floor odoriser

is that the time?

2011-11-04T13:16:00.000-07:00

been a bit slack on the blog front, here's a good reason for a comeback, though: evan hecox at stolenspace

on until 27 november

going all city, part 2

2011-07-24T01:13:00.000-07:00

2011-05-08T04:11:00.001-07:00

barbara kruger is at spruth magers until may 21st

second time lucky

2011-04-08T12:03:00.000-07:00

after an aborted first attempt, finally got to see the dorothy cross show. definitely worth a look if you're in town

been a while

2011-04-07T13:16:00.000-07:00

does this make up for it?

steven binks 10/12/1975 - 9/2/2011

2011-02-10T02:59:00.000-08:00

steve binks is a skateboarder

steve binks is a great friend

steve binks loves his family

steve binks loves the north east

steve binks knows his hip hop

steve binks will welcome you into his home

steve binks will give you his time

steve binks will not hesitate to call you out if you do something daft

steve binks will be there for you if you're hurting and you need a shoulder to lean on. a shoulder that's held together with pins and love

steve binks does not deserve the past tense, and he will not get it from me

because steve binks is forever

fucking love you, man

i'll have a vanilla.....

2011-02-07T06:43:00.000-08:00

one of the vanilla bullshit things, you know, you, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte cappa thing, you know whatever you got, I don't care

two mornings

2011-01-05T23:03:00.001-08:00

consecutive morning shots from my window in NY, april 1996

there will be blood

2010-11-29T14:20:00.001-08:00

Time has stopped, the clock keeps going

2010-11-27T02:37:00.000-08:00

gallery vela

2010-11-25T23:50:00.000-08:00

sam has a new show here. go check it out

was a great night, and like all good ones it didn't go quite as expected: gallery beers and bro's turned into mexican food, some david blaine-level beer acquisition skills from toddiver, making new friends, haggling a deal for my coat (rest easy, PDL, no more clashes), wine in a silly hotel bar then back to the boozer i used to go to 20 years ago

only downer was seeing that the hosoi street mini chuckie d cut in half for the store doors had finally bit it after all these years. rest in pieces, board

gale cottage

2010-11-21T11:22:00.000-08:00

there was a mass migration to kingsand this weekend for rebecca and nick's wedding. bunch of us are sorting out wedding photos into one big photo hit so for now here's a peak at non-ceremony stuff

the whole area is amazing and the locals are lovely. i took the train down and went straight to the pub (via a bus and a ferry). couple smoking outside the pub didn't even blink when i walked up: "your mates are waiting for you" they said, and opened the door for me

fast-forward to post-pub at our cottage. danny managed to find a great place so we had an after-hours soiree, even though we had a wedding to go to the next day

quote of the evening: bishop "there's nick cave". rebecca: "WHERE?!!??...oh"

am sure everyone has a photo of danny like this. some are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. danny arrived carrying a shitty stick

pre-wedding hangover was taken care of with a stack of bacon and a bracing walk on the beach

kingsand is tiny so it was easy to learn the lay of the land and how things work quite quickly. every person you see on the street says "good morning!" and actually means it (a bit like minnesota). also, almost everyone seems to have a dog. i even saw a frenchie in the passenger seat of someone's car

like i said before there's a temporary wedding photo embargo going on so this is the best you're getting from me for now

tweak scene

2010-11-03T02:39:00.000-07:00

keeping it short, but sweet, the new tweaker is live! nice work, lads

first hand

2010-09-14T02:55:00.000-07:00

for those of you lucky enough to be able to view fuel tv, here's a little sneak peak from their new new first hand

fair play to USCK for bravely sampling all the culinary delights london has to offer

mellow tron

2010-09-02T00:35:00.000-07:00

one of those weird ones last night: ten minute walk from my house and i was able to see mad professor and black steel. due to weak promoting by the venue, there were only 30 people there, too. criminal

going all city (maybe)

2010-08-05T02:15:00.000-07:00

don't see these that often nowadays: a whole car

up

2010-07-06T09:01:00.000-07:00

nick has a new show here. go check it out

griffler: "this isn't going on some blog, is it?"

me: "only mine"

100% bromley

will: "i miss roof parties. why can't they have more?"

paul: "because it's always fucking raining"

make friends with 3D

2010-06-25T09:13:00.001-07:00

next blueprint video?

