Steve Crandall

Coffee sipping pilot of a red FBM frame and a Nikon camera.

Posts from Steve:

Zac Costa- Story Time

Zac Costa of Solid Bikes heads to Panama for 6 months tomorrow to do ecological research in the jungle. He’s bringing his bike, a magnifying glass and a bunch test tubes and beakers. Here’s some Zac Captions from some Joey Cobbs photos from his home turf in Nor Cal.

This sculpture is in my hometown in downtown Santa Rosa across from a scummy bar called the Round Robin. It used to be over run with tweekers until some lesbians bought it and “cleaned” the place up. For a second there was a change in clientele and a lot of hot lesbians started hanging out there, but I think the tweekers have slowly been taking back over. We never went there much anyway since my friends party house and two other bars are less than a block away, so if your ever there, save yourself the trouble and go to the 440 a much more respectable establishment frequented by Santa Rosa’s o.g. skateboarders and bike riders.

Chico in the summer can get really fucking hot. A good solution= Make a Ice withdrawal from the Liquor Bank and soak your shirt in a shitty pond that everyone in Chico seems to think is a good place to swim in and wrap it around your head. Do footjams, heckle the north 5s and repeat.

This spot was sweet but short lived. It was over by the RIP Mac Dre wall in S.F. close to where I used to live. I rode it twice and both times were pretty uneventful but I managed to stay away from 850 Bryant during my tenure there, so I guess thats more important.

Thanks for the pics and good times Cobbs!

Jump For Joy Photo Gallery

A few snapshots from a backyard jam in New Jersey, 16 years in the making.

Hippie Steve Wispeski and his backyard!

Kenny Horton- Party Table.

Skinny Mike- Backyard Boss.

Erik Holladay.

Steve Kaczur.

Dean B.

Allan Moy

Chris Neighbors.

Harry Okie and son!

Kenny Horton.

Big Daddy….

More From the Forum

A fucking radical photo from 1982, courtesy ofEd Koenning again!

2 by 4 and Animal

D.I.Y. Pizza

Name-Matt Conner

Occupation-Cooker of Foods

How long did it take to build a Pizza oven, and what experience did you have prior?
-It took about a month, but that involves building the cinder block base, pouring a 4″ concrete slab on top of the base, custom cutting lots and lots of bricks, laying the bricks with no forms, applying adequate insulation and then applying the stucco finish coat. This is the first one we built. We were going to buy a kit, but they cost about nine grand. This one was built for much, much less.

What kind of music is best to listen to while building a brick oven?
-Sir Lord Baltimore, Thundermother, The Pretty Things, The Sweet, and The Kinks. Basically nothing recorded before 1975.

How does it work, and how hot does it get?
-The fuel for the oven is wood, we use mostly red oak and white maple, but any hardwood will do. You start the fire in the oven right inside the door, then after it gets to pizza temperature you spread the coals out to heat the oven floor. After that you push them all to the back and stoke it up again until fire is hitting the roof and it burns itself clean. This whole process takes about two hours. Since the oven is football shaped, it creates a turbine effect with the air coming in combined with a convection effect from the dome, so it cooks from the top bottom and sides all at once. Optimum pizza temperature is 800 to 850 degrees F on the oven floor, which gives you about 1000 to 1200 at the top of the dome. The high heat gets the perfect char on the crust, and enables us to turn out 10″ thin crust pies in roughly two and a half minutes.

What’s the weirdest pizza related story you discovered while researching this project?
-I just read an article about a pizzeria in Naples, Italy that is under investigation for allegedly digging up caskets from the cemetery next door to them to use as fuel for the ovens. That is one serious search for flavor.

What makes pizza so awesome?
-It’s cheap, there are limitless ways to make it, and like sex, even when it’s bad it’s good.

comments?
-I love pizza!!

Born Ugly

Print is dead…. Born Ugly issue 666 is full of zombies and dead stuff. Killer!

From the forum

BMXplus in 1983 Via Ed koenning.

Story time w Randy Blythe

Sitting around a campfire with a grammy nominated Heavy Metal dude is a far cry form typical in my day to day, Check out more from Lamb Of God’s front man here!

Defiance Ohio

New 11-song album will be released on LP/CD via No Idea Records on July 6th 2010.

Sneak peek Here!

Garage Rock

Richmond’s beloved captain of the D.I.Y. underbelly, known simply as “Hippie”, opens his garage door for us and shares some of his art, coffee, and his daily creative process. Here are a few words and images from a hard working manufacturer of his own good times.

Name:
Hello, I’m Andrew Schrock.

Age:
I’m 23 years

Location:
My studio is in the scummy south side industrial parks of RVA, and I live in Church Hill

Title?
As far as an official title… I’m a self employed artist.

How many square feet is your garage space?
The studio is 170 give or take, enough to house the majority of my projects…

What’s the primary purpose of this space?
I use the space for multiple reasons, mainly as a sort of creative retreat, where I immerse myself in tools and projects of experimentation, expression and just plain ‘ol making things. It has also become a meeting spot for other creatives, skateboarders, cyclers and mopedders.

Can you give us a rundown of your sculptures, how you develop these ideas, etc?
My work is always changing, but I’ll elaborate on my current processes. I pull inspiration from various sources of machining techniques, fabrication and what I find exciting in our world. For instance, my most recent projects have been what I call “Hydroforms”. These sculptures are created by pumping massive amounts of water into a steel form that I’ve welded out of relatively thin gauge steel, resulting in an seemingly heavy industrial object contrasted with soft flowing eccentuations of the liquid that has shaped it from the inside out. These have been evolving to more amorphic creations nodding to a deeper subject matter.

What kind of art background do you have, school, lifestyle etc?
Pretty much as far back as I can remember, I’ve been creating things one way or another, from skateboard ramps to make-shift hangliders(which didn’t work). Then when college time rolled around I really wanted to step things up, luckily I recived full scholarship plus essentially my own secluded studio for my Sculpture and Mixed Media BFA in DC. I also dabble in mechanical work mainly with mopeds, bikes and skateboarding, which are some of the many ways I develop my techniques.

Whats the story with the moped insurrection in Richmond VA?
Mopeds were for me throughout high-school a way to get around without a license or money, which is one of the main reasons why I think it’s so large in Richmond. In VA you don’t need a license, insurance or registration for a moped, all you need is a helmet, goggles, and a moped. The nature of a moped I think goes along well with the mentality of a lot of the natives here, a down and dirty fix it yourself kind of way to go about. If you’ve got a moped you’ll have to fix it pretty often. they’re essentially a 1970s weed-eater engine slapped on a beefed up bicycle/small motorcycle frame, so corrosion, wear and tear on old parts need to be eventually worked on. But once it’s fixed up, heavy steel and classy 70s styling, what’s not to love?

My Friend Spike, my friend’s bike

Crailtap has this old video, with what I am guessing is the old owner of Magic skatepark in Reading, trying to confiscate Spike Jonze’s bike. Key players include Blyther, Dave Clymer, Spike Jonze, and Large Ray.
In the photo above, you can see Spike testing the limits of a pinched tube. That Photo Baffled me as a youngster…

Leatherface video

Sunderland, UK’s Leatherface recently stopped by Jack Rabid’s Rabid in the Kennel show on Breakthru Radio for a rare and detailed interview and to record a few live tracks. Among the songs performed was “Dead Industrial Atmosphere,” originally found on their 1992 full-length, Mush.