Skate And Create (an old event)

We roll.

So these are some pictures I found from my digital camera of this event that was happening on Okinawa called Skate and Create, where there were all these Japanese artists' graphic skate decks at this shop in a town called Urasoe. Dude who works there was dope; he hooked me up with some books for cheap and he made the last piece phototted here. My girlfriend and I also went to the closing party at this nice little club, with a guitarist who knew every style you can possibly know and a little mc battle, and the whole time they were showing early nineties skate videos on a screen behind the stage- alien workshop, jeremy wray, element biizzz

Art n cultcha, brah, das what im sayn.

Graff in Okinawa

If anyone not from Okinawa comes to visit and they're even minimally into street art, I'll take you to the seawall in Chatan, and there's also one in Okinawa Shi that has numbers and numbers of graffiti murals. You can see the ocean and beyond over the wall that's like waist height, and some of the pieces are good, and some are, like stick figure-Stussy S (ahahah remember that? try to draw one now) status. There are other stretches of the wall that is reserved for Okinawan elementary school homerooms and other kids' mural projects. Pretty dope.

Anyway, I came back to Okinawa after winter break and it seems like there are more graff pieces along the roads that I frequent; for sure graffiti survives longer than in the big cities here on this little island, but I was quite pleased to see art under the bridge, on the street electric box, and in a closed down gasoline stand, like this one. I'm just down for art, and if this was the Whereverhome Art Gallery, we would sit and judge these pieces while eating camembert and drinking Cabsav, but it's not, and so just take a look at a bit of expression on the island of Okinawa. The unsung heroes:

Gas station- it was sooo cold this day riding the good ol moped.
Imagine your hands like ice sculpture blocks of cheese.

Smiley dude.

Same writer, saying like, aahh well, sucks not

to get into the ladies room with em, but whatcanyado?

Can you go wrong with Popeye-ish imagery?

So ill.

This is right next to the gas station. "Tomato House"

You know you shake that ciggy box.

An attempt at one-liner diners.

Hunger makes my face all shriveled up and shizz.

The lady and the girl on the plane; one in English, one in Japanese.

When it's cold, wear your hightops.

Some people laugh maniacally riding home in the piercing hurting cold on their mopeds. (me)

My planner is planning my demise.

Japanese humor sometimes requires losing out on intelligence or acting like it.

Sporks are fine.

Do people shake the last bit of drink left in the bottle before they terminate it?

They call 2-liter bottles of drink pet bottles here.

This bottle is for my pet iguana.

My thoughts line up sometimes orderly for the next order, sometimes they act like unruly three year olds in a field of PixiStix.

Happy-New-Year-Bike-Ride On The Wesst Cooast

What it is, happy new year! Hope all is well wherever you stay, and I'm back in the living in Japan mode, chilling in a sort of chilly Okinawa. LA was pretty cold though, and though the cold was biting on this day New Years Eve, we rocked our bicycle mob all the way up the beach path to the end of the road. It was an epic journey, and super fun. Ahh, to be home with good folks and a couple wheels. Here are some pics courtesy of Chuck's new artistic photographer camera. Happy 2009!!

About to go down Iowaaa

Woooo, B with the skills...
He got that seat-surfing down as well.

Nice location, nice idea, niiiice photo.
Yeah, good one Seth.



Artsybrakelights.

Destination found... Man what a perfect
place to kick it and turn back around... and the
marine was starting to layer on us.

I really like this one.

Back after the ride, where people are like drapes.

And then capturing lights into night.