Disposed: Nike in San Antonio

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Interview: Edwin De La Rosa

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Disposed: Colony X Vans in Adelaide

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Top 10 Defgrip posts of 2011

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Scrapbook 2011: Nuno Oliveira

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— November, 2009 —

I Love My Bicycle

I Love My Bicycle

November 20, 2009

I Love My Bicycle, the documentary about FBM Bike Company is being released on DVD on December 10th. You can get all the info at ilovemybicyclemovie.com and check out the trailer after the jump.

adam mufti

adam mufti

November 20, 2009

Im really digging the video work of Adam Mufti, I really like how he paces his experimental type of work, shows how much you can achieve with simplicity, I didn’t get the chance to check out his whole site but just from the 5 or 6 I did check out, I threw it in my [...]

Boss not boss

Boss not boss

November 20, 2009

I stumbled upon site this from a comment on our Facebook post from Christopher. Not knowing who Christopher was at the moment I clicked the link I began to browse around the site and thought it had some great content! Then I stumbled on what looked like a photo of Hamilton (Harrison’s brother), and was [...]

Channel Four Down Vol.2 DVD

November 19, 2009

Here’s the trailer for this years Channel Four Down Dvd, which is basically all of their edits from 2009 on one disc. That last clip is great. Click HERE for more info.

Defgrip on Facebook

Defgrip on Facebook

November 19, 2009

We just setup a Defgrip Facebook page the other day… We are stoked to get our Facebook on and we just gave away a t-shirt to our 500th follower! People seemed pretty psyched, so we are going to give-a-way another shirt to our 1000 follower! Check us out on Facebook and keep your fingers crossed [...]

EMPIRE BMX IN COLORADO.

EMPIRE BMX IN COLORADO.

November 19, 2009

A few of the Empire dudes recently went on a filming trip to Colorado for the next Empire video. Joe Rich shot some photos on the trip and put some words together for you guys, click below to check that out. Thanks To Tom & the Empire crew.

Genius

Genius

November 18, 2009

This montage is always a favorite, but today I came across this incredible 1995 Letterman appearance in which Chris Farley displays incredible physical agility and does not break character for one second. Farley forever.

Cooper Brownlee Photography

Cooper Brownlee Photography

November 18, 2009

Australian photographer Cooper Brownlee just finished a new portfolio site that is filled with some amazing photos. Cooper is the man behind Focalpoint Magazine as well as the photographer and art director for Colony BMX. You can check out great interview with Cooper on the Dig site and keep reading to check out some of [...]

Flickr Friends

Flickr Friends

November 18, 2009

I was just spending some well needed time going through our new contacts list in Flickr and thought it would be rad to post some photos from our new contacts. There are a lot of amazing photographers out there, so by no means does this post include everyone we are stoked on, this is just [...]

Defgrip Purple Rain T-Shirt

November 17, 2009

A few years back we made the Purple Rain t-shirt. I think we made about 100 shirts and the other day, I came across some leftover sizes. We have 9 smalls, 1 medium, and 2 larges left and I just threw them into our online store! We printed the shirts on a standard All Style [...]

Bill Cosby on the Drums

November 17, 2009

I still think my favorite thing about Bill Cosby is hearing people do Bill Cosby impressions, but I was definitely stoked to watch this old interview with Bill Cosby on the Sony Stitt show talking about drumming… I was definitely crying by the end of this story… One of the cool parts about it, is [...]

Sunday! Tour – Episode 2

Sunday! Tour – Episode 2

November 16, 2009

Click below to check out the second part of the Sunday Swine Flu trip.

Childstore on House Of Commons

Childstore on House Of Commons

November 16, 2009

House Of Commons is a Swedish Selby like website that gives you a look inside peoples homes and work places. Recently House of Commons visited the Johan Fahlnaes of the Göteborg bike shop Childstore. With a mix of BMX, single speed bikes, and art supplies, Childstore looks like a really dope shop!

Ill Studio

Ill Studio

November 16, 2009

Ill Studio is a collective of 10 French creatives – photographers, designers, typographers, illustrators, motion designers – that all work together on a wide range of projects. I was drawn to them through their work with clothing company Six Pack and I’m really in love with all of their print and t-shirt designs.

Cameras Without Cables

Cameras Without Cables

November 16, 2009

Cameras With Out Cables is a website dedicated to collecting the work of BMX and skate photographers who shoot film. The end goal is to publish a book, but for now, they have a nice selection of film posted on their blog. If you shoot film, you should send some of your photos their way [...]

S&M “Fall Fiesta” Photogallery

S&M “Fall Fiesta” Photogallery

November 15, 2009

S&M had their Fall Fiesta party yesterday in Santa Ana, California. A bunch of team guys were on hand, there was Pinata and much more…. Click below to check out the photos.

Exactitudes

Exactitudes

November 14, 2009

Exactitudes is an amazing on-going photography series by photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. I actually posted on this project in September of 2005 when defgrip was still on a blogspot and I couldn’t figure out how to upload photos to go with the posts (haha). It’s cool because the old blogspot site is [...]

Chris Gray Design

Chris Gray Design

November 13, 2009

Chris Gray is a designer from Manchester, England how works under the name We Shall See. He has some great design and photography projects on his site and I’m really into his simple illustration style.

Tangents Art Show

Tangents Art Show

November 13, 2009

Our good friend Jeff Hamada from Booooooom is putting on an art show tonight with Lifetime Collective. The show will include photography and art from Erika Somogyi, Garry Trinh, Kenichi Hoshine, Ben Tour, Luke Ramsey, and Jennilee Marigomen and it’s going down in Vancouver tonight at 8pm! To go along with the show Jeff has [...]

Panamera

Panamera

November 12, 2009

My old roommate and good buddy Kevin McAvoy hipped me to these new Porsche commercials. They appear to be an attempt at preemptively addressing the critics who say it’s not a true Porsche… by closely associating the 4-door with the older rawer rear-engined 2-doors and their race heritage, rather than distancing it from them as [...]

Witness Nigel Sylvester.

November 12, 2009

Nigel Sylvester and 13thWitness teamed up to film this Day in the Life. Click below to check it out. Via – Hypebeast

Edwin

Edwin

November 12, 2009

A comment under the Chris Hill-Scott post reminded me of my favorite rider and one of the baddest video sections ever. Go to the Animal site and check out some Edwin DeLarosa photos as well as his video section from Animal All Day RIGHT HERE.

Sven @ Random

Sven @ Random

November 11, 2009
Q&A/GALLERY: CHRIS HILL-SCOTT

Q&A/GALLERY: CHRIS HILL-SCOTT

November 11, 2009

Click below to check out a Q&A with the UK’s Chris Hill-Scott, as well as some pics. Also, be sure to visit his site where he will be selling prints of his photos.