That’s right… Spacecraft has moved to a new location. We found ourselves in an opportune position when former Miami Vice star, Don Johnson, aka “Crocket” was evicted from his secret lair on the waterfront in Ballard, Seattle. With a view of the ocean, shag carpet, a spiral stair case and a setting straight out of a 80’s porno set, the new Spacecraft office is a perfect place for us to plot the takeover of what is RAD.
Hit us up if you are in Seattle… we’ll let you take us to lunch at the legendary Paseo Cuban Sandwich shop just a few doors down.
Check the photos:
The front office
The hall of Spacecraft art
Mango's new corner office
The "Girl's only" bathroom
The meeting room : magic wallpaper
Home cooked lunch
Thanks to all the interns for helping with the move :: Enjoy
We recently received some photos of our Bali production manager Dewa’s beautiful wedding in Bali.
Dewa gave me a few insights into the ceremony, which took place in December at Dewa’s parents’ house.
As the usual the Balinese person gets married (pawiwahan or nganten) it must be done the ‘proper way’ which means in front of the whole village. If a man is living in his own place it will be at his house, if not at the home of his parents, the new wife moving in immediately. When people get married in Bali, the man takes responsibility as a member of society. He gets the right to speak at a Banjar (the community body) meeting and must take on social duties, such as attending the temple ceremonies and taking part in the community activities. In this way other members of the Banjar will come to recognize him as an adult and he will have the opportunity to take on more responsibility in the Banjar.
Hindu wedding ceremonies are rich in tradition; between elaborate entertainment (with storytellers!) ritual and food, it sounds like magic. Dewa provided me with a few highlights:
- The wedding ceremony begins with a Memadik process, where the groom’s family meet with the bride’s family to ask the bride if she wants to marry the groom. If the answer is yes, the bride will go with the groom to his family’s house.
- The groom’s family arranges and pays for the wedding; the date set well in advance on a propitious day. Wedding guests are often entertained by professional storytellers and musicians. Enormously detailed rules govern dining and seating arrangements.
- Usually the bride and groom offer food to one another, then simulate such domestic duties such as washing, cooking rice, and cutting bamboo. Prayers are intoned, and then the couple eats together in public, feeding each other. This is an important symbolic act, as in former times only married men and women were allowed to eat food together in public. The priest then performs a ritual purification and blesses the couple.
- With the wedding process in Bali, both families will unite, not simply the bride and groom… This is why there is always many people attending a ceremony.
Devi takes part in the family business in Bali that makes our magic hand-knitted hats, making her an important part of the Spacecraft. Congratulations to Dewa and Devi for making it happen.
Templeton at The Skateboard Mag put up a post yesterday about Chicago skater David Thomas, who was dropped from his insurance company after finding out he has testicular cancer.
The good news is, he has a lot of awesome friends who are doing a ton of fundraising to help cover his medical bills. You can help out The Nicest Man in Chicago online, or if you’re in the Chicago area you can head over to the Empty Bottle on Wednesday the 21st for a pretty kickin’ fundraising party:
There’s also going to be a raffle and auction for some “sick merch”–should be pretty sick, and it’s for a good cause.
Mother nature has been messing with the NW all season… she gave us snow in November with record coverage and then pretty much stopped giving us precipitation with cold air until April…
Well… we’ll take it. Thank you snow, may I have another? Seek and Enjoy ::
Just like heli boarding except you have to walk...
Inspired by the television show “Glee,” more than 800 dancers perform in Westlake Park, Pioneer Square and Seattle Center on a series of “Glee” flash mob events on Saturday, April 10, 2010.
An April dump of snow in the Cascades, one piece suits and stepping back into the rad… Check out the first annual Stevens Pass Retro Fools Day slalom race and as seen by Spacecraft’s Ryan and the Rabbit.
Retro Fool Day
A late season dump produces an amazing day at Stevens Pass on April 2nd. The crew set gates for the first annual Retro Fools Day downhill slalom race. About 100 stoked snow enjoyers showed up at the top of Hogs Back and strapped into their old set-ups. The day was a classic in the making with neon glowing gear and a pretty good assortment of snow toys that represented the evolution of 20+ years of snow shredding design. A slalom course with breakaway gates was the set-up to test your skills and shoot for the fastest time. The snow fell all day and the beer went just the same. Powder, friends and fun was Retro Fools Day… and you know that Spacecraft will be back at Stevens Pass next year… come on out and race the Rabbit on your classic equipment.
