Crail(tap), not in Fife.

Keep an eye on Crailtap all this week for Mr Rattray's front page guesting. Had to replace yesterdays with this....tooo good.

Coming soon to both Focus' East and West is the John Rattray T-Shirt designed all by himself. Quite the artist these days.....watch out for that coming soon.

Want a date with these two?

Look who's on the cover of the Thrasher 2007 calender....if it's not Old Dirty Div and Big Stu together sniffing around the scum line of the pool. Double's photo's rule and especially when they are on Thrasher calenders. Well done baw bags.

Also check out this months Thrasher for Focus' Mr Andy Scott's 'never done ever before' kickflip egg plant in the contents page. Andy Scott has ripped for a long, long time.

And finally have a wee look at this months Slap for documentation of another Focus rider, John Rattray's trip tae Scotland with Rick McCrank, Tony Cervantes and others. Old school Ricky up there too with a tattoo shot.

Monday Quiz-
Has the kicky egg been done before, hence making it 'lesser spotted' rather than never been done?

Everything will be alright...promise.

Coming this winter we will have the complete works of Heroin Skateboards on DVD.

Featuring Good Shit (1999) and Everything's Going to Be Alright (2002) , and Osaka Daggers Infection video (2004) as well as all the trailers, adverts, Day in the City projects and more!

Should be out December 1st.

'Everything' from Heroin Skateboards....very soon!

Ah love Supreme

Supreme, for those who don't know, is a shop come clothing brand from New York. Supreme opened in the mid 90's and have continued to pioneer the small independent shop market with their own clothing brand, unsuprisingly called Supreme.
Have a wee look on their website and look under the Fall collection. It's pretty wild stuff right? Well I'm telling you that collection sold out within 3 days! Focus pal Deak was in NYC when it all went on sale reporting back that it was pure mental. They have major restriction's on what you can buy and how much you can spend....imagine that eh?
They have opened 4 or 5 shops in Japan to try and clamp down on fake product. Also you may be familiar with the Supreme bowl that was built in the LA shop which opened a couple of years ago. If you click on the 'store' button on the website you can see it. Can I get one?

Anyway, if you go back to the website and click on 'random', watch A Love Supreme- a film made by Thomas Campbell with the then shop team riders Keith Huf, Peter Bici, Chris Keefe, Quim Cardona etc. It's great.

Lesson of the day- It's amazing what you can do with a very simple logo. Have a look at some more here and check out who's numero uno.
Link of the day- Buy some of the world's number one logo's product right here.

War of the Roses 2

Well this years Scottish invasion down south was a riot again. Due to the late departure the alcohol was getting nailed early and first toilet stop was Harthill in between Livi and Glasgow, a good start. We made Burnley in time for things warming up inside. The bowl there is huge, Focus boys Div, Colin Adam, Benson and Andy Scott were ripping. The Blueprint team were killing the street course as well as Craig Smedley and Daryl Cashman, oh so solid. Cash prizes were flying left right and centre. The sleepover didn't involve much sleep then we were off to Leeds to the just finished virgin pool with concrete coping. The street course is a beauty, nice mini ramps (watch the wax!) and a quality bowl with a 13ft vert wall. It was a treat to see Dave Allen skate, fast as f**k. Highlights in the pool were Rob Smith, Div & Col Adam, Benson, Mark Churchill and Andy Scott. Special thanks go out to Skateboard Scotlands Ali Menzies and Neil Currie for driving, Ben Powell, Bob Sanderson and the infamous Sprocket for constant entertainment. Perry Kruger was behind the lens all weekend and here's the edits here and here. Enjoy!

Longueur visuelle de Mark Foster mangeant une banane et exécutant quelques arrêts de planche à roulettes.

Mark Foster has uploaded some footage of the recent Landscape trip to Paris which features another Mark Foster. Peep it right here and have a look at this amusing snap of one of the Mark Fosters here. Does any of this make sense? Answers on a postcard to "Who is Mark Foster? c/o Focus Skateboard Store"

Mark Gonzales Show.

A wee post to show off this picture nicked off Scene Beers or something like that. Have a gander.

This is what the gallery said- '1000 of these pieces will be on display, each and every single one has been customised by Mark himself and is totally unique. Each figure is signed and numbered by Mark, most of them being hand engraved. Online sales start 7pm UK time this Friday 20th October' and here is their site.

Is it too early to mention Christmas?

Not quite SECC tunnel desperation time just yet, but flying through here makes you feel like you're on a waterslide and rules.

Meantime, in preparation for Christmas- (I know, I know, but it is soon) Focus Glasgow has got it's self some new opening hours.

