Clipse Canadian Tour 2008

eS Footwear presents the Clipse across Canada

Catching Up with Sean Genovese

Transworld did an interview with etnies, 32, and RVCA rider Sean Genovese.

Coats for Kids Wrap Up

Thank you to everyone who contributed to Timebomb Trading and LRG's Coats For Kids campaign. We collected almost 250 coats, mittens, and beanies for kids, children, and teenagers with limited incomes in the Burnaby area!

Kevin Kelly

This is what Kevin Kelly has been up to

Aaron Rose's Digs

RVCA advocate Aaron Rose on The Selby.

Me like

Seen at the new Empire in Quebec

D-Mote & Ewok

RVCA artists D-Mote and Ewok 'got up' in the new Underworld in Montreal. More to come, but here's a teaser for now

Cut From A Different Cloth

Love the new Altamont sign we made for the new Empire shop on Quebec

ANP Quarterly vol.2, #2

Brendan Fowler catches up on 30+ years of Mark Flood, while Aaron Rose gets as much V. Vale. Naomi Harris shows us a lot of America and the swingers she met in the process. Shannon Ebner discusses politics, poetry and photography while cover stars Lizzie Bougatsos and Sadie Laska discuss the intersections of their band, I.U.D., and their separate studio art practices. We also get in touch with the Mega Words Store, Chris Johanson’s record label, Paperback, Wildness and more. We should be getting this soon.

Tiki Room

Riding that wave and showing the summer 09 Sole Tech footwear program all through Canada we thought that we would take a second and catch up with one of our favorite skate shops located right downtown Regina, Saskatchewan. Noel is always pushing the envelope and keeping it real in a smaller market…

Vp: How many years have you been in business and do you remember the first line that you every picked up from us?

N: The Tiki Room has been open since 1996, under the umbrella of World of Trout, which opened in 1992. I've been with WOT/Tiki since 1993. I've had this job longer than I had ever been in school. Whoa. Scary thought. We've been getting eS and emerica stuff from Timebomb since it first came out. I'm unsure of the date, but we carried Sheep shoes. That may help date things... late 90's anyway.

Vp: Your shop is killer!!! But at one time was there any killing going on???

N: Part of our building used to be a fur storage vault, but I am pretty sure the animals weren't killed on the premises (unless they were gopher skins). I personally kill it in our Saturday dice games... does that count?

Vp: I think that you carry every line that we distribute minus the snow goods. How do you keep it so sk8 core in a smaller market with out having to go into those other lifestyle categories (wake, rollerblade, laser tag)?....

N: We've been considering the laser tag thing, but...... at a brief point we had snowboards in the 90's. We carried skate/snow brands (Skull Skates, Shorty's, World) and I realized that I didn't know a damn thing about snow stuff. The overhead with snow stuff combined with my complete lack of knowledge of it solidified my choice to go skate only. I've been skating since the mid 80's, and consider myself a skate nerd, so keeping things pure is pretty important for me. When you're starting out, you think that you've gotta provide everything to everyone, but you're better off focusing on what you know, not grasping for dollars from everywhere you can.

Vp: Other than Freshjive and eS, what other Timebomb lines are you most stoked about and why?

N: I like the diversity of Altamont. There's something in there for everyone. It isn't a carbon copy of everything else. Their team is all over the place too.

Vp: Has Garret ever showed you the rebound in any of our sole tech footwear?

N: What's the rebound? Is that some STI lab shit? Garret who? (jokes)

Vp: Your Jimbo Phillip’s/Tiki Room skate deck and wheels colab has been featured in a lot magazines/websites. Really amazing design!!! What advice can you give to that smaller shop guy who really wants to push there ideas into reality? And “just do it” is not a correct answer….

N: I'm pretty stoked to have been able to wrangle Jimbo for this project. I've been a huge fan of Jimbo and his dad's (Jim Phillips) artwork for years. Regarding pushing ideas into reality: sometimes you just have to throw shit out there. If an idea seems far fetched to you, it may seem like a great and easy project for someone else. Connections also help. Talking to people and maintaining relationships is key.

Vp: Any last words?

N: Thanks to everyone at Time Bomb for the support over the years!

This Is My Life

Every now and then, I do a little camera photo upload of all of my cell phone photos and arrange them into contact sheets to send to the friends I was with that week/weekend. There is just something about impromptu high in interest and low in quality camera phone photos that hold it's own charm. That being said...there is finally a photography contest where you don't need nice gear to win.

RVCA x Color Mag Present "This Is My Life"
A cell phone photography contest

Take 12 photos of your day with your cell phone and create a 12 frame (one per hour) contact sheet. The most interesting day wins a clothing package from RVCA valued at $500. Second and third place wins a subscription to Color Magazine.

