It’s an all-”Murk” week here at the workshop. Sket One is dropping bombs to start off 2010 in proper fashion with a new release – let’s call it version 2.0 – of his “Murk” character! This gem is avalable in Build Your Own custom colors, with T-shirts and hoodies for men and women available here and kids versions available at our Workshop Kids website. Jeah! It also includes Sket One’s tag on the lower back corner. Available in literally thousands of possible colourways, get in on the action with an array that suits your tastes. Call it…Murkruary! Check a few possible combos down below, and click the pix to create your own. Enjoy…
That’s right. We put out so much Build Your Own awesomeness that sometimes the classics get lost in the mix. And we can’t have that! So today, I’m giving some shine to the original “Scumbag Nation” T-shirt. That’s right. Stay hungry, grind hard status. The one that jump-started the movement. And look what it’s become? Amazing. So yes, you should build your own custom “Scumbag Nation” T-shirt, because let’s be frank, everyone is a scumbag in one form or another. Represent for the crew, and represent for you.
Build your own custom colors right here:Men | Women
There are actually several reasons we’re posting this video. 1) It’s ill, 2) Matlock is dope and he’s a big supporter of ours – same goes for Wes Restless, 3) Babu killed it on the production, and, of course, 4) It features some of our gear.
That’s about all we need to say, more or less. Ha! Matlock murdered this track, and DJ Babu (Dilated Peoples) handled production in a quite excellent manner (as one would expect). Not only that, but it also features Wes Restless, who happens to be wearing our “Grind Hard” shirt in the video. Oh yeah! So, watch the video, tell your friends about it, and of course pick up the “Grind Hard” shirt for yourself in custom colors for men and women.
It’s been a long time coming, but we here at the Formula Werks nation are finally proud to be launching our kids’ line, Workshop Kids! Following in the tradition of custom culture for adults, Workshop Kids features exclusive, build your own, and limited edition gear for the youth of the globe. People have been asking us to do this for years now, and we have finally made it happen. Jeah!
Workshop Kids features a wide range of gear for all sizes, designed by artists from the crew and family across the globe. T-shirts, hoodies, bags, accessories and more: You are the future, and the future is now. Below are some of the new items to the Workshop Kids line, and many more are already available on the website. And, as per our usual ways, free buttons and stickers come with every Workshop Kids order. Check it out, pick up some goods in custom colors, and tell your friends…It’s on! Build your own Workshop Kids gear right here, and enjoy…
Are you in London? Shit, are you in the UK? Shit more, are you within a few hours’ reach of that fancy town? Then you should probably stroll over to The Fleat Pit on Thursday, February 4th. Our good friend Luke Drozd is in the show “The New New Black Mountain,” along with fellow artists Colin Clark and Michael Lawton.
This is where I would normally post a flyer, but the only one I have is about .0343823 pixels wide. And unless you’ve got a powerful telescope or a sweet magnifying glass powerful enough to fry an egg, well, there’s no point in posting it. Just be certain that Luke is dope and you should peep his game.
That said, details are below. Along with some semi-schizo information posted about the show. Luke is crazy. Which makes him even more rad. (That’s right, I said rad.) Now get over to the show, pronto!
» Show: “The New New Black Mountain” » Who: Luke Drozd, Colin Clark, Michael Lawton » Where: The Flea Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG, England » When: Thursday, February 4th, 2009, 6-9pm » Runs: Through February 28th » Info:thefleatpit.com
About The New New Black Mountain.
Sunday. I spent this morning reading Saturday’s Guardian. Starting at the back, I tried yesterday’s Sudoku puzzle. Working forward (through the past), I looked at yesterday’s obituaries. Mathematics and narrative. There’s logic in reading about the recently deceased in old newspapers.
Regardless of how newly out-dated the events, new new-ness, and black mountain-ness, should’ve been filling my thoughts. Serendipitously, a ghostly aide memoir appeared.
Yesterday’s celebrated life was Kenneth Nolan, a spectral alumnus of The Black Mountain College, a recipient of it’s social and liberal arts education. A pupil of Josef and Annie Albers and Buckminster Fuller, a peer of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
This plot is not mathematically factual, but makes for a good story.
There is no college on the New New Black Mountain, I checked on Google Earth, even at a ratio 1:1, a useless tracing shows no sign of anything educational. Can a mountain peak be new? And is ‘New New’ a joke on art school jokes? (Do two news make an old?)
Perhaps this exhibition constitutes a mapping of this doubly new and dark territory, or a potential mapping of a de-territorialisation.
From the pen of the Secretary of the New New Black Mountaineering Club
