Mad Visual

Click on the photo to see some of Chung's recent photos.

Seas

Justin has been making some more music as seas.

I don't know how to link to the music from tumblr so click on the picture below (also one of Justin's works) and have a listen.

Don't drop in.

Muff came to visit yesterday, we went to skate dev green for a bit. After 5 minutes Muff was hacking around cockmaster and young BMXer dropped in without looking. Luckily Muff came out of the collision okay.

Look where you're going kids.

Beers, boards and bros.

Skateboarding is a gendered hobby. There’s no doubt about it. A good example of this, aside from the number of boys and girls at any given session anywhere (allowing specifically gendered comps), is the regularity in which beer is connected to skateboards and skateboarding, in one way or another. Beer shaped skateboards, beer bottle graphics, tricks for beer and the documentation of beer drinking on tours all play their role in terms of symbolizing the connections between skateboarding and wider displays of hegemonic (traditional/everyday) masculinity. In this case, getting pissed. Fair enough, contemporary statistics concerning gendered binge drinking might reflect the contrary, but certainly historically, getting pissed is a ‘man thing’ – definitely with beer. More often than not, in the context of skateboarding and other sporting cultures, these connections are taken for granted. The gendered nature of certain pastimes is just assumed – and there’s a problematic but also somewhat wonderful simplicity in this (depending on your interpretation). Skateboarding good – Beer good. That’s not to say that the community is an exclusive one, or that there’s no place for girls in skateboarding. It would be great to see more girls on skateboards - But I’m bang into the connection between skateboarding and stupid man stuff. Beers, boards and bro’s and beers and beers.

DIY Block Build edit

Have a gander at Matt Hirsts new block edit down at the DIY

Snoop Devvy Dev

Black Wallets cameo appearences

First up Chris Wood is party guy #1 in Best Friends music video for Break My Neck.



Second up Ronny has a brief non-skate role in Troy Wests' gritty documentary 'A Week in the Life of Death Skateboards'