who needs dolly when you have WALL-E?

sunday sunday

2010-06-20T10:26:00.000-07:00

out walking sunday morning and i saw a laterd spot from yesteryear

and then who do i see but someone who definitely left his mark on the afore-mentioned spot BITD: mike manzoori! radness!

calm before the storm part one

calm before the storm deux

happy

2010-05-31T12:04:00.000-07:00

this store just popped up in east dulwich. it's awesome

i love it when people actually put a bit of effort into a store. i mean they sell paint, which is hardly the sexiest of products, but they do it so well you gotta love it. check them out

high fidelity

2010-04-17T02:30:00.000-07:00

something incredibly heart-warming about seeing a couple of hundred music nerds queueing up outside a store at 9 in the morning

support your local record store. even if you can't make it in person, buy from the website of an independent today. it'll give you a good feeling, i swear

much love, as always, to avalanche. they're good guys

kool thing

2010-04-14T08:53:00.000-07:00

another awesome show at the elms lester gallery: ed templeton's "drinking the kool aid"

mr templeton was a little tripped out when i gave him this to sign. didn't realise it was his first cover

just for one day

2010-04-11T10:52:00.001-07:00

been slacking on this, here's a few photos from 24 hours in berlin

this day was maybe the most art-intensive ever. we went to six galleries, walked everywhere (except to the last gallery) and all in a healthy berlin winter of -degrees during the day and up to -14 at night

and you know what? it was fucking awesome

champagne supernova

2010-04-09T09:07:00.001-07:00

bubbly richly deserved for blueprint's new vid "make friends with the colour blue". it's a fucking corker (no pun intended)

everyone kills it with a long-overdue curtains for baines

the lads are up in stockton-on-tees tonight hanging out with the mighty bingo. have a good one, boys!

open doors

2009-12-13T04:32:00.000-08:00

friday night was an open studio at absolute zero, two super-nice people who do the mini moderns range

they work out of a three-storey work/living space in camberwell. i had serious envy as the whole place was epically nice

whilst it would be awesome to get out of bed and walk downstairs to work, i'd have trouble leaving the sitting room if i had signed stanley donwood's to gaze at all day

it was a really nice evening. the term "artistic community' is so played out sometimes, especially when it's applied to hipster scenes where it seems it's more about being seen than actually doing work. here you had not only two superb people producing beautiful work, but supported by friends and colleagues who were just bloody lovely. everyone i met was chatty, friendly and completely un-wanky. it warmed the soul on a harsh winter's night

thanks guy!

good apples

2009-12-06T02:09:00.000-08:00

apple store had a q and a with spike jonze

moderator was.....

adam buxton

adam showed spike some youtube comments on the WTWTA trailer

it was a really good conversation. plus they showed a short film you could only previously get with mcsweeney's, so that was a result

funeral march

2009-12-06T01:55:00.000-08:00

the nice guys at chapter one have a new french show called Isolated Magick. it's fucking rad

good turn out on opening night

my favourite piece: the skull trooper

on another note of radness, check out french's november mix. it has added gorm so you can't argue with that

marls

2009-11-28T06:58:00.000-08:00

everybody's buddy marley marl has a show in slam's basement.

sir crack is all up in there

this photo makes it look like marls did all the hanging. nope, it was the eco-badger

gotta love a photo repping fairfields

another lazy gig post

2009-11-11T14:50:00.001-08:00

flaming lips at the troxy

broken face? er, no

2009-10-11T10:31:00.000-07:00

amazing gig friday night

only blip was a slight faux-pas by my good self
there is no short version i can tell of this story without it making no sense so here we go
20 years ago my friend went to a pixies show and broke his nose diving off the stage so he decided to re-create the moment
he disappeared for maybe 20 minutes and in the darkness i thought i saw him coming back so i asked "broken nose?". unfortunately it was not jim and the guy thought i was starting a fight. "i only want to go to the toilet" said the dude, hot-tailing it quick-fast. oops

killer show, though

clear as mud

2009-09-24T05:11:00.000-07:00

chuck b gave me my first proper job when i lost his camera on an errand

he couldn't be arsed to go to a trade show so sent me to take pictures of product, which i duly did, but on the way home i couldn't resist skating the high street kensington banks.

