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Friday, February 26th 2010
Earlier this week, Upper Playground had posted a clip of a classic interview with Chris Pastras that was shot and produced in 2004 for 'The Run Up' which delves into the creative world of the Co-Captain. In it, he discusses how skating and art have both been a part of his life since the age of seven and refers to the aesthetics and design of Stereo as separate version of his art. Creating art for Stereo projects is almost a methodical procedure and more like planning a road trip. There's a beginning (such as a mission to create board graphics,magazine ads, etc.) then there’s the journey (deciding what art, photos, and color schemes to use) and ultimately a destination (final product). His free art allows more time for creativity as he relies more on raw ideas and emotion to dictate what comes next.
Below are a few pictures of Chris working on a Dew sponsored Watts Towers mural at P. Rod's TF. Photos of the completed mural coming soon...
Art from Co-Captain Pastras will be shown during The Manifest Equality‘s art contest in Los Angeles to help contribute awareness towards equal rights. Manifest Equality, which also has a gallery space in downtown LA, has assembled a panel of judges, who range from the Mayor of Los Angeles (Antonio Villaraigosa) to Vogue editor (Lisa Love) to established artists themselves (Shepard Fairy, Edward Ruscha), will pick five, 1st prize winners that will have the honor of showing their work from Wednesday, March 3rd – Sunday, March 7th (also known as Oscar Week).
The judges will also choose ten 2nd prize winners who’s art will be showcased along with the 1st place winners on the Manifest Equality online gallery. Judges will be critiquing the artists submission on the contest’s six themes; Equality, Justic, Respect, Unity, Civil Rights and Love.
Thursday, July 29th 2010
We are proud to log our first dispatch this week in from Tony Karr's one-man spur of the moment Midwest tour. Tony traveled from the Midwest out to Washington then all the way back to LA on a free roaming summer adventure with his buddy Tom Rohrer. Tony and Tom sent these clips back that they shot on Digicam at one of the stops. Stay tuned for more from Tony's travels soon....
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Wednesday, July 28th 2010
The groundbreaking How We Roll Exhibition at The California African American Museum (CAAM) kicks off tonight with an opening reception from 6 to 10 PM PST. The 6 month running show focuses on African American involvement in skateboarding and includes the aforementioned Sir Pastras mural along with a host of other bonified skateboard greats' works and musings. If you're in Los Angeles,...
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Monday, July 26th 2010
We stumbled on this kosher vaults montage from a '93 demo at Leffinge Skatepark in Belgium the other day. '93 was the year that Blue Skateboards was launched as the test flight for soon to be Stereo, born the following year. Check out the likes of Kareem, Salman, Kelly Bird (People forget that Kelly seriously ripped), Dune, and Jason (Switch crooks yo) making the best of...
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Thursday, July 22nd 2010
This Thursday we decided to put up the Jason Hernandez sculpted classic of a HiFi Commercial he shot with Clint a few months back now running amongst the rest on the BATB3. The project had been set in motion right around when Mr. Peterson, Brady, Brophy, and Benny all got on the team—handily marketed by The HiFi Mystery Riders Contest of Star Spangled yore. I can't say enough good...
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Wednesday, July 21st 2010
Another round up of semi recent goods on the social media battleground we call the internet today. Leading the charge, Stereo friends The Chromeball Incident have not failed to shine in terms of online skate journalistic gold over these past few years. A few days ago they put up a virtual treasure chest of J.Lee gems ranging from the Rocco-epic early SMA days (The writing in early World ads...
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