Did I spell that right? Lately it’s all about aticipation. Feeling pretty in the moment with both happy’s and sads, buzzes and mellow days (not too many of those lately.). There is a lot of goober in my mind though thinking about what is to come. More rad art in the mail, my steven pint glasses, and just a few short days from seeing the finished Randall and Boris in my hand. Want want want to touch these little buggers sooo much. Work and work and more work. Doing customs for le merde’s burgerbuns, shin and nao’s love movement show, and a sketchbot. while finding some time to make some mushroom art for the grass hut JESUS WAS A MUSH ROOM show this thursday, making 30+ more pieces for the Spoonsful of star wars show at designer con, and doing customs + mailing out randall’s for other folks to make customs, and finishing paintings for said randall’s magic scrapyard show. Oh and i got a bug up my butt to make an awesome diarama for randall. Somethings got to give, but don’t know what yet. very excited cause my birthday is coming up and it’s a biggie, then the next day I leave for tokyo. Just gotta hold it together and work even harder somehow till then.
In honor of the upcoming mushroom show. Here’s a little mushroom postin’. A few weeks ago as an early birthday gift from my lady i got to go on a weekend mushroom hunt slash workshop at Opal Creek. It was piles of fun. I got soaked to the bone, and can’t remember the last time i had so much fun crawling around on my hands and knees thru the pacific northwest rainforest.
we found a gazillion different mushrooms, did a lot of identifying, watched a slide show, ate a bunch of them, went to bed and then did a shorter version of the same the next day.
scott, who as it turns out had been to a few grass Hut shows is very excited here because he thinks he’s got an eater.
is it possible there would be anything better than mushrooms to find out there. Just the most awesome thing on earth. Salamanders and newts.
even globby had a good time.
2 left eh
fun to do. tried to save some space for that awesome glitter gren to show through. release is tomorrow at noon pacific time eh.
coming this friday a little halloween action. A few new steven customs.
love love love that trans green glitter.
here’s a new piece i completed for the thrashout show. Steven and boris
here’s a way better pic ofthe glasses from super 7. I don’t know how many but i should have a few of the steven ones available soon.
Just a few sets left now.
Go to the catarog section eh.
This friday at noon pacific time. krokus killer 2 pak! Here. Sleeping killer has been asleep for a long time. Wake up Killer. SK has apple green, milk yellow, deep red, and a bruised eye. PK has apple green, milk pink (which almost looks white), and blue bruised eye. Both are opaque lavender vinyl. Too much crazy at the Soft Crusher show? Super happy with the results.
Sometimes this stuff just slips right past me. Found this on vinyl pulse. Wonder when i get mine. Want want want excited. Will see if i can sell some too on here yonder sitewad.
also last saturday there was a green trans glitter steven for sale on the S7 site. Not sure if he’s still available. I got two for walk ins at grass hut, and a small pile up for customs. I love this color.
a little while ago i got the best mail ever. a hand crocheted (did i spell that right?) Randall the bear. Thanks Blake! Randall has been going with me wherever i go, bike rides, mushroom hunting, and hanging out at grass hut with me. Here he is chilling wit ha couple of tokoji seijins.
Sleeping killer is back from a long summer sleep. I missed you sleeping killer. KROKUS two pak. lavender sleeping killer and pocket kaiju killer are coming this friday at noon. Public release eh.
these will be painted. More info soon, lots more pics up on me flickred
here’s a bit of ramblin’. Maybe there’s a few folks out there that might enjoy this bit of history. It’s two fold cause it’s about my new toy buddy Randall and my new bike. Some of you may now I’ve gone nuts again about bmx. I’ve ridden off and on thru out my getting longer life. Starting with mt first Huffy thunder out in death valley, riding the red clay hills in Central Valley (now swallowed up by Redding i do believe), racing and sucking at it in the east bay and other northern parts. Never once winning a trophy rarely even making it out of my first moto. i have distinct memories of never coming in last, painful fright of doubles, and doing things like running over another kids head. Never last cause somebody always crashed or there was one kid (maraculously (spell check please)) slower than me or even more odd, more scared. I moved into skateboarding around the early 80′s and never looked back til adulthood where i had a string of bmx’s in all shapes and sizes, thru bad luck and I think a lot of carelessness all stolen. Ending with my firemans 26 getting ripped off my front porch. turdball cut the iron railing it was locked up to instead of the lock since it was easier. Fart forward 6 years of no bmx to last summer. I got an old granny three speed in Pasadena to ride when I drove down to San Diego for Comic Con. Something felt really right. I had been riding a single speed, which had eventually turned into a fixie for the past 6 years and just wasn’t having fun and somehow the granny bike just brought it back out. i started hunting for another 26 bmx. Bought a vintage laguna 3 bar. great fun for cruising. i started actually trying some tricks on it going out for a late-night bunny hop session here and there after my family went to sleep. but that old laguna was way too stretched out for that. I was hooked and went nuts. I got another 26 firemans which i dubbed the beast. I love it and have the notion that this is made for a giant, scored a DC 26 quad, geometry is a little better in the front, not real happy with the quality. i bought a retro 26 GJS, but gotta be honest, that thing wasn’t made with care or for shredding, the back end is 10 feet long. Switched over to some 24 cruisers. Both of these I love, an L&S (my daily rider, or my once a week night time rider i should say), and an old S&M Challenger. Really dig both of these bikes.
my obsession with BMX and 26 continued on though, and I thought it was time to just get what i wanted. US made, and as local as possible. i wanted something that blended the new kid “Plus Size” bmx like a Black Market Mob with the vintage Bikes I love to actually ride. So here it is… Work in progress…A vintage 3 bar cruiser based specifically on an old Panda 26 Raider, with modern geometry and welds that can handle just about anything. the forks are modified S&M 26. there’s a few details to work out and welds to make, but she’s almost ready- the prototype Bearturds 26″
if i like it as much as i think I’m gonna and some of you guys out there like it too, we’ll make a short run of these fun bikes.
Now for some deeper nerding out. A big part of BMX for me is nostalga and style. Not quite sure how to explain this, but here’s how I came to Bearturds. i have a deep love for northern california, so i started looking (a lot) at the old northern cali BMX companies- Patterson, Skyway, Boss, and the magic hit, Panda. Panda was based originally in Concord California. this place was so close to many of my old homes. i sepnt countless hours ditching school and riding the bart bus to concord from my old shitehole Oakley to ride the bart banks, steal magazines from Tower records, look at toys at the Toys R US, and ride the backyard pools of concord, pleasant hill and walnut creek. Those were some fun days. Panda, thru my understanding was eventually bought out by Boss, based in Oakland. this made for the double found memories of my dad, RIP, a hillbilly from Kentucky would take me to raiders games when they were the og Oakland Raiders. Another moment of retarded brilliancy hits and this bear character i had been struggling with for two years gets his magic. ye olde raiders eyepatch and a hillbilly hat. So out of total nerdness i get two things that i absoluetly love now. my new randall the bear, and the bearturds 26. Wow that was a lot of wind.
