Bandit

Thanks to Vancouver artist, Bandit, who recently worked on some stencil installations at the office.

Bandit's work

Bobby Ray

Bobby Ray (former B.O.B.) is doing a 'not so secret' anymore show down in Cali. Would be nice.

Def Jam flix

eS Footwear and Freshjive sponsored the Def Jam last Thursday, March 26. Thx to Cherchez!. Check the pics HERE.

etnies Rap the reincarnation of a skateboarding classic

Coming from the first skateboarder-owned footwear company, the etnies Rap was ahead of its time, a classic skate shoe like nothing else on the market at the time. Originally produced in three colorways, the kicks were some of the hottest joints within the skate culture. With the scene now as technologically sound as ever, etnies looks to bring back the Rap model in 2009 with the addition of several technical upgrades including vulcanized soles alongside mid/low cut models.
Always insightful, this latest video from etnies showcases key inflencers including Sal Barbier, Natas Kaupas, founder Pierre Andre Senizergues and the always pleasurable VP Don Brown. Check it out HERE.

Blue Tile Lounge - Newmarket Ontario's Finest

Repping one of the finest shop teams, sickest t-shirt designs, and some of the best shop videos period, Blue Tile Lounge has been a constant staple in the Southern Ontario skate community for years. The guys recently made the move a few doors up the street, did a little remodeling, and came correct with a super fancy and pretty new store sporting some of the nicest new shop digs we've seen in quite some time. Great job guys!

Click HERE to check out more of the Lounge...

Dj Marvel 'live' GZA set

DJ Marvel opened up for Gza the other night and captured the set live HERE. A set of straight baners featuring the likes of Nas, Jay-Z, Gang Starr, Mobb Deep, Tribe, MOP etc

eS bags are for skateboarders

éS recognizes that the current state of skateboard-influenced-bags is being overrun by non-skateboarding brands. In 2008, éS tapped the Brown Buffalo Design Company to start creating some design drafts for the éS Fall 2009 Luggage Collection. The result is an intelligently designed line of bags from a skateboarder’s point of view.

The collection is technical and functional with the needs of skate travel at the top of the design list. After a few sketches, out came a collection of bags with classic and purposeful design aesthetics. The Brown Buffalo’s designs hail back to early 90's mountain bags, with clean and classic coloring utilizing durable rip-stop fabrics – perfect for the rough road life of a skateboarder.

Mustache Men

RVCA presents the Mustache Men tour across Canada. Click HERE for the 411.

RVCA owner Pat Tenore meets Obama

The Obama administration invited RVCA founder and CEO PM "Pat" Tenore and several other small business owners to the White House this month to hear the President discuss his plans to help small businesses. Pat answered some questions for me about the visit and what it was like to meet Obama. Click HERE.

Altamont, No Age and The Goat Journal

Click HERE for the SXSW review.

Wild In The Streets

It’s official! This is going to be history in the making as Vancouver is blessed to get the big worldwide push with the entire Emerica team in full effect (Andrew Reynolds, Braydon, Leo Romero, Brian Herman, Kevin ‘Spanky’ Long, Figgy, Heath Kirtchart, Marquis Preston, Jerry Hsu and our Canadian crew). Mark this date down as it’s no time to be taking a vacay. More to come as far as starting points and time.

RVCA x Toronto Fashion Week

On Thursday March 20th, in celebration of LG's Toronto Fashion Week, RVCA teamed up with local promoters the Jons put together a party/showcase to help launch the brand's new line. Strangelove on College St. W played host to the party which consisted of a live photoshoot and some ripping tunes courtesy of DJ Medley. Big thanks to the guys in Cut Copy for rolling out, as well as their current tourmates Matt & Kim. Also no Toronto party would be complete without the Broken Social Scene posse rolling through as well to cut up a rug. Big thanks to the Jons for help making it all happen and to Pat and Matt Vardy for all the great photos.

Click HERE to see how everything went down!

Jonathan Puckrin

Big shout out to Jonathan of Easy Rider Edmonton who kicked ass this season selling a massive amount of Dragon goggles to win himself a signed Jamie Lynn snowboard and signed pair of goggles and $500 cash! Thanks to all who participated and made this such a success.

