Just saw this link/blog/post on www.grind.tv. Its a day in the life of none other than our very own 33! YEAH YEAH YEAH! Come again? Whaaasaaaaaat?

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On Saturday, July 28th, the normally quiet and perfectly manicured streets and shop windows of "downtown" Hossegor were exposed to a darker side...

Michael J. Zepeda came to France with his "I Heart France-titled" Art Exhibition, which was all about. Well, we'll leave that up to the picture on your left and your imagination to interpret.

And so, with the unmistakable scent of free beer being emancipated from its metal can captivity, vin rouge and sizzling avant-garde French hot dogs on offer, slowly but surely a wonderful mix of high society, tourists, industry people, girls with lots to prove and nothing to lose as well as the usual lurkers & suspects all assembled.


















Hell, even a few of the local homeless scavengers ascended from their subterranean prison caves, where the local gendarmerie keeps them until the last tourist leaves town come fall. Someone must have pitched a burnt saucisse (French for hot-dog) in their direction... Before long, a scene as if taken out of the "Night of the living homeless" unveiled itself around the garbage cans in our backdrop. Observing Mike Z's reaction to this, then looking at his art before turning back to Mike Z again, one needed not be a rocket scientist to figure out that this kind of audience was much more to his liking than say Mr. and Mrs. Fitzpatrick in matching golf-attire stopping by to see what all the fuzz is about.

Michael J. Zepeda is a 27-year old artist from Carlsbad in Southern California, who's day job consists of working as a Senior Graphic Artist at Volcom US. His art and music preference might or might not be a direct result of growing up with the guys in Nihilist. In Europe, he is mostly known for his intricate AmsterdamnAm Poster and flyer, and for paying meticulous attention to detail. Skulls & roses are frequently featured in his works, of which many come in black and white.

Thanks to everyone who came out to party with us on this night, including the homeless guys. For those of you who didn't make it, Mike Z's art will be on display at the Hossegor Volcom store until the end of August… Or check out more of his art at Volcom.com.

Special thanks to Mike Z for coming to France, Suzuki for transport, the Volcom store and everyone that helped out.

JP

Tokyo, Japan. 2007. VOLCOMICS art shows final stop. A great city filled with great people. This was the biggest show of the tour by far. Well over 1200 Volcom fans stopped by the smokey Claska gallery in the Ebisu district to check out our art and share a Saporo beer or seven. Too much to talk about so we'll let the pictures stir your imaginations.


Tokyo from above. During our week there we were hit by an earthquake AND a typhoon. Zoinks!


The Claska hotel/gallery/underground lair.


Frenchzilla preps the tunes as the paparazzi wears hot pink.



This is how the setup looked from a skateboard. Oh Daven, you RASCAL!

Jamie doing a last minute piece outside the underground lair.


French, Haccula, and Jamie.


The crew eating glorious shabu shabu.


Jamie and Eddie.


Haccula gets masky!...masky?


Jamie, Hovin, and Matt cruise through Shibuya. BOOYA!


A couple days before the show, Jamie got a huge back piece from our favorite Japanese Featured Artist KANAME!


And the night rolls in...


Haccula get in the groove.


French gets into the funk.


Jamie gets into the mob.


Kaname gets into the tattoos.


Cute ladies.


V for VOLCOM STYYYYLLEEE!!!




Hovin gave away a lot of shirts to all. A very generous dude that Hovin is!


"MAD PACKED, YO!"


"MAD SMOKEY, YO!"


"MAD FANS, YO!"

After party!



Daven. That man's name is Daven.


Yes. Thats Daven.

The next morning...shows done...hung over...greasy brunch!

Thanks to everyone all over the world who helped make this first Volcomics project a success. Until our next art venture, which will probably be very soon, PARTY!

WHOA! Where have we been? We all just woke up from a coma a few minutes ago and have NO idea how much time has passed. Then the phone rang and the voice on the other side said "Hey this is the Volcom Art Loft ghost of Christmas past and we're partying here in San Fransisco and it's like, waaaay in the past! It's probably the future over there so you should get up from your ass and post these photos that we are taking now but would be already be considered yesterdays news over on your end. AAARRGGGHHH MATTEEYY!!!"

So in respects to the Volcom Art Loft of the past, we will now post the pictures from the Volcomics show in San Fransisco which you will look at in the not too distant future. flux capacitor.


So this is The Space gallery on Polk. It's very nice.


Art on the wall.


A dude holding up one of the free shirts from da show.


Neil Hamburger. If you still dont know this guy you should really get savy with youtube.




Nice girls.




Art of Matt French.


!!TWINSNIWT!!


"We like San Fransisco because it feels like a European city. Mmmhmmm. SMASHING!"

AWESOME TIMES! If any of you were at that show, feel free to comment on what you thought. And since were flipping in and out of the past, present, and future, you should make it to the last stop of the Volcomics tour in Tokyo. BE THERE!

Last week, good ol' foggy london town played host the third stop in the Volcomics tour. A handfull of our great artists where there to attend the party, drink pints, and eat crisps.


The artwork traveling first class...in the boot.


Mel and Travis riding en route to the show.


Mikey and his lovely lady Allison.




Horsey from Death Skateboards schools us!


Horsey and Todd


Super tight underground skatepark shralp sesh























It's a long flight from L.A. to London. Nothing kills time better than some colabo drawings!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the London show! We heard that some peeps even traveled hours on train to be here. We hope you all had as much fun as we done did! Dont miss the next stop on the tour....SAN FRANSISCO!!

STOP #4:
San Francisco - Saturday, July 14th @ Space Gallery SF, 8pm
1141 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-377-3325

There's nothing like an uplifting Mikey Sieben shirt to brighten spirits in any incarceration. It looks like Paris Hilton at least knows ONE cool kid.








