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Introducing video for Raúl Lupiáñez as a pro on Nomad Skateboards featuring many of his friends from the Nomad family.

Congrats Lupi!

Yesterday, Nikolai Danov  won first prize at “The Chosen” contest at the Foro Italico skatepark in Rome, built exclusively for the contest.

Daje Niko!

Skate e punk is tradition… bastard gladly supports the WIPE OUT SK8 & PUNK festival at Palamedia di Bovisio Masciago (MB) with a burst of bands and the great Adolescents as well as Burning Heads!

• gates open at 2 pm
• skate contest from 2:30 pm

concerts from 4 pm >> WITHOUT (stoner-punk) | SEDITIUS (h/c) | KILLER SOUND (punk rock Fat Wreck style) | SANTA MUERTE (r’n’roll caballeros)  TEMPORAL SLUTS (punk rock’n’roll) | SVETLANAS (soviet punk rock) | LEECHES (punk rock)

9:15 pm >> BURNING HEADS – storica band su Epitaph from Orleans – France

10:30 pm >> ADOLESCENTS – punk rock legend from Los Angeles – California

Admission is € 6 at 2 pm and € 12 after 6 pm.

Ladies and gentlemen, Marco Lambertucci.

Skateboarding version of skate army men… maybe if kids start playing with these instead of the army ones, as was happening to my generation, in twenty years we’ll have a lot of parks! At least I want to believe in this as it seems that this long-term marketing strategy worked pretty well with wars.

More info and pics on skateandannoy.com.
You can find The Original AJ’s Toy Boarders at the bastard store. Peace.

Raul Lupi Lupianez is featured on the cover of Dogway, the most popular skateboard magazine in Spain. Check out his interview and his Cinco Trucos inside the mag.

We met the tattoo artists from Milano City Ink about a year ago to realize a t-shirt line called Against Claustrophobia with them.

The whole claustrophobia concept stems from the proximity of their studio with the S. Vittore penitentiary compound, hard to ignore with its oppressive presence in the center of Milano.
The claustrophobia of captivity may recall the confinement of ink trapped under the skin, or an idea trapped in the mind that needs an artist to be freed.

Thus resulting in 3 graphics by Luca Natalini, Amanda Toy and Koji Yamaguchi who, for once, chose cotton instead of skin as their canvas.

Cubist dolls with naif references for the Amanda Toy artwork.

Koji Yamaguchi‘s artwork is a controversial cartoon with green rats held prisoners in a purple brain.

Luca Natalini interpretes the subjet of the collection with a suffering hearth trapped in his rib cage.

Salad Days Magazine decided to elaborate this collaboration with an interview to Matteo, who provided for design, and Attilio, who coordinated the artists’ work. You will find it on Salad Days Magazine 8, July issue.

On Wednesday, May 18th we received the visit of the legendary Jamie Thomas, milestone in worldwide skateboarding, along with some of the Fallen riders with whom he was on a filming trip between UK, Switzerland, Italy and Croatia. The crew was composed by considerable names in the skate scene like Tommy Sandoval, Tom Asta, Garret Hill, Jack Curtin, Jon Dickson, Dane Burman and Antony Schultz.

With the occasion we had a chat with Jamie Thomas, who tells us in this video interview how to concile being a company man and a skateboarder at the same time, as well as the importance of having a skatepark in the office, very valued issue here at bastard too.

The boys took advantage of the bastard bowl to have a good skate session for stimulating the appetite for their first italian meal, to which we all participated with great pleasure thanks to California Sport’s owner Giampaolo’s invitation.

The 2011 edition of Positivity camp takes off tomorrow. The Positivity Camp is a non-profit snowboard camp located in the most exclusive resort in the Alps; it takes a good couple of hours of mountain path walking to reach it. But when you reach the camp you’ll be alone in a breathtaking location, Val Formazza, with a private skilift and a snowpark that gets shaped everyday.

Info and contacts
11 to 26 giugno Rifugio 3A – Glacier Siedel – Val Formazza
positivitycamp@gmail.com