The FREEDOM art show debuted at MAGIC back around the middle of February and was such a huge success it is now being brought to life in Los Angeles this Saturday at KNOWN GALLERY. It’s worth your time to go check out if you’re in the LA area because the line of artists are pretty amazing.
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Directions
Opening March 6, 2010
8pm-11pm
We stopped by the TRADITION shop in Westlake Village this past weekend to show our support for Los Angeles based graffiti artists RUETS & ASYLM’s show entitled “Sources of Inspiration & Damnation“. The turn out was amazing with people coming from up and down the California coast. There were even a few heads (or 1 really) that came all the down from San Diego to check it out. That’s a long 4 hour drive, but I’m sure that the “FREE BEER” that was being offered at the end of the road made it just that much sweeter.
TRADITION (Westlake Village)
If other shops want to know how to gain a good working relationship with their clientele through marketing, then you should be taking notes on what TRADITION is doing. Not only do they carry some of the most popular and upcoming brands in the industry, but they also throw FREE SHOWS…consistently. I repeat, “FREE SHOWS…consistently”. Now how many of your local shops that you support does that? I’m sure that there a few out there, but I can bet that there’s not too many. Especially since everyone’s being tight with their finances and trying to save through “The Recession”. Just check out the last party that TRADITION had with RAEKWON from Wu-Tang.
RUETS Pieces
ASYLM Pieces
“Sources of Inspiration & Damnation”
Awwshiet, look at who got BGP’s on one of ASYLM’s pieces that were on display. Good looks ASYLM!
“Hecka-Melted”
Rosyln x Rachel @ Rozes Are Red
This past Friday The Grove Theatre in Upland, CA was host to COVERT’s newest skateboarding video entitled, “Still Broke“. If you were one of the lucky people to get a hold of the SOLD OUT tickets then you should be as happy as Charlie from the Chocolate Factory. Raffles and Giveaways were present, as well as drunken antics throughout the course of the night that kept you entertained for hours. All in all a fun night for everyone who attended. The video should be available through DVD in the next couple of months. Thanks to Doug Des Autels for taking the photos.
The Grove Theatre
SOLD OUT
Deck Check
Sotero Delgado & Doug Des Autels
Erick Sandoval, Anthony Amedori, Doug Des Autels, & Gabriel Martinez
Head Honcho Kurtis
From Right to Left: Anthony Estrada, Luke Baumstark, Jason Vanzant, Jordan Pedraza
Coudarryl
COVERT Team
Anthony Estrada
Jordan Brown, Mark Villero, & Terel
Product Toss Yo Self
Raffle Ticket Winner, Sean
Anthony Amedori & Gabriel Martinez
Piss Drunx
While cruising around the streets of LA last weekend, we ran into the COVERT skateboarding team trying to film some last minute footage for their latest video entitled, “Still Broke”. Coincidentally Abijah and I joined in on the fun and were able to catch a couple of tricks for their Friends section. Talk about good timing. See ya’ll there at the premiere!
COVERT presents “Still Broke”
Premieres on February 26, 2010 @ 7pm
Admission $4
LOCATION:
The Grove Theater
276 East 9th Street
Upland, CA 91786
(909) 920-4343
Directions
Might want to hurry up before supplies last and make sure to tell them that Skate All Cities sent you there…
You know where we’ll be this weekend. CLICK HERE to find out more.
Let me introduce to you David Flores. Alot of you are probably familiar with him through his “stained-glass look” designs from toys to skateboards to everything in between (i.e. sunglasses, shoe, snowboards, etc.). This past week the Skate All Cities Krew had the pleasure to visit his art studio/loft to go over a couple of details for our collaboration board release party. The topic of discussion was, “Where are we going to have it?” We’re not going to spoil the surprise, but if everything falls into place this is going to be one of Skate All Cities hugest events for 2010, so cross your fingers and stay tuned as we head into 2010 with new beginnings.
“DF”
I’m not sure if you know the history behind David, but aside from producing vinyl toys he’s been producing skateboard graphics since day one. Here are just a few of his designs that some of you might be familiar with.
I’m sure that all of you know the Shorty’s Muska board over towards the left. Simple design with a signature trademark to include in skateboarding history. Even the non-skaters that read this blog have probably seen it before.
You can add P-Rod to his list of skateboard pros that he has done boards for.
Paul Rodriguez – Plan B
I bet that you didn’t know that those Spitfire Wheels that you were/are riding were designed by this guy. Here’s just a small sample from his backpack just to flex the skills.
Kid Robot
Did I mention that he also did Ryan Gallant’s DC shoe. No Big Deal.
Watch collaborations anyone?
Chouette x Bloc28
DF’s latest toy release, THUMPER.
David Flores x Simpsons x VANS
“Hello Kitty”
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.
Issues #3 and #4
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…
Born Ugly – Issue #4
PERSUE