rookie error: someone stole my bag, but instead of stressing chuck kindly offered me a saturday job to pay him back. once i had, he offered me full-time employment and for that i will be eternally grateful

anyway, chuck is still fucking epic and today i walked into my house to discover this parcel

not enough space to recall every rad story about mr b (him and dave curry terrorising soho rooftops is a fave, though).

raising a glass to you tonight, holmes

23 years young

2009-08-01T06:50:00.000-07:00

slam city skates is 23 today. not bad going for any shop, let alone a skateboard one

over the years they've been nothing less than a fucking quality outfit. i still remember going into the portobello road store 23 years ago and being dissed by the guy behind the counter (someone called sunman or something) for being the cocky little shit i was

since then they've been rad on the regular for the london, uk and worldwide skatescene, hooking up some of my favourite skaters ever including curtis mccann, rob dukes, simon evans, ged wells, will bankhead and many, many others

here's to at least another 23!

blabage

2009-07-23T02:08:00.000-07:00

photographer par excellence mike blabac has a show running at the maverick gallery. get down there now to see some truly epic work

some quality heads turned up for the launch, like these two LSD warlords

sometimes you gotta take advantage of a situation, and if that means letting steve douglas punch you out, so be it

random epic quote: "not sure i ever fucked up six dudes at once. there was one time i went toe-to-toe with a golden gloves boxer. eddie reategui was there"

the book is nothing short of gorgeous, full of jaw-droppers with every turn of the page. the man himself was on hand to sign and generally be cool as fuck

dave was hyped

the dreaded £66.66 note

2009-06-25T13:47:00.000-07:00

you know the cabbie's bummed when you drop this bad boy on them

camel flu

2009-06-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

been laid-up with manflu the past 2 days. word of warning: whilst feeding zoo animals is epic, watch out for ones that leave your forearm covered in mad saliva

gazumped

2009-06-09T09:21:00.000-07:00

jake's alley totally beat me to this

spot the tanner

crowd control

2009-06-03T14:27:00.001-07:00

separated at birth?

2009-05-27T02:01:00.001-07:00

missy and keyboard cat. coincidence?

eye knows

2009-05-09T05:51:00.000-07:00

the term renaissance man is thrown about so willy-nilly that it's almost become a joke. paul gonella is no joke and he certainly qualifies as a renaissance man

the passion seeps out of his work, and with interest. take a peak at any or all of the following: monster network, quiet corners, skateboarding is, tweaker, forever circling, life of sundays

when you throw in the fact that he's a gentleman and a scholar and you might just want to hate him, except he's cool as fuck and his humour's seriously on point

it is a true privilege to call him my friend

paul's books "shoreline was just a ghost" and "pacifica" are available from the quiet corners store now, as well as zines and prints of equal epicness

proper english

2009-05-09T05:44:00.000-07:00

ron english is at the elms lester gallery until 6 june

a dreaded sunny day?

2009-05-03T02:45:00.001-07:00

When Is Waterboarding Ethical? - The Daily Beast

2009-04-30T00:08:00.001-07:00

When Is Waterboarding Ethical? - The Daily Beast

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i feel love

2009-04-26T07:55:00.000-07:00

all in the timing

2009-04-25T23:52:00.000-07:00

gotta love walking into a gig just as it starts

missed art brut who supported but there will be other nights, i'm, sure

(this video isn't mine, just wanted to show you the sexy/sinister mask karen o was rocking)

farnborough ground show

2009-04-25T05:58:00.000-07:00

gorm drove down to farnborough to meet up with paris' best ex-pat: chas one

chas quickly dropped his "vin rouge and cheese" regime for a slightly more english diet

rad curb/island combo

attempt at art-faggery fail. the wall at the end has been wall-ridden to fuck and looks rad

sessions like this warm the soul: buddies from forever and a day ago getting together at their local spot and having laughs. not trying to sound like a twerp but this is the glue that holds skateboarding together. total radness