Monday - Friday 11-7 (Thurs 8)
Saturday 10-6
Sunday 1-5

Help yourself to the later hour and come on down for a visit. ('Hey the Forge is open till midnight!')

We've also got some new boards in from Landscape, Death, Heroin and Consolidated. All £40, including a very sick Steve Bailey 'Surf' board.

Hope a'body had a guid time at THE WAR.

Working on a new look blog...watch this space because this is where it'll be!

War of the Roses 2

Right then here's the lowdown for this weekends trip down South to Englandshire. Please could everyone that is confirmed on the trip (if you're not sure phone before Sat.) be at the shop in Edinburgh for 10am. Make sure you have all the provisions you'll need for the weekend, sleeping bag, money, packed lunch, extra socks (that means you Div) and most importantly your skateboard! We'll have a couple of stops on the way down, hit Burnley about 2-3pm, sesh till you drop, sleepover in the skatepark, Leeds the next morning, sesh then try and get home to Edinburgh for before midnight. Everyone will be dropped off back at the shop so please organise your own way home from there. See y'all on Sat.

The Great White get's a Neck Face

Dying for some Stu Graham news? Thought so, but any jobs here's some info.....

He just came 3rd in a wee mini ramp comp run by RVCA clothing. Here he is with Mark Appleyard and Ben Schroeder better than huddling round the bowl with Ben and Benson eh? How times change. Here's the link to watch the footage. Watch the Appleyard trick- Holy Shit!
Stu also had a web interview over at Transworld. Read the disclaimer at the start... ho-ho.

Slightly related- Check out Ivan, who's been going off uploading some very old Livi clips.
Try here for Cubic. Cubic says that Livi 'is possibly the best park in Europe'- and that was without the extension. Still is the BEST.
Double Egg Cube.
Peep the Santa Cruz Demo here- that's how you're meant to skate the bowl.

And here's one mare. Not Livi related. Easy to swallow 9/11 movie.

Movie Quote of the Day- 'Look daddy-o, I told you already we don't sell alcohool around here'
(Think goatee beard and very small part)

Tell me who it was and win a prize.

Get Real and Obey

Here's a collaboration from Obey's Shepard Fairey and Real Skateboards which are just about to reach our shores. Shepard's attitude of question everything through his subversive approach has put him to the forefront of artistic culture where the medium has always been the message. The new range of Obey clothing is instore in Edinburgh and looking real nice with plenty attention to detail. Obey the Giant!

War of the Roses

The War of the Roses weekend trip to Burnley and Leeds is now fully booked. All of those who have booked a space and not paid must do so before this weekend or lose your space. Phone the shop on 0131 229 9009 and get those credit cards out or pop into the shop. There are loads of people still wanting a space so be quick.

Fresh out of that.

Thanks to everyone one who turned up last night at the Glasgow shop for the Dist. art show. For those of you not there here's a look at his work and the man himself with our Heineken rep Ian. A few pieces got sold super early, way before the ridiculous amount of beer kicked in. Our own Mark Foster even provided some home made salsa for the tortillas with the healthiest kick ever! All in all good show and here's to the next one.

112th Post.

'FRESH OUT OF THAT' - Dist.

Here's the man at work today.

The show is up and ready for your eye's aye. Come down for the back of 6pm and enjoy.

Good to see Brian Elph today. Have a wee gander at his interknocker site here. He drew the Focus Robot around 2002/3. Seems like many moons ago....
He also designed a Pro Series set of boards for Unabomber around 2003 when Pete Hellicar rang ting's.

Enough about him, Dist show, Saturday Night, Back of 6pm in Focus Glasgow.

Chocks Away

Here's Captain Sammy reporting from Focus West Airbase for your weekly knowledge-

Get on the blower if you need to book a place on the WOTR Buses. (01312299009)
Mr Dist will be landing on Scottish tarmac this very afternoon to get busy with Russ N' Rolls in the Livi Pool and hanging, painting and building his show. The opening night is this Saturday the 7th October, 6pm at Focus Glasgow, this is going to be a good one for sure. Get down with some FREE booze too. Early bird get's pissed first AND get's it for free. Clever Birdie.
Both shop's are now fully stocked with FSU boards, trucks and wheels. Also Landscape Pro Paisley Pattern decks and Soy Birds model in too.
Nike SB USA team are demo-ing in Leeds on Saturday and GhostFace Killa is playing the Sub Club on Monday. Bring da Ruckus sackus.

There's a few things to keep you in line this week and more updates on the Dist progress to come...

Chocks away, over and out.