Contest details +how to make a contact sheet in Photoshop

Email your contact sheet jpeg to contest@colormagazine.ca

LRG H08 ads

DJ Hapa and Clinton Portis

I Thought I Was Alone

Our very own Jennilee Marigomen got up on 'I thought I Was Alone', a photography collective that is curated by the photo editor of Vice Magazine Italy (Lele Saveri). See photos HERE.

Straight from the Heart of Barcelona

Eight countries, 5,000 eyes, hundreds of paint brushes, thousands of hours of painting, 6,500 glasses of Sangria and beer, 3,000 tapas and almost 7,000 miles later, the éS Adrian Blanca Traveling Art Exhibition has come to an end. For the last three months, Adrian Blanca has been on a whirlwind art tour to celebrate his collaboration with éS. At each tour stop, spectators were able to watch Adrian create his visual madness live with permanent installations fashioned in all eight locations- Stockholm, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Antwerp, Munich, Barcelona and New York City.

A true fan of éS for years—in particular the Accel, which he has used on numerous occasions as a canvas for his art—it came as no surprise that Adrian chose to launch his collection with the Accel TTL and TT Deluxe.

Vent Deux

Pierre Andre talks to Complex about his new exclusive 22 collection. read about it HERE.

Council of Doom San Diego Premiere

More here.

17 Days

Deanna Templeton's self-published book of photos from Summer 2007 is now available on SHOP RVCA.

Jimi

DJ Concept puts it down! Jimi Hendrix 'A Tribute To Experience' mixtape. Download it HERE.

morning fog

a nice fog has been hanging around timebomb lately.

Map of the Inner War and The Great Gates of Zenith

This past Saturday night was the greatly anticipated opening of Ed Templeton’s show, ‘Map Of The Inner War’ and Matt Leines “The Great Gates of Zenith” at LA’s Roberts & Tilton gallery in Culver City California.

Map of The Inner War - Ed Templeton saturates the gallery with over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper.

The Great Gates of Zenith - Consisting of all new works on paper Matt Leines imagines a futuristic world in which his creatures dwell.

More photos here.

p.s. yes that is Neil Patrick Harris!!

Adrian Blanca Interview on EXPN

Check out an interview HERE with artist Adrian Blanca, eS's newest collaborator.

Shoot To Thrill 2008

Watch the teaser here!

Red Bull's Shoot To Thrill Screenings Announced

VANCOUVER, NOV 20th / Vogue Theatre (918 Granville St)
9pm, all ages. See the 10 Super16 films from Shoot to Thrill 2008 and find out who is going to win the $8000 grand prize. Afterparty at Republic (958 Granville St.)
First 75 people with ticket stubs from the premiere get in FREE! 1/2 price cover there after.

WINNIPEG, NOVEMBER 20th / Garrick Theatre (330 Garry), 8pm

TORONTO, NOVEMBER 21st / Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St W), 9pm

OTTAWA, NOVEMBER 21st / Babylon Nightclub (317 Bank St), 2 shows, 7pm (all ages), 10pm (19+)

QUEBEC CITY, NOVEMBER 21st / Le Cercle (228 Re St Joseph Est), 8:30pm

MONTRÉAL, NOVEMBER 22nd / Cabaret Juste Pour Rire, 8:30pm

HALIFAX, NOVEMBER 22nd / Tribeca (15688 Granville St), 8:30pm

CALGARY, NOVEMBER 22nd / The Uptown (612 8 Ave SW), 7pm

More info on Color Magazine's site
Team lists

People Love Erin Wasson!

Terry Richardson for Erin Wasson x RVCA



Embodying American supermodel Erin Wasson's signature low-key style and edge, the collaboration of RVCA and Erin Wasson has received a phenomenal response from both retailers and media alike.

Jerry

Poor Jerry.
More of Patrick O'Dell's photos on Epicly Later'd.

The Play Cloths Tour

eS FOOTWEAR & LIVESTOCK PRESENT

IN ASSOCIATION W/GMANandRIZK.com, SPECTRUM ENT, TIGERSTONE

CLIPSE (PLAY CLOTHS TOUR)
W/THE FRESHEST KIDS DJ SEKO

Wednesday, Jan.21 at Richards (1036 Richards St.)

eS Footwear (www.esfootwear,com ) & Livestock (www.deadstock.ca ) present the Play Clothes (the Clipse’s new clothing line available exclusively at Livestock) tour featuring Virginia based hip-hop duo (Malice & Pusha T) the Clipse (http://www.myspace.com/clipse and http://www.clipseonline.com/) at Richards for one intimate occasion. Cop your tickets, as this show is a sureshot to sell out quick.


