May 2012
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Oops!
Guess I got sidetracked for 24 hours…
So, yeah, the last months of hard work have paid off…
But, it’s only the beginning. More on Live, later.
Two to go
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Three to go
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Four to go
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April 2012
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coming soon enough…
Merci, Evan!
March 2012
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A journey like many others
Thought I would share the text I wrote for the latest SB Journal issue with all the non japanese speaking folks out there. I know there are a few…
This was written under the guidelines provided by SB’s great editor, Senichiro Ozawa, around the theme of your personnal journey through skateboarding. Quite a theme!
I believe the journey started with the first copy of a magazine I bought at...
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Watch0’5” is a hint on things to come… More, later.
In the meantime, enjoy Ludovic Azémar last trailer for his full length independent video project, Color Your Memories… Paris premiere next week.
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February 2012
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Merci, SB Journal!
While my body and soul were deep in The Obstacle, the latest issue of SB Journal showed up in my mailbox, which is always exciting…
This is the Journey issue, and, as discussed in a previous blurb, it features texts and photography from people all around the world, sharing how far skateboarding, in one way or another has led them… A journey we can all relate to, even to the smallest scale, like,...
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The journey is inside you…
SB Journal is this great publication from Japan I have been lucky to work with for about a year, now…
They just released another themed issue, based on the idea of Journey. To celebrate this, SB Journal has been poking contributors about travelling stories and road essentials for a B-side to the paper copy.
Brush off your japanese skills and check it out, here.
Kenny Reed’s quote is...
January 2012
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Tous a Paris!
So, this has been my main focus, for the past weeks…
And you know how I was ranting on the world being a small place, at the end of the day? Well, Rich “Badger” Holland was one of the main person behind The Side Effects Of Urethane exhibitions, where I met many people, including Travis Graves… And for this thing, he is going off, building some wooden monster, somewhere in the...
a small vinyl world
Some might have wondered what the previous post was standing for, apart from its obvious awesomeness… Well, that video was supposed to be quickly followed by a little blurb about its hero, Travis Graves, which got lost in the mix called life…
So… When I stumbled upon the aforementioned video, it reminded me that I had lost my chance to cope Travis third realase as Mt Egypt, when it came out...
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Vancouver?
In a few days, on the 19th, Hour Hands will open. A photo exhibition curated by Gordon Nicholas and Brayden Olson, and getting many people together such as Allen Ying, Angela Boatwright, Brian Gaberman, Dylan Doubt, Ed Templeton, Jon Mehring, Mark Oblow, Mike O’Meally, Peter Sutherland and many more, including myself…
The show celebrates the release of the “Timeless” issue of Color...
December 2011
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Another Robert, another wrap
I was looking for a picture to fit the times and mood, and somehow this one made sense…
Guess it actually sums up the current state of things for me, as the New Year is bound to be quite a busy one, with many projects overlapping…Hopefully, it will piece up nicely.
This photo was recently part of issue 04 of Ala Champfest, and came with its story. In case you have not coped a copy already,...
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Unedited truth
Color magazine, in Canada, recently published an issue dedicated to people indulging in not only collecting stuff, but also making something out of it.
Obviously, Bobby Puelo was one of the features, illustrated by a couple photos I shot during an eventfull afternoon in NYC a few years back. People might have seen some of the photographs we had shot of his room, filled up to the roof with the...
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No mo' Bill!
Monster Skateboard Magazine in Germany just published the full length interview I did of William Strobeck while in NYC for the Printed Matter Le Cercle launch.
Quite the character for being a man behind the lens, he makes for great conversation, that’s for sure! Which allowed us to discuss the making of Photosynthesis, sleeping on young and rich Dill’s floor, growing up as a small...
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November 2011
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Start your own band!
Issue 02 of Dank magazine came out a little while ago, and you should definitely try to get your hands on it, as it must be the most exciting skateboard magazine out there right now. Yes, those guys managed to achieve that status in two issues…
Funny thing is Dank is coming out of Oslo, in Norway. Seems like the local scene had no magazine for years, so Eirik Traavik, Aksel Overskott and Jørn...
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Champ, not camp!
