Tuesday, January 31, 2012
New Shark Bait!
Just printed these tonight and they're ready for new homes, you can get one over here if you wish. Interviews from Chris Albright, local up and comer "Killa I", and rad Austin band The Fleshlights- plus tons of skating!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
a thousand ways to say it but it only means one thing...happy new year! can't believe the first month of the new year is almost over! time flies when you're having fun i suppose, here's some pics of the first weekend of the year we spent in memphis and little rock. ringing the new year in proper with smiles...
down by the river
shrunken city! best bowl in the south!
adam rocknrolls a janky curb at riverview
mike lasiter 50-50 shrunken city
nollie!
wrex!
lyndel roe
kanis krew!
looking forward to many more adventures through the new year with rad people in rad places... happy new year, sauce!!
down by the river
shrunken city! best bowl in the south!
adam rocknrolls a janky curb at riverview
mike lasiter 50-50 shrunken city
nollie!
wrex!
lyndel roe
kanis krew!
looking forward to many more adventures through the new year with rad people in rad places... happy new year, sauce!!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Kill Yr Parent's Garden #4
Kill Yr Parent's Garden is a 'zine made in Wonder Lake, Illinois by a young punker named
Macklin. I've already talked elsewhere about being smitten with the last issue and the tapes he puts out, but it seems these really do get better every issue. It's well written, brutally honest, and shares opinions some may keep bottled up. The article about coffee vs. alcohol being a personal favorite- are we supporting "the man" if we drink? It's all here and you can get yourself a copy here or just read what he's up to here or; send a couple dollars, stamps, or an old fashioned 'zine trade to Macklin/SSF Tapes, 3306 E. Lake Shore Dr.,
Wonder Lake, IL 60097. He's also running a 'zine distro now and if you'd like your 'zine to be prominent in the Chicagoland area inquire while there....
Up the punks,
Brad
Monday, January 23, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
I'm very happy to be here.
Spark City Flats from Danny Griffin/ Jon Rejent on Vimeo.
Thanks to Pod for letting me post this here and post more Okie/wherever stuff in the future. I didn't want to post this video because I have a part in it, but more because it's a super rad video that I happen to have a part in (with a cameo from my little buddy- Killa I). Basically I had a great time filming for this because I'd set boundaries for myself and it made things interesting- an all street part, all filmed in my little crappy town (Ponca City, OK). It was a personal goal and a way to tell the younger kids- "look I suck and I went and made a video part of just street skating, so you don't have to go to the park EVERY day."
If you enjoy the video and would like to have a physical copy, we're selling them for 3 bucks over here. Thanks for reading/watching and letting me post here.
-Brad
PS- The rest of the video was filmed in beautiful Albuquerque.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Cee-Knowledge aka "The Doodle Bug"
Digable Planets' Craig Irving Makes His Comeback as Cee-Knowledge
By Elliott Sharp
Photo by ryan strand
Craig Irving didn’t grab the mic until his freshman year of college at Howard University. There, he met a Philly kid named DJ Trouble Trev and they started a group called the O.S.A.G.E. (Out for Sex And Gettin’ Exotic) Crew, named after the West Philly street where the MOVE house was bombed in 1985.
After graduation, Irving returned home to Philly—where, as a teen in the ’80s, he’d tape Lady B’s rap radio shows—and met a like-minded MC named Ishmael Butler who was living with his grandmother near West Oak Lane and working at Reading Terminal. “We sat around my grandmother’s house [in Germantown] listening to music for hours,” says Irving, then a member of the Dread Poet’s Society.
Soon after, Irving became Doodlebug. Ishmael became Butterfly. Mary Ann Vieira, an MC who was Irving’s girlfriend at the time, became Ladybug. Digable Planets was born.
