Probably one of the most beautiful custom motorcycles you'll ever lay eyes on. I've seen it in person and it's truly a work of art. The Falcon Kestral from Ian Barry and company...
I'll be a speaker at the Semi-Permanent 2010 convention next month. Honestly, this scares the shit out of me, but I feel like I need to test myself. The last time I tried speaking publically, I was introducted as Andy JERKins and my brain to mouth connection failed so badly I had to be bailed out by my fellow speaker and BMX legend, Bob Haro (who was perfect). So if you happen to be in Melbourne, Australia on September 18th, drop by and witness either a flaming fiasco, or a one hour slideshow retrospective of my work... I'm leaning toward success this time around, if only because I'm in my 40s now and not a know-it-all 22 year old. And, by the way, I'm not too sure I ever thanked Haro for the save back in 1986. Thanks Bob.
Check out Jared Eberhardt's Flickr Set from There is a Xerox on the Insides of Your Eyelids opening night. Pretty cool documentation. Curator, Rich Jacobs, has accumulated an amazing collection of skate/punk ephemera over the last couple years, making the show really interesting and detailed. Thanks for the photos, Jared.
The exhibition is up at the Torrance Art Museum through September 4th, after that it travels to Tokyo, Japan.
7/19/10
The Girl Art Dump will be featured at a show in conjunction with Product (RED). The Girl & (RED) Art Exhibition will be at the Andrew Shire Gallery, L.A., on July 31st. All the previous (RED) Carroll/Jenkins, Koston/Jenkins and Pappalardo/Jenkins original pieces will be there along with all new work from the Art Dump.
7/6/10
The mid to late '80s was a defining period in my life, and making/trading zines played a big part in that definition. The zines were more like personal journals than anything else (for you youngsters, think of them as pre-blogs — Bendpress.com started as Bend Zine back in 1986) with contents ranging from skateboarding and underground music to cartoons and confessions. There was a pretty strong connection made amongst many of the zine makers of the period and curator (and fellow zine maker) Rich Jacobs has done an exemplary job of culling from the hundreds, maybe thousands, of zines, and placing them in a gallery setting with the traveling show, There is a Xerox on the Insides of Your Eyelids. The show comes to the Torrance Art Museum in a couple weeks and its panning out to be a pretty good union of sorts. Hope you can make it... if not, watch for the book later this year. I'll post more information as I receive it.
This is just a small taste of the titles represented at the show...
7/1/10
The sky in Wyoming is big.
6/28/10
I contributed to the 2010 Summer Reading List over on Roy Christopher's site.
Visit Flickr for some tar drawings from my trip to Wyoming. I love finding things like this... these random tar fixes on old asphalt remind me of my own drawings and have inspired me to use something besides paint or ink to draw with...
6/18/10
The reason I'm where I am today is, in a great part, due to this man; Bob Osborn. He gave me my first real job and taught me to be economical with words — while on that job. He hired me on intuition and gave me a place to live when I moved to LA. I am forever grateful to the man.
McGoo did a really cool short interview with Oz over at ChopCult. Check it here.
6/9/10
The Fifty24PDX Gallery in Portland has been adding images of all the works from the Totally Spoked show that opened there last week. The 6 pieces I contributed are linked here.
5/24/10
"The Lazarus Effect," a short film by (RED) and HBO is premiering tonight. Director Lance Bangs made this stunning portrayal of the important work (RED) contributes to in the fight against AIDS in Africa. The film follows the story of four people who were at deaths door and were brought back to life thanks to access to treatment. Check your HBO listings.
New combi-pool at the Vans Skatepark in Orange County is done and already being torn apart by some real rippers. This shot of Omar Hassan blew my mind... I do love me some stale fish. The Pro-Tec Pool Party is this weekend.
I'm not a football guy, but I love a good story. "Run Ricky Run" is a really good story about an extraordinary human being. Part of ESPN's 30 For 30 documentary series.
Totally Spoked, starting June 3rd at the Fifty24PDX Gallery in Portland. Special thanks goes out to Jeremy Kove of Munson Industries for curating and McGoo of SNFU for sponsoring the awesome show poster from/by Aesthetic Apparatus. There will be 100 signed copies printed in commemoration of the show.
5/7/10
Every so often I check the Bend Press stats on Google Analylics. Here's an interesting fact; the most obscure place a visit has come from is Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Cool. I wonder who that was one person was?
5/6/10
As a kid I was a big motocross fan. Hell, I'm still a big MX fan. I used to ride around the track or on trails pretending I was Bob Hannah or Marty Smith, or, this guy... the very fast and very radical, Danny "Magoo" Chandler.
This photo, which I believe ran in Motocross Action mag back in 1983, had a pretty big impact on me as a young person. Magoo had crashed and broken his bars, and, I believe, broke off his left foot peg. But as this photo shows, he didn't pull off the track and have his mechanic walk the bike back to the pits for him. He got back on and finished the race with no left grip, no clutch, no footpeg. The photo says volumes about the man and to this day remains an inspirational image/rider for me. I found out today that Danny Chandler died of complications from his paralysis (from a crash far too early in his career). It's a sad day... but I know he must've held on and rode it out until the very end. Rest in peace, Magoo.
