Slap that shit on your wall!

June 25, 2008 @ 5:18 PM - by Benjamin

Hmm, so I don’t know how to start this one entry…
You guys might know of Jim Phillips, the artist who amongst many things designed a lot of the iconic late 80’s Santa Cruz skateboard graphics. Many of your older bros at the spot might even have one of his inked somewhere tough on them. And I can’t diss that.
This guys does/did a great job!

Images such as those…


All good, you might say, and if you’re stoked on him, you can even find a really good book documenting his best surf and skate related work…
But, now, I just received a mail from a site that sells those designs as laminated prints or something, amongst such things:

You know, the type of cheap prints you see on “edgy” young stoke brokers walls, the kind that do cocaine while listening to The Streets and then stares at this guy

in the eyes, all pumped up and daydreaming about another gangster life they could have chosen. Only if their parents had allowed…
So, yeah, something that could be summed up as “WACK!”
So this makes me a bit sad, but hey, brother gotta make a living I guess.
Plus “skateboarding culture” is one puffy smoke bomb, isn’t it?