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A couple of thursdays ago the Antiz riders paid a visit to the bastard bowl in Milano while on tour with their italian distributor blast!

The Antiz guys took on tour a finnish hobo guest that happened to be Samu Karvonen.

Thursday October 29^th from 7:00 PM at bastard store starts The Future of the Past, personal exhibit of Rise Above (aka Marcello Crescenzi) with a review of works and personal trips between a rock past and a psychedelic future.

It will be possible to buy silkscreens, Rise Above’s t-shirts and the poster above, in limited and signed edition.

Last night i witnessed an exeptional reunion of the old school scene: Billy Runaway came for a visit, he was a pro skater for Madrid in the 80s and a potojournalist for Thrasher in those years. The welcome team was so composed: Max Bonassi, Alex Colombi, Claudio “Jep” Bernardini and Andrea Paulicelli. These old folks hadn’t seen each other in 21 years, surprise! Alex had first met Billy in Milan back in ’85, and soon introduced him to Bonassi who was craving for a consulence for building a vert ramp in Monza.

To celebrate, we sat at the fish restaurant right next door and popped some corks… After a 3 hours food fest we went up to the bastard bowl, but we suffered from the digestion along with the wine effects and a few more years on our shoulders… Too old to skate? Maybe not, infact Jep and Bonassi did represent with their skating as much as they could, but maybe i’m “too old to take action photos everyday”, eheh! So i decided to only post their mugshots, and since i started skating in the 80s, those are the faces that inspired me to join the four wheels and a board world… All the best to Billy and his young company skate company, and I thank him for a little industry talk, that done with the right people is never boring! See you next time, hoping it doesn’t take another 21 years!

Lambro is more than the first concrete bowl in Milano… it’s a family, a big one.
Sunday October 18^th starting from 2 p.m. concerts, bbq and skate contest… no time based run and no subscriptions, just the trophy!

On lambroskatepark.it all the info.

We proudly announce the first Rider House Board Shop birthday party.

Sunday, October 25^th in Piove di Sacco city centre, beers, music and Game of Skate.

The new video for dumb skateboards, with whom bastard has in the fall clothing collection a jeans model and a t-shirt, is now available online.

Too dumb To Quit is too good and full of meaning to stop us from the direct download of these 333 megabytes of pure skateboarding fun.

The video is available directly on the website dumbskateboards.com

Last night we attended  the Blacknuss presentation, which is an awesome, handfinished, illustration book curated by Giorgio Di Salvo, one of the two minds behind VNGRD, with whom bastard actively collaborates.

You’ll find inside the works of Erik Brunetti, Le Messie, Scarful, TJ, Pane, Giorgio Di Salvo as well as Marco Klefish and Luca Barcellona (aka Bean One), this last one featured in the bastard Artistuff collection with a graphic on global warming.

If you want to get a copy the only way is writing directly to the curator: gds(at)giorgiodisalvo.com

Blacknuss

Marco Klefish

Luca Barcellona

Domus magazine issue 929, out now, comes with a map/guide of the 129 best italian contemporary architectures, according to their editorial staff:
Instant atlas – a map of new italian architecture

“[…]This Domus ‘atlas’ is a snapshot in time that can be read as initial tally of architects who are destined to produce (hopefully sometime soon) a new situation in contemporary architecture all over Italy that is more egalitarian in quality and diffusion”. Stefano Casciani

Picture number 20 features bastard store and Comvert Hueadquarters, which grand opened last October 24th; project realized by studiometrico. It shows one of my favourite angles, the bastard bowl photographed from beneath.

This weekend really was scarily fun!

Starting with forecast: all the rumors about rain throughout the whole weekend proved wrong; it was sunny and nice… my god rides a skateboard.

The Concerts: the Punkreas played on friday night. Awesome concert, 3000 people singing under a mild gentle rain… The Punkreas after twenty years of activity still look like kids. Always a great vibe.

Saturday we saw the Ministri, i hadn’t seen’em live yet… This band rocks!

Skate: on Saturday the non sponsored contest where Fabio Ciurli, Lambro local, won. After the contest only Daniel Cardone was representing Quicksilver, since the demo didn’t happen. Supported by Andrea “Stanco” Sudati, Amen and Jimmy they did a great demo anyways.

On Sunday we were blessed by un unbelievable sunny day, and by one of the best contests i’ve recently been to.

Great skaters, great crowd, Daniel won the contest and the miniramp italian finals, and also the “Chicken for Rock’nRoll” contest. Which consisted in hitting the rubber chicken hung up over the extension.

Then was time to hit the fridge, the Gipsy with a bs 5-0, Pietro della Pierre fs nosepick, Jimmy Cantù feeble fakie, Sione Verona hurricane and then Martino Cattaneo shut it down with a fs disaster for a fat check.

Awesome, that’s i guess what we all needed, a weekend with friends, skate and beer, celebrating Daniel Cardone’s and Max Bonassi’s birthdays.

Bravo to the organizers, on of the best events of the year for sure!

Marco Lambertucci, a.k.a.the Bauli, after working hard throughout springtime on “extraskate” projects, took his summer revenge, travelling around and killing it on his board as usual! He went to Belgium and The Netherlands with Nikolai Danov and Davy Van Laere to shoot photos and film, to the Grill’em All in Schnals (on the Alps) and to top it off he went out on a nice photo mission with me on the Riviera Romagnola, the area where he’s from.

And last Sunday he scored the best trick at the ninth edition of the Zucka vs. tutti, with his signature frontside kicklip shot down a quite gnarly staircase! The lazy rider went back to his hometown Riccione with a big smile on his face and a 250 euros cash prize. Bravo! Click here to watch the event report.