5th Homebase Halloween Skate Jam 2009

This year marked the 5th Homebase halloween skate jam. After a rain delay Saturday, the weather couldn't have been better for Sunday. The theme this year was the glorious 80's and the park was a ebay collectors dream of vintage skate goods, all of them being ridden like they were made for.
The events this year included a Lost Soul Jump Ramp Rampage, The $300 finals of the Saugy Showdown(with Kyle taking the dough), the Best Trick on the gap to picnic table, and the crowd favorite as well as the sure to be seen again, Downhill Race

Sketchy video clip here, and at bottom of post

Dustin and KnowNo

Bubs, Geechybond , and whatever D will call his future blog

Join the Army

Max couldn't believe how loud loose rails were, haha, welcome to the 80's, again.

yes, you can.

Kurtz says mercedes not war.

V the Mess

Kyle, forgot his muscles in his other costume. Congrats on the Win.

JB as Bruce, maybe?

Luke trying to get charged

Emerneon

Colbert skipped the costume this year. His Mr.Blackman alter ego wears a suit.

One of the Three, Steve came out to heckle with the crew.

N.Jay on the scene

Uncle Buck

Friday November 6th at Homebase

Posoi

The Downhill jam was my personal highlight of the day. The bridal path from the park to the lower lot is a fun way to leave. It's not the craziest hill bomb you can find, but the ruff ground,loose gravel, and leaves, make it challenging. Add in the 90 degree turn as it warms up and its a challenge. You already know it becomes style to not slow down.

In the sake of safety and fairness, heats were held instead of an all out death match. Fastest time received a bag a product. My camera failed before I could get the older guys raging it, but they could not resist a Old Man division and showed the younger guys how it's done. We stacked up at the corner and had a blast cheering and critiquing.

Heckler Hill

Bubba, Steez through

Kurtz was surfin all day


Kyle got the most runs, and paid.


But so did the others


Even Bubba


There was a Lost Soul Jump ramp jam. It was run super tight, Ray was in total control, it was timed, and the ramp was kept at the same place as kids tried to ollie out the park. Oh yeah, the ramp was of the best construction and easy to skate. Im pretty sure the winner got a snowboard and proceeded to have his own product toss. It was Epic,and that was serious.


They had Hecklers also


This could be a mag photo in the early 80's


Colbert on a borrowed whip


The kids lined up for the product grab. It was like when people put a bone on a dogs nose and try to make them sit still, the kids were rabid and the sponsors supplied.

LVAN NOTICE: Jonathan Labbe' Friday Nov 6th

Please note that the opening of Jonathan Labbe's show "Vida En Tierra" will open November First Friday, the 6th. At Homebase from 7-10. Sorry for any confusion.

LVAN x Homebase Present: Jonathan Labbe "Vida En Tierra"

This November the 6th,First Friday ,Homebase & the LVAN are proud to present Jonathan Labbe’s solo show entitled ”Vida En Tierra”

Join Commeh, and his collection of pottery , sculptures, and paintings at Homebase from 7pm to 10pm

Jonathan is a well traveled skateboarder and a fixture at all the jams and events that the Hometeam and the LVAN hold, Stop out and support the supportive , shake some hands and buy some art.

Revenge of the Nerds. Star Wars Galaxy 4 Auction

On Friday We got in the cars and headed to APW Gallery in LIC to check out the Sucklord hosted auction to sell two of the return cards from most of the artists in the SWG4 Die-Cut Project. It was a pleasure to meet some of the artists and the collectors. There were big wooden/acrylic helmet cut outs done by Jason Atomic and others including the much talked about KaToPe and new acquaintance Patrick Francisco. The Sucklord's personal figure was on display as well as the customs from the SuperSuckOff 2 show last month. Suckadelic released their own series of cards in dope throwback waxpaper wrapper, featuring the Sucklord and members of The Original Villain Network. I'll try to post the pack I bought.

Can someone help me get a Mary Papers card? JaguarNono@gmail.com

Thanks to Morgan, Spooky Boooty, Len Bellinger, Lawrenzo Sanders, Luke Koch, Beerlao ,and of course everyone else that was down to come out and support. It was a blast.
Note: Not much art in this thread. Click Here and Here for pics of art and others of the opening, as well as the Cards that are still available, email SL to cop'em.

Fevered bidding wars





Lawrenzo taking flicks of the ones he didn't cop.

Large scale helmets by J.Atomic and others

The crew came through to become big fans of Beerlao, I think everyone accomplished that.

Gary already reppin that LostSoul coozie hot off the press.

The Muska was DJ'in , No Biggs , as the kids say.



Luke cop'in some mo No, and poppin mo bottles. Hard Times Skateboards

Fawn came out to represent and became a star again.

DJ Express, and our host The Sucklord, with his new Nono card and custom SL600



Super Collector Len Bellinger and his new possession.

Get the fuck out.

Thanks for coming crew, I had so many laughs that night.

Pensyl caught up for a couple rounds and we were out. Good to see you man.

Star Wars Galaxy 4 Die Cut Sketch Cards Live Auction

Remember this?

Well The Sucklord is at it again Tomorrow night. Get with me if you want.


From the SL himself:
"STAR WARS GALAXY 4 CUSTOM SKETCH CARD SHOW AND AUCTION!
OCTOBER 2 at APW GALLERY LONG ISLAND CITY NEW YORK 6 - 9 PM

Huh?

What, you don't know what that is? Well earlier this year, TOPPS, yes
TOPPS the venerable institution of American Trading cards asked me to
curate a series of actual STAR WARS fucking trading cards. It was to be
part of a new set called STAR WARS GALAXY, a series of art-based Star
Wars cards. The batch that I organized were to be a ground-breaking (so
I'm told) series of die-cut sketch cards.

Sketch cards are all the rage in trading cards these days. What they are
is blank trading cards that are distributed to professional artists to
draw on. Then the actual drawings are blind packed in with the regular
cards and the collectors go nuts trying to find them all. It's very
exciting. The set I put together was a new direction for Topps for two
reasons:

1) They are die-cut in the shape of Darth Vader and Stormtrooper helmets
as opposed to the usual rectangles.

2) They asked ME of all people to draw upon my stable of underground
weirdos to do the drawings instead of their usual gang of established
professionals. The results of this experimental effort yielded a wide
ranging assortment of original, often abstract artwork that was actually
quite a hit with the fringe groups who actually care about this stuff.

NOW, we have a huge sampling of these cards up for display and auction at
APW gallery in Queens NYC. On October 2nd (this Friday) you are invited
to come out, see the work, place some bids, and get a cool buzz going with
more free beer from our pals at BEERLAO."

Here is the flicker page to see all the cards and the starting prices.

This will also be followed by a online auction for 2 other cards in the near future if you miss this event.