Make it Happen : Spacecraft
Stevens Pass Marketing Rad Dude : Nate
Spacecraft Astronaut Kenji rocking Sno Con vintage gems
Ryan and Spacecraft Rabbit at the top of the course
Maxx from POW Gloves and soon to be wife Lindsey from SOS
Dropping in... toe strap up
The Stuart Martin of Zumiez and Edmonds...
Accumulating snow
Good times in the making
Local legend,real estate agent and victor of the snowboarders : Marcel Dolak w/ sister
Classics :
Andy and Marcel
The trophy for 1st place mono ski devision
Trophy grabber snowboard division. I didn't catch your name ripper...
It was like Hot Dog the movie up at Stevens Pass
This guy landed a trophy on an old Gnu
Skier hot dogger and 1st place denim style
Girl soccer trophy for the Spacecraft mantle
The locals were in the spirit
The organizer of the day : Dave... Until next season
This is Sally, ghost-posting for our very own Ryan Davis, who sent us these pictures this morning as he was heading up to Retro Fools Day at Stevens Pass.
Commander Sullivan reporting from the dark and wet regions of Alaska. Since our last update we have spent an unearthly amount of time locked in our stationary living vessels. The Pan Pacific jet stream has taken aim directly at our crew and has barraged us with storm after storm. We have seen the stars come out a few times at night, but the clear skies are gone by the time we are set to depart in the helicopter at dawn.
The best chance we had for a flight mission was the morning after my rock and roll concert in the guide school at the Pioneer Bar, when, after going to bed at 3:30 a.m. with raining skies, dawn broke to clear skies for miles. There is some truth to the saying “drinking it blue,” especially here in Alaska. Someone must not have done their share of self-sacrifice, though. Justin Hostynek, the commander in charge of the video division, had opted out of the ceremonies that night, so maybe blame could be placed on him for the clouds rolling in as we approached the helipad. There’s no arguing with Mother Nature up here. You get what you get.
Avalanche conditions are now at an all-time high after a series of storms that packed copious amounts of precipitation and winds. So even if the sun does come out for 24 hours, intrepid is the soul that first sets foot on some of the bigger exposed slopes.
My sarcastic favorite of this past week was when Camera Technician Jake Price and I stood atop one of the funnest lines we had ever planted our flags on, 2 feet of pow, ready to rip it until the Video Squad leader forbade us to ride it so as to save it for the “real” riders. The lookdown on that one was one of the hardest ever to walk away from. At this point our tracks would have been well covered as there is most likely upward of 6 feet of snow on top of it. I will attach some visual proof of Jake looking down it so one might have a taste. Can I have some cheese with my whine?
During this earthlocked interim we have been keeping ourselves busy in various manners. Gigi has been having lots of arts and crafts time, building snowmen/women and doing lots of stop frame photography and Super 8 filming for the new movie he is working on with Jake Price. Jake Blauvelt has his femme-bot, Kristin (who is also working as a guide with one of the outfits), so we don’t see too much of them on the down days (wink , wink). The rest of us are just lonely Cosmonauts awaiting our next deployment and wishing that our femme-bots were here, too.
We recently had some communications with base and it appears we will be having some new arrivals by early this week from the European Sector and the Seattle Satellite. Officers Blair Habenicht, Wolfgang Nyvelt and Nicolas Muller should be arriving by Tuesday if the launch shuttle can penetrate the thick clouds of this viscious storm cycle.
Mike’s putting the welder down after 24 days of hammering away on his dream conversion for the ultimate adventure.
“I am so excited to get on the road with this. First stop: King of the Hill, Valdez, Alaska.”
In Progress
Departing Area: 241 the 25th of March for the five-day drive.
“See you soon, Thompson Pass!”
This weekend is North by Northwest’s Strapless Weekend at Hurricane Ridge! Admission–$15 for one day or $20 for two–gets you a t-shirt and a raffle ticket. Olympic National Park is not charging for entrance.