Make a Zine with Aaron Rose

and more videos via RVCA's new Vimeo Channel.

Fashion vs Rock for David Suzuki

Check out our RVCA advocates Broken Social Scene inside this wonderful event

A Few Altamont Ads for Spring 09..

Weekend at Birnie's

It started with OMB (David Birnie) seeing all these lame events for kids that cost money for really...nothing. So, with the help of the Seymour park crew and friends in the industry (32, etnies, Dragon, Dinosaurswilldie, Union, Airblaster, LRG, Da Kine, Capita), we came up with a free event with an overkill of product and no charge for the kids to enter. Kind of a thank you to the kids that are in the know. Three years and four events later, we are at the Weekend at Birnies 2-day parks event. We did day one at the lodge chair park. About 70 kids hung around and rode and were rewarded for trying tricks and just having fun. Fratboy BBQ'd up hot dogs and the sun was out all day. Day two was at the mystery chair lower jib park - the park was perfect for easy hikes and lots of fun things to hit. We even had reps hiking all day long. Lots of kids returned as did the sun and a lot of fun was had. Thanks to everyone that helped me out it's not like I do this by myself. See you next year for the return of Smitty and Hoppy at the Sanford Halfpipe.
-OMB

new Broken Social Scene video

Toronto friends and RVCA advocates Broken Social Scene recently shot a new video in the streets of Kensington Market for the song 'Love is New' off Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us.

Click HERE to check it out...

UB Crowned

Here’s some flix of the UB Crowned presented by Ultimate Boardshop that took place on Saturday, March 21 at Bromont Ski Resort. The contest was a great success for a first edition. At the end, West Coast shredders ripped their way to the podium. 1)Craig Beaulieu – 10 000$ 2) Nash Lajeunesse – 3000$ 3)Jesmond Dubeau – 2000$. And we all finished the day at the Bar of the resort with good beats by DJ Fiends and Hatchmatik. Thanks to Nic Dubuc and the Ultimate Crew for making it happen!
Here’s the link for two more pictures from the Bromont Resort’s website:
http://www.skibromont.com/ubcrowned/People.jpg and
http://www.skibromont.com/ubcrowned/Podium.jpg

Mick Haggerty x Freshjive T-shirt Collection

Freshjive has collaborated with Mick Haggerty- one of the most influential graphic designers of the late 20th century. Mick Haggerty is the man behind countless album covers- most of them done before the use of computers. Read his story and his influence on graphic design on the Freshjive website.

Ulysse Pinel Pro Model !

ULC Skateboards has hooked up Ulysse Pinel with a pro model, this kids as smooth as silk and has a great head on his shoulders, Ulysse is one our eS shoe team riders repping out of Quebec and does a great job of it, Congrats from the Timebomb crew !

Wale

LRG presents one of the illest MC's out right now, Wale! Toronto inside the Mod Club Theatre. Details on the flyer

Poser

Travis Barker is a poser. The link got re-upped HERE.

Drake for LRG

Etnies Ad Campaign Update

Emerica Ad Campaign Update

Josh Hill for Dragon's Signature Series

Latest From eS' Ad Campaign

Deer Man Is Now Pro !

Well if you ask my honest opinion he was already pro but this just confirms it. The picture above is the latest Heroin Skateboards advertisment stating that in case there's any confusion Deer Man Of Dark Woods is Pro for Heroin with a signature model available soon. Deer Man Kill's !!!

Happy 2 Years Blastramp

It's Blastramp's 2 Year Anniversary at the Bourbon tonight, and their guest is none other than RVCA advocate, The Cobrasnake, with Fan Death on the decks too. More info here

Broken Social Scene pop in!

Brendan Canning and the Broken Social Scene posse rolled by the Toronto showroom to pick up some new RVCA duds, take a sneak peak at the RVCA FALL '09 line, and peruse through the new ANP Quarterly.

Click HERE to check out their latest record 'Something For All Of Us'. It's super rad!

Slam X Hype

etnies Plus X Slam X Hype dropping now.

3 Style Canadian finalists sets

We posted the regional finalists, but here's the Canadian finalists sets. 15 minutes for each of the 10 DJ's. 1st place Cosmo, 2cnd place Mensa, 3rd place P-Luv. Vote for your fav set HERE.

