Impromtu Love

Posted by ryan as Fun & Games, Inspiring, Interweb, Music

I absolutely love the Impomptu shows that Current.tv and La Blogotheque are doing together. They follow an artist into a public setting and film a sort of raw music video. The reactions of onlookers are genuine and how awesome would it be to present at one of these live jams.

Andrew Bird

Delta Spirit

Bloc Party

Beirut

Welcome Home!

Posted by ryan as Inspiring, News

Welcome home the very awesome Vanguard Current.com & Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Your time in North Korea must have been very difficult to say the least. Please know that your hard work and sacrifice does not go unnoticed and what you have accomplished already with your life is very meaningful and I’m sure has affected many lives. Keep producing quality and informative mini documentaries that bring real issues to light on a global scale. So happy to have you back. Good job former Pres Clinton.

Dinosaur Jr. Over It

Posted by ryan as Inspiring, Music, Skateboarding

Sterling Hundley Illustration

Posted by ryan as Art, Illustration, Inspiring, Painting, Style

I come across so many talented artists, and its almost overwhelming the amount of talent out there. This site was going to be a site that featured many of these fine artists, but my lack of due diligence has left the blog posts nil on this and my delicious account very active. In an effort to change that though, here is a great and very talented illustrator named Sterling Hundley. His work is filled with great textures, patterns, and an excellent choice of color. I am impressed with a lot of his work. You should check out his site at www.sterlinghundley.com. Also check out his blog and get more information about his process and profession. He refers to his blog as Advice in his navigation so its going to be worth you while if you are interested in illustration and have a desire to learn.

Hey, show me your knits!

Posted by ryan as Art, Inspiring, Interweb, Style

Hey, show me your knits! is the blog of Breane Martin. I met here while living in L.A. She is pretty awesome and I could go on with the stories from that time but I would rather let her own site do the talking. She has a passion for knitting and music. Not a bad combo, so check out here site Hey, show me your knits!

The Guy Mariano Story

Posted by ryan as History, Inspiring, Skateboarding, Style, Technology

I’m not sure how many of my readers follow the Epicly Later’d series of Guy Mariano, but its great. I’ve been seriously inspired by Guy’s skating ever since I became aware of skateboarding. I used to watch his Public Domain part and go out and attack Bradner the best I could. Ha. Seriously though, you need to watch the 10 part series if you haven’t already. For those that have, I know you will want to watch it all again. So get clicking. All of these are of course on www.vbs.tv and you should definitely look into all of the videos they have posted. Great stuff.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 1
Waiting for pop number three.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 2
Summer with the Gonz.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 3
The most warped family vacation of all time.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 4
The Girl exodus.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 5
It’s always a prison-related BBQ at Fabian’s.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 6
Can’t a dude just end on a ledge trick without a bunch of to do?

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 7
The trouble with skateboarding is the hours.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 8
Getting into bed with Jesus feet.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 9
The drug days come to a close.

EPICLY LATER’D  – LAKAI – Guy Mariano Part 10
Things are looking better.

Dallas Clayton – Endless

Posted by ryan as Art, Career, Humor, Illustration, Inspiring, Skateboarding

The Skateboard Mag #62

I don’t know how many of my readers subscribe to The Skateboard Mag and skateboard for that matter, but if you don’t perhaps you should. At the very least you are going to get that message from this website. I always dig into The Mag right away when I receive it. I like to read all of the small articles first and then really dig into the interviews. The latest issue came in the mail two days ago, #62. The Guest Ed in the magazine this time is Dallas Clayton. He wrote a small page worth called Endless.

Dallas Clayton is a talented writer and his illustration style compliments his writings. I love what Endless is about. Its really good. Read that below. Also don’t miss Dallas’s great writings over at The Berrics. More Popular Than You is a great series he provides for their website www.theberrics.com.

ENDLESS
You should learn to skateboard.
It is cheap and fun.
It is something you can do when you are alone
or with friends.
Once you learn, you can hang out late at night in parking lots for hours and hours
(and you don’t even have to be high).
Also you can talk to others about skateboarding
and it will make them think you are cool
and they will give you things
like free stickers, or invitations to parties
with lots of guys at them.

If you get good
you can jump over all sorts of things
like cars, and European streets, and statues, and off small buildings.
and people will take pictures of you
which is nice (for later, to show your kids)

If you get really good,
maybe someone will pay you
to take pictures, and make videos of you jumping off all sorts of crap
and they will put you on billboards
and benches where homeless people sleep
and your name will be on thousands of pairs of shoes.
Maybe you will have a video game with you in it
or a TV show where you shoot your friends with weapons.

Or maybe not.

Maybe you will just keep doing it and no one will really care how good you are
and you will just use your skateboard to ride down the street
to buy some beer
when your “old lady” takes off with the car.

It’s up to you I guess.
Like anything else.
But you should definitely learn.
It will be worth it
in the long run.

I promise.

Scanwiches!!

Posted by ryan as Dining, Inspiring, Interweb

Every wonder what that sandwich you are eating would look like scanned and posted online for the world to see? Really? You never have? Well thats ok, brilliant ideas are not for everyone. Don’t get all worked up, you will come up with that brilliant idea one day too. To get some inspiration in the mean time, or meal time , check out the wonderful site Scanwiches.com. And I’m sorry about the stupid meal time pun.

Scanwiches.com - Banh Mi So 1: Number 13, Vegan Chicken and Lemongrass

Z-Trip’s Obama Mix

Posted by ryan as Art, Inspiring, Music

How great is it that quality artists and musicians are inspired in American politics for the first time that I have ever been aware. Added to that list out there is this great mix by DJ Z-Trip. I don’t think I need to go into who Z-Trip is. If i do, Wikipedia it and do yourself a favor and check out his other releases. Solid.

Get Z-Trips Obama mix for free here. > http://djztrip.com/obama/

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I just want to add Z-Trips Creative Commons license information because I support this kind of cultural ownership of the arts. Not to ramble into the topic too deep I’ll just leave it at that.

The Obama Mix by DJ Z-Trip is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. You are free to share, copy, distribute, display, and perform this work under the condition that you are to credit and attribute this work to DJ Z-Trip (with a link). Additionally for any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do that is to use the link above, taking you to the CC license page. The CC license does not grant rights to non-transformative use of the source material used to make the album.

Great Paper Typography

Posted by ryan as Art, Design, Designer, Inspiring, Typography

Yulia Brodskaya is an artist who has done some really great paper typography. See Yulia’s portfolio at www.artyulia.com