Transatlantic Schoph
In a move not seen since Phil Collins played Live Aid London and Philadelphia on THE SAME DAY, the ever-productive Schoph is exhibiting at two shows either side of the Atlantic simultaneously. Those in London can catch his new work at the Looking Sideways show at 71a Gallery in London’s Shoreditch (show runs 25th-28th April...
Mrs Wilberforce – Pick Your Nose
Anyone London-based (or bound) should go and check out the Parlour Skate Store next to Mile End Skatepark tomorrow night (Thursday the 29th November 2012), for the Pick Your Nose Jack evening billed as a having “Music, Beer & Fine Wines,” as well as the fantastic, London-based clothing/art label Mrs Wilberforce doing live printing. Expect...
Radshot Snowboard Posters
Snowboard photography website radshot.com has just started selling some of its award-winning shots online. Run by the highly respected editor of Whitelines Snowboard Magazine, Radshot has access to the world’s best photographers and chooses an incredibly diverse selection of snowboarding photography. Here’s what owner Ed Blomfield has to say about the move to selling prints:...
HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? – get a free Animal Chin download
The 1987 skateboard film The Search for Animal Chin is widely regarded as one of THE action sports milestones. Featuring the amazing skateboarding of the Powell Peralta team, including Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Tommy Guerrero as they go in search of the mythical Won Ton Animal Chinm rhe film is...
Boardmasters POSTER ART SurfBOARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
Regular readers will be aware of the contest we held at the 2012 Boardmasters surf event down in Newquay, but for those who need a quick re-fresh, here’s what we got up to: We took 1000 art packs with us, which included some Vans goodies, a blank poster (with guidelines on it) and four sticker...
Boardmasters 2012 Surfboard Art Winners
Boardmasters might be finished for 2012, but our art competition is yet to be put to bed. (If you want to know more about the art comp we did, please have a look here) Below then are our final ten artworks up for the top prize of the surfboard. Click through to our Facebook page...
Boardmasters Artwork Comp Guitar Winner
A huge thanks to Daisy Rendall whose inspired map of the world is the winner sticker art entry wins the Vans custom-made guitar from our Looking Sideways x Boardmasters 2012 artwork competition. Click here to see the remainder of the entries and to vote for the best of the weekend, which will win the Adrian...
MATT BROMLEY PROFILE
There’s something about London-based illustrator and skateboarder Matt Bromley‘s style that is immediately familiar. Bromley himself describes it as ‘non-linear’, and says that old children’s books are one of his main influences: a concept that’s easy to understand when looking at the simple, fun characters that populate his work, and his deliberate use of only...
LOOKING SIDEWAYS @ BOARDMASTERS 2012
ARE YOU IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND EARLY AUGUST? If so, we’re organising a public art exhibition on Fistral Beach in Newquay as part of the 2012 Relentless Energy Drink Boardmasters in association with Vans. The exhibition will take place between 8th and 12th of August 2012, and will feature unique large scale works by our favourite...
The Five Most Popular Boardsport Artist Tattoos
As the Burning Ink shows prove, the board sports and tattoo world’s go way back. After all, it was the surfing polynesians who introduced the western world to the concept of body art and the word “tattoo” itself. A Jim Phillips “Screaming Hand” tattoo before and after colour, as seen on Skull and Bones As...
Kim Rosen Illustrated Surf Board
Kim Rosen is an illustrator from Northampton, Massachusetts whose work regularly appears in magazines such as TIME, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. She has also create three surfboard designs, which hang in various shops and galleries around the US. Her agent Jennifer Vaughn reckons they’re currently “being displayed in Soho-NYC, Deerfield-FL, Panama-Canada, Limeridge-Canada,...
“Depths & Beyond”: Karlee Mackie at AR4T
Karlee Anne Louise Mackie (KALM for short) is a pro surfer and artist from Australia, whose show “Depths and Beyond” runs from June 30th 2012 through to July 28th 2012 at the AR4T Gallery in Laguna Beach, California. The British-based singer Edei is playing on the opening night (Saturday 30th June) with the doors opening...