Long Beach by John Hicks
BMX July, 30 2010
John Hicks always puts in some good work.
Here’s a rad mellow sun-drenched edit based around Long Beach that he sent through. Now I feel like chillin…..
Keep it coming!!!!
Crandall just informed me of some new FBM goodies. Click HERE to check it all out.
Old Record Covers
Art & Design July, 30 2010
Old records have the best artwork. The large format and the styles of back in the day make for some rad visuals.
The owner of Jive Time Records in Seattle must agree, as he has 2 sites dedicated to album covers. He simply scans the covers and posts them. Check out Groove Is In The Art and Project Thirty Three.
via – @fchimero
While we are on the topic, be sure to check out Sleeve Face and Sleevage too.
Our friend Ed David recently shot this awesome piece on the Mast Brothers for The Scout. Ed actually said it Best – so to quote, “A short documentary about two brothers, chocolate-makers, that are bringing craft back to the U.S. in an age of automation and the dulling of the American creative vision. We filmed them before they took off to set sail and to explore where their chocolate comes from.” I personally find this piece fascinating for many reasons, but how awesome would that be to sail across the world in search of goods! Respect!
I met David Rubin this year while living in New York. Actually he happened to live a few doors down from me, just until recently when he decided to move due to intolerable Puerto Rican’s bumping their absurd car stereo’s, and PG-13 motorcycle gangs that jam Creed at all hours of the night! I’m super psyched on his photos though, and wanted to share it with Ya’ll as David would say. From Austin, TX originally and now an NYC transplant! check out his work. Below are some of my personal favorites!
Here is the first part of two Disposed from Ten Pack. This one is from the Winnipeg/Saskatchewan leg of the Ten Pack Summer Tour’s. The crew consisted of some Wethepeople and MacNeil riders as well as a few stragglers…
Jack Bool hit us up with this rad email the other day:
“Hey guys, I just wanted to give Defgrip I shout out and say whats up. The site you guys have going is super rad and it hits on all of my main interests. I’m really digging your disposed series and it inspired me to start messing around with some disposable cameras myself. I have an old raynox fisheye that I hold in front of the cameras and it makes some shots look pretty dope. I just went on a road trip to So Cal and the Sierras with a few of my homies and brought along a few disposables. You should check out how the shots turned out on my flickr. It’s half BMX and half hiking and such.”
Keep reading to see a few of Jack’s photos and check out the whole set on his Flickr – flickr.com/photos/jackbool
Josef Hoflehner
Photography July, 28 2010
We posted on Josef Hoflehner‘s photos before when we covered his Jet Airliner series, but after a re-visit to his site and some time spent on the rest of his portfolio, his work deserves another post. His landscape/cityscape photos are breathtaking and I love the consistency with his colors and contrast.
George Marshall hooked up a bunch of portraits from the recent NASS Festival that went down in the UK, as well as a few riding shots for good measure.
From George:
The Relentless NASS festival is a 3 day weekend of teenage hormone fueled bmx competitions and music. Here’s the faces of English youth and action from the weekend.
Click below to check them out.
