I'm so board with the USA
November 21, 2006
Events are bigger than people think- Francios Guizot
In this new temporal condition "Long tern means a week". The establishment of a style must be declared soon. We live in an acceleration of miss informed decisions poaching on synthetic desires and so called fashions. This epoch has brought us towards the illusion of calculated needs quantified by the over saturation of things that look the same but are sort of different. The landscape is one of smoke and mirrors, clowns and jugglers. We need not follow but move towards a new collective condition of style that modifies and regroups in the manifestation of individuals who are part or a singular self-organizing yet open minded collective. This style I propose need not be similar, however only related by common ideologies and bonds.
In 1986 I first came to London, I skated SOUTH BANK that was great. Who knows who has killed that spot since? I would venture to say many great skaters have ripped it up it since back then.
FAST FORWARD: In November of 2006 we wereinvited back to screen the Stussy World Tour documentary NFT. The NFT is the cinema is above south bank. I would of never thought that twenty years later life would unfold from rolling around some dirty banks to producing a cultural event teetering quite possibly on towards historic magnitude. The perfect circle of high and low once again completed. However, this trajectory is not finished, it is time for a new generation to explore fresh places and carry the torch. The foundation has been laid, now it is time to build and rebuild. The next generation must prepare creative situations or we might all perish into a cultural abyss. The next series of movements might come from new or old people and/or positions. I just think it is a good time to explore and critique the places that we have come too love and hate.
A week in review:
New mags: Carls cars and DRAFT
New book shop: Claire de Rouen 125 Charing Cross Road, Tel 0207 287 1813
Your move: thanks for having us, the London event was the best one yet.
All of the artists were super cool and the London chapter of the World tribe was in full effect.
It was all great except for Kaws and Geoff dissing my pen. I still like my pen.
And bars in London do not like it when Americans request Billy Joel.
