bastard blog

One night i was sitting at my desk in the office and saw Nicola Giordano nailing a sweet treflip on the top flat of the bastard bowl and i went:”Kid’s damn stylish!”. Right there and then I started thinking he could be a good lazy rider.

One of the many advantages of having a bowl in the office is that you can spot new talents without leaving your workstation, but still “live action”.
No more painful youtube sessions!

Nicola is a Milano Centrale local and he’s sponsored by the homonym skate company owned by Gio Onorato that realized the capsule collection Jammin’ Milano Centrale with bastard.

Nicola shares a few impressions on the italian skate scene on the recent VBS publication Skate Europe Season two.

«Hi Lukas, what’s going on?»
«Gut! I just left Innsbruck, I am going to Argentera! It’s fa-antastik!»

Phone calls between me and Lukas Goller during this past winter would almost always start off like that.

Argentera is a small village counting 93 residents, near Cuneo. Lukas got so much into it he spent most of the last filming season there, as he was shooting for Random Video.

In the photo above, taken by Denis Piccolo and published on Sequence Snowboarding #25, we can peep a little preview of what’s gonna show next season.

Some time ago the producer of VBS TV Chris Gross came visit us, as he was collecting material to make a documentary on the history of skateboarding in Europe, and for the Italian chapter has asked us, among others, for some help.

Thanks to the support of Stefano Pomogranato and Vans Italy finally we can see all 5 episodes that narrate a part of our history, a part because clearly when the whole movement started, there were not only Milan and Rome, there was Turin with the Nelzi brothers, Zampa and Pantaleoni, Genoa with the Contati brothers, there was Verona with Ugolini and Tabacchi …
In these five episodes, very well done, we’re taken on a journey through the history and evolution of skateboarding in Italy from the origins to present times; from the first ollies to the golden years of Giorgio Zattoni, all the way to the bastard bowl, going through Milano Centrale.

In the first two episodes Papik Rossi, Ale Martoriati, Alessandro Gargiulo and Mirai Pulvirenti talk about Roma… Unmissable Mirai on the psycological bump.

• part 1 / 5
• part 2 / 5

The third episode is about the beginnings of the professional career of Giorgio Zattoni. Story told by Giorgio himself with a little bit of melancholy.

• part 3 / 5

The last two episodes deal with Milano with tales from the Giordano bros, Jep, Max Bonassi and Gros.

• part 4 / 5
• part 5 / 5



Blast Distribution present Cliché Résumé: 320 pages of european skateboarding, with a photo exhibit at bastard store, via Scipio Slataper 19, Milano.

The book, written by Mackenzie Eisenhour and published by Ginko Press, is the result of the wise art direction of ill-Studio in Paris.

It will open up on Friday April 16, at 6,00 PM, Jeremie Daclin, Flo Mirtain, Ricardo Fonseca, JB Gillet, Javier Mendizabal e Charles Collet will be attending for the occasion, they will skate the bastard bowl, besides signing books and decks.

Ciccio from NeuroShock never rests, everything is in fact all set for the Neuro Weekend in Obereggen, on March 20,21.

Big air contest with 2000€ money prize and the same amount in product, ollie contest, 2011 products demo test and party session directly on tracks.

Don’t forget the unmissable grill hosted by NeuroShock and Tolatola.

Info:
info@neuroshock.it
00390594821664

Ciccio from NeuroShock has arranged an unmissable appointment on Saturday, March 13, and Sunday, March 14.

We are all invited at Abetone Seaside Park, that will be moved to Piazza dell’Abetone for the occasion, making it reachable for everybody.

Saturday March 13
17:30 – 19:30 park open for training, entry fee € 5
19:30 – 21:30 snowboard contest free session, prize in products
21:30 free grill hosted by neuro tola tola and dogo street.
Following dj set session by stan dj neuro resident and joker local dj

Sunday March 14
free snowbord all day long at the Seaside Park

Skipass discounts at 29€ available at the Seaside Park hut (ask fat Ciccio, you can’t miss him).

Ideal for overnight Ostello per la Gioventù.

A big thank to everyone who supported us!
The bastard store by studiometrico just won the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2009 award for the best interior.

On saturday March, 6th from 6:00 PM at bastard store starts La Nebbia, first personal exhibition of Luca Zamoc, the talented monochrome artist from Modena.

About twenty original “ink on paper” pieces.

It will be possible to buy Zamoc’s works during the show that will stay on until saturday March, 13th.

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The  LIVE WORLD PREVIEW tour of DEATH CREW 77 starts out at the Vox Club in Modena, Italy with the BLOODY BEETROOTS.

If someone asked me to describe Tobias Scherlin, I’d probably say that he’s a party animal capable of coming back from the deads after the craziest party for jumping right on the big structres of the Kinglaurin snowpark.

Anyone who attended the last Subject Schlern edition cannot deny that I am speaking the truth.

He did every run on the Saturday contest, and he showed up at the night party in snowear, complete of snowboard boots, and totally drunk. Sunday morning after just a few hours of sleep he was ready to jump in the snowpark and won the 360 contest with a perfect FS 360 Doublegrab.

A hard weekend, a severe trial for everyone, riders and insiders with two days of contests, parties and local beverages.

Special thanks go to the Panettone Bros guys and Alex Berger for the hospitality.