Wes Loates, the new Ontario region manager for Converse's skate program, recently announced a release party for Converse's Ontario skate team and the fall 2009 full line preview.
Mosey over to the Converse showroom in Toronto at 99 Atlantic Ave., Suite 319 on April 16 at 7PM for fun, suds, and duds. Pool downstairs after...
Quiksilver Canada welcomes Cory Wilson to their expanding skate team. You can view Cory along with the rest of the Kitsch team on their recent trip to Montana in Color issue 7.1!
If you like psychedelic music and reading blogs, you may have already come across Matt Mondanile, who records blissed-out tropical drone music with his guitar and sampler under the name Ducktails. Matt's in a "real band" too, though, and they're called Real Estate. Their myspace url is "letsrockthebeach", so that gives you a bit of an idea what they sound like: the songs, written by Matt's buddy Martin Courtenay, are super breezy and laid-back, lightweight and cool like a fine t-shirt worn on a not-too-humid summer evening. Their first release, a 7-inch on Underwater Peoples, is called "Suburban Beverage" and it's out now. Oh yeah, they're from New Jersey, but I think they all moved to Brooklyn.
the bonnie prince blessed us all with a fine show indeed! good job as well by pillars and tongues who not only opened, but loaned their double bass for their cause.
Remember this book from when you were a wee gaffer?
Well, Spike Jonez does, and decided to turn it into a movie. Check out the trailer - amazing!
a brief interview with ERIK BRUNETTI:
COLOR: Do you have anything you'd like to say about those shots with Will Oldham that i could include? Maybe about that day?
EB: Yea, actually, the one that was converted to B&W (the yellow tinted one). I just decided to shoot it on the balcony, to get natural light, but the reflection from the film on the lense and the cream walls made it look extremely yellow.
That's interesting, so you had film on the lens. Would you call that yellow burst a happy accident?
I knew it would look good, but I didn't know it would saturate that much... We [Will and I] were both into it.
Oh ya, I hadn't even thought about the fact that these were polaroids so Will could see how they turned out.
Yeah, we laid them all out on the bed in his hotel room and went over them, and experimented with the film treatments and lighting. It was a very casual shoot, he was on the phone and I was shooting.
What type of camera/film did you use? do they still make that film? I used Spectra film.
Brunetti has a collection coming out with F@BRICK (japan) for Holiday 09.
thank god there are people out there sharing their archives.
just when you were thinking that you didn't see too many kids on razor scooters these days along comes this asshole, and almost makes them cool...
REviseddd TPC part from matt mckeen on Vimeo.
