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Keep those 👀 peeled for something special coming our way courtesy of Benjamin Deberdt and Converse. “THIS INCREDIBLY SPECIAL AND LIMITED PRINTED PIECE WAS THE RESULT OF 2 CONS AMBASSADOR CREWS COMING TOGETHER IN PARIS AND SKATING THE STREETS TILL THE EARLY HOURS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY LEGENDARY PARISIAN SKATE PHOTOGRAPHER BENJAMIN DEBERDT THIS COLLABORATION HAS A REALLY UNIQUE AND AUTHENTIC FEEL TO IT, ONE THAT CAN ONLY BE FORGED ORGANICALLY. THE FUN THE GUYS HAD IS EVIDENT WITHIN THE IMAGERY. PICK UP A COPY IN YOUR LOCAL CORE SKATE DOOR FROM THE 10TH OF JUNE.” Greg Cuadrado - Bs Smith www.welcomeleeds.com @converse_cons #gregcuadrado #blobygregfanclub #benjamindeberdt #converse #converse_cons #welcomeskatestore

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The craft…

Just a little reminder that all my photos showing in Sydney this Thursday, for the Deeds Not Words 2 group show, are actual handmade analog prints, done by the great people at Atelier Publimod. I have been trusting them with my developing and printing for about twenty years, I think, and they are just good people doing an amazing work, with love…

If you are in Paris, and need some film photography expertise, this is the place to go, trust me…

Shown here is another great influence of mine, Ari Marcopoulos, shot in 2011, just by Saturdays, the SOHO based surfshop. I was lucky to bump into Ari during the period he was documenting the New York skateboard scene at the end of the 90's, and his constant spark and wit have always been a good quick in the butt for me.

Catching him up flaunting his rare and beloved Ricoh GR 21 was a must!

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She street…

Speaking of the Deeds, Not Words theme and cast, let me share these two frames of Cheryl Dunn, shot, I believe, in 2000, in front of the infamous Lower East Side bar extraordinaire, Max Fish. She was delivering her prints to a group show organized by painter, skater, and common friend, David Aron.

Memories get hazy, sometimes, so I should look for the flyer from that show to narrow it down. I am sure I have it somewhere in a box. Oh, the boxes…

But, getting back to Cheryl, she has always been an inspiration in the way she depicts life as it is, neither looking for the easy on the eye pretty nor the ugly for the sake of shocking. Just the story. At least, this is how I see it.

She recently came out with an audio-visual ode to her fellow street photographers, Everybody Sreet. And you should definitely give it a go.

See you out there, Cheryl. And thanks again.

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Deeds, not words…

It is such a great theme / title for a photographic exhibition, they had to do it twice! Don't miss it, Sydney locals!

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Deeds, Not Words A group photography exhibition about people doing shit, not talking shit. There are two kinds of people in the world, the do'ers and the gonna do'ers.  Benjamin Deberdt, Cheryl Dunn, Nolan Hall, Atiba Jefferson, Jeff Kutter, Thomas Robinson, Chris Shonting, Ed Templeton, Garry Trinh, Clint Woodside and Tobin Yelland.  Opening Thursday, January 29th continues until February 7th.  --- M.M.P.G Level 1, 499 Crown St Surry Hills (above Title Store) Sydney.

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So proud to be included in that crew…

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From Heading South to Far East

So, it seems that the video below was triggered by a postcard I sent to Takahiro Morita, a while ago, featuring this photo…

This one is from a couple years ago, at the end of a great week-end spent in Poitiers, for the Skate This Art group show / art and music event, held by local creative force Jonathan Alix back then… Good times, for sure, and a lot of great people were met, including Margeaux, here, or "Go-Mar" as she would most likely want to be called…

It is quite funny to write about how skateboarders are (while wishing they were) strange characters living an eccentric and free life, to finally meet the epitome of all that, only as a teenage girl that could most likely spit further than you or I. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Here she is, after a week-end of partying like it was 1999 all over again, skating, harvesting flea-markets, scaring the hell out of young children, discussing the fine art of zine making and more, about to start her trek back home. Needless to say the adults amongst us heading another direction were scared shitless for her, until she finally let us know she was home and safe.

Long live the weirdos in skateboarding.