This project is open to anyone in any country: skateboarders, non-skateboarders, art students, cheerleaders, world leaders, gas station attendants, hobbits, anyone excited to create!

Here’s what you gotta do:

1. Locate some building materials. Keep in mind your skateboard can be functional or totally non-functional. This means you could use wood, but you could also use pancakes, or human hair!
2. Build a skateboard out of your materials.
3. Snap a photo of your amazing creation. If it is ride-able, shoot a video of yourself riding it! (Jump to the :30 mark of this amazing video to see an electric guitar turned into a skateboard!!!)
4. E-mail your photo and/or a youtube link to: submit@booooooom.com with “Hack Job” in the subject line.
5. High-five yourself.

There will be an online gallery, and as a little bonus, Converse will give away shoes to the 5 most creative submissions!

Deadline for submissions: September 10th 2010.

For more information, please click here.

Q: Can you tell us a bit about your childhood?
I was a lot shorter and I was convinced that adults were actually smart. Boy was I wrong.

Q: Where do you live?
Philadelphia PA…for now.

Q: Did you go to art school?
Yes, a couple of times, until it stuck. 

Q: How long does it take to create one of your large pieces?
Generally two weeks to a month, it’s a fairly labour intensive process.

Q: Can you tell us briefly about your working method?
2x4s and framing nails for the skeleton. CDX and finishing nails for the sinew and muscle. Birch faced luan and pin nails make the skin and hair 

Q: What materials do you use in your work?Wood, Paint, Nails.

Q: Where do you source your materials?
Lumber yard, Art Supply Store, Hardware Store 

Q: What are your main influences and inspirations?
My main influences are anything that celebrates the innate goodness and unlimited potential of the human monkey. We are the universe trying to figure itself out.

Q: Did you always want to be an artist?
I always wanted to create. I really became an artist by default; I just couldn’t do anything else. 

Q: 3 things that make you smile?Trans Humanism, Vintage Motorcycles, The Paradox of the Absurd.

Q: 3 things that don’t?
Anti-intellectualism, Religion, Hot Pockets. 

Q: I hear you have a piece in the ‘Art from the New World’ show in Bristol, can we get a sneak peak at your submission for the show?
Sure. (see below)

Q: What do you do to take time out?Drink to excess. 

Q: Can you name a few of your favourite artists, dead or alive ?
Basil Wolverton, Jon Carpenter, Ron van der Ende.

Q: If you weren’t an artist what would you do?Walk up to mountains and chop em down with the edge of my hand. 

Q: Most important political issue for you?
Corporate personhood.

Q: Do you collect art?
No, it’s very expensive. 

Q: Do you have any hidden talents we don’t know about?I’m really good at woodworking.

Q: 3 things you couldn’t be without?
Mindfulness, Table Saw, T-n-T.. & K. 

Q: Any plans for the future in work or life?
Fulfillment through saw dust. 

Thanks AJ, Richard and Chippy

Source: Juxtapoz

Sunset Season is my first solo show, and it is basically a culmination of all the different ways I make pictures. I have been so busy- there are 30 + mixed media pieces featured, all made very recently. The most prevalent themes are expansion of the mind and the work is really meant to uplift using an aesthetic that is pretty psychedelic with a lot of vintage sources, taken from magazines and books printed in the 60’s and 70’s.

2. What mediums have you been working with for this exhibition?

There are collages, watercolor paintings, and mixed media pieces that incorporate paint, collage, pen, pencil, and vellum.

3. How do you come up with the concepts for some of your work?

A lot of these pieces are loosely based on the psychedelic experience, there are a lot images of huge explosions of images coming out of heads, simulating what it feels like to “blow your mind.”

Basically I have been fascinated with the whole Haight-Ashbury love revolution that Ken Kesey and the Merry Pransksters helped develop through the use of LSD and pretty much destroying the status quo of the 1950’s version of reality. An interest in Eastern religion was sparked in the same time period, and a lot of ideas of the Tao Te Ching and Zen Buddhism are incorporated into my work. The fluidity of nature, the every changing patterns of matter, can be perceived through spiritual means such as yoga and meditation, then all of a sudden there was this new alchemy of psychedelics that have always been around in some form; but I think that time period was really pivotal in American culture because it was such a creative blast of energy.
I was really into Jack Kerouac and the Beatnik writers, and I loved how Neal Cassady was somehow part of both movements. I love to read so a lot of visual ideas are taken from books in a way, I interested in really far out channeled texts, Buddhism, 2012 speculations and basically entertain some very wild ideas about reality and try to understand what the heck is going on.

4. Are there any artist that currently inspire your works?

The artists that have been really inspiring me lately are Jeffrey Decoster, Josh Cochran, Cody Hudson, Misaki Kuwai, Leanord Baskin, Barry Blitt, Joe Ciardello, Sam Weber, Zach Gibson, Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Mike Perry, Damien Correl, and Eduardo Recife.

5. Are there any rituals that you practice while working, such as listening to music drinking coffee etc.?

Music is a huge part of the process, it is basically the soundtrack to what is happening.
A couple albums that have been on steady loop are Ariel Pink’s Before Today, Dice Raw’s new mixtape Dice Dilla Pregunta (which I happened to do the cover for), Broken Social Scene’s Forgiveness Rock Record, and the new Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma. Another ritual would be worshipping the sun from roof before getting started, and concentrating my huge mandala in my studio that was handcarved by one my best friends, Chad Lassin. You know, I’ll light a stick of Nag Champa and get irie.