The standard Planets narrative glosses over Irving’s Philly connection. But the trio’s jazz and soul- powered debut, 1993’s Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), carries the torch of the city’s frequently under-appreciated black music history. Burning throughout it are the sounds of Philly jazz cats Lee Morgan and John Coltrane, the intergalactic Afrotopia of Sun Ra Arkestra, Kenneth Gamble’s and Leon Huff’s soul, and Philly’s thriving 1980s hip-hop spirit. Planets settled in New York City, and their tongue-twisting verses frequently referenced Brooklyn, but Doodlebug ensured that Philly blood flowed through the Insect Tribe’s veins.
Beating out Snoop Doggy Dogg & Dr. Dre, Arrested Development, Naughty By Nature and Cypress Hill, Planets won the 1993 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group for the hit song “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” If you’re alive right now, you know the hook.
Planets dropped Blowout Comb the next year. It was as smooth as Reachin’, more funky than jazzy, but significantly gloomier and overtly militant—it marked the death of slick and the rebirth of Huey Newton. It didn’t take off like Reachin’. Perhaps it was too politically radical at a time when gangster-rap was all the rage, or maybe it was the lack of a promotional push from Pendulum/Elektra, whose partnership deteriorated leading up to the release date. Citing “creative differences,” Planets split in 1995.
“We went our separate ways,” says Irving. “I didn’t know what to do. I stopped making music, cut my dreads and considered getting a real job ... But then I started gettin’ that music feeling again.”
Now calling himself Cee-Knowledge (he’d done so at least as early as Blowout), Irving reappeared in Philly in the early 2000s. In 2001, he visited the Sun Ra house in Germantown for the first time, and collaborated with Marshall Allen and other Arkestra members on a 12-inch called Space Is The Place.
Picking up where Blowout left off, the tracks kicked ethereal vibes and live jazz-funk instrumentation over which Cee dropped knowledge about “space hustles” and saving planet Earth.
A surprise phone call in 2005 led to Planets’ first reunion, and dates in Europe and the U.S. followed, including sets at the Coachella and Lollapalooza music festivals. “I was shocked people remembered us,” Irving says. “Everyone normally jumps onto the next trend quick, but people were still hungry for our sound.” The demand was there, but Planets once again imploded after a backstage blowout at Red Bull’s Big Tune producer competition in 2008.
Back in his hometown of Seattle, Butterfly/Butler began making music as Shabazz Palaces. He signed with Sub Pop, and released Black Up last year. A heady, Afro-futurist collage, it was far-out and psychedelic—an experimental hip-hop album praised by both indie and hip-hop critics. A few months later, Cee-Knowledge also released his strongest post-Planets album yet, Futuristic Sci-Fi, which combined spaced-out experimentation and Golden Age swagger. Both albums had Planets written all over them.
Critics overlooked the way-underground Futuristic, but Black Up got Planets buzzing again in the press. The Internet exploded at the close of 2011 with rumors that Planets were uniting for a new studio album. While talks are underway, nothing’s confirmed. “I’m down, no doubt,” says Irving about another reunion. “Planets was the best time of my life, but a gift and a curse. As a musician, I wanna spread my wings and not always be stuck as ‘that Digable Planets dude.’ I wanna try new things and experiment.”
It’s uncertain whether a Planets tour and new album will transpire, but Irving’s definitely back, and his live hip-hop group, the Cosmic Funk Orchestra, is almost finished recording their debut album.
“I’m trying to get my foothold back on the Philly scene again,” he says. “The 215 makes me who I am. I’ve lived in a few places, but no matter where I was, Philly was always in me. I took Philly everywhere I went. My music’s always been rooted here.”
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By Elliott Sharp
Photo by ryan strand
Craig Irving didn’t grab the mic until his freshman year of college at Howard University. There, he met a Philly kid named DJ Trouble Trev and they started a group called the O.S.A.G.E. (Out for Sex And Gettin’ Exotic) Crew, named after the West Philly street where the MOVE house was bombed in 1985.