If you are in London, or Paris, this saturday, you have the option to witness the launch of issue 04 of Ala Champfest magazine… I don’t, as I’ll most likely be feasting on pulpo in Vigo. When in Rome…
Anyway, Ala Chamfest is a labor of love from Joanna and Monique Kawecki, covering many grounds and speading the gospel of making stuff. This new issue is once again stacking paper at 258...
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On fame, book collecting and spitting
Oyster magazine just published their 95th issue, and it features a rather good read. The result of Joseph Allen Shea, and a few other people (including Stefan Marx), sitting down at Autobus Café in Paris, with Mark Gonzales. This was during the opening days of the Public Domaine exhibition, at La Gaîté Lyrique, which allowed this sort of worlds colliding moments. For instance, this was the first...
October 2011
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Rapide resume
The previous post reminded me that Javier’s photograph was part of my portfolio pages in Cliché skateboards’ ten years anniversary book, Résumé…
The book came out in 2009 and was designed by Ill Studio. Its cover photograph was shot by Fred Mortagne.
I was more than honoured to be thrown in there with the likes of Mike O’Meally, Olivier Chassignole, Oliver Barton or Alexis...
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Colored memories
Today I got a hold of a lost gem, which sent me back in time…
My cousin Sébastien Caldas (which founded Sugar magazine with me in 1998) told me he still had the hi-res of the image we created for the cover of issue 37. In January 2004 (I believe?) Cliché Skateboards had organized a trip to Casablanca, which sounded like the best idea in the middle of a freezing winter. These few days ended up...
September 2011
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Les jours de la vidéo
Picking up prints tomorrow evening, that will be shown for one day only, on the 24th of September, there:
This should be quite a nice gathering, as Eric Antoine, Stefan Marx and many more are getting into town for this! So, if you’re in Paris, this saturday, please come and enjoy art, music, photography and the best of this video contest that is NOT based on having the most tricks fit...
NYC bound!
For this:
Excited, to say the least… Printed Matter is a bit of a mecca for, well, printed stuff with a desire for expression.
Mark will be present, or so he says!
See you there, maybe?
August 2011
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Nothing is Cool…
Once asked by a rather “square” comrade what she should know about skateboarding to fit in a bit, all I could think of was that Blockhead sticker from a long time ago, where one dude asked another the ultimate question:
“Hey, what’s cool?
-Uh, Nothing…”
Yep, at the end of the nineties, in skateboarding at least, nothing was cool. Or so was the official stance...
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WatchKeeping things Le Cercle here, with the edit Ludovic Azémar did for the Paris Gaîté Lyrique hosted Public Domaine exhibition… Ludovic, a young filmmaker from the suburbs of Paris, had filmed the Trocadéro session to fit Mark Gonzales’ needs in October 2009, and he re-cut it to show a different side of the whole session. While we were looking for music to go with it, or not, this Tommy...
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Brisbane, eh?
I’m afraid I will miss that one, also…
The Outpost looks like a rad little place too! Dammit.
July 2011
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Berlin today, Sydney tomorrow…
As of today, I’m here:
Thanks to Sergej Vutuc’s portable gallery! Go check out his show, if in Berlin, here.
I’m afraid I won’t make it there, though:
I have a 14 Juillet to celebrate, at home! Not really…
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"Bunny hop, son!"
So, today marks the 10th anniversary of Keenan Milton’s passing…
I will not lecture you on who he was, and how great of a man he has been, as you should know. But I’ll share this print of a photograph I took of Peter Bici and him, at the height of his career, sleeping on our floor. They just spent that week in Paris, staying with Samir Krim and I, hanging out and having a good time.
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In Full View
I must have spent an extra week in California, after being told my September 12th of 2001 flight would not happen…
Strangely enough, this lead to a series of adventures (some good, some bad), and one amazingly peacefull trip to Santa Cruz, with Ray Barbee, nonetheless… Ray and I were shooting an interview when the world as we knew it came to an abrupt end, and obviously decided going around San...
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Never pick up the phone!
Speaking of Public Domaine, another image of “l’imparfait du présent” shown there is this one of Andrew Craig watching the news on September 11th of 2001. To put it quickly in context, let’s say that Andrew was part of a seven deep crew of skateboarders that flew from the U.K. (and mainly Liverpool) to San Francisco that day. They literally had just arrived at their friend’s house when...