6.Do you have any vices?

My only vice is double sided tape.

7. Where are your originally from and what brings you to Philly?

I am originally from South Florida, and moved to PA when I was 10. I went to Tyler School of Art which was not exactly in the city but close enough to become involved with the scene here.
I moved to Philly after I met Rick Friedrich and Fabian Thompson AKA Akilles; started to record music with them , and then moved in to the Pork Fried Mansion. I am here to spread light.

9. What comes to mind when you hear the word “JAWN”

Like jawnie jawn? Jawndice.

10. What are your words to live by?

There is a phrase collaged on my desk that I reference at times of uncertainty.
“ Do your work and step back, the only path to serenity.”

Designed by Kevin Angeloni, student from Switzerland. “ Another way of seeing the gray pencil that everyone knows and is an indispensable tool for all creatives. The pencil is contained in a thin glass cylinder topped with a cork. Everything is placed in a plexiglass holder. ” (via Lovely Package)

Check out  Jana Jelovac, a talented illustrator/graphic designer, from Belgrade, Serbia

Source: Sweet-Station

Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo.

Talented illustrator based in London, Coco’s portfolio combines traditional painting and drawing processes with digital techniques for the final imagery.

Source: Sweet Station

Augustine Kofie is an ultimate draftsman. His geometric, almost scientifically rendered, works fill hundreds of sketchbooks and he discusses his work in a great new video called The Quality of Light.

TQOL “Augustine Kofie” from The Qualities of Light on Vimeo.

Source: Juxtapoz

Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

Nokta (Dot) is an abstract film project which is an improvisation of organic pieces while considering themes like power, chance and luck.
I also wanted a perspective that can be subjectified by
viewers.

AIR MUSIC VIDEO SING SANG SUNG from MATHEMATIC SAS on Vimeo.

It’s widely known Mike Giant is an avid bike rider, so it makes sense he’d collaborated with Cannondale to produce this one-of-a-kind Cannondale x Mike Giant Graffiti Bike. It is available now for bidding via eBay to support the Bahati Foundation.

The Bahati Foundation was founded in 2009 by the 2008 National Pro Criterium Champion and eight-time national champion, Rahasan Bahati and is focused on empowering inner-city youth through cycling, education, and music.

The Cannondale x Mike Giant Graffiti Bike features urban-inspired aesthetics provided by Mike Giant, and is a Cannondale SuperSix HI MOD frame/fork, 54cm, with Shimano Di2 drive train, custom Shimano Dura Ace wheels, PRO Vibe carbon bars, stem & set post, Fizik Aliante saddle, and Continental Grand Prix 4000 tires, just like the Bahati Team issue bikes.

The bike will be awarded to its new owner on the final day of the AMGEN Tour of California, May 23, 2010. The AMGEN Tour of California is the largest cycling event in America, and is a Tour de France-style cycling road race, presented by AEG, that challenges the world’s top professional cycling teams to compete along a demanding course from May 16-23, 2010.

100% of proceeds from the auction of the Cannondale X Mike Giant Graffiti Bike will go to The Bahati Foundation’s GIVEBACK programs which work to inspire youth through the sport of cycling.

More info at www.cannondale.com

and www.bahatifoundation.org

Bid on this bike on eBay here.

Source: Juxtapoz

Adding further case options for the iPad, Louis Vuitton unveil a couple of upcoming sleeve designs, specifically created for Apple’s latest hot shot gadget. Two colorways are seen, both implementing Louis Vuitton’s signature Monogram and monochrome Damier Graphite schemes. A release won’t take place until 2011, but an interesting development nevertheless.

Source: Hype Beast

Our Brothers and Sisters over at TrickGo are getting set to knock your socks off!

TrickGo this coming weekend is doing a two part Zine extravaganza.

From 12-4pm will the official zine yard sale where all zines/prints/paintings/and other art related paraphernalia will be on display and for sale. Along with that will be free treats and drinks, tunes, and a collaborative zine project where we will be providing paper & various drawing matters so that you can doodle away. They will later be putting it all together to make a unique zine that we will be selling/giving away for part two.

For part two: They’ll recommence for an the official Collaborative Zine Release Party. At this point They’ll have put all your drawings put together to make the official collaborative zine. From 7-10pm we’ll be dishing out brews, listening to more tunes, & will have everyone’s zines/artwork on display and still available for purchase throughout the evening. They are also asking for donations of work to give away for a raffle .

If you didn’t know, now you know!!!

click the pic for that ice water

ESPO’s project A Love Letter For You has come to an end, but the rooftops are still melting the snow. If you didn’t go see the ICY Store on 13th and Chestnut, you missed out on ESPO’s personal collection of  wickett history, and the crazy signage. And a few ill things from SACE (RIP)

And you can cop the book

Oh, and my shitty camera died while I was there. Thanx OREK

These are a few of my favorites:

This Made me smile. Using the insides of a windup tin toy for the body, John Larriva sculpted the head in polymer clay and painted it with acrylic and crafted the hair with wool.  LONG LIVE CONAN!

Check out this beautiful  library designed by Levitate Architects in London.