After graduation, Irving returned home to Philly—where, as a teen in the ’80s, he’d tape Lady B’s rap radio shows—and met a like-minded MC named Ishmael Butler who was living with his grandmother near West Oak Lane and working at Reading Terminal. “We sat around my grandmother’s house [in Germantown] listening to music for hours,” says Irving, then a member of the Dread Poet’s Society.
Soon after, Irving became Doodlebug. Ishmael became Butterfly. Mary Ann Vieira, an MC who was Irving’s girlfriend at the time, became Ladybug. Digable Planets was born.
The standard Planets narrative glosses over Irving’s Philly connection. But the trio’s jazz and soul- powered debut, 1993’s Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), carries the torch of the city’s frequently under-appreciated black music history. Burning throughout it are the sounds of Philly jazz cats Lee Morgan and John Coltrane, the intergalactic Afrotopia of Sun Ra Arkestra, Kenneth Gamble’s and Leon Huff’s soul, and Philly’s thriving 1980s hip-hop spirit. Planets settled in New York City, and their tongue-twisting verses frequently referenced Brooklyn, but Doodlebug ensured that Philly blood flowed through the Insect Tribe’s veins.
Beating out Snoop Doggy Dogg & Dr. Dre, Arrested Development, Naughty By Nature and Cypress Hill, Planets won the 1993 Grammy for Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group for the hit song “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat).” If you’re alive right now, you know the hook.
Planets dropped Blowout Comb the next year. It was as smooth as Reachin’, more funky than jazzy, but significantly gloomier and overtly militant—it marked the death of slick and the rebirth of Huey Newton. It didn’t take off like Reachin’. Perhaps it was too politically radical at a time when gangster-rap was all the rage, or maybe it was the lack of a promotional push from Pendulum/Elektra, whose partnership deteriorated leading up to the release date. Citing “creative differences,” Planets split in 1995.
“We went our separate ways,” says Irving. “I didn’t know what to do. I stopped making music, cut my dreads and considered getting a real job ... But then I started gettin’ that music feeling again.”
Now calling himself Cee-Knowledge (he’d done so at least as early as Blowout), Irving reappeared in Philly in the early 2000s. In 2001, he visited the Sun Ra house in Germantown for the first time, and collaborated with Marshall Allen and other Arkestra members on a 12-inch called Space Is The Place.
Picking up where Blowout left off, the tracks kicked ethereal vibes and live jazz-funk instrumentation over which Cee dropped knowledge about “space hustles” and saving planet Earth.
A surprise phone call in 2005 led to Planets’ first reunion, and dates in Europe and the U.S. followed, including sets at the Coachella and Lollapalooza music festivals. “I was shocked people remembered us,” Irving says. “Everyone normally jumps onto the next trend quick, but people were still hungry for our sound.” The demand was there, but Planets once again imploded after a backstage blowout at Red Bull’s Big Tune producer competition in 2008.
Back in his hometown of Seattle, Butterfly/Butler began making music as Shabazz Palaces. He signed with Sub Pop, and released Black Up last year. A heady, Afro-futurist collage, it was far-out and psychedelic—an experimental hip-hop album praised by both indie and hip-hop critics. A few months later, Cee-Knowledge also released his strongest post-Planets album yet, Futuristic Sci-Fi, which combined spaced-out experimentation and Golden Age swagger. Both albums had Planets written all over them.
Critics overlooked the way-underground Futuristic, but Black Up got Planets buzzing again in the press. The Internet exploded at the close of 2011 with rumors that Planets were uniting for a new studio album. While talks are underway, nothing’s confirmed. “I’m down, no doubt,” says Irving about another reunion. “Planets was the best time of my life, but a gift and a curse. As a musician, I wanna spread my wings and not always be stuck as ‘that Digable Planets dude.’ I wanna try new things and experiment.”
It’s uncertain whether a Planets tour and new album will transpire, but Irving’s definitely back, and his live hip-hop group, the Cosmic Funk Orchestra, is almost finished recording their debut album.
