Skateboard Art Helps Kids in Small Texas Town Find Their Inner Weird

Left to right: Andy Vastaugh, Delicious Design League.

Click on over to Collectors Weekly for a cool story on these skateboards, to see some others, and what they're doing for kids in the tiny town of Taylor, TX.

Left to right: Will Johnson, Panhandle Slim, Tim Kerr.

Left to right: Matt Groening, Paul Imagine, Rob Jones.

Herb Neumann RIP

Movie of the Week: I Was A Skate Rat (2014)

Here's a beautiful little short film on being a skateboarder. I love to see these children fly. What a sight. Thanks to Glen E. Friedman for the heads up.

New Book of Note: Glen E. Friedman's My Rules compendium now available

We love to see our favorites doing well, and one of our favorite photographers, Glen E. Friedman, has a new book out NOW! My Rules compiles the original My Rules zine from the early 80's, as well as his two books, Fuck You Heroes, and Fuck You Too. Plus, he says that 30% of the images have never been published before. This is gonna be a whopper of a book!

Rizzoli (the publisher) website 

Order My Rules on Amazon

Stupefied: The Glen E. Friedman Playlist

Contributors include:

TONY ALVA
IAN MacKAYE
ICE-T
LANCE MOUNTAIN
HENRY ROLLINS
LL COOL J
DUANE PETERS
KEITH MORRIS
CHUCK D.
RODNEY MULLEN
RAKIM ALLAH
JAY ADAMS
MILO AUKERMAN
DARRYL McDANIELS
ALAN “OLLIE” GELFAND
JELLO BIAFRA
RICK RUBIN
JEFF HO
TONY (CADENA) BRANDENBURG
ADAM HOROVITZ
GARY “DR. KNOW” MILLER

Introductions by

C.R. Stecyk III and Shepard Fairey

Afterwords by

Lisa Fancher and Gary Harris

Jay Adams RIP

Jay shot by Craig Stecyk

Jay Adams - RIP

Eric Swenson RIP

Eric Swenson - RIP

Daily Travels - If you see something...

Bond & Broadway NYC

Fuck You All in San Francisco

Glen E. Friedman photo exhibit (including Shepard Fairey work) in San Francisco, Saturday thru the end of the year.

Friday Ephemera

Bob Biniak RIP

Bob Biniak - RIP

Before:
(photo by Glen E. Friedman)

After:
(photo via Juice Magazine)

Hugh Holland Photography

Thanks to Maritza for sharing this...If you're a fan of Dogtown & Z Boys, Riding Giants, and good old SoCal surf-skate culture in general, these photos by photographer Hugh Holland are a must see.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming

Please indulge me. Due to the wonders of Facebook, I've been reunited with an old friend, Neil S. Haven't spoken to him in probably over 20 years or so. Anyway, back in the day, in high school probably between 1980-1983 or so, Neil & I were two of the few, the VERY few, who were into punk rock. The important part was that we were not ashamed to let others know this due to the way we dressed & cut our hair. These days its not a big deal at all, but back then there were issues. Anyway, we went through a lot together, bought records on clandestine trips to Greenwich Village, and discovered a lot of cool music, and a world outside of our metropolitan area suburban world.

Neil was into photography at an early age, and has been kind enough to start sharing some old images from those times. Here's a whole bunch...I hope there's more to come.

Void at CBGB:


Me in my Bunnymen overcoat:




Get off the cross, we need the wood:


WTF? Haircut 100 meets who knows?


Phil skating and in the rain:




Neil skating:


More skate shots by Neil:




Phil's old skate 'zine, Geek Attack:




Borscht in the basement:


I belong to the blank generation:


More Bunnymen...or maybe its Ultravox:

Skate!

Phil skateboarding while Herbie watches. In the woods on Marycrest, 1983.