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Sunday October the 2nd here at the bastard store, starting at 6pm Red Bull TV presents The Fourth Phase. The new Travis Rice film shot during a trip of nearly 30k Km. We start at 6.30pm with an aperitivo, following a skate session in the bastard bowl with a special guest from Denmark and at 9pm we screen it.

The entrance is free but seats are limited, as usual. Register on redbull.com/fourthphase and reserve a seat to get in.

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We asked Pietro Sedda to develop a graphic of one of our snowboards and we get the result that we were dreaming.

If you are into the tattoo scene the name Pietro Sedda will sound familiar.
Nowadays, permanent skin ink has been accepted and mainstreamed.
This, however, doesn’t affect Pietro Sedda: he’s an artist by nature, only guilty of having chosen ink and skin as his tools to express his personal vision.

The Sedda snowboard is available at the bastard store.

link: pietrosedda.com

We share a lot with Rough Snowboards, we are both italian, we are both a snowboard company, we are small but we tend to think big, but the most important thing that we have in common is that we deeply believe in the Do It Yourself way of life.

So we decided to start a Rough-bastard  Jammin’ collection.

When we started talking about the collabo between bastard and Rough, the first product we decided to do was a snowboard.  And the first artist we decided to call was Todd Bratrud. The United board represents Todd’s vision of independence and freedom. Anything else? oh yes… the United is made by Rough with the original construction that makes snowboarding easier.

Then we design the Knife hooded coach jacket, waterproof and functional for snowboarding but also easy and stylish for chilling out. The Knife jacket is oricamo allover printed with the “United for independence” artwork printed on back.

Last but not least the Wings t-shirt.

The entire collection is available at the bastard store.

Spring has arrived, on time as usual, as well as Close the Doors, the last season event at the Bardonecchia snowpark.
Two relaxing days of shooting on the brand new jump shaped for the event by Doors, bbq, music and parties.

When? March 31st and April 1st.
More info on the official Bardonecchia snowpark facebook fan page.

Starting 2013 bastard is proudly supporting the Bardonecchia snowpark, The JibBig Park. It’s a huge snowpark shaped by Doors and 3,5 km long, with hundreds of rails and jumps.

If you didn’t visit yet the Bardonecchia’s snowpark, you can come on Sunday february 17th for the Stairway Session. An old school contest with no money nor ranking, but a large prize in products (there will be even a JVC Addixion action camera for the best trick). We’ll be shredding for three hours on the biggest structure of the snowpark, a huge double box kinked stairset. If you stomp a good trick you’ll win a chip, who collects more chips wins the session.

Sunday, February 17th 2013

The JibBig Park – Bardonecchia

Info: snowpark@bardonecchiaski.com

If you like reggae music and snowboarding, the DanceHall Riders snowboard camp is perfect for you.

The most reggae italian snowboard event starts today on the Corno alle Scale Mountains. It’s ideal to spend some time snowboarding and dancing together with Don Rico and TerronFabio from Sud Sound System and the other guests of the DanceHall Riders 2013.

We’re really happy to support events of this kind, obviously. Good vibes for everyone!

Next week bastard will be at the ISPO tradeshow in Munich, 3-6 February 2013, Hall A1, Booth 229.

After 18 years on the market we are still looking for retailers/distributors that share with us our same passions and commitments!

Come to meet us and discover our new snowboard clothing line for winter 2013-14 designed by Lukas Goller, the totally handMade in Italy snowboards and the products developed in collaboration with ROUGH snowboards and Todd Bratrud.

P.S. The ISPO tradeshow is reserved for business professionals only (a.k.a. retailers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, magazines, riders, designers…)

Randomvideo has finally published online “Everybody is in”, its annual snowboard movie.

The movie is dedicated to the memory of Amedeo Viviani (RIP) and features the italian leading snowboarders like Amedeo Viviani, Filippo Kratter, Nicolò Pezzato, Simon Gruber, Lorenzo Barbieri, Tato Chiala, Matteo Zappaterra, Lorenzo Buzzoni, and our friend/designer/snowboarder Lukas Goller. Enjoy!

Magnus, aka Roberto Raviola, is one of the most eclectic authors in the italian and european comicbook scene. His works reached the most diverse genres, from fantasy to erotic. Starting off with an essential style he later on evolved by researching the finest details. We had the opportunity to have a good chat with his son Riccardo.

He set an example in treating “uncomfortable” themes. He treated subjects such as politics, war, hate, violence, drugs, pornography, horror, but he never stopped in front of these subjects, always coming out clean.

Three works that I would suggest to a new Magnus fan? Lo Sconosciuto, Le 110 Pillole, Tex.

Together with his son Riccardo we dug in this great artist’s archives and we decided to dedicate a capsule collection as a tribute to one of his masterpieces: Vendetta Macumba. Sweatshirt, t-shirt and snowboard, all in black and white.