CHARGE THE BOOSTERS TO ELECTRIFY CLOUDS

2009-04-14T03:44:00.001-07:00

savoy grill

2009-04-10T11:37:00.001-07:00

gorm runs a tight ship: he picked me up before 8am

collingwood was the destination. joining us were french and land-pirate arrgh

bummer: andy mac beat us to the long-distance jump

this didn't put jamie off getting his AVE on

remember: this a non-spoiler blog. tell your mum

french got his new trick on film

sticker repping (look closely, bing)

whybrow turned up. he got his vert on so the 7.5 stayed in the car. rest easy, kids: no ramps were burnt today

rain stopped play so we got a cheeky brunch. tarmac never tasted so good

two birds, one stone

2009-04-08T09:18:00.000-07:00

product plug for bingo and an excuse to run a picture of french? win/win

late show

2009-04-08T09:14:00.000-07:00

if you're a) quick and b) living in glasgow then you still have time to see toby paterson's latest show. it's at the modern institute until tomorrow!

jake vs chrome

2009-04-08T09:06:00.001-07:00

you can never go wrong with a cast like this

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2009-04-08T09:04:00.000-07:00

yet again, i've been sleeping bigtime on this shit. apols

no breadcrumbs

2009-03-07T04:35:00.000-08:00

was action so hyped on his meal he had to immediately blog it? or was he searching for an instrumental of "crack a bottle"? either way, wagas needs to get on point with their wi-fi

chars

2009-01-31T07:53:00.000-08:00

it's always nice getting a shout-out, even if you don't deserve it. cheers, san

clicky

linked up, bruv

2009-01-14T13:28:00.001-08:00

those nice chaps over at jake's alley linked me up. cheers, lads

don't call it a comeback....

2009-01-07T09:06:00.000-08:00

....it's been here for years

http://www.skateboardingis.com

skate date deux

2008-12-21T13:59:00.000-08:00

another day out with whitehead. he needed an assistant/wingman/co-pilot so i gladly obliged

using all the skills he learned from bones skatepark, ollie took it to the gonz gap and survived

ollie had competition today: passmore was king of the snappers

this spot was good and the owners had kindly applied a fresh coat of paint, ripe for removal

going old school, nick's not afraid to rock e-bay gold

next spot was a killer, super-secret passmore find. it takes jimmy boyes skill to find shit like this

clean-up duty-related injury

blurry overview shot that doesn't do it justice

no trick spoilers on this blog so you'll have to make do with a warm-up shot

one last pit-stop before bedtime. again my camera lets me down so take my word for it that it's sick

top work all round today, lads. cheers for putting up with the floor lurker

thy fearful symmetry

2008-12-18T00:24:00.000-08:00

so in a weird quirk, the first gig i went to this year was a re-arranged date and, last night, probably the last gig i'll see this year was another re-arranged date. and it was easily the best

the hold steady tore the roundhouse a new one. can't wait to see them again, although probably not in my prefered venue, which would be a nasty 200 person sweat-house. or fight club

the good old days

2008-12-07T22:49:00.000-08:00

got a call from whitehead to say he was in town for one day only. always down for meeting a morrissey-quoting northerner, so i volunteered to be his assistant for the day

first stop after meeting at euston was a rain-out

next spot, though, was a result

job done here. trick spoilers? AH-DOOOOOOOOOOOT

back to the blocks but they were in the shade so still an epic fail

all good, though. never a lack of spots in this city

sun went down fast so it was time for jenny

still time for one more spot:

on the way, we had a little fender-bender

funny thing was all day ollie kept apologising for keeping me standing around but i love days like this: watching people a million times more talented than me making everything look easy and having fun whilst doing so. you gotta love that

cheers for the day-out, mate. sort that move out

oh, and apologies for the bad directions

fingers crossed

2008-11-04T00:11:00.000-08:00

so we watch, and wait, and hope

a fine brew

2008-11-03T12:28:00.000-08:00

i've been sleeping on the blog but this woke me up: vetika is a new online store showcasing some of the finest artistic and photographic talent out there. check it out ASAP

Peace of mind? It's a piece of cake!

2008-09-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

london fashion week and an excellent collection by the fucking superb human beings at wildlife works

really good stuff from barry and neil, more than ably assisted by jen and the wonderful people at village press

top work all round

happy birthday

2008-08-26T09:06:00.001-07:00

tweaker is one year old! congrats fellas, and keep up the good work!

For thine is the kingdom

2008-08-14T15:20:00.000-07:00

the power, and the glory

emmet brown

2008-08-10T01:51:00.001-07:00

going back pre-wedding, john was kind enough to organise a pre-stag stag-do at the oval. good man

needless to say the "down-in-one shades" got caned

breakdown

2008-08-10T01:45:00.001-07:00

last weekend my buddies ruth and john got married and it was my pleasure to attend

it was a lovely day, but rather than intrude on their privacy, here's some photos of the breakdance battle at the reception between the two best men: lee vs merv

like i wasn't gonna put this one up

don't worry..........

