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 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!

Continue reading The Mast Brothers →

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!

Continue reading David Rubin photography →

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…

Continue reading Disposed – Ten Pack pt. 1 →

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

Continue reading Jack Bool Disposable Photos →

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.

Continue reading Josef Hoflehner →

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.

Continue reading Photogallery: Faces of NASS →

Jordan from Say Mayday alerted me to this piece that VBS did on Mat Hoffman (BMX legend just in case you don’t know). It features Johnny Knoxville and a bunch of other rad people talking about Mat, as well as some riding.

WATCH THAT!

If you have not seen Mutiny’s Let’s Get Mystical video, shame on you and you are in luck!

They have gone ahead and put the video online for your viewing pleasure. I embedded the outro as that is always a fun part of the video for me, but if you click HERE, you can check out the rest.

Continue reading Josh Allsopp @ Random →

Earlier this year I spent three and a half weeks traveling through Shanghai, Xi’an, and Beijing in China. It was an amazing experience and I had a blast taking photos. Hit the gallery to see pixels!

Continue reading Photogallery: China 2010 →

The folks over at BMXMDB put together this rad interview with UK legend Scott Malyon. Get into it.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the contest and edit that Shadow has going on featuring Ben Hucke and Caleb Quankeck. The edit they put together is really good and all you have to do to enter the contest is sign up for the Shadow newsletter. The contest ends at the end of the day, so make sure to check it out and keep reading to watch the edit!

Continue reading Step Bros. →

John Thomson from Vancouver has been working on a full length DVD titled Blazeguard and recently uploaded an amazing trailer for the video. There are some serious riding clips in the trailer along with some really well shot lifestyle and b-roll stuff. Based off the quality of the trailers and the talent in the video, you know this DVD is going to be damn good!

Continue reading Blazeguard Trailer →

P.P.P… Check out Prop’s segment on Dean Dickinson’s Pool Party hosted by Jimmy Levan and make sure to re-visit Nuno’s photos from the session. That looked like such a fun day! (via TCU)

Continue reading Dean’s Pool Party in Props →

Subrosa just put up their back to school soft goods on the site. Check it all out HERE.

Any of you LA locals or visitors are probably familiar with the Silverlake Walker. You were guaranteed to see him any time you visited Silverlake. Sometimes I’d be taking someone new through the neighborhood, and I’d be telling them all about this guy, and then all of a sudden he would appear and walk right in front of us. Always shirtless, walking fast, always reading.

Just found out he died yesterday. People always thought he was crazy or homeless… but check out the video below the article! He was married and a retired doctor. Wow.

Here’s the article with video.

Most of Team Major Air is comprised of hardworking stiffs. The Gypsy Tour provides a vacation that we are able to take with a group of our best friends. Our plans were fairly simple. Figure out a place that we wanted to ride, and then get there and ride it. Where we stayed that night was never a primary concern. The trip took TMA from the depths of Long Island to the top of the Green Mountains. It was a pleasure to travel with these guys.

Continue reading Disposed: Team Major Air →

I was originally led to Laurent Nivalle via THIS Le Mans Classic gallery. I admittedly know nothing about Le Mans, but the photos are dope and look awesomely vintage

There are a bunch of rad series and photos tucked away on his site, so click HERE to check it out.

A while back I started instant-Netflicking the first season of Miami Vice. So many of the scenes were way too good to not take a blurry Blackberry photo of and post on Defgrip.

One of my favorite things about the show, and I’m stating the obvious, is how much attention is paid to the style details. Even the cars are exclusive. Mann could have easily thrown any old Mercedes in there and fooled 90% of the audience, but instead almost every Benz featured was an authentic AMG edition with black grille and Euro bumpers and super rare Penta wheels.

Continue reading Miami Vice gallery part 1 →

This is dope! My eyeballs are psyched.

Here’s a new Robbo edit celebrating his move to Mutiny Pro.

Filmed and edited by Rich Wilson. Niiiiiiice!