Clipse began its career in music in 1993 when the Thornton brothers met Pharrell Williams, one half of the production team The Neptunes. Impressed with their lyrical talents, Williams formed a working relationship with the duo. Expect to hear banger’s such as ‘Grindin’, ‘When the Last Time’, Ma, I Don’t Love Her’, Hot Damn’, ‘Mr.Me Too’, Wamp Wamp’, What Happened To That Boy’ and so much more!

$25 at Livestock (w/no service fee) or www.clubzone.com

Thunder!

Altamont presents Thunderheist

RVCA VASF Store Tour

VASF is the first in a number of RVCA retail flagships to open around the globe. Launched in September 2007, the store, situated on the iconic corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, combines art, music, fashion and popular culture, offering an ideal platform to illustrate PM Tenore’s vision for the brand. Acting as centre stage, VASF showcases the latest RVCA apparel collections as well as unique RVCA product collaborations with the likes of ANP Quarterly magazine, The Cobrasnake, Hamburger Eyes, Cinelli and Adam Wallacavage.
Complementing the RVCA product collection is an assortment of books, magazines, DVD’s, and music currated by RVCA Advocate’s Family. Showcasing the talents of RVCA’s ANP (Artist Network Program), VASF collaborates with ANP members on a wide variety of projects - Artist Josh Lazcano aka AMAZE executed a piece on the façade of the building prior to it’s opening while skateboarder come artist and ANP Quarterly editor Ed Templeton and ANP Artist Clare Rojas completed the window displays for the store’s opening.

The culmination of RVCA culture is the gallery space in VASF. The gallery is a special platform for ANP artists. Curating four key shows each year, VASF aims to become a new and exciting source of art culture for the local community, working alongside the ANP and local artists and personalities on special projects and events.

See their blog HERE.

VASF | 1485 Haight St | San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P: 1 (415) 701 7822

A Rolling Perspective Toronto

a Rolling Perspective, Toronto
Opening reception "Art Croll", Friday, December 5, 2008. One night only.

8pm STUSSY (431 Richmond St. W)
10pm ADRIFT (G2-116 Spadina Ave.)
12am THE BAITSHOP (358 Dufferin St.)
After Party @ THE BAITSHOP

Etnies and Color Magazine asked skaters to shoot a photo of themselves from their own perspective, skateboarding. Over 200 portraits have been collected from skaters across Canada, the United States and as far as Japan. With the help of Fourstar Clothing, a selection of these self portraits of pro skateboarders, artists, and other talented individuals have been composed into an exhibition in celebration of skateboarding.

The show has been broken into a three-part art crawl (or roll) traveling across the country during the next six months from Vancouver (BC) to Montreal (QC) with stops in Winnipeg (MB), Calgary (AB) and Toronto (ON). Opening receptions in each of these cities take place in separate spaces at different times. Attendees are encouraged to take their cruiser boards out and celebrate the freedom of skateboarding and embrace the roll from spot to spot.

Expect photos from such pros as mikey taylor, ryan smith, mark appleyard, john rattray, colt cannon. Photographer's dan mathieu, geoff clifford, joel dufresne, gordon nicholas, gordon ball, judah oakes, dylan doubt, richard hart, jeff delong, ryan allan, and other sweet dudes: colin lambert, brian wherry, jordan hoffart, adam green, raj mehra, tyler maher, bradley sheppard, pierre yves gauthier, william cristofaro, bob kronbauer, campbell milligan, dave carnie, paul urich, erik brunetti, jessie van roechoudt, tomonori 'rip' tanaka, + many more!

Emerica Design A Tee 9!

Emerica's has announced it's 9th edition of their ongoing Design-A-Tee contest, in which they invite you to create the best Emerica T-shirt graphic ever. Three winners will be chosen, each of whom will receive five shirts bearing their winning design, and three pairs of Emerica shoes. The deadline is December 3, 2008, so get crackin' and get creative.
Download the Design-A-Tee template
More info

Wassup Rocker

Larry Clark and the Wassup Rockers cast were shredding at the RVCA ramp. Ed was there too.

Mucho Take It Easy

The RVCA skate team is now in Mexico!

Death or Glory

Altamont and Mark Foster (Founder of U.K. brand Heroin Skateboards) , have teamed up and created a collaboration for Altamont's Holiday 2008 line. Taking inspiration from Brazilian and Japanese urban death metal and of course skateboarding, he creates the Death & Glory Collection. Available now at your Altamont dealer.

Defenders of the Coats For Kids

LRG advocates Checkmate and Concise aka Defenders Of The Faith are throwing down their Official Album Release Party at Gossip Nightclub on Nov.22. Donate your old coat for 'free entry'!

Altamont X UW

Free exclusive Altamont X UW tee shirt by buying a minimum of $50 of any Altamont product. Avail at all three of their locations.

Theory 1.5

Justin Eldridge - eS - Chocolate colab!!! Classic...
Limited availability so you better get yours fast...