June 2011
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Souvenir de la rue
Robert Puelo, at home, showing a found photograph out of his many collections stored in plastic bags… Brooklyn, 2008.
This image is part of “l’imparfait du présent”, a serie shown at level 04 of Public Domaine, and also exist as a postcard you can find at Amusement store, next to it… If you visit La Gaîté Lyrique, stop by the shop, as they offer many good things off the...
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Paris uber alles!
Excerpt from the first issue of À Propos, the Anzeige inspired Paris skateboard zine…
Cover shot by David Turakiewicz who runs the magazine, as well as Soma.
Issue 01 included this little story on Brian “Slash” Hansen laybach frontside boardslide on Bercy’s infamous rounded hubba thingy… This guy is a just a pretty decent young man with great skateboarding abilities, if you...
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Glued and all
From Joseph Allen Shea’s cell phone…
See you soon in Paris, holmes!
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Fresh off the press…
Received those pictures today, from Joseph Allen Shea…
Le Cercle, getting printed by the good people at Blood and Thunder in Sydney, Australia…
From negs to prints to collages to scans to InDesign to book…
This is it, Le Cercle is a tangible thing now. A book about to be out… Can’t wait to flip through it, and maybe get a paper cut!
Tuesady both books and originals will show up...
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Sucka free…
Speaking of Pause magazine…
Here is the cover of the second issue, shot in this Lyon former factory that has, since, been turned into an art space/giant squat of sorts. I was invited by two of the residents of La Friche, then, Hugo Liard and Vincent Guillermin.
That day, Julien Bachelier iced the cake with this backside smigth grind… He was coming back from an foot injury and really battled...
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Play / Pause
Le Cercle is a book based around the Trocadéro Circle Board session Mark Gonzales had, one very early morning, during the autumn of 2009…
I was lucky enough to be present and shoot photos while the sun was barely showing up. Then, we skated back through the still empty streets of Paris, all the way to Mark’s appartment. We were in time for the local café opening where we ordered coffee and...
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Whats going on around hear?
A new issue of Sugar skateboard magazine just came out in France…
Wait, what’s this ad about!?
http://www.sugarskatemag.com/
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"Ich bin ein Berliner!"
In October 2010, issue 33 of Anzeige came out in Berlin. Here is a little portfolio I had in it, loosely based around my documentation of local skaters (such as Jan Kliewer, Michael Mackrodt or Maxim Rosenbauer) and their friends…
In times of globalization, Anzeige has been leading the recent blooming of local scene publications (as in printed ones!) and inspired many, such as Grey in London,...
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A damn funky chicken!
Early 2011, Tommy Guerrero released a sixth album, named “Lifeboats and Follies”… Funnily enough, I had bumped in Tommy while walking around Manhattan a few months prior. Tommy and I seem to meet accidently once every ten years, in NYC.
Don’t ask…
This did lead to a few published articles, like in Sugar and Huck.
Find out more about Tommy’s music here:...
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Bourne to run
Sorry Scott, couldn’t resist!
So, in 2010, the good people at Sneaker Freaker published this limited edition (for Asia, I believe) book about the Puma Clyde.
It featured the one and only Scott Bourne and the photo we shot in 2007 for his Kingpin magazine interview and ended up as a cover, then…
A total spur of the moment thing, minutes before this unexpected storm had us waiting out...
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Street H2O
Speaking of water bottles…
Manuel Margreiter, Daryl Angel and Joe Castrucci, during the filming of “Origin”, while in Ivry-Sur-Seine, in 2009. The water was actually donated by a neighbor passing-by with a full shopping cart.
This picture will be part of the Public Domaine exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, from June 18th to August 7th.
More, here:...
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The Warriors have a webwish
Somehow, Switzerland has managed to breed a skateboard gang named The Warriors, aiming from Lugano…
Fearless, they are afraid of neither adding foreigners, like Marseille son Julien Benoliel, nor having their own webzine! http://issuu.com/WarriorsSkateboards/docs/wagazine_issue_1
Quite like how the water bottles seem censored here…