My next door neighbor, the Tee-Off Bar and Grill have been around for years in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco (Clement x 33rd Avenue). I moved-in next door a little over 4 years ago and owners Pauly and Krystal took-over and bought the business on the same day I signed my lease. They’ve supported every event here at the annual 3131 openings with the best catered food and drinks consistently. In only this short period of time, Pauly has built a reputation for some fine dive-bar grub in the neighborhood and some well-known foodies have taken notice.

This coming Monday, November 23, 2009, come and join the Tee-Off as they gather to watch the premier episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featuring Pauly’s gourmet dive-bar cuisine.

7PM and 10PM showing.

Congratulations to the Tee-Off family!

Jeremy & Claire & Eli Weiss gifted us with a new photo print recently. Nice little stickers too.

Thank you to the Weiss’ for their generosity and awesome work.

We’re really stoked on their photography at Day19.

Some of you might remember that Eli was our first and youngest rider inducted into the Solitary Arts Skate Team

ULUWATU’s… probably named in the 70’s by local Hawaiian surf-skateboarders… named after Jerry Lopez went to Uluwatu’s in Indo and surfer mag ran fotos… I saw fotos of Larry Bertleman, JayBoy, & T.A. skating there when I was a kid. Super special spot in the very very back of Hawaii Kai…
- Jef Hartsel

[o] by Mark Kushimi from Contrast Magazine out of Hawaii.

Thanks for the awesome photos, Jef!

All Style!

Andrew Paytner sent some shots he took on his camera-phone today of Kyle Field painting the Albion Mural Project at Juice Design in San Francisco.

Mahalo guys.

Stroll by and get stoked.

LA><ART benefit party with silent and live auction.

November 15th 7-9PM

LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90034

T 310.559.0166

Click image below for full details and ticket information.

Geoff McFetridge‘s piece in tomorrow’s event.
“You are Behind Us” 2009
Cel Vinyl on Paper
10" X 10" Framed

Don Pendleton has a new online exhibit of paintings at elephont.com, entitled, “THE LOST THOUGHT.”

For inquiries on availability, pricing, size, and additional information, please email: dhpendleton@gmail.com

UK magazines, Little White Lies and HUCK both collaborated on a cover each by Geoff McFetridge and features a Spike Jonze interview (HUCK) and a Where The Wild Things Are issue (Little White Lies).

Get them both and connect the magazines…

While down in LA at Geoff’s Champion Studios a few weeks ago, I took some shots of the original drawings he did for these respective covers.

We couldn’t wait to attend last nights magical performance by 89 year old, Ravi Shankar with his daughter, Anoushka Shankar here in San Francisco. An amazing evening… Thank you.

His eldest daughter does quite well in the music world too and has a new album coming out on November 17,2009.

“Ravi Shankar is the Godfather of world music”
- George Harrison


[o] yong-ki

THE 2009 GREAT SKATE GIVEAWAY

THE LAND OF PLENTY has been around since 2002, and in that time they have given away hundreds of skateboards to skaters in need. Their primary program is The Board Exchange: they ask participating kids to paint a blank skateboard for the collection in return for a new deck of their own. LOP then sells these hand-painted boards to raise funds.

As it turns out, they amassed a large amount of these painted boards, and have decided to clean house. In the next two weeks they will be donating 200 hand-painted skateboard decks to skaters around the world. For this, they are asking only one thing: they need donation money to ship these boards. If you believe in the LOP, if you have ever wanted to help out, if you have ever wanted to contribute to help get skateboard equipment to children in challenged situations, this is your chance. They don’t need product, thety don’t need your time, they don’t need you to buy anything from them. All LOP needs is to raise a few hundred dollars to ship these boards to skaters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, Apache Country, New York, Pakistan, and Thailand.

Take this opportunity to donate by visiting THE LAND OF PLENTY donation page and use the PayPal link. Feel free to send an email to go@thelandofplenty.org and let them know who you are, and why you are down. Every dollar helps, and everyone will truly appreciate your generosity. There will be 200 kids around the world who will appreciate your help as well. Peace.

Results so far:
20 boards to LA Kids Afterschool Program
10 boards to Venice Community Day School
80 boards to Apache Country, Arizona
20 boards to Quito, Ecuador

Kenny’s been going through his weekly treatment of chemotherapy and handling it well. Most importantly, he’s keeping his spirits high. A few weeks back, he went in for some check-ups and was asked to increase the level of his chemo treatment. We hope it’s working, man and thank you all for the continued financial support through your donations.

Understandably, Kenny was enthusiastic about attending the soundcheck for last nights, Bad Brains show in Honolulu, Hawaii.

BAD BRAINS!

Top: HR
Mid: Kenny Brimer & HR
Low: Jef Hartsel & Kenny

Michael Leon, Kevin Lyons, & Geoff McFetridge, together have an opening coming-up on November 7th, 2009 at the HVW8 Art + Design Gallery in Los Angeles.

“Michael, Kevin & Geoff”
New works on paper from three old friends from Los Angeles.

Opening Saturday, November 7th, 7pm to 10pm
Exhibition runs through December 20th, 2009
RSVP to: MichaelKevinGeoff@hvw8.com

HVW8 Art + Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave. L.A. Ca 90036
Hours: Tues to Sun, 1 – 6pm
323.788.4898

For press inquiries contact Kim Parker: kparker@hlgrp.com

Many thanks to Thrasher Magazine for the write-up about the Solitary Arts in the November 2009 issue.

2009 Reel from Tobin Yelland. Worth every second of the 9:01 run-time…

Tomorrow is October 16th and nationally, Where The Wild Things Are is opening in theatres!

Today, Opening Ceremony posted some fine goods for purchase with tee’s screened with the drawings that Geoff did for the movie trailers we’ve been seeing lately.

I had to throw-in a few images of the costumes and apparel that’s also available through Opening Ceremony, as their pretty awesome. Click below to view the entire collection.