Saturday includes a Park Jam at around noon, starting with a one-hour all skate jam, with the top 10 advancing to a half hour jam and the top 5 advancing to a half-hour final. First place gets $700. Also on Saturday: an evening indoor skate jam and a party at the Coo Coo’s Nest in Port Angeles with the T-Bagging Bandits.
Sunday includes the Baked Slalom around noon at the Port Angeles Speed Ditch with a $300 first-place prize, an end-of-the-day raffle, and (most likely) the Snowskate Powder Downhill.
Also, if you can get your triple “S” (Snow, Skate and Surf) all in on either day there’s a hat in it for you–and bring your hotel receipt, because they’ll be raffling off a free hotel room stay, too.
Looking for something to do in Bellingham this Friday?
Funner Fest features DJ Ryan I and The Endorfins, plus art by Dylan Hart, Pat Kennedy, Norman Rogue, Nico Inzerella, Jenny Tofe and Jayme Wiseman. Bellingham has one of the tightest art scenes in the area–it should be a great event.
Spacecraft loves Kurtis in Reno for sending us some art with his sticker request. We are loading Kurtis up with stickers and hanging his art on our refrigerator.
Just a heads-up: if you send us art with your sticker requests, we’ll load you up with even more stickers.
We at Spacecraft like to snow skate from time to time. I think snow skating has still to reach its prime… many vision a lunch tray with grip tape and a little rail set up… back yard stuff for kids, right?… I guess it depends on how you look at it and what level you want to take it to.
I personally like the by-decks and being able to RIDE the mountain… The dudes that put on the Serpentine Massacre are of similar thought. These guys are pushing an underground movement that is likely to smear any stereotypes of snowskaters…
Riding the whole mountain on conditions that allow it can rejuvenate your love for the mountain and even act as a way to feel like a kid again… or it’s just another excuse to drink beer and get ideas for bad tattoos. Only you can decide, so, before you stereotype this “un-sport” as a novelty act, check out people who really RIDE snowskates. Your jaw will drop and you’ll become a groupie.
The Shakedown was a grassroots event that was started in the far away country of Canada. It has grown in popularity over the years and made its way to Washington’s Summit at Snoqualmie.
We were given an invite to come see some talented snow shredders leap off of a huge snow wedge and then navigate a rail set-up after landing that.
It was a cool scene at the Summit, with a steady crowd to cheer on the snowboard leapers.
Spacecraft stayed low key and lurked around checking out the action from the sidelines.
Congrats to Manuel Diaz and Megan Ginter from your friends at Spacecraft
The images below are a slice of the final day as seen through Spacecraft eyes.
The Seattle Greasebus is up and going! Spread the word and make sure to join us this next weekend (3/18-3/21) for the inaugural trips to the Summit and to Stevens Pass!
How it works:
The Greasebus service is first-come first-serve. For the spring of 2010 we’re offering trips to the mountains four days a week, pending at least 10 seats are sold. On the calendar (see link below) you can view how many riders are registered for any particular day by clicking on “Sign Up” in that date.
Schedule:
Summit: Thursdays & Saturdays (leaves evo @ 8am, snocon at 830a)
Stevens Pass: Fridays & Sundays (leaves evo @ 8am, snocon at 830a)
SIGN UP - Easy as 1-2-3
STEP 1: Select a day on the calendar. (Take note of which mountain the bus is headed to.)
STEP 2: Reserve your spot on the bus by filling in your mobile phone number.
STEP 3: Use a credit card to pay using Paypal (no account required) for just $10!
Marco Zamora’s is an installation artist/printmaker/painter, who displays his fascination with bicycle culture with densely populated street scenes and Derek Albecks Print maker/painter/photographer who’s richly patterned works dominate. Both these artists have worked with Vans as well as exhibiting throughout the west coast.
Check out there exabition at the Fecal Face Dot Gallery, April 1st 2010, 6-9pm
Fecal Face Dot Gallery
66 Gough St. @Market
San Francisco, CA 94102
gallery@fecalface.com
415.255.6479
Rumors have been buzzing all around the Internet Worlds, should Windells get
a second private lift in their private park or is the one good enough?
Well It is official, Tim Windell himself called from the Oval Office minutes ago and made the announcement: ”WINDELLS CAMP will have a second lift for the
Summer of 2010.” Windells is once again the first summer shred camp in the
history of the world to own, operate and install, two of its very own
private rope-tows!