2008-08-10T01:43:00.001-07:00

....i'm not going all "adbusters", i just liked this picture

strawberry daiquiris

2008-07-24T12:03:00.001-07:00

just got back from the BCN. here are some weak pano shots

i had two solid tour guides: optiks and the bow

this was bow-tang's cocktail spot. it was all going so well until the crazy, 50-something topless lady with an entirely sunburnt upper-body came along. talk about a buzz killer

i hardly took any photos this time around, which was weird seeing as i might not be back here for a while

many thanks to ollie, lucille, bowmaster general, david, luan and adri

oh, and lola, who was there in spirit

mr knight

2008-06-29T09:28:00.001-07:00

it was ollie's birthday saturday so after the flip demo we convened for beers on a boat. bro shot mandatory

dan'll fix it

2008-06-29T00:22:00.000-07:00

wired

2008-06-08T02:05:00.001-07:00

fuzzy dunlop

2008-06-04T11:32:00.000-07:00

iron man

2008-05-06T09:27:00.001-07:00

turn up the AC

2008-04-27T14:35:00.000-07:00

thursday night was the royal festival hall for the london screening of "part of the weekend never dies". soooooooooo good

toby

2008-04-25T08:51:00.000-07:00

toby shuall has a new show at slam. pop down there and check it out, his work is superb

mo frost

2008-04-06T05:23:00.000-07:00

the ever excellent elms lester gallery has a new show from phil frost. fuck yes

blog debut for the back of emma p's head!

to coincide with the shows, there is a new book. needless to say it's ill as fuck

the show runs until the 12th april so get down there

stick around

2008-03-17T06:07:00.001-07:00

sawyer special

2008-03-11T00:44:00.000-07:00

happy birthday jake!

diet of champions

2008-03-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

whilst the northerners went and forked out for poncey over-priced rice, we kept it real

tweaker X kingpin X sidewalk

2008-03-01T06:44:00.001-08:00

another oval taven pano shot. MN should get his name on a brass plate there or something

worthless

2008-02-23T11:59:00.000-08:00

it's a bit "jake's alley"-ish this update

marley marl

2008-02-10T01:57:00.000-08:00

self explanatory

2008-02-09T06:43:00.001-08:00

chin chin

2008-02-03T13:14:00.001-08:00

free show

2008-01-27T14:12:00.000-08:00

another day, another blast from the not-so-distant past. this is from a show i got a free ticket for which is always nice

your mum rang.......

2008-01-23T10:12:00.000-08:00

.......she said change your camera settings to "AF:B10G"

quoth

2008-01-20T08:43:00.000-08:00

"one of the chemical brothers asked me if i would like to fuck off soon" - jake

miss you

2008-01-15T09:53:00.000-08:00

fuck yes. cheers mate!

leviticus

2008-01-03T12:53:00.001-08:00

on a hillside

2008-01-02T10:21:00.000-08:00

happy new year

2008-01-01T02:02:00.001-08:00

clicky

2007-12-31T03:52:00.001-08:00

bookmarks are the new sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

keaton's xmas present

2007-12-31T03:51:00.001-08:00

cheers wriggler

lola

2007-12-30T12:28:00.001-08:00

skate city

2007-12-29T02:48:00.000-08:00

back in 1990 i worked at a shop in bromley with tony, the raddest body-popping rockabilly ever. and pretty much everyday, this dude would turn up after school and we'd talk shit, have a laugh and go skating after

steve, you fucking rule

sorry matt

2007-12-27T13:52:00.001-08:00

fogtown

2007-12-23T12:45:00.000-08:00

oops

2007-12-22T07:08:00.001-08:00

there is a light.......

2007-12-18T10:36:00.000-08:00

new phone, new toy

2007-12-17T22:48:00.001-08:00

pano in the house. oval tavern with gorm and MN friday night

shame about that last round.......

superman's pockets

2007-12-16T01:42:00.001-08:00

bakul was busy last week organising the new tim foster exhibition "superman's pockets". the view is now closed but you can check stuff out and order the book here

EDIT: it's open until today! go see it at the piazza, covent garden

cheers bakul!