I met Shay from Shayboarder.com in Vegas this past January at the SIA tradeshow. She had approached me about doing a profile interview for her website dealing with how I ended up being able to design at Spacecraft. Click here to check it out.

The New York Times recently ran a fascinating article about Isaiah Zagar, an artist whos has created elaborate mosaics that cover many buildings in South Philadelphia.

Isaiah is now the subject of, In A Dream, an award winning documentary by his son Jeremiah.

You can read the NY Times article here. The DVD of the film will be released in the States on September 29th, 2009.

my mom was  a huge fan of Michael Jackson, she just had this done and got it back to day//

The winter of 2009 will go down in history as one of the most transitional times that snowboarding has ever faced. Unlike any winters before, snow conditions were either the best ever or the most dangerous of all time. Out of these dark times rises Standard Films new High Definition Film: Black Winter… a movie that showcases the unstoppable progressive nature of snowboarding and the insatiable hunger of the riders to put down segments that will stand the test of time…

Enter the Black Winter and witness the arrival of the next era of underground shreds Halldor Helgason of Iceland, Torstein Horgmo from Norway, Jason Dubois from Quebec City, and Lonnie Kauk of Mammoth Lakes.. Heavywieght Andreas Wiig comes aboard this season with his strongest freestyle segment to date. Chas Guldemond, Eric Jackson, and Mark Landvik all have their own stories to tell about their Black Winter experiences from life changing contest wins to heart pounding avalanches.

Starring: Torstein Horgmo, Eric Jackson, Mark Landvik, Andreas Wiig, Jason Dubois, Andrew Geeves, Ben Lynch, Chas Guldemond, Leanne Pelosi, Seb Toots, Lonnie Kauk, Xavier Delerue

Locations: Terrace, Norway, Iceland, Haines, Tahoe, Squaw Valley, Park City, Crested Butte, Montreal, Switzerland, Sierra at Tahoe.

Pat Milbery has it all going for him. A positive attitude, a quick wit, the ladies love him, and the guys want to shred with him. But behind this confident, smooth talking exterior, lies the heart of teddy bear, a shredding teddy bear. Pat is into everything that you could possibly tie to snowboarding. He’s involved in art, music, fashion, product design, event planning, marketing, coaching, feature design, and mentoring. This is in addition to his filming parts with the well-known Think Thank crew of ultra-creative-snowboarding fame. I am fortunate to call this snowboarding entrepeneur a friend so it was my pleasure to grab a few minutes of his time to chat about what he’s up to.–Ben Classen

Click here to read the interview. Enjoy!

Sixeart is a spanish multidimensional artist who expresses by his colourful works a unique universe through different artforms. Sixeart started his artistic trajectory in the World of graffiti in the late 80s. In the beginning he was simply tagging the streets of Barcelona, which led him to develop his own personal graffiti style. In the mid 90s he started experimenting with sculpture and painting until in the year 98 he felt the need to have his own Studio. Having his Studio he has been able to establish himself as a plastic artist.

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believe in yourself.

Here’s a unique piece that explores the idea of how artwork would respond if it knew we were looking at it. The Opto-Isolator sculpture is a black box with a robotic, human-sized blinking eye in the dead center. It responds to the gaze of whoever’s staring at it with a series of “psychosocial eye-contact behaviors” like looking the viewer directly in the eye, studying the viewers face, looking away coyly if it’s stared at for too long and even blinking exactly one second after you do.

Spacecraft has set some roots in Bali, Indonesia and in that process they have begun working to help the community of Canggu (a small farming and growing surf village). Their efforts include help with keeping trash off the beaches and organizing a recycling program at the local Warangs (restaurants) in a way that is sustainable and makes sense to the locals. “We then gathered the empty juice containers and potato chip bags from the recycle bins and had belts and wallets made out of them,” says Ryan Davis, marketing manger for Spacecraft. Pick up Spacetrash belts and wallets, the Modify and Offender beanie, and the Cupcake shirt at your favorite local retailer.

Hit up ESPN to view the article they posted on our Spacetrash items coming out this Fall!

LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

a world with flying cars is now that much closer thanks to the new terrafugia transition a street legal flying
car. the plane can fly in the air like a small plane or fold its wings for driving down the road. terrafugia has
been working on personal aircrafts since 2006  and the transition is the result of their work. the vehicle can
cruise in the air at 115 mph with a range of 460 miles. as a car, the transition has front-wheel drive with
automotive style entry doors and plenty of cargo space. if the idea of flying to work suits you, you can
become a sport pilot in as little as 20 hours of flight time through a special course. but the vehicle will run
you an estimated 194,000 USD.

[www.terrafugia.com]

Growing up, there are things that impact you and moments that are burned into your brain. I have many key moments in my life that have changed my direction or inspired me. In the month of June, we in the NW were impacted with a tragedy that hit hard… the loss of two amazing humans that more than likely etched in memories with many of us. Gunther Frank and Sean Mansfield were lost in a boating accident… It has crushed the ones that they were close to. The thing we can be thankful for is that if those guys were in your life, you were better off for it. Gunther is the most inspiring photographer that I knew growing up and was pretty magic on a bike. He was an Oak Harbor kid like I was… and that’s a special breed. Sean is a gifted snowboarder that would be considered so on any level. Beyond his skills on board toys, Sean was a talented artist that customized many a friends clothing for the better. I covet the character that he drew on my back-country pack at the Circle Bar in Vegas… An unlikely place to meet someone like Sean for sure. In a testament to the impact that our friends made on us, the likes of the entire Bellingham community showed up at the B-Ham skatepark along with friends from far and wide. None other than Rob Skala came out and showed the youth of today that age is a state of mind and put on a clinic of shred that had skate tails clacking on coping every time that he entered the bowl. Thanks Rob, thanks Gunt and thank you Sean for bringing it full force. See you on the flip side…

Drawing by: Jessica Lynch

Pete in Gunther

Skala airing out

I saw it many times on the net, but never quite understood the genius of it until I saw this video. It is a “64″ buttons interface, very simple, but the sound works so well for its type of interaction and the device fits instantaneously with your expectation. The rhythm you create invites for more exploration.

New York’s Madison Square Garden has taken on a Swiss-Family-Robinson feel lately. This is due to an art exhibition featuring work by Tadashi Kawamata called Madison Square Tree Huts, which emerged completed on October 2. A gathering of small wooden houses up in the trees, folks passing through the park might find themselves grinning upward with wonderment at these small structures meant to shake up our notion of public space and how it interacts with ideas of urbanity, rural romanticism and play.

what can you say about this,  except awsome.

my brother

Hey Everyone!

Check out Urban Nomad Collective’s newest teaser for “How The Northwest Was One“, which is coming out in September. The music is from Scott Sullivan, and the riding and filming comes straight from the Wild Card Crew. Hope you enjoy! ::

Photo by: Scott S : Urban Nomad