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Like any sort of festive season, Halloween brings out the best & worst in parties. Thank fuck I don’t live in the US, where it is exploited to the maximum, but even here we get our fair share of ’scary’ crap & pap. Luckily Crossfire are always around to save the night with their immense Halloween parties.

This Saturday will see the 2009 event take place - warehouse style - at the previously secret location of Hewett Street Car Park in EC2. Warehouse parties guarantee at least three things: griminess, cash only and lunacy at every level. Ideal night basically.

Two rooms of entertainers will keep the frenzy at a high with a whole mishmash of sounds: from DnB and breaks to punk and hardcore. Names on the list include Eddy Temple-Morris, Stereo:Type, Mike Diver, Lady Starlight (NYC), Crossfire Sound System and Talita Twoshoes. Live band action comes from Chickenhawk and The Fuckin Hate. Oh and there’s a mini ramp in the second room, featuring a bunch of pro riders doing some exhibition type ish.

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A few months ago, I was offered a ticket to a film called Beautiful Losers under the premise that 1) it was about graffiti and 2) it was free (a kind of pseudo date, if you will). Anyway, what it turned out to be was a fascinating documentary about the rise of mid 90s art kids in NYC and California, including the now established likes of Stephen Powers, Barry McGee and Ed Templeton. I had no idea, but Ed is the dude behind the art for Toy Machine Skateboards and is in fact a legitimate artist in his own right, as well as a pro skater. Oh yeah, and his wife is hot. Like imagine if you had a scoop of the sun for breakfast…get me!

Anyway, months passed, names were forgotten. Until my friend showed me this book he had called Deformer. It was super good, such a DIY aesthetic in a professionally produced book. Drawings, personal photographs, writing…if I ever make a book I hope it’s something like this. To get an insight into the man behind an iconic skating company with strong punk and skateboard roots is such a treat. People should just start making zines again. Execpt Ed had the chance to turn a zine into an all singing all dancing hardbound book. If you give a shit about skating, punk, art or just cultural milestones in general, you should go get this book. Certainly worth chopping down a tree for.

Word.

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Enemite : A Feeling or condition of : Hostility , Hatred , Ill Will , Animosity , Antagonism.
( refer to dictionary for actual definition ) pronounced : a-nim-uh-tee


New Skate and BMX shop located in Bedford . Not exactly central LDN I know but when a new store opens up in your hometown and there has never been anything there before you kinda wanna shout about it.

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something skate on S43? yup and a bad ass ZooYork podcast at that. check it…

Zoo York have this September 5 new decks with sick art done by 5 NYC artists.

more info check out, http://zooyorkevents.blogspot.com/2008/08/zy-cockroach-artist-series.html

you see some fucked up crash on the net 1 day, then it would seem everyone leaves out the fact he got back up, and dropped some serious moves… SICK

It was messy last year, and I don’t doubt it being any better this year. Chav-fest or not, it is a fun weekend. If you can, be there..
http://www.nassfest.com/

Yep yep yep - it’s officially Summertime now, simply ‘cos it’s Street Vs. Tweak time! Last year was the definition of awesomeness, and it was Dave Winn’s first crack at the “Putting on sweet events” whip. Second time round - more sponsors, more prizes, more mini-comps, more fun. Get involved!

the guys at Zoo York gave us a heads up about their European tour that’s kicking of in a couple of weeks, check out the flyer for details and also locations near you.

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Segment just dropped us a line to let us know of a few additions to their range, and here they are…

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From the new Become Legendary Nike ads. Not really BMX/skate/music relevant, but it is at the same time…

*Cuts out tiny “S43″ stencil*

Precision Productions have put up a new Clip of the week, #41.

Generally, when we here at Style43 are lucky enough to be sent items to review by companies, we’ll use them for a short period of time and put up a review giving our thoughts and feedback. With my Airtime backpack, I decided to go a different way. Backpacks get put through a lot - this particular model’s easily covered over a thousand miles of riding, train tracks, A-roads and motorways and just walking, whether it’s on my back, stuffed in a boot, crammed into an overhead storage compartment, or being lugged around by it’s top strap - so why not do a longer test, to really see how good a product is?

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Picture this.. 10 days, 10 dudes trying to find sweet skate spots in the dirty south of Spain on nothing but 10 dilapidated motorcycles and Eastpak back packs with the bare essentials. The tour starts on the 3rd April and the guys will update their page with pics and news from on the road. It all sounds so much of a recipe for disaster it sounds amazing and I’m sure its gonna be epic.
stay tuned..
www.e-eastpak.com/hoboriders/

I’ve been a fan of this artist for a while now. There is something about the mood, simplicity, originality and pure genious of Anthony Lister’s work that proves our generation has moved to forefront of the Art world. We did an article a few weeks back with Melbourne based jewellery creator Hayley Mei which was just a small taster of what our generation of this nation have to offer.

I sometimes feel the creative talent that pours out of Australia sometimes goes un-noticed to the majority of the world. Thats why I chose to do this feature, focusing on the work and life of Brisbane-born, Brooklyn-residing painter and installation artist, Anthony Lister.

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