Fresh Spring Looks

..courtesy of RVCA

The Emerica Team In Vancouver for WITS 09!

Emerica’s Wild in the Streets main event goes international for the first time! Andrew Reynolds, Ed Templeton, Braydon Szafranski, Heath Kirtchart, Jerry Hsu, Brandon Westgate, Bryan Herman, Leo Romero, Kevin Spanky Long, Aaron Suski, Marquis Preston, Justin Figueroa, Chris Senn, and Jamie Tancowny will be heading to none other than Vancouver for Go Skateboarding Day and WITS on June 21, 2009. This year, Wild in the Streets will benefit Leeside, the skatepark dedicated to Lee Matasi. More details to come.

Chris Nieratko on Leo Romero

The newest issue of Skateboarder has a 16 (!!) page article on Leo Romero! Written by Vice's porn columnist, Chris Nieratko.

Lick Shots tour

LRG presents DJ Babu and Notes To Self cross Canada tour. Be on the lookout.

Alterntaive’s Snow Mission

Alternative’s 2009 Snow Mission, that took place this weekend (13th and 14thg of March) at Mont-Comi near Rimouski with over 2,000 people in attendance. Big shouts to Pat from Alternative and Mont-Comi for making it all happen.

5-0 Boardshop

Store shouts to 5-0 Boardshop in Charny on the South-Shore of Quebec City. Thanks for the sick Emerica, eS and LRG windows.

Bobby Worrest in Skateboarder's May Issue

Weekend at Birnie's

"Weekend at Birnie's is not a contest, but a free flowing call out park jam. Myself and my other industry friends like doing things our way. So no entry fee, only for the snowboarders... sorry skiers, nothing personal. Fratboy on the BBQ, Damon and I on the mic. Real simple, we will pick obstacles and tricks to be done on them for the swago. " - Birnie

P-Luv

Shouts out to Vancouver's DJ PLuv as he represented in the Red Bull 3 Style Canadian finals and placed 3rd. 1st place was Cosomo (Halifax) and 2cnd place was Mensa (Toronto). Last chance to hear the regional final sets. Click HERE.

This photo is from a lil RVCA shoot that Jennilee did last week.

Win Beau's Gear

SXSW LRG

Bruce Lee ping pong

Allot of folks at Timebomb here think they got game. They got nothing on Bruce though. Click HERE.

Shakedown

PAS apparel

Check out Pierre Andre's C-Pas collection made from all organic materials. Only custom-made for now. Click HERE to see it.

Guns Are Bad

Did you hear about the dramatic events that occurred when the eS Team was in Peru? There isn't really a way to describe it briefly, so read the full story (and watch the video) here.

DJ OB-1 & Big Syphe

My boys did this lil cd that I wanted to share with you. Click HERE.

Just Like The Boss

Send in a video clip of yourself doing a frontside 180 kickflip up/down/off whatever you prefer (just like the Boss) for your chance to win the complete Andrew Reynolds package from *Baker Skateboards, Indy Trucks, SKF Bearings, Altamont Clothing and Emerica shoes.

Enter Here - http://www.youtube.com/group/colorfsflipcontest

Incandescent

thanks to mila from color for sending us images of their latest fashion shoot, titled "incandescent". check it out in color 7.1.

rvca bandeau | chains | charm
emerica mens jeans


rvca tank


emerica rings


etnies necklace worn as a bracelet

photography - taylor james | styling - mila franovic | model - darya from lizbell
more images on mila's blog

My Faves

LRG advocate and legend DJ Jazzy Jeff comes with 'My Faves Volume 1'. Click HERE.

Braydon Playing Cards !

Not to many (if any) pro skateboarders have there own playing cards but because Braydon enjoys some occasional card play Emerica has come out with a pack of Braydon Szafranski playing cards. It may be time to retire your old 4,5,6 roll playing antics but i'll leave that up to you. Grab a deck of these if you can allthough I'm sure they will be fairly limited to get your hands on a set, Braydon's a 7 card stud and for sure on the Shuffle. When it comes to Braydon and emerica we here at Timebomb are All In ! 

