king for ironxhanger!

image: pinkviolence

above is a li'l something dating back from 1995. an ancient documentation archive of personal artworks from my secondary two art class' sketchbook. this one above, by the way, was drawn by king.

king might be doing some graphics and designs for ironxhanger in the near future, so keep on the look out for 'em.

peace.

a package from shirts and destroy in the mail!

i placed an order for a substance abuse skateboards "black metal hardware" t-shirt from shirts and destroy exactly a week ago and it arrived in the mail earlier today, as i was on my way heading up town.

it's a bloody fucking amazing fitting and looking t-shirt with metallic gold prints on both front and back!

fuckin' scored and it arrived fuckin' fast too! all the way from peabody, massachusetts! hells yeah!

the mailer.

the front print.

the back print.

photos: pinkviolence

check out substance abuse skateboards and shirts and destroy.

peace.

one time.

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photo: shahidil saleh

this is probably the only cleanest image of me jugglin' my plank, that i can find captured on a still camera in the longest time.

this was taken some time back, on 26th march 2009, of me doing a half cab heel flip to drop at a not so secret location. but the ledges at this particular spot are rough as fuck to be slid or ground on. it'll eat your planks like cookies, if you attempt to slide it and practically mince your trucks, if you grind them.

no matter how much you wax those bloody ledges, it'll still eat your skateboards up. f'n hell! this spot is only good for attempting jugglin' tricks to drops and manuals. but also beware, 'cause the ground is laid outta bricks. so, it's a gore fest, if you bail/spill and scrape your skin and flesh on it.

the big man's architects are seriously doing a marvelous job narrowing down and minimizing all the great spots and locations that are suitable for the art of street skating. there're always hassles one way or another when pushers find comfortable spots to session at. we seriously don't need any more skate parks, please. ecp, com'on... it should be rated as one of "the wonders of the world" for wanting to achieve great heights as an "international standard" skate park. what a waste of tax payers money for an overly ambitious and elaborated project. what we really need are hassle free real street spots.

i mean how bad can skateboards thrash on granite or marble ledges? they have placed stoppers on beautiful ledges and marble curbs and what's worse, some of these ledges have been ground down to act as blockers. some of these spots have been skated on for decades and have never been ground down as bad as how the park authorities' contractors did. these people are the ones who should get fined and summoned, not us. we are just tryin' to have some fun, mr. man.

a fine example is "memo". where skaters have been sesh'ing that spot since the early 80's. it's built outta granite blocks, weighing tons but it's still looks good as new, 'cept for the wax covered darkened areas. isn't drilling holes and locking in stoppers much more an "act of vandalism" to the monument? and let's not get started on cbd/raffles place. that place is almost baron now. we seem to be losing our playgrounds one at a time. it's a form of urban reconfiguration and that's sad news for us who have never caused any trouble, what so ever at these spots.

we are all public citizens, aren't we? so why are we not allowed to have fun in public spaces and places? and further more, we are tax paying citizens too! am i right? lets claim our streets back!

hammers, chisels and portable hand held power tools are our keys to unlock the doors. liberating one spot at a time.

- pinkviolence.

peace.

leisurator tm - a book on kinetic architecture.

leisurator proposes an interactive athletics surface. the design proposal by marco pastore, valentina sabatelli and nilufer kozikoglu, with the consultancy of arup and buro happold, for an adaptive, interactive, sport fields on the upper podium level of london's barbican centre combines off-line activities spaces with an on-line programmable, interface that allows users to schedule and plan events at the site. the book-lenght monograph documents all stages of the project design and development, including the combination of linked performative physical study models, prototypes, scripted IK digital models, and project drawings and images.

leisurator provides a reconfigurable field that engenders a variety of leisure, sport and improvisational activities. this field is programmed with a set of variable configurations, the transformations of which offer emergent conditions suggestive of alternate social organization and cultural dimensions of game-like activities. borrowing the urban sensibility of skateboarding culture, the design of the structure is informed by the series of temporal sessions, which by repetition over time will provide specific localization. the field structure will respond in two ways to the users. first, the kinetic mechanism will adapt to the existing programs considered as a timeline with environmental parameters. this pre-defines numerous configurations which are inscribed as latent performativities of the surface. secondly, the adjacencies and relationship in each of the configurations is to catalyze new way of using surfaces, walls and edges of the field, providing both defined boundaries for existing leisure activities (e.g., tennis, jogging, playground), surfaces for non-formalized games (e.g., skating, casual play, etc.), and zones which allow the occupation of space in a game-like manner.

taken from archinect.


check out leisurator tm.

peace.

burnside - locals only and no bmx!

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photo: pinkviolence

that article above was taken from one of ride bmx's magazine circa 2005. my scanner's broken, so i had to take a hi res' image of it instead. i hope it's clear enough to be read. please take some time to read and educate yourselves. thanks!

for skateboarders by skateboarders!

por vida!

peace.

free ironxhanger "skate rat" buttons!

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photo: pinkviolence

that's right folks, free! all you have to do, if you wanna cop one, is to send me a self addressed stamped envelope, if you're living in singapura. elsewhere in the world, all you have to do is send me 1usd to cover postage cost. email me here for my mailing address. limited to one per person, so don't be greedy, a'ight?

these buttons are limited to a hundred pieces and are for promotional purposes only, not for resale! i'll hunt you down if i were to find out that you resell them!

these button were produced courtesy of epidemic rexdistro buttons from singapura. thanks a lot epi! much appreciated bro' for giving me such a good deal for them!

support this independent / d.i.y folks!

check out epidemic rexdistro buttons.

peace.

updates: we're all out of "skate rat" buttons. please look out for new designs to come in da near future.

gore skate art record sleeves!