Don't forget about Machotaildrop. Here's an interview with Corey Adams at Vice.
And keep your eyes open for a collab between a certain board company and Blair Stanley.
4/30/10
Don Hammerman is still at it. Documenting the baseball. Beautiful work as always.
4/29/10
Lots of goodness coming around the bend... I can feel it.
4/27/10
I was lucky enough to be asked to attend the "The Birth of Big Air" movie premiere in New York last weekend. It was part of the Tribeca Film Festival and was also a tribute to the subject of the film, Mat Hoffman. It was an amazing event and a great way to Honor Mat, who actually rode the half-pipe demo afterwards even though his right arm is barely attached to his body. The crowd was behind him every time he dropped in and he didn't hold back, it was pretty amazing how good he looked on there. VitalBMX has posted a pretty cool behind the scenes video of the event, so check it out. I want to say thanks to Jeff, Priya and the rest of the folks over at DIckhouse, for flying me out, it was a blast and an honor to work on the film with you all.
4/24/10
"Let's try not to über-suck on this one." —overheard at LAX
4/21/10
This is old news, I realize, but it's still rellevant. I guess... because Fox News is still around, unfortunately. Sometimes it's hard to believe we're in the 21st century, no? I'd like to think Kurt Vonnegut would've gotten a kick out of this.
4/20/10
All winter I was waking up to these colors on the weekends. It inspired a new series of photos, or, studies, I've been working on. Here's to sleeping in... clink.
4/17/10
Things I've been wondering about, Part One:
• Do people always have to picks sides (in a cultural sense)? What would happen if folks decided not to pick a side? Would it result in non motion or inactivity? What I mean is, does friction need to be present to make things move? And do things actually move forward, or do they move in arbitrary directions? What exactly is this "movement" and do we need it? Help me define this. I'll buy the beers.
4/15/10
Does anyone remember the band The Sort of Quartet? I saw them open for fIREHOSE in the late '80s and became an instant fan. Rediscovering them now.
4/13/10
Gamble and Feds twist things up in this new Lakai spot with Rick, Mike and Spike. Can Mo handle the Molecular?
4/11/10
With 10 hits in six games, including 2 homers and a walk-off single, Godzilla has become part of the family. Welcome to the Angels, Hideki Matsui. Can't wait to play the Yanks
4/9/10
Wait... what?
4/8/10
The coolest Flickr skate set I've ever checked out is from an old zine aquaintance, Pete Diantoni. His documentation of Milwaukee's Surf n' Turf(the Turf) skatepark is priceless.
4/2/10
My many years co-conspirator and good friend, Mark Lewman, reminded me that yesterday was also the 23rd anniversary of our first Fool's Tour. We dedicated a big portion of Homeboy magazine issue #7 (Steve Saiz was on the cover. Anyone have a scan of that issue?) to the road trip. Spike, Lew and I drove all the way to Boston and back in about 2 weeks. Scared the hell out of Oz. We hooked up with the likes of Kevin Wilkins, Bernie McGinn, Roger Bridges, Dan Estabrook and many more... trip of a lifetime. The little piece of art (above) is by Lew (or, ahem, Dewbag) from 4/87, the same month and year as the OG tour.
4/1/10
Happy Birthday to D. Boon. I often wonder what the world would be like if you were still around... RIP.
McGoo also reminds us it's Gil Scott-Heron's date of birth today as well. Thanks for the heads up, Harold.
“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.” —Steve Martin
“When the spaceship finally comes down and Will Smith isn't there to protect you and the aliens start picking through our records to see which one to keep, guess what, mother fucker? It's gonna be Junior Kimbrough, not Beyoncé.” —Iggy Pop
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.” —John Lennon
“I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.” —R. Crumb
“You never know when you're making a memory.” —Rickie Lee Jones
“You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.” —Terry Gilliam
“I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.” —Studs Terkel
“I hit the piano with my elbow sometimes because of a certain sound I want to hear...” —Thelonious Monk
“Creativity and genius don't know nothing about age; either you got it or you don't, and being old is not going to help you get it.” —Miles Davis
“People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.” —Amy Sedaris
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” —Joseph Campbell
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” —Charles Bukowski
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” —Howard Zinn
“The only thing new is you finding out about something.” —Mike Watt
“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.” —Jackson Pollock
“I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.” —Tom Waits
“To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.” —Elvin Jones
“It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.” —Mark Twain
“I'm not crying, it's just been raining... on my face.” —Flight of the Conchords
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” —Kurt Vonnegut
“Until the other guy starts beating you with consistency, it’s not a rivalry.” —James Stewart
“You've gotta be slightly stupid.” —Joe Strummer
ORIGINAL PIECES FOR SALE
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