The web is packed with information, videos, pictures, social networks, interviews´- you name it, you can find it and about 20 times more than you can ever consume and that’s a really bad estimate. We’re being flooded with information and yeah, I’m contributing to the flood, regurgitating information that you can find as well and sometimes I do ask myself if all that I am doing is for any good.

Hell yeah! Plain and simple, we all decide for ourselves if we are going to just have friends online, spend our time in chatrooms and believe we are cool if we have over 1000 Twitter friends. I don’t care about that – the possibility to use the means of communication are fantastic and when I find a goldmine which has it’s roots all the way over in Brazil (Vista.art.br is the website I’m talking about here!), I just love the web for what it has to offer! The people behind this website have put together a great mix of skateboarding, art and music and from what i can barely understand due to the language, it even looks like they have a print mag going (??)…click on the picture below for an online Flash mag packed with animated pages, pictures and a bunch of videos – just plain good work here!

I’m guessing most of you who are even a bit interested in the graphics that we ride on our boards will have heard about Sean Cliver’s book “Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art” – a 228-page, full color book which showcases over 1000 graphics from the past 30 years. And the follow up book “Disposible – The Skateboard Bible” Well, now he has joined the blogging community with some great posts so check it out right here!

» want the Disposible books? Get them right here!

Tweaker Zine has been really really busy lately and they have just lifted the level of online magazines even higher. With a new layout and navigation scheme plus a brand new issue packed with articles from around the world and the photographs which underline the quality of the whole magazine.

Tweaker Zine is more than the usual magazine which combines art, photography, lifestyle and of course skateboarding to create a full package. Click on the title page below and enjoy

The guys from Fat Punk Studio first caught my attention through Facebook when I was commenting on somebody’s picture and I saw a graphic from them on the page. Wow is what it made me say and I checked out the site after I realized they print decks as well.

I really think the graphics are spot on – crisp, clear and very recognizable ideas makes these works stand apart from the others. They are currently bringing out new stuff so if this your style direction, find out more about them and check their website:

http://www.fatpunkstudio.com/

And also take a look at his canvas graphic prints right here, this guy is talented!

Got to push your local friends and I gladly do it for Gerd Rieger’s BAILGUN Magazine which has just reached issue #7 – the Swedish Issue. Featuring loads of great photos and insights into the Quiksilver Bowlriders Finals in Malmö, Sweden this past summer 2008. I was there with Gerd so this is a great issue to look through and get an impression about some of the action that took place.

Axel Torschmied from the website skateanddestroy.de is also a talented German photographer living in Sweden currently and he rounds off the magazine with a series of pictures from southern Sweden. I also met up with him in Malmö which made the entire experience a blast.

Simplistic layout with some wording spread in between make this BAILGUN issue a great extra for your coffee table in the living room.

- Download the PDF version of BAILGUN Magazine Issue #7 here

Here’s a real mini-version of the Flash book – just click on it to flip through the full size version!

When it’s somebody’s or something’s birthday you are expected to congratulate and in this case I love to do it because the people behind Tweaker Zine have been working on it for one year now and constantly bringing quality articles which are fun to read with an assortment of exciting photos as well.

The latest “birthday” issue if I may call it this way is in no way different from the past and again, I want to read this and not chew it up and spit it back at you in my words. Here’s the summary from the Tweaker Zine editors themselves, enjoy! Oh yeah, click here to start reading Tweaker Zine!

Welcome to Tweaker
French remineses about 1 years worth of roadtrips, BBQs and Beer.

Subterrain
Underground shreading at it’s most dusty.

Southsea
Southsea hits 30, and ages like the old croaky whore that she is. (some dudes from Southhampton come and ride her)

Travelogue: Dave Turner
Dave’s Pics from various pics abroad.

RoadKill
Dan and Craig are on it! Tweaker Heart RoadKill

Andrew Effendy: Whats Left Behind
Photos you can almost smell.

Harry Bastard
Brewster catchs up with Harry Bastard, Archive pics courteasy of Horsley / Sidewalk – (Thanks fellas!).

Randomised
A selections of skate shots from a selection of shooting skaters.

Slam Promo
Tweaker has a lot of love for the Covent Garden Massive!

2008 Drawing Boards Tour
The Drawingboards crew head out on the road in search of fast times.

The next issue of Monkey Say magazine, number #19, has been up and ready to be read, watched and re-read for a few days and I can only say you should just take the time to read it. Packed from front to back with informative and interesting articles and video pieces, the Monkey Say editors always seem to pull it together just right. The entire layout “makes” you look around a bit more than usual and I’m sure I missed something somewhere so it invites you to come back and flip through the great mix of writing and photographs.

- Monkey Say Issue 19 website

Michael Sieben has had his art – which often combines skateboard graphic design and children’s book illustrations – presented in a variety of formats including magazines, prints, on t-shirts, in art shows and now it seems also in a new shoe series edition from adidas.

Marketing people sometimes get carried away a bit with the money they are allowed to invest in pushing new products and it looks like they had a fair bit for the promo video of the Michael Sieben designed shoes. The video shows Michael going on a treasure hunt with three characters most likely also created by Michael – people in costumes, not drawn. I’m not going to try to take the video apart and analyze it, just make sure you watch it because it is, well, slightly different!

Click Here for the entire video (you have to watch this!)

- Michael Sieben’s website
- adidas website
- Michael Sieben in Mumble Magazine