Lazy Riders on Baco 38

by GroS 27 January 2009
Nessun Dorma - GroS dormitory in Bergamo

Nessun Dorma - GroS dormitory in Bergamo

On Baco # 38 you can read about a tour we did some time ago… 12 pages With Lupi, Bauli, Marcin and Nikolai that show a different view of Bergamo, a city next to Milano with big potential. I like a lot the comments on the pics by Mirai, that guy is very funny. 

BRIGHT Tradeshow W09

by jep 27 January 2009

BRIGHT Tradeshow in Frankfurt as usual.
We’ll be with bastard in room 44, ground floor.

BRIGHT Tradeshow
24-25 january
from 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 11, 60327 Frankfurt
www.brighttradeshow.com

Nikolai on Skateboard Magazine cover

by GroS 27 January 2009
nikolai danov skateboard magazine cover

Nikolai Danov - Skateboard Magazine cover

On the cover of issue 61 of the italian Skateboard Magazine there is a great shoot of Nikolai Danov doing a salad grind on a rail by Mirai Pulvirenti about. Good job guys! Inside 12 pages about Fresco tour in Puglia with Nikolai and 12 pages about the tour of the DC team Italy with Danny Galli. There are also a couple of pages with the press release of the COMVERT HQ.

!UPDATE: On SkateMap.it the video of the Fresco tour. It’s worthy.

What a nice party!

by GroS 27 January 2009

Thanks to everybody for coming to the festival, it was a very good night at the COMVERT HQ, started with the festival and ended with a session at the bastard bowl in the night. Down here you have some pics.

undersk-8crowd @ cinema

crowdspaghetto beerarchitetto biniundersk-2cinema bastard

UnderSkatement film festival – Milano

by davidelp 27 January 2009

 UnderSkatement makes it to Italy for the first time after being around America, Canada and Australia touching over 30 cities. Milan got chosen as the first city in Europe to host the festival, so Diana thought about the bastard office, which was originally a cinema theatre.

The event is hosted by SpaghettoChild, an association whose aim is the development of contemporary art and of the skateboarding culture and JANUARY 29TH.

The festival offers short films with a maximum lenght of 7 minutes. As long as the pieces are made by skateboards, there are no constrictions in topic or genre whatsoever. 18 short films are going to show throughout the night, result of a selection from previous editions. Among authors and players there are known names of the international skate scene such as Mark Gonzales with his  “Cold Water”, Steve Salisan with the very original “Bugs”, Chris Johanson with “Encinitas Realization” and Trevor Prescott, Rubin Orkin and Curtis Hsiang, may they rest in peace.

Click here to download the media kit.

Infos and reservation: january.twenty.ninth@gmail.com

“Edo & Friends” photo exhibition

by MAS™ 27 January 2009
Wild in The Streets - GSD08 Milano

Wild in The Streets - GSD07 Milano

…that’s how you’d call the photo vernissage hosted by bastard store, Saturday December the 13th.

Edo Paris keeps freezing his world in black and white, to introduce you the skateboarding scene of Milano, with its many fellas and unforgettable party moments.

This is just the first of some events planned to take place in the bastard store for the months to come.

If I don’t see you there next weekend you’d better to keep in touch for the future..

Vintage bastard

by GroS 27 January 2009



The other day Nikki and DJ ALadyn came to visit us. Aladyn was wearing this old sweater called “DR.SNOW” designed back in 1994 the date of birth of bastard by Ricky Fiorentini, the guy who made for us “THE SKULL” which is right now, almost a kind of logo for us… As you can see Aladyn took care of that one! Good job, you won another one…

Meeting the ‘Godfather’

by lorebini 27 January 2009

Yesterday we have been very honoured to welcome the visit of Prof. Mario Antonio Arnaboldi, a well known Architect and Professor with a very special relationship with both COMVERT HQ and Bastard Bowl.

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COMVERT HQ & bastard bowl design

by jep 27 January 2009

On archinfo.it is published an article with the details of the bastard bowl construction, illustrations and a general view of the COMVERT Headquarter project.

On domus web there is an article with the main project and a few pics.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY.

They used a shot of Daniel Cardone frontside flippin over the extension of the bowl, taken by Giuliano Berarducci the day after the Grand Opening (ONLYWOOD), I put here the original pic at a better resolution.
(Click the picture to enlarge).

Daniel Cardone - fs flip @ bastard bowl

November coming fire

by jep 27 January 2009

On saturday afternoon long time skate friends from Ravenna paid a visit to us and tested the bastard bowl. They put the session on fire (forgetaboutit)… it was a pleasure!

We hope they come back uphere to skate as soon as the winter arrives.

Here Giorgio certifies the extension with a Mc Twist at full speed…alla vecchia maniera.

P.S. This video was taken from the security webcams… don’t blame on me, everybody was busy doing something else ;)