Thomas Prior – Tultepec

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Thomas Prior is probably one of my current favorite photographers the last few years or so. He always finds some unique topics to photograph and has a great eye to boot. This new project titled “Tultepec” covers the annual National Pyrotechnic Festival in Mexico. Amazing to say the least.

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Richard Gilligan – DIY

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I am absolutely psyched on this photo series by Richard Gilligan. “DIY” is a four year long documentary photo series on do it yourself skateparks and skatespots throughout Europe and the US. The focus is on the adaptation of existing and abandoned terrain to fit the uses of skaters in a modern environment. Since some/most of these spots in the series also pertain to BMX, I felt this is definitely worth a post. Hope you guys dig it. Gilligan also has a book published with the entire series over at 1980editions.com, which I’m definitely going to scoop up for my own collection.

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Richard Mosse : The Impossible Image

As if Richard Mosse’s documentary photo series “Infra” wasn’t amazing enough, he now has a new film premiering called “The Enclave”. Both of these projects are based on documenting the seamlessly endless state of war in the Congo using Kodak Aerochrome Infrared film, which is an out of production military grade infrared film that was used for reconaissance. “Infra” is visually stunning to look at and I can only hope for a chance to view “The Enclave” in person sometime in the future. Simply amazing!

Instagram: BKSTREETART

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BKSTREETART is one of my favorite accounts to follow on the ‘ol Instagram. The name says it all; street art in Brooklyn (and surrounding areas sometimes). Give them a FOLLOW if you’re into that sort of thing.

Flashback Friday: Artist Q&A’s

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Over the years, we’ve gotten our hands on some great artists and accumulated some interesting Q&A’s. I am a fan of all these dudes, which is why I reached out to them in the first place. These guys are still doing great stuff and you should recognize some of these names by now if you follow the art world. If not, click below to check out the interviews. They are are all worth revisiting.

Andrew Holder

Mark Weaver

Jon Contino

Frank Chimero

Wilmer Murillo

Grotesk

Zines, Zines, Zines.

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Lot’s of creative and interesting people from the BMX-osphere often send their zines my way. It’s a nice gesture and it’s always cool to flip through these things and get a glimpse into certain scenes or a particular persons thoughts, ramblings, doodles etc… These things are generally labors of love and you can tell.

Below are some zines that I’ve gotten recently, and not so recently. I would easily recommend checking any of these out, should you be into this sort of thing. Any support for these projects is always appreciated I’m sure.

Union Press – More of a newspaper than a zine, but falls in line with the category. Well done and large posters to be had.

Noumenal Room – From the mind of DBZ. The description on his site says it all. Interesting reads and visuals.

Yo Sick – From Prashant Gopal. Full of photos, illustrations and plenty of stuff to keep your eyeballs occupied.

The Pandect – From Cory Beal. Cool interviews, photos and nice layout.

We posted on Adam Roye’s goodies previously, and check out Ryan Connelly’s ICE COLD (which can be viewed online).

Thanks dudes!

 

Hey Zeus Publishing

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Satirical? Yes. Enigmatic? Certainly. Hilarious? Always. Keep an eye on the Hey Zeus blog for constant entertainment and hit up their web store to get your hands on goods like the amazing Holy Trinity button shown above along with some other goods–a couple of my favorites are featured after the jump.

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Surfers Underwater

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Seen a post of Lucia Griggi’s underwater surf photos over at Huh Magazine and thought they were rad enough to share. They surely got me excited for Chicago summer and shooting with my underwater film camera. Although, the water in Lake Michigan isn’t quite as clear as this.

Check out some more of her little interview and images here.

The Many Lives of William Klein

Of course for my first post I pick a lengthy documentary, but if you have time to sit back and watch this, you won’t be disappointed. William Klein is probably one of the most influential street photographers as well as one of the great early fashion photographers of the 20th century.  He’s one bad ass old man to boot….he does whatever he wants.  The stories this man must have!!!

The History of The DIG Logo

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The DIG logo. Anyone who has eyeballed the magazine over the years is familiar with it. A chainring and interlocking hands; it’s pretty classic in my opinion.

Out of nowhere, I glanced at the logo one day (after looking at it for many many years) and all these questions popped into my head about it. What did I do next? You guessed it… harassed DIG Magazine’s Editor-in-Cheif Will Smyth about it.

Click below to learn about the history of the DIG logo.

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On My Desktop

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My desktop is a mess and it’s time for another dump of images. Keep reading to check out all the random stuff I’ve saved over the past month or so.

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99 Problems But a Stitch Ain’t One

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What’s tougher than your favorite rap lyric presented as stitchwork? Nothing.

Check out what Davey Gravy is up to.

Radical Rick

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Maaaaaan, I always thought it would be sweet to interview the dude who did the Radical Rick comics one day. Jeremy Pavia got it done.

Hit up The Union to check out Jeremy’s interview with Damian Fulton.

By The Numbers: Michael Sieben

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We’ve written down 100 random questions and assorted topics, all of which are unbeknownst to our victims. We will be asking people to pick 20 random numbers from 1-100 and then supplying them with those questions/topics to answer. Who knows what might come up!?!?!

Up next, we have artist Michael Sieben. Michael’s latest project (he was commissioned to illustrate the Wizard of OZ) is available now, so be sure to check that out.

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Baphomet

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If you’re a fan of Chase Hawk, art or Satan in general… this 15X19 print is for you. Hit up Cult for more info.

Ironman Reissued

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Ghostface Killah’s Ironman, which was his first solo album released in 1996 is being rereleased by Get On Down. This album is a classic and has left an enormous footprint on hip hop.

Click below for more about the package.

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DEEZ NUTS

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Shout out to Mark Drew for pairing Peanuts together with some rap shit. Made me laugh.

Hit up BUZZFEED for some pics from his DEEZ NUTS show in OZ. DEEZ NUTS is such a good name for this show (and his zine).

Makers: Beam & Anchor

Beam & Anchor is a storefront and workshop that consists of several creative people under one roof. This video was shot by Shwood Eyewear to showcase some of the talents located in Portland, Oregon.

Wallpaper: JEST

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The story behind this wallpaper is pretty crazy. JEST is a graffiti artist from NYC, who was also part of famed New York shop/brand Alife. I mainly followed him for his writing though. Back in the 90′s, I would drive around all over NYC shooting photos of graffiti.

Fast forward to 2012… I Instagram a set of my old graffiti photos, JEST being one of them (bottom left). I tagged JEST and he ended up commenting and asking for a scan of the pic, which I provided. In turn, I took a shot in the dark and asked him if he would be into hooking up a wallpaper for Defgrip, and he did.

So basically, I shot a film photo in the Bronx during the mid 90′s, Instagram’d it in 2012 and end being in contact with one of the artists. Crazy.

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WALLPAPER: Tom Grunwald

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This new DEFGRIP wallpaper comes to us from Tom Grunwald, whose name you might be familiar with. Check out his SITE and find your wallpaper size below.

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C100

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Our friends over at C100 have a new website up with a lot of great work. Check it out!

Wall Dogs of New York

If you’ve been through NYC (or other major cities), you’ve definitely seen stuff from Colossal Media. Large scale hand painted sweetness.

It’s definitely worth checking out their work.

I laughed…

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Courtesy of Chris Piascik.

On My Desktop

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Desktop dump time… Lots of random stuff I’ve collected on the internet over the past month or so.

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