P.S. thanks to Kelsey our warranty wonder for displaying the cards.

Low B

DJ Sega

J2 opening Metrotown

Shouts out to Simon and the J2 crew as they have really been blowing up the spot lately. Congrats on this new location!

Slush Cup

If you live in Alberta, go and support this one put on by Boarding House.

Experience

In stores now. Introducing the Dragon Alliance Rob Machado Experience… Drawing inspirations from Rob’s life, each color way represents a little piece of what makes Rob “Rob”. In the early 90’s, Rob first came onto the scene in a series of progressive Taylor Steele movies known as the “Momentum Generation”. Later, Rob would hit a pivotal point in his career as both a WCT surfer and winner of the 2000 Pipeline Masters. During this time, Rob used the Bullseye design on a number of boards, inspired by an early Ben Harper album “Fight for your Mind”.

Emerica invades New Mexico

Check the photos and story out HERE.

GZA

Here's an illustrated flyer from Brent Clowater. Check more of his work HERE.

B.I.G. Forever

Click HERE for the download.

RVCA x Color Magazine "This Is My Life" Winners

In collaboration with Color Magazine and RVCA, we held a camera phone photography contest, asking people to take 12 photos of their day (one per hour), and then submitting them to us as a contact sheet. We received so many interesting entries from around the world, and after tallying the votes from both the staff at Timebomb and RVCA in California, here are the winners..



1st Place is Kaarle Hurtig of Helsinki, Finland, who won a $500 RVCA wardrobe.


2nd Place is Brian Bell, who won a subscription to Color Magazine.


3rd place is Ben Niznik, who won a subscription to Color Magazine.

Thanks again to everyone that entered.

Drake

We present to you the new LRG ad fresh out the box with up and coming Canadian MC Drake

Fucked Up in Tokyo

Altamont and Emerica friends Fucked Up checked in to update us on their current tour of the Pacific Rim. As you can see they don't seem to be too lost in translation as they hit the streets of Japan between shows. Domo arigato.

You are a legend, RIP Teebs

In the morning of Saturday, March 7, 2009 Tyler Graham Stuart passed away from his courageous battle with cancer. All who knew him will miss him immensely. Tyler was an avid skateboarder, dedicated friend, and a loving son, big brother, grandson and nephew. Tyler had an infectious smile and contagious personality and so much more. Although Tyler is no longer here with us in person, his spirit lives on. He will be greatly missed, but never forgotten.

WE LOVE YOU.

RVCA X Underworld in Crux Magazine

Here's some shots of the new Underworld in Crux Magazine. Shop looks great so congrats. Big shout to Underworld's Laurence for repping the RVCA

Emerica Braydon window

The Royal crew put together this amazing Emerica Braydon window at the new Underworld in Montreal. Swing by to see it in person

eS Japan

the eS team is currently in Columbia, but just put out this Japan tour video that they did in 08. Click HERE to see it

etnies Perry mid

Check the etnies Perry midin the latest Complex

Dill Gets Cold Call'd Pt. 2

Part 2/2 of the Skateboard Mag's telephone grill session with Etnies team rider Jason Dill. Click HERE to hear Dill shed some light on 'Sideshow Bob' hair, becoming a prince, and making babies in Africa.

RVCA x Toronto Fashion Week

Keys N Krates

Click HERE for the new joint.

Red Bull 3 Style finalists

As the Red Bull 3 Style championships near (Toronto, March 13) you can vote your fav set from the regional contests. Click HERE to hear all of the above 15 minute sets.

Tribute Rail Jam

etnies, Thirty Two and Dragon sponsor this jam in Nelson, BC. Should be good. Appearances by our own Dickson Li and OMB.

DJ Spider

Simian Mobile Disco at Fast Life's 2 Year Anniversary

Dragon Launches Their Time Machine Ad Campaign!

Look closely and you will see these athletes' influences and inspiration as well as the stories behind each of Dragon's unique collections.

Dill Gets Cold Call'd Pt. 1

Etnies rider Jason Dill gets the Cold Call treatment from the Skateboard Mag's Chris Nieratko. Click HERE to listen in on Dill shedding some insight on Mind Field, Scientology, and Xanax.