Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Legend of ELBERT R. HALL Wichita, Kansas…motorcycle man.
Kind of cool...from Coker tires blog
"If you habit events pertaining to vintage motorcycles you might have been lucky enough to experience the historical vision of the original Super Six Hudson “truck” of Elbert R Hall, famous purveyor of all things motorcycle. This famous “truck” is not really a truck at all but a 1929 4 door sedan automobile converted to a “cooler than dang it” farm truck. Elbert’s son and current guardian of the Hudson “truck” has a blast entertainin hisself and crowds at the event he takes “Elbert…the truck” to."
if you want to read more= http://blog.coker.com/index.php/2007/09/04/the-legend-of-elbert-r-hall-wichita-kansasmotorcycle-man/
"If you habit events pertaining to vintage motorcycles you might have been lucky enough to experience the historical vision of the original Super Six Hudson “truck” of Elbert R Hall, famous purveyor of all things motorcycle. This famous “truck” is not really a truck at all but a 1929 4 door sedan automobile converted to a “cooler than dang it” farm truck. Elbert’s son and current guardian of the Hudson “truck” has a blast entertainin hisself and crowds at the event he takes “Elbert…the truck” to."
if you want to read more= http://blog.coker.com/index.php/2007/09/04/the-legend-of-elbert-r-hall-wichita-kansasmotorcycle-man/
Monday, February 23, 2009
Way back time 1976….
1976….. United States Bicentennial
- Cost of a gallon of Gas 59 cents
- Polaroid Camera $28.00
- Earthquake in Tabgshan China kills 655,000
- The First Commercial Concorde Flights take off
- The world’s first recorded Ebola virus epidemic begins in Sudan
- Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda, where Israeli commandos storm the plane freeing the hostages
- Three Gunmen abduct a school bus with 26 children and the driver near Chowchilla, Calif ( all children and driver are saved after they dig a tunnel out of the quarry they were buried in. )
- Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- First laser printer introduced by IBM - the IBM 3800
- NASA Unveils first space shuttle, the Enterprise
- Matsushita introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete with Sony's Beta max system.
- Landing Vehicles from the US Spacecraft Viking I and Viking II set down safely on Mars
And if you opened a magazine you might have seen these….
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Nam Jun Paik
Some of you may have no clue how Nam Jun Paik was But thats ok..
I didn't either until 1994.I was in an art magnet,I was put here because I could create art yet couldn't pass econ.trust me I didn't mind.Our magnet class had the very specail opprortunity to have a video session with Paik.Our teach told us about this and no one understood how cool it would be until He showed us some of his work..
I think this is what sparked my interest in creating outsider music more then anything.As Paik was creatng electronic music way before there were tems such a techno or house. I took this in a different direction and created "noise" with giutars.drums and any house hold items I could get my hands on.I never had the cash to buy the vidoe editing stuff but I could afford to go to the pawn shop and buy up every 4 track and odd effect pedal,and microphone..I still have most of those tapes in their raw form as I never bounced anything down and only did live performances with my many 4 tracks.i even did a few recordings with friends and some that was even put to vinyl and CD..Check out RaceBannon now on southern Records as this was the group I toured with for many years and had many a great time destroying PA systems accross palnet earth..If it wasn't for this man I had never heard of before comng into my life and showing me you really don't have to do anything the way a book prescribes it I don't think I would have ever done some of the thing I have done..ok enough about me check out Nam Jun Paik..
I didn't either until 1994.I was in an art magnet,I was put here because I could create art yet couldn't pass econ.trust me I didn't mind.Our magnet class had the very specail opprortunity to have a video session with Paik.Our teach told us about this and no one understood how cool it would be until He showed us some of his work..
I think this is what sparked my interest in creating outsider music more then anything.As Paik was creatng electronic music way before there were tems such a techno or house. I took this in a different direction and created "noise" with giutars.drums and any house hold items I could get my hands on.I never had the cash to buy the vidoe editing stuff but I could afford to go to the pawn shop and buy up every 4 track and odd effect pedal,and microphone..I still have most of those tapes in their raw form as I never bounced anything down and only did live performances with my many 4 tracks.i even did a few recordings with friends and some that was even put to vinyl and CD..Check out RaceBannon now on southern Records as this was the group I toured with for many years and had many a great time destroying PA systems accross palnet earth..If it wasn't for this man I had never heard of before comng into my life and showing me you really don't have to do anything the way a book prescribes it I don't think I would have ever done some of the thing I have done..ok enough about me check out Nam Jun Paik..
More Lego customs
well if you all haven't noticed I love legos. I spent most my childhood building them and still do it as a thirty year old...here are a few more I found offa cafe society which is where I find so many of them and other cool stuff
More power
John, a friend of ours from bobbertalk.com is converting an XS650 to a 750 with the MikesXS kit. Ain't it purdy?
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Hell Mutts
You've spent countless hours in your shed, garage, shop or wigwam busting your knuckles and emptying beer bottles trying to get that motorbike running. Now it's done and sick as hell, so you slap on your dads old raggedy lid only to have most of the liner stay in your hair? Yeah that's where it's at..... Want something extra for that old lid?
Check out Billyd over @ Hell mutts http://www.hellmuttliners.com
Here's some of his stuff
I think she likes it
Check out Billyd over @ Hell mutts http://www.hellmuttliners.com
Here's some of his stuff
I think she likes it
Friday, February 20, 2009
RIP the RIPPER
On January 2009, Powell-Peralta hosted the Rip the Ripper Art Show. Fifty eight artists had pieces on display. The reason for the show was to celebrate The Ripper graphic. So many skaters and artists have been influenced by VCJ’s image over the years, we wanted to do something that would pay respect to VCJ and get skaters stoked. We invited a group of artists and asked them to interpret The Ripper in their own style.
via:thru Zelastchance, > http://powell-peralta.com/
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