Oil and water exposition

Lowbrow art, motorcycle evangelists and the prayer of endless summer in one location. The customizing and painting, the way how you live and what do you expect of your life is knocking not on heaven's but the door of arts & design. It seems for me that it enters a next level and seperates only to build nice bikes from making art.

Traditionally oil and water do not mix. The surf, hot rod and motorcycle cultures that grew out of Southern California from the 50's-70s however, were all connected by the idea of personal freedom and expression-not conforming to the standards of the societies they existed in. For this show we are bringing together dozens of artists and craftsmen from these respective backgrounds and beyond-from legends to rookies. Each artists will be provided with a particular canvas: a blank board from City Fog Surfboards, helmets from Biltwell, gas tanks from Lowbrow Customs among other items.

To kick off the event a run was organized for the day that ended at the gallery on Fairfax. On hand there was a live performance by ex-TSOL singer Joe Woods, as well as live installation.

To coincide with the show, Us Versus Them creatated a pop up shop that will occupy the back room at Known Gallery. In addition to UVT Fall product and accessories, exclusive artist prints and tees based around some of the pieces included in the show will be for sale.

Filmed & Edited by Zane Meyer

Music by

The Black Angels- Young Men Dead
The Black Lips- Hippie Hippie Hourtah

New Prints

I started this weekend a serie of new prints around the World of Burrito Bros. It's a linocut series at 140 g paper by Gerstaecker between A5 and A4 format. I will also try some multi-colored prints and some of them at T-Shirts with Plastisol colors. The first one is the Che motif. Appreciate your comments.

Dupli-Color Metalflake

Paint ad. 1972, via Lawrence Peregrine-Trousers

Today's scene ist customising, at the "touch-o-ah" aerosol button with... Dupli-Color Custom Colors (Advertising 1972)

Leaving the rules

Maxwell Paternoster of Corpses from hell created in cooperation this great creative motorcycle art. They took this little Honda CG 125, a robust small single OHV cylinder with 11 PS build from the seventies to eighties for the market in developing countries.

They painted all parts like a white canvas and each designer could painted what they wanted. The result is a little piece of street art.

via maxwellp.co.uk

The Honda CG125 engine

The lightweight, short-pushrod OHV engine features a gear-driven, single camshaft structure for both intake and exhaust. The shaft is located where one would find the cam-chain housing in a more conventional OHC engine.

more Honda CG125

Don't paint it Black

My very first favorite was Urban Engström Triumph - Tribute to Johnny Cash

Fantastic work. Rollin' art.

Now I feel stupid that I have painted over the CB frame again. In the beginning I was happy with this style but more and more I thought - No, no, it looks not antique but more amateurish. Shit happen's

Some sweets

Restored carburetor Dellorto UA18S

50th style exhaust

Camper Bike by Kevin Cyr. That's a real project by artist Kevin Cyr. Born in Canada in 1976, he received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. More stuff from Kevin Cyr:

via flickr, Kevin Cyr Studio Visit.

Used Stencil Style

It's so difficult to produce a real vintage look of typografic or pictograms. So I like this very well.

, originally uploaded by shimobros.