Hung out with Amy Cook over the weekend in Austin. Refueled magazine was there to shoot Amy for the next issue's cover story. Locations for the shoot included Hotel Saint Cecila and Amy's lake side trailer. While down by the water, we were given a very private acoustic performance of songs from Amy's upcoming album and were the first to hear her hypnotictribute (video below) to Michael Jackson. Fucking brilliant.
Today was the most perfect Father's Day for me. Spent the Summer Solstice with my two girls at the skatepark for "Go Skateboarding Day". The local boys were displaying some sick tricks while my nine year old, in background, was testing her new skills on the ramps.
Yes, it's true. I will be interviewing surf/skate/streetwear giant Shawn Stüssy for the next issue of Refueled magazine. I've been a huge fan of Stüssy growing up, so it's rad that I will be able to sit down with him and talk about his newest venture S/Double, surfing, art and the current state of streetwear. Look for it this Fall.
Eleven years in the making and compiling more than 30 years of material, Ed Templeton’s scrapbook of his upbringing in suburban Orange County California. Its photographs give a sun-drenched glimpse of what it might be like to be young and alive in the “suburban domestic incubator” of Orange County, conveyed in the idiom of Nan Goldin or Larry Clark (and with a sharp eye for the streets that recalls Garry Winogrand or Eugene Richards). For like his groundbreaking predecessors, Templeton is always a participant in the scenes he shoots. From the Alleged Press series curated by Aaron Rose, Deformer interweaves disciplinary letters from Templeton’s grandfather and religious notes from his mother with sketches, snapshots, telling images and the occasional brutal tale, laying out an unresolved narrative that plunges readers headlong into Templeton’s chaotic youth and his reliance on art and skateboarding to accommodate its stresses and joys.“ Skateboarding allowed me to travel the world, and that showed me that where I live is totally messed up,” he observes. “That perspective has fueled me and been a source for my art.” Through photographs, stories and ephemera of all sorts from his youth and teenage years, Templeton offers readers an intensely close and personal look at an artist’s coming of age.
