Castle Made of Sand

Zine Workshop with young people at Mile End

As part of my skateboard coaching with Nik at Mile End Skate Park, I recently ran a (very low-key, DIY) zine workshop during an open event at LCB Skateshop and the Skate Arch at Mile End a few weeks ago. I hope to do more workshops like this, but better! :) A Design-A-Deck workshop was also going on at the same time, ran by LCB ladies Mary Anne and Olivia. Rad job sistas!

BRUM ZINE FEST

So, I had a table at Birmingham Zine Festival yesterday and I took my mum to help. As much of an embaressment she was and didn't really 'get' the zine thing, it still meant she manned my stall while I went in search of ziney goodness (shown below). I sold quite a few zines and a few prints too! Super stoked. Thank you to everyone who came and bought stuff and showed interest! It was nice to meet people who wanted to do zine swaps and who had already got copies of my previous zines, really made the whole thing worthwhile doing :)


Zine fest when it had quitened down a bit.




Just some of the zine goodies I acquired.





Doris zine anthology...

*Cindy (Crabb) writes her zine, Doris, like she is figuring out the human condition. She makes writing about the ssimplest and most comman things - playing music, childhood, cooking, or sex - resonate with universal understanding.

She helps us make sense of more complex things like the satisfaction from doing useful work, natural curiosity, the ability to use logic, gender dynamics, introspection, and the need for challenge and change, combating depression, and creating art and literature.

She explores more difficult subjects, like abortion, rape, sexual harassment, and dealing with the death of family, in a context that is enlightening and persoal, feeling like a close friend opening up to you. What's impressive though is that she realtes these things throughout her zine with seemless beauty.*

...blurb on the back Doris. Such a rad book that I found at the zine fest (only one copy on the stall!) which will make excellent reading and research, not only for my own personal gain, but for my dissertation too. I will be looking at zines, specifically looking at per-zines, Riot Grrrl and Feminism.

Check out these videos...

Inspirational or what!

Menstruating Peppers

GNARLY SHREDDER... ha!

Earlier this week, Nik and I went to Saffron Walden skatepark....here are a few shots of me in the bowl with pool coping! Thanks Nik.

re-issues of Brash 2...graf styley

I'm selling these, and the few left over screen-printed ones (£2), at Birmingham zine festival on 9th July. They will be a quid. Only 25 copies so come get 'em quick!

After this, no more Brash 2's. Brash 3 is a working progress

BIRMINGHAM ZINE FESTIVAL

I have a table here! Please come if you're you're in Brum, it'll be rad! Second batch of Brash 2's for sale as well as some prints and other bits 'n' pieces :)

Works in progress

Brash on Plem Plem

I've never met this dude before, but he's a friend of Lovenskate Stu and he's from Germany (I think!) well anyway, he got hold of a copy of my zine and put it on his website!! It's an online archive of zines he collects...how rad is that!? thanks dude! Also thanks to Horse zine James for telling me it was on there and I'm guessing Plem Plem got my zine of Stu, so cheers Stu! And thanx Plem Plem! :)

http://plemplemkaufraum.wordpress.com/?s=brash&searchbutton=Go!

http://www.lovenskate.com/

COME TO THIS SHOW OR FOREVER HAVE NIGHTMARES!!!!

My housemate and one of the best friends a girl could ever wish for, Brigid Deacon, is part (a huge part I might add!) of this show and you need to come because it is gonna be rad!

Suck my...

COME TO THIS, it'll be REET FUN!

Roll With A Crew

I did this aaaages ago as part of the 'Fact' project I did at uni. Nothing 'final' ever materialised from that project and as hard as I worked, I am ashamed to say, I gave up on this one. But anyway, i initially looked at guns, then went deep into the subject looking at gun crime and gang warfare, particularly focusing on the States. This is an image I made as part of a poster making a point that it's not actually cool to be a 'gangsta.'

FRESH PRINTS and Fact & Fiction show THIS SATURDAY

This is what I have in the show, it's a Fresh Print innit... Just having it framed, should look rad on the night, yeh boi!!



These are the posters, I've managed to get a few up...one at House Gallery and Cafe (inside) and The New Gallery kindly let me put one up in their window. Also, the guy at my local corner shop let me put one up in the front window too...how rad is that! cheers dude!



So guys...
PLEASE COME TO OUR END OF YEAR SHOW (and FRESH PRINTS club night afterwards, rasing money for our end of course external show next year)

FACT & FICION 3
THIS SATURDAY 6pm onwards
Amersham Arms (gallery upstairs) New Cross

I teach skateboarding

Since February I have been working at Mile End Skate Park teaching skateboarding. I have been employed by UAB, (Urban Adventure Base) a youth activity centre in Mile End. It's absolute madness as I'm still a beginner myself, but I've been employed to teach young people the basics and give them confidence with skating. I guess I'm sort of a role model for the girls that wanna start as well. WE NEED MORE GIRLS SKATING, C'MON LADIES! I absolutley love working at Mile End. Everybody from the young people to my collegues and the guys at LCB skate shop is friggin' rad, cheers guys! Here is a pic of me 'on the job.' Have a giggle....



See more photos of where I work on Nik's blog:

http://nikjonesartwork.blogspot.com/2011/03/skateboard-school.html

The guys at LCB have set up a skate club as well and we had our first meeting a couple of weeks ago and I whipped up this baby advertising the first meeting...

I met Gonz

Photo taken by Nik Jones on the day

So as of a lot of you will already know, Mark Gonzales is in town and has been for a good few weeks now. I went upto the Adidas demo at the beginning of May, met him and gave him a zine. It felt like a really awkward situation as I was really nervous (I'd thought about it too much as I went with a plan to meet him and give him a copy of Brash) and he's just socially awkward anyway.... probably fed up with people bothering him and shoving zines in his hands! Well anyway, quite a bit star-struck, but stoked all the same.

I met him again a week later at Stockwell, and because I didn't know he was gonna be there, it was a lot better. I said hi, and he told me he read my zine and liked it. Rad. I showed him my (yet to be perfected) frontside carves around the bowl and it was all cool :) Apparently, French had texted him to come down for a skate. As If!

I'm making a comic strip about my experiences meeting Mark Gonsalez. It's only in it's early stages, but it should be good...probably will feature in the next issue of Brash

Rock Fakie

Thanks to Kristine for taking this photo of me. So stoked :)

Don't Play With Fire

Queen of the Road

Lacey Baker

Get on it again grrrl

We did talk and it was nice

New sketchbook glory

I have a new sketchbook and it is square shape meaning that a double spread won't actually fit in my scanner, but I don't care because square sketchbooks are the way forward man!! so much more composition potential, yeh boi! Oh and this is some scibblings i did in it the other day..

grrrls Grrrls GRRRLS!

mad skillz innit like :)

BRASH in Sidewalk

Brash is in Sidewalk! :) In this copy above. Go buy it 'cos it's a really good issue this month (and no, I'm not saying that 'cos my zine is in it) Check out the treehouse ramp, I mean DUUUDE! :P