We are proud to present Indodreamers, the last book written by Andrea Fazzolari, book launch Thursday 18th september at 6,30 pm at the bastard store.
The book describes months of adventure through Indonesia, Mentaway and Andaman islands, well described by the pictures and the words by Andrea Fazzolari.
Thursday, september 18th 6,30pm
bastard store – via scipio slataper 19 Milano
I took these two pictures during the construction of the bastard bowl back in 2008.
The boss gives directions, then turns his back and it’s instantly showtime :)
When I think Marcin sometimes I just crank up, other times I catch myself getting a little nostalgic knowing that the other half of the laughter is gone with him.
Sunday, May 18th at Cinetown Skatepark in Cinecittà, Rome, Marcin’s friends gather to spend a nice day together and bring back a bit of those laughs that the Flying Polish used to bring to any session!
Rest in peace Marcin and thanks for the journey.
In the Spring bastard Jammin’ collection we collaborated with two photographers that contributed to keep the Italian skateboarding media alive in the late nineties and early 2000s.
Giuliano Berarducci doesn’t need any intro, having documented almost everything happen in bastard, just look at his website, giulianoberarducci.com to find some of the most epic bastard store shots. Gabriele Lopez has photographed the skateboarding and hardcore scene during the 90’s, then he started a more artistic path documented on his personal book “Stories by Gabriele Lopez”.
The T-shirts Swing by Giuliano Berarducci, London and Grasshopper by Gabriele Lopez are available in selected stores and at the bastard store.
If you are so lazy to not even find the time for a visit in via Scipio Slataper 19, Milano – even now that we have the ISTRIA subway stop on the M5 line – at least you can take an online virtual tour of the bastard store… click on the small square at top right of the image and check it out.
Sure, you can always buy our stuff on the web, but that’s not the same.
P.S. If in the virtual tour you find my beloved Penny skateboard that I lost, please tell me!
Kingbrown is a super limited edition periodical, it’s halfway between a book, a magazine and an art zine. Each issue is handcrafted, delivered inside a silk screened brown bag which is designed and curated by some of the world’s leading innovators of photography, illustration and urban and skateboard art and design.
Inside Kingbrown you will find checkout and interviews of some of the most talented people involved in skate/art, there is nothing better to be inspired and connected to the subcultures we love most.
Top quality print, every page is a collectable item.
The future for this 14yo my-tshirt-is-bigger-than-me kid was learning McTwist and being an electrician. Yes, he reached (and went over) his first hope as you will see at the exhibition for the XX anniversary of his skateboarding history.
However, we can say, that’s the same even for the second one: somehow he light it up!
Where? At Bonolabo, via Centofanti 79 – Ravenna – Italy [map link]
When? On 5-6-7 January 2013.
A few months ago Lorebini published a post named “Concrete Power” regarding a concrete bridge in the city of Potenza.
As soon as Daniele Galli has read the post, he drove to the south of Italy to skate this unusual spot and he rightly got the cover on 6:00AM 62 with this fs slasher photographed by Fede Romanello.
Lorenzo Castore, friend and internationally acclaimed photographer, tells us about his collaboration with bastard and his projects for the future with this brief interview.
Lorenzo is represented by L’Agence Vu’ of Paris and is known, among other things, for winning the Mario Giacomelli Prize and the Leica European Publisher Award, besides having published the books Nero and Paradiso.
Since many years he splits himself between Rome, Krakow, Florence, Paris and Milan.
How did you start collaborating with bastard?
I am often lucky enough to be working on what i like with who i like. Dealing with people that are passionate about what they do simply makes my life better.
So one day Giuliano Berarducci, good friend and good photographer and very close to bastard, asked me if i wanted to do a t-shirt for them.
I had already visited bastard a few times, the place is awesome, the t-shirts very well done and Claudio and the boys are the kind of people that i like, so…
Tell us something about the photo printed on the Caged T-shirt…
During my wanderings i often end up in zoos. I love animals and although the zoo can be a very sad place, it also metaphorically makes you feel on the same level of the animal behind the bars. Who never felt that way? I almost always do. This is a lion from the Berlin zoo. He radiated a mix of wanting to break through the bars and resignation. I like the first thing better.
Tell us about your current projects, what are you working on right now?
One of the main things obsessing my days right now is a film that i co-directed with my friend and film-maker Adam Cohen.
It narrates about the life in two rooms of a brother and sister in Krakow that i used to regularly take photo of. I shared a lot of time with them during my last years living there. Their names are Ewa and Piotr, they’re in their sixties. They come from a well-off bourgeois family and they dissipated a considerable inherited fortune in a very short time. Now they live with no electricity and i can tell they have lost interest in the world.
We’re trying to make a movie on non-sense, on the mysterious beauty of life even when it becomes impossible, on a relationship made of repulsion and mutual necessity between siblings. It will be called No Peace Without War; it’s becoming more complicated everyday but i won’t get my peace of mind until it’s close enough to what it has to be.
“Do you know how big it is??”
Who knows Bauli has heard these words coming out from his mouth many times when he comes back from a huge spot as the one shown in the sequence above.
You’ll find the complete report in 6 issue of A Brief Glance, freshly published. As usual, lots of good pictures fill the pages of the online magazine that celebrates its first birthday.
Many more birthdays ABG!
Many collaborators and friends have gathered again for the now classic photo shooting with photo master Giuliano Berarducci, who, as a ship captain from other times, guided us through the stormy weathers of the semestral shooting that gave birth to the spring summer 2011 bastard catalog.
Thank you, thank you and more thank yous to Enrico “ERREDBARON” Predeval, Mattia Turco, Nicola Giordano, René Olivo, beautiful Giulia “fastidio” Boselli and young Easy, who posed for the first bastard kid collection.
Exceptionals models were Koji and Luca from Milano City Ink, Giorgio from UBM, Nico & Andrea alias Pink is Punk and the Warriors.
Enjoy the images.