Merry Christmas...

My gift to all of you... heres a download of "Merry Crassmas".
This was a festive Holiday 7" from the definitve Anarcho-Nihilists, Crass. This track pretty fucking rare, even to your seasoned lice-ridden, glue-sniffing, Strongbow Drinking squat-punk.
Now, get your eggnog, put on your slippers and enjoy the sounds of the Christmas Season.

and Have a Very Merry Christmas Crassmas

Nixon Holiday '07

I know I've been slacking with putting my design work on here recently... but I assure you, that doesn't mean I'm slacking on the design work itself. Anyhow, here are a few graphics I designed that just dropped in the current Holiday season line from Nixon Watches... although the type graphic had been slightly changed from the initial graphic I had sent... for lack of a better term "dumbed down".... I hate when that happens.

Banksy in Old Street

A year and a half ago the Old Street Area of Shoreditch, East London was like taking a trip to the Banksy Museum... housing classic pieces like the Smiley Faced Riot Cops extending across the Bridge over Old St., the huge Pulp Fiction- Samuel L. and John Travolta piece with the bananas, as well as the giant apache helocopter with a pink bow saying "Have a Nice Day". The first two of which have been buffed and the third being over taken by an giant rotating billboard (how bitterly ironic- fucking corporate blood suckers) which you can only see if you stand in front of the Kebab shop it overlooks at just the right angle...
This piece has been there for some time luckily, and I finally got the chance to snap a flic the other day.

...Speaking of Osiris

Shuriken Shannon- Street Machine La Familia repping the "Kings of San Diego" shirt I designed for Street Machine in the new Osiris video "Feed the Need".

I might as well post his section from the video too... If you're not familiar with Shuriken's skating, take a look-
kid is off the fucking chain.


Shuriken is also the newest pro on Black Label Skateboards... congrats homie... handle it.

Phở with Osiris

The Osiris Team were just in London for the Premier of "Feed The Need"- the newest Osiris video... I met up with the boys along with Brand Manager (as well as SD Legend) Mike Fitz and skateboarding's "buffest photographer" Leo Sharp, for the crown jewel in Asian noodle soups "Phở" at some hole in the wall in King's Cross...
In a season where we've seen videos from the likes of Nike, Habitat and most notably Lakai (which is pretty much the best video since Mouse, minus Ty Evans excess use of overly-dramatic edits and slow-mos) the Osiris video manages to come out strong, much to my surprise. Its a tough task to clean your hands of the oily-residue left over from the days of swoosh pants, D3s, and Josh Kasper- But they seem to have pulled it off, or at least begun to.
Check out Street Machine rider Jimmy Carlin and SD locals Shuriken Shannon and Marius Syvanen helping put San Diego back on the map... and of course the Don of Scotland and San Diego transplant- John Rattray.

Check my main man Jimmy Carlin's Section right here:

Polish Paul

This is Pawel or to San Diegans "Paul". Paul graced San Diego with his presence some six months ago on a foreign work program . He stayed for about 5 months before having to return to his native Poland. Paul is quite possibly the biggest "skate rat" I have ever met. With his entire house (bathroom/ toilet included) covered in stickers from skateboard companies from the last 10 years.

Paul loves California (even getting Cali Love tattooed on his arm) but Hates:

-Mexican Food
-In N Out Burger
-Avacados
-Movies
-Television
-The Simpsons
-Drinking
-Smoking Cigarettes
-Smoking Weed
-the Beach
-Cracking Joints
-and women with 'Booty'

... So why do you like California?

SK8MAFIA4LIFE

Pawel, kocham ciebie.... dziekuje

Poland- Back for the FIrst Time

Those who know me know I'm Polish as I am not one to shy away from my background... They don't call me "The Polish Hammer" for no reason... goddamn right (haha). This was my first trip to Poland and I can honestly say it was an amazing place. All be it, perhaps the gnarliest place I had ever been as well. In a country that has become the new home of 'Hooliganism' as well as housing the £1 litre of Vodka, things are bound to crack off. Within roughly 3 hours of landing in my "Homeland", I was being lead around the town of Sosnowicz (outside Katowice) by my good friend and pseudo tour guide Pawel, when from across the street we see a group of thugs attack another group of guys and things proceeded to get pretty fuckin rugged, ending with a couple steel toe kicks to the face for the unlucky chap on the ground... with the unmistakable sound of a broken face that was blatantly apparent even from our vantage point across the street.... Drunken thugs seemed to be a reoccuring theme in Poland, and without me giving a play by play of the rest of the incidents trust me... that wasn't the only person I saw get beat the fuck up... but the following day we were off to Krakow (the hometown of my fam) then to Warsaw... These are some pictures I took along the way.

R.I.P. Pimp C

One half of my favorite rap group has died today. Pimp C was found dead this morning in his hotel room in Hollywood. It is a sad day for the South and rap music in general. Having grown up in the South myself, UGK were a staple for southern rap, and have been ever since. They helped pioneer the genre along side a handful of others. From there first full length release in 1992 "Too Hard Too Swallow" to their latest self titled double disk "Underground Kings" they truly became Kings in the rap community. If you've never listened to UGK buy "Pocket Full of Stones" or any of their classic releases.This is a true loss...

R.I.P. PIMP C.