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— October, 2009 —

This Must Be It

This Must Be It

October 8, 2009

Personally I’m a big fan of Karin Dreijer Andersson. Her new video with Royksopp is quite interesting. I’m curious to hear what some of you think of it… especially my music video director types (Joe Cookie).

RUSSIAN PHOTO EXHIBIT

October 8, 2009

Kyle Emery-Peck sent through this flyer for a group photo show going down in Russia, which includes a bunch of BMX photographers. Click below for all the details.

Lifetime collective

Lifetime collective

October 8, 2009

I just had the pleasure to meet the guys over at lifetime collective yesterday as part of a project I am working on, and I have to say I was super stoked to hang and get to know these guys a little bit, super inspiring group of individuals, who are all very talented! I got [...]

24 Hour Starck Mix

24 Hour Starck Mix

October 7, 2009

I just picked up the new issue of Wallpaper today that features two guest editors; Philippe Starck and Karl Lagerfeld. Each editor was given 27 pages to do what the like. On the very last page of Philippe Starck’s section is a promotion for a soundtrack composed and mixed by Soundwalk.  What’s unique about this [...]

Dave Thompson on Fuel TV

Dave Thompson on Fuel TV

October 7, 2009

There’s a nice short interview up with Dave Thompson on Fuel TV’s website, featuring photos by Andrew Brady. Above photo courtesy of  Jason Eichhorst. Check the interview out here.

Josef Hoflehner’s Jet Airliner

Josef Hoflehner’s Jet Airliner

October 7, 2009

Photographer Josef Hoflehner has a new book out title Jet Airliner. The book is a series of black and white photos shot on Maho Beach right under the Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, Dutch West Indies. The photos are extremely breathtaking and I couldn’t imagine being at that beach, let alone how loud [...]

Down At The Corner Store

Down At The Corner Store

October 7, 2009

Newsweek has a great audio slideshow documenting New York storefronts photographed and narrated by James and Karla Murray. (via @asilentflute)

Photos Of The Moment

Photos Of The Moment

October 7, 2009

This is how it breaks down; New York times has a magazine called T Magazine, T Magazine has a blog called The Moment, and The Moment has a column called “Photos of the Moment” and that is what the post is about. Photos of the Moment document all of the behind-the-scenes details at the major [...]

Frankfurt Auto Show part 2

Frankfurt Auto Show part 2

October 6, 2009

Dave Mavro came through with a second batch of photos from the Frankfurt Auto Show. Click below to see them all.

NIKE TUNNEL JAM PHOTOGALLERY

NIKE TUNNEL JAM PHOTOGALLERY

October 5, 2009

I recently hit up the Nike Tunnel Jam in England, which was super good. Click below to check out a photogallery.

Frankfurt Auto Show

Frankfurt Auto Show

October 5, 2009

On average I get 2-3 photos of cars per day from Dave Mavro, usually spotted around LA. Last week I got a whole batch of them from Frankfurt, where Dave was attending the auto show, and far be it from me to keep them to myself. Click below to see them all. Thanks Mavro.

EMPIRE SHOE RELEASE PARTY

October 5, 2009

Tom from Empire sent through some info on a Vans/Empire shoe release party going on this weekend in Austin. Click below for more info.

Amigos Publishing

Amigos Publishing

October 5, 2009

Nick Ferreira from Hole Shot Zine and In The Gnar has started a small publishing company with his girlfriend called Amigos. They just released their second zine – titled Hands Wide Open – it’s a 24 page black+white zine of illustrations by Dylan Goettlich. Check out the Amigos Publishing site and pick up a zine [...]

Dinner with Nigel and Gatorade

Dinner with Nigel and Gatorade

October 5, 2009

Right before Nuno, Andrew and I headed to Vegas for Interbike, we got an email from Amy at Fuse Marketing inviting us to a dinner at Nobu with Nigel Sylvester and some of the guys from Gatorade. The dinner was to celebrate Nigle’s new videos series with Gatorade “Because I Grind”. Unfortunately Nuno had prior [...]

NEW LO.

October 5, 2009

Lotek has a new site up. Click around HERE.

Dashed Dreams

Dashed Dreams

October 4, 2009

Photographer André Paul Pinces shot a rad photo series called Dashed Dreams for Know?Mag. The series is great, although I’m not sure who’s driving a Porsche with dice in the mirror on the platform of the 18th street station… haha. Check out some of the photos after the jump. (via iconology)

Nike Tunnel Jam

Nike Tunnel Jam

October 3, 2009

Here’s the final promo for the Nike 6.0 Tunnel Jam. If you haven’t figured it out yet, the Tunnel Jam is a contest in a tunnel with a bunch of amazing riders on a seriously crazy ramp setup. Keep reading to check out a shot of the ramps and the video.

Art And Sole

Art And Sole

October 3, 2009

Art and Sole is a group art show that opens tonight (Saturday, October 3rd) at El Kartel in Vancouver in conjunction with PF Flyers. The concept for the show was to take a pair of PF Flyers Center Hi’s and do whatever you want with them, resulting in some extremely creative and very different results. [...]

Las Vegas Patterns

Las Vegas Patterns

October 1, 2009

While we were in Las Vegas for Interbike last week, Andrew and I initiated a little photo series. The idea was to seek out as many random patters as we could find in anything from cars to floors to candy and snap a photo of them. Together we came up with about 50 different images [...]

Quintin and The Ko-Op

Quintin and The Ko-Op

October 1, 2009

Our buddies at Quintin have just launched a series of hats in conjunction with their Canadian friends at The Ko-Op. They created eight special hats for eight brands around Canada which can all be seen right here, or click below for more photos.