bastard blog

We just received some stickers of the Drink Water project, started by Austin Smith and Bryan Fox that paid us a visit in October to session the bastard bowl along with some friends. That was fun!

On their website you’ll find a small collection of products that we like a lot and that we hope you’ll soon find at the bastard store.

Below an excerpt of the reasons why we definitely support this project.

Drink Water is a friendly reminder to drink water.

Maybe you, like us, began to feel uncomfortable about how effective “energy drink” companies have become at encouraging young people to consume their product: beverages of caffeine, sodium, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and even some mystery chemicals about which little is known.

In 2011, we began writing Drink Water on our snowboards. Drink Water became some sort of statement, movement, mission, or whatever it is, and we bought some silkscreens and started making t-shirts, stickers, and sweatshirts. We gave a bunch away, and people we respect wore them with pride.

As we encouraged folks to drink water, we learned that nearly a billion people on Earth don’t have access to clean drinking water–that’s 1 out of every 8 people. In some parts of the developing world, that lack of clean drinking water is deadly.

For every Drink Water purchase, 10% of profits will be donated to provide drinking water for someone in need. We’re supporting a non-profit, Water.org, as they drill wells to fight the water crisis.

We’re out to spread the Drink Water word. We don’t sell water, we just drink it.

Thank you for your time and consideration. We’ll see you out there.

Austin Smith and Bryan Fox

Thanks John Basta for sending!

If you are looking for something big to watch during the weekend… you can’t miss Bastien Salabanzi at the Street League in California.
He is the only european skateboarder entering the contest and he is riding for JART Skateboards. Chapeau!

With a short videopart filmed in the skatepark that he fixed during the last months nearby his home in Valtellina, Daniele Galli is welcome in the Frisco Shop family. Check out the store if in Brescia anytime, it’s great!

A great piece of the _italian skateboarding history_ narrated directly by Zampa and Paolo Nelzi of Graw Skateboards. Enjoy [italian language only].

bastard‘s next back to school project was selected, along with projects from 14 other brands in the design industry, to take part in a nice venture promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano and Provincia in collaboration with Material ConneXion Italia, Domus Academy, IED, NABA and Politecnico di Milano.

Pick a hundred students, coordinated by prominent teachers from the best design schools in Milan, the biggest center in the world for research and consulting on materials and productive processes and 15 Milan based brands that are into developing and bringing innovative products to the market; this is the basic recipe of Un Designer per le Imprese 2012.

We have already started working on it and in the next few days we will meet, at their schools, all the students interested in working with us.

Strane creature verdi che studiano i riti dei celti e dei longobardi Non parlan la lingua italiana non sanno chi fosse il poeta leopardi ma
Odiano il kebab, maometto i senza tetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar, si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Inventan qualche balla attirano la folla col rito dell’ampolla e l’offerta al dio Po.
Ricordo gli esordi degli uomini verdi eran contro i terroni i pugliesi e anche i sardi, i finocchi gli zingari, i negri bastardi, il tricolore e garibaldi.
Odiano il kebab, Maometto i senzatetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Cantando il va pensiero ci credono davvero fedeli a un condottiero un druido fatto un pò così non parla neanche bene si esprime solo a gesti se lo incontri per la strada proprio non diresti che
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con l’aiuto del dottore ma se la scienza medica si mostra pessimista ci vuole l’esorcista.
Ma tu senti che puzza scappano anche i cani stanno arrivando i napoletani. Napoli merda Napoli colera tu sei la rovina dell’Italia intera. Ma vorrei che fosse chiaro che tra i napoletani ce ne son tantissimi per bene e anche di più, non siamo non siamo quelli che pure ci chiamano zulu. Odiano il kebab, maometto i senza tetto e anche la pizza chiacchere da bar, si mischia la polenta con la razza.
Cantando il va pensiero ci credono davvero fedeli a un condottiero un druido fatto un pò così non parla neanche bene si esprime solo a gesti se lo incontri per la strada proprio non diresti che
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con l’aiuto del dottore. Ha un posto fisso in villa si sente lusingato ma poi la vera festa inizia quando se ne è andato.
Lui crede di far parte della razza superiore si può fermare solo con laiuto del dottore. Il vero risultato del miracolo padano l’ndrangheta a Milano.

About a year ago, while skating the bastard bowl, Daniele Galli got injured.

An average person would require physical therapy for the recovery process. He would there find physical therapists, nurses and advanced machinery to do the job.
We can safely say that Daniele Galli is not your average person since what you see here was his way to recover from a nasty injury.

Enjoy.

We are happy to introduce the first bastard school line that is distributed in the best stationery shops throughout Italy and sold online in the School section of the bastard store.

Production and distribution are handled by Biembi S.p.A. of Milan.

Since a few days here at the bastard store we have our own red chair of the Art For Business Artistic Alleycat in Milano.

Thnaks for the chair, the wine and for the action in the bowl!

Here’s a fresh and gnarly skateboarding video at the DC embassy in Barcelona featuring the JART pro team: Ivan Rivado, Mark Frölich and Bastien Salabanzi.