Yeah Mikey! BLOWIN UP!!

Ahhhh....Los Angeles. A fine town. Fine enough to host stop #2 of the Volcomics show. Hopefully you and your cronies were able to make it out for the festivities. Lots of great artists, skaters, partiers, and all around good people were there to get their free copy of the Volcomics comic book. Heck, even Neil Hamburger got his. And if you dont know who Neil Hamburger is then you best try to make it to the San Fransisco Volcomics show. That man puts on a mean act. But hey, thats enough of our blabberin'. We'll let the photos take over from here!


The crowd in front of 126 La Brea. HI MARTY!!


Xtreem signage.


Dollin and Remy debate the significance of the Rococo movement.


The man who made it all happen...Ethan F. Anderson. Check the color coordo of his bandanna with the art above his head! Color theory, BAY-BEE!


Man, girl, Bratrud art.


A plethora of visuals from corrupted minds.


Travis Fudge art.


Thats tight!


Appleyard art from one of his many days on the road. Dubai?


The lovely Dana and Mike Aho enjoy each others company.


These girls are laughing...*sigh*.


Emily and Hovin making fond memories.


33 and Steeeevvvvsssiiieee.


The crowd watches Hamburger.


Hamburger entertains the crowd.


Girls behind the counter.


That one is cool. She's making the "I would toootally make out with Volcom" sign. And she did. AAAllll night long.

Dont miss stop #3 on the Volcomics Art tour.
Next stop: LONDON!!

London - Thursday, June 28th @ Truman Brewery, 8pm
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
+44 (0) 7971-571479

Aho and gang just got back from NYC. Judging from the smiles on their pale, hung-over looking faces this morning, I think it would be safe to assume that the show went well. Hopefully some of you got to make it out there. But don't worry if you didn't. Four more shows to go after this one!

The hand screened 12 color Volcomics poster by French and Phillips.

Setting up for the show.
Bratrud looking pretty Samurai these days.

Travis and Mel
Travis Fudge drawings
Mel Kadel drawings
VCJ and a letter to Ethan
Sieben
33, Emily, and Hovin art
More 33 hijinx
More Sieben hijinx
Aho-jinx

Mike Zepeda
Ozzie
Unknown, Fudge, Aho, and Sieben get interviewed. Actually, I think Unknown was asking the questions. But thats neither here nor there.
Free freshies ready to be given out.
The art lovers roll in
And the Sieben drinks
Isn't it akward when you are trying to take a photo but your camera is set to video and you had no idea? Nobody wins in that scenario.
And more art lovers roll in
Fudge creepy stares to his left
The kids fight each other...
...and it's all Fudges' fault.
One more crowd shot for good measure.

Even the skate dudes made a cameo. Check their blog.
www.volcom.com/news/article.asp?sid=&articleID=1881

Get ready for stop #2 on the Volcomics art tour.
Next stop: LOS ANGELES

Friday, June 1st @ Volcom LA Store, 8pm
126 South La Brea
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-933-2442

B DER!

Ok, ok, ok. So OBVIOUSLY this is just a scan out of a Japanese magazine.
Our man 33 went to Japan last month with snow teamers Brian Iguchi and Jamie Lynn not to snowboard, nay, but to do some art shows. So what we lack in photographic evidence, we made up for in editorial evidence. Hopefully you can read Japanese cause this article is the Shittake! And if your actually in the fine country of Japan, go to your nearest mag stand and pick up the new issue of WARP. The one with the mean looker on the cover as pictured below.

*First 3 people to tell us which frame 33 is in wins something ka-rayzie from us.


Mean looker.
Donde 33?

VOLCOMICS ISSUE #1 - INTERNATIONAL ART SHOW AND COMIC BOOK
Volcom lauches a world-wide artshow tour and 60-page comic book in support of the biggest Volcom Featured Artist Series line ever.

The project was born from Volcom VP Creative Director Ethan Anderson's love of the underground comic movement and looked to capture its raw energy and low-fi means by creating a comic book that is authentic down to the paper stock and page count.



The comic book is over two years on the making and features legendary skateboard artists Jim Phillips and VCJ as well as some of the biggest creative contributors to skateboarding today - Michael Sieben, Todd Bratrud and Travis Millard. In addition to skate-art heavyweights the book features artists/athletes from the worlds of surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding such as Mark Appleyard, Ozzie Wright, and Jamie Lynn. There will be artists in attendance and a limited number of t-shirts and books to be given away for free at each opening reception. Volcom will be producing fifteen thousand copies of the comic for free, with worldwide distribution.

The art show series will begin May 19th at Fuse gallery in New York City and will continue through the summer with stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo and London. The openings will include drawings by all Holiday 2007 Volcom Featured Artists, as well as scribblings by all twenty-eight artists that contributed to the book. The book and shows are an Art Loft release being curated by Volcom Senior Graphic Artist Mike Aho.

Opening Receptions:

NYC - Saturday, May 19th @ Fuse Gallery, 8pm
93 2nd Avenue (between 5th & 6th Streets)
NYC, NY 10003
Subway: F train to 2nd Avenue
212-777-7988

Los Angeles - Friday, June 1st @ Volcom LA Store, 8pm
126 South La Brea
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-933-2442

London - Thursday, June 28th @ Truman Brewery, 8pm
91 Brick Lane
London E1 6QL
+44 (0) 7971-571479

Tokyo - Friday, July 20th @ Claska - Volcomics Japan: Featuring KANAME
1-3-18 Chuo-Cho, Meguro-Ku,
Tokyo 152-0001 Japan
03-3719-5121

San Francisco - Saturday, July 14th @ Space Gallery SF, 8pm
1141 Polk St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-377-3325