“I’m trying to get my foothold back on the Philly scene again,” he says. “The 215 makes me who I am. I’ve lived in a few places, but no matter where I was, Philly was always in me. I took Philly everywhere I went. My music’s always been rooted here.”
Read more
Sunday, January 8, 2012
brick strait.........
so my good friend and fellow dirtbag b.j. often makes the journey one and a half hours north from seattle to bellingham to chill, skate, and party. Just last week he, jihad and alex made the trip just to skate a indoor mini for a couple hours. good men they are. Well b.j. rips (except when hes hungover) and chances are if your from the northwest you have rolled around with him either here or there. whatever. heres a edit i filmed of him one day this fall at the college campus in bellingham. a skateboard and a friend. what else is there?
and a little more bellingham with the crew on a fall day with seamus o' connor, cam barrett, and the gingerturd.
and a little more bellingham with the crew on a fall day with seamus o' connor, cam barrett, and the gingerturd.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Skate or Die
Sometimes skating just doesn't involve the use of your board but rather the will to shred by any means necessary. Even if it means taking a trip down memory lane via use of classic video games. I remember back in Jr High putting my quarter up on the classic 720 arcade game and patiently awaiting my turn to shred at the local bowling alley. The sessions were often crowded with the local jean jacket wearing Hessians from my apartment complex who wanted nothing more than to smoke hella cigs and shred their way into the "Skate City Hall of Fame"
Fast forward 26years (from 1986) and I've found one of the many perfect ways to deal with a rained out session. A sick session of 720 located at "Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade" here in downtown Portland, Oregon. Sure you could get together with some homies and skate the local parking garage or head to the bridge and get it going there. But sometimes I just get the urge to haul ass through the perfect skateable cityscape spinning 720's, 1080's, Bonlesses and outrunning a swarm of angry Bees prompted by the voice from above "SKATE OR DIE" while racing for your life to the local skatepark in hopes to cash in a ticket to ride. Now this is no way to substitute for the real thing but sometimes it's just fun to get out there a drop a good 'ol fashioned quarter into a slot for some good cheap shredding fun while waiting for drier weather to appear in the forecast. Get some!
-Pod-
Fast forward 26years (from 1986) and I've found one of the many perfect ways to deal with a rained out session. A sick session of 720 located at "Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade" here in downtown Portland, Oregon. Sure you could get together with some homies and skate the local parking garage or head to the bridge and get it going there. But sometimes I just get the urge to haul ass through the perfect skateable cityscape spinning 720's, 1080's, Bonlesses and outrunning a swarm of angry Bees prompted by the voice from above "SKATE OR DIE" while racing for your life to the local skatepark in hopes to cash in a ticket to ride. Now this is no way to substitute for the real thing but sometimes it's just fun to get out there a drop a good 'ol fashioned quarter into a slot for some good cheap shredding fun while waiting for drier weather to appear in the forecast. Get some!
-Pod-
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
washington state......
has had better skate weather. its been either really cold and dry or really wet and warm. Dreaming of better skate days and a recent invite from POD to start posting on this site got my digging through the massive digital drawer in my smartbox, looking through the endless plethora of photos ive take that are sitting collecting digital dust. nice to have a place to put them beside my blawg. Anyways the troops are down but not out. just ready for a vaca. More photos to come from our little nook up northwest.
Cam Barrett, Ryan Willams, Chris Devereaux and The Gingerturd in Bellingham and Seattle, WA.
i broke my collarbone. couldn't skate. so i'd drink beer at home and mix up bags of crete, drive em down the street from my house and do what i could all gimpy. the result was this little tranny.
Cam Barrett, Ryan Willams, Chris Devereaux and The Gingerturd in Bellingham and Seattle, WA.
i broke my collarbone. couldn't skate. so i'd drink beer at home and mix up bags of crete, drive em down the street from my house and do what i could all gimpy. the result was this little tranny.
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