Good news for all Canadian fans of Magenta; Black Arts Distribution is now taking care of your needs! So ask your local shop to stock up on the cage series.

The Predatory Bird brings us another creative edit, this time by Joe Pease with skating by John Rattray and Kyle Leeper.

Hopps Skateboards and the Orchard shop in Boston teamed up with Hopps pros Jahmal Williams Joel Meinholz this past Sunday to host a skate jam. Edited and filmed by Mike Chew. With companies and shops like Hopps and Orchard the future looks bright for skating.

Magenta adds Japanese quick foot Koichiro Uehara to their team. They will be in Japan later this month for a tour with special guest, Zach Lyons.

For those of us geezers over 30 with kids. Thanks to Tim Fulton and Platinum Seagulls.

Ben Gore, Evan Kinori and Ashley Owen had an intimate art show on a warm Sunday SF night.

Evan's installation; collage, with Polaroids and paintings.

A theme of analog.

Polaroids from France, I think.

Ben's work. He makes his own prints.

Leo Valls, front blunt/crailslide.

Evan Kinori, backside 180 nosegrind. Used for his welcome to ad for Prize Fighter Cutlery.

More of Ben's work; Polaroids and traditional 35mm.

Big fan of this one.

Everyone was encouraged to have some fun with pens.

Ashley Owen's great photos.

That bike gang is mean!

Really liked this one for some reason. Normally not too into these type of photos but this one is great.

For a Sunday night it was a great turn out.

Thanks to Evan and Ben Borella for putting the show together and everyone at the Tartine cafe for the great night!

A good set of cruiser wheels is a hard thing to find. Thank goodness for Prize Fighter and their new bro-model cruiser wheel for Danny Falla. Clocking in at 64mms and 85a durometer means you're going to have a smooth ride.

NYC based Japanther release this new video with stop-motion animation by multi-skilled Amber B. Dianda and edited by her husband and equally talented Kirk Dianda. Painstakingly done by hand, "it took over 2000 frames to create the music video."

Mat O'Brien and Dan Wolfe on 14th St., S.F. 2004.

A few months ago my external back-up drive took the shit of all shits and died. Good-bye 12+ years everything I had ever created that was worth saving. Recently I began going through old boxes and re-scanning prints and old Polaroids like the above. A walk down memory lane when all I shot with was a Polaroid Land Camera 440.

I used to work at law firms with great views of downtown S.F. Winter rains made for interesting perspectives.

S.F. resident Evan Kinori has been skating the hills and streets of the city for more than a few years now. Without seeking the spotlight he's had footage in a variety of homie and friend sections, including a couple of Magenta's edits. Now he's been added to NYC's Prize Fighter Cutlery wheel co.