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photo: pinkviolence

the image above are some intense grindcore bands' seven inch records that has some siq ass gore skateboarding related artworks on their record sleeves.

the one on top with the blue vinyl record, is a split seven inch of total fucking destruction and agoraphobic nosebleed. the artworks for the sleeve cover was done by none other than florian bertmer, who has done some siq plank designs for creature skateboards and substance abuse skateboards, just to name a few.

the one on the bottom is 50/50's debut seven inch. a gulf coast skate gore band that was released on agromosh records & 625 thrash. the artworks for the cover sleeve was done by daniel "sawblade" shaw of mangled graphics, who has done tons of artworks for underground grindcore bands. simply siq!!!

i'm too fuckin' lazy to link up those names, so y'all just go google them yourselves, a'ight? okay, i'm done.

later.

peace.

freedom of space.

freedom of space is a very interesting film, by steve olpin and tim irvin, about skateboard culture in public space. it has a look at the street skaters and their social and political conflict with the urban environment and publicity.

the film comments on the modern functionality of urban landscape/ public space and tries to get to the bottom of skateboarding as critical redetermination of our habitat. well worth seeing!

- urbanartcore.

i'm gonna go push. enjoy!

skateistan movie trailer.

skateistan is afghanistan’s (and the world’s) first co-educational skateboarding school. the school engages growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth in afghanistan through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education, and personal empowerment programs. the students are selected from all of afghanistan’s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. they will develop skills in skateboarding, skateboarding instruction, healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts, and languages. the students themselves decide what they want to learn; we connect them with teachers who will enable them to develop the skills that they consider important. since skateistan has been active in kabul, we’ve seen that afghan youth of all ethnicities, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds love to skateboard. skateistan brings them together, equipping young men and women to lead their communities toward social change and development.

- skateistan.

check out skateistan.

screamin' inc.!

screamin' inc. is one of the last few remaining companies from the usa that still handscreen skateboards. they are based in fullerton, california and they have been screen printing skateboards since 1988. above is a short video showcasing chicken, explaining about the benefits of a screen printed boards compared to a heat transferred decks. enjoy!


check out screamin' inc.

magazines un-reviews.

my baby sister's back from melbourne, australia for three weeks for a short visit. the image below are some local aussie skateboarding magazines which she got me.

do reviews for them, you say? not any time soon and yes, i know i haven't been doing them lately.

reasons being: firstly, it's really time consuming and secondly, i am not getting paid to do so. unless, someone sends me magazines for reviewing, of course.

why not grab yo'selves those mags and do a personal review instead of relying on this crappy blog here? 'cause i know this personally, that most of you out there don't bother to purchase skateboarding magazines for yourselves. just saying...

photo: pinkviolence

from left:

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slam skateboarding - photo annual 2010 and slam skateboarding - january 2010 issue 163.

also the january 2010 issue of slam skateboarding comes with a free ashbury - part & parcel pilgrimage tour dvd, which was not available here in singapura. f'n bummer, right? i know... maybe, it was only available in down unda'? plus slam skateboarding mags sells for 14sgd++ here. i say, fuck that shit!

anyway, thanks baby sister and much appreciated! and don't forget to mail me more local aussie skateboarding magazines when you return back to melbourne, okay? hahaha!

peace.

under the bridge.

under the bridge, a diy skatepark video about the never-ending quest to keep pouring mud.

five epic skateparks, dozens of epic dudes.

quit bitching, start building.

featuring: burnside, washington st, bordertown, channel st and fdr.

with skaters: omar, hosoi, russo, rattray, drehobl, hewitt, heddings, navs, duncombe, hitz, mountain, red, monk, guzman, tnt, ox, and many more...

check out thrasher magazine.

skateboarding related book synopsises (part duex).

concrete to canvas: skateboarder's art by waterhouse & penhallow

since a graphic was first hand-drawn onto a board, the culture of skateboarding has been creative and visual, with by-products such as videos, stickers and magazines, board graphics and clothing. in the recent years more skateboarders than ever have turned to art as another outlet for their creativity, skateboard magazines have begun to include more features on artwork, and an increasing number of exhibitions focus on art produced by skateboarders. concrete to canvas brings together for the first time a wide variety of the finest work by these artist, whether on skate deck, canvas, computers, in sketchbooks, or on the streets.

many of the artists selected for inclusion have used the streets as their canvas, as well as exhibiting in galleries, often fusing spray paints and marker pens with oils and acrylics. as well as skateboarders, this book will appeal to a wider art and design audience of graffiti and street artists, illustrators and graphic designers. it opens with an introduction by the authors explaining the concept of the book and examining the link between art and skating. artists are featured alphabetically, with examples of their work accompanied by a brief commentary, including quotes from the artists discussing their work and its relationship with skateboarding.

vans: off the wall (stories of the sole from vans originals)

for more than twenty years, vans have helped turn pop culture inside out as the ultimate symbol of california cool. now, vans: off the wall tells the story of the community of artist, musicians, trendsetters, and action sports legends that inspired it all - as well as the iconic shoes keeping it all together. this personal, insider account features stunning photography and oral histories of the vans originals.

peace.