Freshjive Holiday

Freshjive Holiday got some Hypebeast love HERE

Sheckler

People love to talk about etnies rider Ryan Sheckler. Check the LAST PART of this 15 minute Plan B teaser for Superfuture and let me know what you think.

Skratch Bastid

etnies presents DJ Skratch Bastid in your area!

ANP Quarterly

The next issue of ANPQuarterly is going to ship next week! Don't miss a single issue. Subscribe HERE

Coats for Kids Update!

Thanks to everyone who has sent us in their coats for the program that we are doing with "Coats for Kids". We need more! 'Coats For Kids' aims to provide winter jackets for children from babies to teenagers in families with limited incomes.

Send in your new or gently used coats, hats or mittens - and you could get a chance to win one of 20 LRG prize packs including the grand prize of a Limited LRG X Forum Snowboard or the highly limited LRG X G-Shock watch.

Hurry, the deadline is Nov.30/08!

Send or drop off to:
Timebomb Trading Inc
Attn: Coats For Kids
8067 North Fraser Way
Burnaby, BC
V5J-5M8

or drop them off at:
Nick Louie and Associates
The Vancouver Fashion Exchange Building
Suite 183-1951 Glen Dr
Vancouver, BC.

Map Of The Inner War

This is one of those 'i wish I lived in Cali' moments.
MAP OF THE INNER WAR
Opening reception
November 15th, 7:00 – 9:30 pm
Show runs November 15th – December 13th, 2008
Ed Templeton will be saturating the walls with over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography, and silkscreen.

ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232
T 323.549.0223
F 323.549.0224

Bestwick and Layos win!

etnies BMX team riders Bestwick and Layos Win! Over the weekend Jamie Bestwick won BMX Vert at the LG Action Sports World Championships in Seattle, Washington and Sergio Layos took first in the Endpoint81 Japanese BMX contest.

LG Action Sports World Championships BMX Vert Final Results:
First: Jamie Bestwick
Second: Chad Kagy
Third: Simon Tabron

Freshman

Congrats to Martina n the new venture

Atlas

Thanks to the Atlas crew in Quebec for this banging 32 window. Hit them up HERE

RVCA Presents Two Tiny Vices Events

RVCA, Hope Gallery, and Family Bookstore are proud to announce two nights of tinyvices events.

Wednesday, November 5, 7pm
tinyvices Aperture Book Series Launch

Family Bookstore
436 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles,CA,90036

Family Bookstore hosts a slideshow presentation by Tim Barber to launch the tinyvices-curated series through Aperture books. The Book Launch at Family presents the tinyvices series Barber curated for Aperture Books, featuring five separate volumes, limited to 1,000 copies per edition. The series reflects the loose spirit of the website and offers a range of styles and approaches to photography - Kenneth Cappello’s casual snapshots of the skate scene of his youth, Allan Macintyre’s rigorous investigations of geological activity, Jason Nocito’s playful groupings of disparate images, Robin Schwartz’s disquieting portraits of her daughter and Jaimie Warren’s theatrical self-portraits. Each book is introduced by a prominent artist, writer or curator. Artists included: Kenneth Cappello * Allan Macintyre * Jason Nocito * Robin Schwartz * Jaimie Warren

An exhibition of TV Books artists at Hope Gallery - Thursday Nov 6.
1547 Echo Park Ave, 90028.

The exhibition will include an installation of new books, photographs, drawings, and paintings by 17 TV Books authors: Aurel Schmidt * Santiago Mostyn * Brad Phillips * Ben Schumacher * Jason Nocito * Gordon Hull * Julia Burlingham * Mark Delong * Tim Barber * Kim Krans * Lachance, Noble & Comeau * Chris Dorland * Patrick Griffin * Michael Schmelling * Jason Mathew Lee

Tim Barber, 29, grew up in Amherst Massachusetts, lived for a few years in the mountains of Northern Vermont, went to school in Vancouver B.C. and now lives in New York City. A photographer, curator, publisher and designer, Barber runs the online gallery tinyvices.com, where visitors are encouraged to submit their photographs and artwork. He launched the independent publishing house TV Books in 2008 tvbookshop.com, producing unique books, artists monographs, zines and posters and recently curated a series of five photography books published by the Aperture Foundation in the fall of 2008.

tinyvices.com
familylosangeles.com
myspace.com/hopegallery
rvca.com

Canadian LRG Skateboard Team Addition !

We are proud to announce that we have recently added Dustin Montie to the LRG team, Dustin work's extremely hard and has definitely earned a position on the team, hyped to have you aboard bro !

Photo's : Jarvis Nigelsky

Weezy

New Lil Wayne VIDEO featuring once again the Freshjive hat 'Don't Tread On Me' that was also featuring in 'A Millie' (in a different color).