Last week I received an amazing package from my friend Carolina in Barcelona. She's a freelance curator and works at the gallery and bookstore Ras. She sent me some copies of Barcelona Skate and Culture magazine Uno, some badges, postcards, a fantastic tote bag, a catalogue from Miss Van's recent exhibition in Paris, and three zines by photgrapher Sergej Vutuc, including one that was screwed to a piece of an old skateboard (genius!), which he had also signed for me. Fantastic stuff. Thank you Carolina! Click more info for a closer look of Sergej's book.

This is a great little film about the Os Gemeos show Too Far Too Close on until 9th August at Deitch Projects, Wooster St, NYC. Genius...

The other evening Chris rolled this chapatti dough out and it amusingly took the shape of Alfred Hitchcock - or slightly startled Alfred Hitchcock. Well to us it did...

Daryl Smith who I interviewed for the current issue of Modart, now has an online portfolio of his work. Check out his remarkable 'Skate Trophies' at http://thedarylsmith.squarespace.com

Simon Peplow who I interviewed for this month's Modart's Riders Ink, has an upcoming show entitled The Sensible Somewhere at Projekts. Projekts is a skatepark, skateshop and gallery space in Manchester, UK. The show starts on 25th July.

This weekend Chris kindly gave me a brand new tattoo: a swallow above my ankle. The design of the bird was based on the scraperboard piece below he did a while ago called 'Shine On'. Click more info to see pictures of the tattoo in progress.

Chris was asked to do some graphics for mountain bike company Mountain Cycle last year. The bike frame, The Rumble is now about to be released. There will only be 50 of the frames available so they're super limited edition. Click more info to see more images of the graphics.

Just found out about this movie: SK8FACE. It's all about the history of the skateboard graphic. Not sure when it's out or how to get hold of it, but here's the trailer, and looks like a corker!