Nov 4, 2011
just refreshed the Thrasher webstore
...still have a buglist hundreds of items long, but I'm just going to rename that 'wish list' for now and go celebrate.
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Moldova
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Moldova
seen from Malaysia
seen from Ireland
seen from Bangladesh
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Moldova
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
just refreshed the Thrasher webstore
...still have a buglist hundreds of items long, but I'm just going to rename that 'wish list' for now and go celebrate.
thrasher skate rock skateboards? fuck. yes.
my first skateboard design...
('bout freakin' time...)
super-limited edition of only 100...
based on the classic Grosso shape...
real screen-printing, not that crappy applique shit...
so stoked right now, what a great way to end the week!
cash money vagrancy.
this years' crop of golden tickets are rolling off the presses right now.
utilizing the variable data capabilities of the Kodak NexPress over at DRI allows us to place a unique alpha-numeric code on each card. pretty cool stuff...
It's usually a good kind of surprise when you stumble upon your work out in the wild, especially when that work is from a print ad you did over five years ago! Of the 100+ venture ads I art directed, somehow KDW picked out my favorite to feature on his blog.
This particular ad could not have been more last-minute, and it all came together first try. We didn't have any skate photos, just some random truck photographs. This wasn't even composited in Photoshop, I literally just duplicated the images in InDesign a few times, Tony V. wrote some copy, and we shipped it to press less than a half hour later.
Here's the ad archive for venture truck ads 2005-2011, I still can't believe I created over 200 ads for them during my stint with them from Nov 2003 through March 2011.
Wanna see the biggest ollie in the world? There's another full shot of just the cover in today's "sneak peek" at the new mag.
Facebook comment system on Thrasher seems to be working out well too. It's a 180-degree turn from the nastiness that used to run rampant thru the comments.
UPDATE: the sneak peek at the "biggest ollie ever" went viral, and brought a record number of unique visitors to thrashermagazine.com—a few weeks from now we should be able to see how well that translates into newsstand sales.
I haven't done much page layout of Thrasher mag since about 2006 when Dan Whiteley took over Art Direction duties, but I did get my hands a lil' dirty on the Phoenix Am article this month when he was out sick.
The first time you see a mag is always a treat.
Check out a sneak peek of the cover over on the Thrasher website.
Finally got my hands on a copy of Roger Gastman's opus, "The History Of American Graffiti" and was stoked to see the crew and I scored a mention in the Minneapolis section.
I had been asked to write a small bit about Milwaukee's scene in the 1980s a few years back, and then I totally forgot about the project until I saw this 400+ page block of paper on @Thrasher_Dan's desk. It's a beast of a book.
Watch the PBS news item about the book over on the Juxtapoz site, and buy it on Amazon if you can't find it locally.