graffiti on there. ROID is becoming one of my favorite European writers right now.
REVOK x ROID x TASTES LIKE GOLD x AUGOR x JIROE
REVOK MSK x ROID HA
Character by TASTES LIKE GOLD x AUGOR MSK x JIROE HA
July 23, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Friends, Skateboarding | No Comments
I received a call from Gabriel & Abijah earlier this weekend informing me that there was a skatejam/event/contest that the heads from 8=D vs SGV were throwing in Alhambra, California at some church parking lot. With nothing else to do we went ahead and checked out the scene. To our surprise we saw a bunch of rippers coming together to skate such as Mike-Mo Capaldi, Billy Roper, Danny Castillo and local rippers Ray Maldonado, Frankie from Non-Factory and Kirk Rocha were amongst the attendees. At the end of the contest there was a product toss courtesy of American Apparel, DVS, Matix and The Hundreds. Brings back memories of a good old skate session.
The Product Toss
8=D Squad: Friend, Nick McClouth, Mike-Mo & Vince Capaldi, Greg Kenton, Billy Roper
Gabriel Martinez repping the crew
Kirk Rocha - Frontside Noseslide
Eric Longden - Nosegrind to Nollie Kickflip Out
Frontside 180 to Fakie 5-0 to 180 Out
Mike-Mo filming Eric Longden
Gabriel Martinez SAC - Crooked Grind
Randy Chew SAC - Frontside Bluntslide
Gabriel Martinez SAC - Backside Smith Grind
The DJ at The Hundreds Booth
July 16, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Lifestyle | No Comments
Alex Pardee recently had an artshow/party called the “Scratches & Abrasions” show down at SURU on Melrose this past weekend. SURU is a boutique store located on 7662 Melrose Ave that sells shoes, toys and clothing. The Skate All Cities crew went down there to check out the scene and grab a couple of free drinks that night. Needless to say, the Jack & Cokes got us all a wiiiitttlllee tipsy…
SURU
Alex Pardee
Scratches & Abrasions
The Installation
The homey Dave Flores
Chocolate Deluxe - This was my favorite toy on display out of everything.
Character by AXIS CBS?
MQUE DMS
The party scene…
June 23, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Skateboarding | No Comments
Aside from the crazy heat this past weekend we thank all the heads that came out to show their support for Cynthia Perez. For anyone that didn’t show up you guys just missed out on a positive thing that all of us were trying to do for the community to stop gang violence in memory of Cynthia. On top of the community coming together you guys also missed out on our product tosses which consisted of $1 raffle tickets that could have gotten you our new HAELER boards, DIAMOND shirts, CHOCOLATE boards, KREW hoodies and bunch of other stuff. Just ask the kids that won the raffle. They probably bought only $5 worth of tickets and won a ton of stuff. Some of them even won twice!
Skate All Cities & Friends - Garvanza Skatepark 2008
“R.I.P. Cynthia Perez Delgado”
Holding down the fort with the products.
Gabriel Martinez - Noseslide
Randy Chew - Smith Grind
Gabriel Martinez - Crooks
Randy Chew - Frontside Bluntslide
Mike Morales - Frontside Tailslide
Local Park Ripper - Tre Bomb down the 6
Local Park Ripper - Frontside Feebs down the Rail
Backside Grab
Randy Chew - Feeble Grind
Gabriel - Raffling Off Products
Skate All Cities x Midlife Crisis 2008
June 18, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Lifestyle | No Comments
Skate All Cities as well as a few other sponsors will be throwing a fundraiser/benefit for the family of Cynthia Perez this Saturday on June 21, 2008 at Garvanza Skatepark. Cynthia was caught in a crossfire and shot in the head by a 16 year old boy. You can read more about it here. She was only 14 years old. For anyone living in the hood then you know how much it hurts to lose someone through gang violence. It hit pretty close to home after hearing about this so we decided to try to give back to the community in any way possible by throwing a raffle for some of our products. All proceeds will go towards the PEREZ family. Please show your support by attending. Our boy Gabriel Martinez will be speaking at the event about this tragic event. Rest In Power…
April 27, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Friends, Lifestyle, Skateboarding, SpotCheck | 2 Comments
Just got back from a skateboard contest that was being held over at Papa Jack’s Skatepark in Malibu, CA. We had a booth there alongside with Underground Wheel Company to help promote and slang our products. If you didn’t get a chance to go to this event then you missed out on our sale. ($30 Boards, $10 T-Shirts, and $25 Hoodies. Wamp, Wamp…) Our crew members from Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, and Santa Barbara got together for this event. Some pretty good local rippers were busting out. The one that stood out the most to me was this 5-8 year old kid with a flannel shirt droppin frontside & backside disasters on the 7ft quarter pipe as well as doing lipslides down the babyrail. Kids these days are just amazing.
Mr. Polaroid
Underground Wheel Company booth
Wheels for Sale
Setting Up Shop
LUMBO gettin down on a huge snowcone
42 aka IC (10% Love Me & 90% Hate Me)
Masaki
Lounging at the booth.
Had to keep cool from the shade. Superhot day.
Steve getting sloppy with it.
Bye Bye Birdies…
The Street Course
We were chillin near the miniramp most of the time cause it wasn’t full of lil grommets getting in the way.
Hard at work.
Parents and Friends showing the kids some love.
The music booth where BENET was DJ’ing.
This is the park ripper kid w/ the flannel shirt that I mentioned earlier. He got 1st place and won a Skate All Cities deck!
Raffle Prize winner
Product Toss!
Skate All Cities Lunchbox
Randy Chew. Check out the cut on his tattoo. Straight savage! Hahahaha.
April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Friends, Graffiti, Lifestyle | No Comments
As we mentioned earlier during the week, we stopped by the CANVASLA gallery and checked out the “Skull & Sword” opening show curated by NORM AWR/MSK. Met up with alot of the heads from The Seventh Letter crew out there and played a lil catchup from our last trip out to Barcelona, Spain. Amazing artwork, alcohol, hotties, friends, and cool heads made this event a banger.
REVOK Custom Jacket and Birdie
The Crowd
SABER
Always / Never Set by NORM
Always / Never Set by NORM
REBELS by NORM
PUSH
JERSEY JOE AKA RIME
REVOK (Told me he smashed this in Italy about 4 weeks ago. Sooo siick!)
JERSEY JOE
PUSH
I think this was going for $12,000.
PUSH
GRIME
REYES
April 18, 2008 | Filed Under Events, Friends, Lifestyle | No Comments
If you haven’t heard by now we’ll be attending this show on Saturday. We’ll have pictures of the event up in a couple of days. If any of you guys are attending, hit us up and say what up! See you there.
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