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9/5/08 John Stewart! Thank you. 9/3/08 My old friend, Thomas Campbell, has a new art site. Pretty nice. An incredible aluminum gate by Herzog & de Meuron. Ryan Schierling has what looks like a nice new photo book out; "Go Away, Come Home." Check the preview out. Amazing F1 clip. Thanks to Arkitip for this one. Saw this on the way into work this morning. It's a scrolling LED sign outside a Korean church on Vermont Avenue; "GOD LOVES YOU!" scroll ... scroll ... "Go to www.(thechurch'sname).com for details." 8/29/08 I wish I was here right now...  ...or here...  Check out this great Flickr set of vintage off-road riding photos. I believe they all belong to the same family. Thanks for the link Jared, made my week. 8/27/08 Starting now. My last start was red-flagged — so I'm starting again right now. RIght NOW. Go. 8/22/08 The Olympic BMX coverage was pretty dismal last night. I'm not too sure they even televised the qualifiers after the rainout of the original times. No profiles, no interviews... just two, approximately 40 second, motos. The racing itself looked great — fast and smooth — but the camera angles weren't too impressive. Too many long shots. Bob Costas chuckling and categorizing it with batmitten (I have no idea how to correctly spell that) afterward was a disappointment. Oh well. Another good reason to keep skateboarding out. The most amazing thing to me is how much BMX has changed since I last raced (1986?). Whole different animal. Watch Joe Kid on a Stingray, then go back to the Olympic coverare on the web. Quite a contrast. I would've loved to see Costas introduce a short piece on the history of BMX instead of basically dismissing this colorful culture and letting the leyman viewer figure out this "NEW" sport for themselves. Or did I miss something?  Chris "Mad Dog" Moeller turndown sometime in the late '80s. Epitome of style here. Windy Osborn photo reprinted from the "Freestylin' Generation F" book. 8/21/08 It's fitting that Bob Haro is the Diurnal Drawing today. BMX will be televised on NBC tonight as part of the ongoing 2008 Beijing Olympic coverage. Quarterfinals tonight, final motos tomorrow.  8/20/08 None of my shorts fit correctly in the front. The buttons are either missing, or the belt loops are too far back. Just sayin'. Is it strange that Dr. Huxtable in on my homepage? 8/18/08 I can't wear a t-shirt without staining it. Paint, sauce, sweat... doesn't matter. 8/15/08 The Paradox of Choice. Barry Schwartz has spent the time to contain some thoughts that absolutely NAIL one of the problems I've been having with our culture in general. A personal problem I was unable to put a finger on. Schwartz has written a book about it, but in this clip, he manages to paraphrase the idea in under 30 minutes. I feel somewhat relieved. Now to work on solutions... thank you designverb for the posting. The Diurnal Drawing is not taking off like I'd hoped. May not be back next week, as I'm low on contributions. Come on, send some lines in! Thank you to all of you who have. 8/14/08  Lyle Owerko's Boombox Project. Contemporary pop culture anthropology. Amazing illustrator Tomer Hanuka. 8/12/08 When I was about 15 we had a neighbor who was an old-school sign painter — meaning he used brushes, enamels and his hands to do typography. I guess he was doing pretty well and needed help, so he asked my dad (knowing he was an artist) if he knew anyone who could learn to handle a brush. My dad volunteered me for the apprenticeship. I was busy racing BMX and riding dirt bikes. Plus, I was going to get a job at Wendy's soon (believe it or not, they sponsored our BMX team — I had no idea at the time they were recruiting potential fry chefs). So I turned him down. The reason I mention this is that I spent a few hours on a ladder in the sun yesterday hand-painting white Trade Gothic onto a red wall with Hersh, Coleman and Charles. I may not have sun burned my calves so bad had I interned with that guy way back when. And you might not gag when you look at my type up close. But I chose to be proficient in dunking potatoes into boiling oil. Hand-lettering is a dying art form... maybe I should try to locate that guy back in Wyoming.  I linked this guy recently... Jeff Canham. He's keping it alive. Anyone know of other links to hand-painted sign artists? Thanks for the gif and photos Hersh. 8/11/08  Very impressive collection of journalistic photography that is constantly updated; the Time magazine Pictures of the Week. Watch the Olympics Opening Ceremonies? Unbelievable combination of artistry, choreography, technology, scale and mind-boggling management in a narrative format. Never seen anything like it. Unreal and inspiring. Hot Buttered Soul... Isaac Hayes is gone. RIP. 8/7/08 Here are some quick digi shots of the commissioned piece. It's on loose canvas, 4' x 6' vertical.  (click image to see more detail shots) 8/6/08 Finished the commissioned painting I've been working on. Photos soon... sooooo, Chris, Bryce, I'm finishing the Skate Daily tee now. 8/5/08  Kelley just revved up a Flickr site. If you have kids between brand new and 8 or so, check it out. Pretty cool stuff for them to wear. Her photographer is the talented Cheryl Groff, who just so happens to be the partner in crime of an old acquaintance, Todd Congelliere. Former Liberty pro (remember Mike Smith's company, owned by Rocco?), the proprietor of Recess Records and member of F.Y.P. and Toys That Kill. Between Todd and Cheryl, they pretty much have the punk scene in Pedro and the Southbay covered. Aaah, to be young and idealistic — Kelley seems to have tapped into some good energy. 8/4/08 One more for today; "I think we over-meet as a society." —Dusty Baker 8/4/08 "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." —Einstein "Sorry I'm late, I woke up this morning and realized I didn't know shit." —McGinn 8/4/08 NPR provides us with priceless nuggets of current culture on a pretty regular basis. I was pointed to one in particular this last week that is amazing and well worth getting a download of; a two-an-a-half-hour Tom Waits performance from the very recent "Glitter and Doom" tour. It was recorded at the Atlanta, Georgia date which fell near the end of the tour, so the musicianship, pace and vibe is tight and hair-raising. Check out the set list... Love it. Thank you NPR.  Mr. Mark Teixeira made himself a nice warm little spot in the hearts of Angel fans on Sunday with a grand slam to take the lead from the Yankees in the 8th. Too bad the Angel defense had lathered up their gloves with butter before the game. Props to the Yank's new acquisition, Xavier Nady, as well. 8/1/08 Made me smile when I got this drawing from the legendary Bob Haro (Diurnal #13) in an email yesterday... it wasn't a personal email, but hey, look at that drawing. Haro was a big influence on me as a BMX racer and artist in Wyoming, and I actually remember this one from back in the day — it made me believe Haro and I had some sort of kinship, because I just knew he was reading CARtoons magazine just like I was. Thanks Bob, for helping me think I could do it too. If you're in Santa Ana tonight check out Bob's pieces in the "Bike Curious?" art show at Go Rilla. This is pretty amazing. It impresses me to no end when someone has a vision that seems ridiculously impossible, yet has the tenacity and patience to make it happen anyway. This seems like one of those projects; Robotic Chair.  7/31/08 Thanks to Kyle Blue of Dwell Magazine for his mention of the Girl (RED) project over at the Arkitip Intell scroll. VISIT "OLD NOWS"... #1 / #2 / #3 / #4 / #5 / #6 / #7 #8 / #9 #10 / #11 / #12 / #13 / #14 / #15/ #16 Write us |
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