Keep the pound in Pompey – Bored

Bored is located at 23 Albert Road. It’s Southsea premier skate shop and the best place to go for skateboarding equipment. It also sells designer clothing, shoes and accessories including Lomography Cameras.

If you can’t get yourself down to the store check out the newly designed website where they stock the following brands…
Altamont
Bored of Southsea
Carhartt
HUF
Nike SB
Obey

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Keep the pound in Pompey.

As a local maker/crafter this is the time of year that sees you being uber productive. We are really lucky to have so many independent shops and craftspeople in Portsmouth so it seems fitting that we support them this Christmas. A massive big up to Southsea Boutique Market and Love Southsea Market for giving makers an outlet for selling!

I decided to venture down our very own Albert Road last week to spend time with three amazing businesses, Bonzo, Flo and Stan and Bored to find out about selling this Christmas. I took heaps of photos of beautiful stock and was welcomed warmly by all three. The personal touch you get when shopping local cant be beat. Here’s my personal picks…

Bonzo Studio

Bored of Southsea

Flo and Stan

For more photos of gifts check out the Flickr stream.

Ten Tricks with Phil Russell

Bored represent’e and Blueprint flow rider Phil Russell has a mad banging ten tricks for Kingpin Magazine down at Hove Lagoon. You’d be hard pressed to spread more butter on that toasty skatepark. Late kickflip (had to watch that a few times) is a touch. Filmed and edited by Sam Bailey.

Phil’s 10 For Kingpin from Sam Bailey on Vimeo.

Southsea

Photo: Bored of Southsea

Adam Keys

We’re happy to present you with some new footage from Bored of Southsea teamrider Adam Keys. As always making skateboarding look far too bloody easy. Nollie three in his sleep!!!

Untitled from Bored of Southsea on Vimeo.

Video: Bored of Southsea

New Bored Website

Bored (located in Albert Road) have a brand new website up today featuring a clean, minimal and highly functional design, loads of new products, great photography and as always the ability to snag some amazing product and great prices. Don’t forget they are also the home of the much loved and ubiquitous Bronx t-shirt too. Be sure to have a look around and watch out if your wallet/purse gets the urge to be used.

Good work guys!

www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk

Bored of Southsea – Seaside Special

Bored of Southsea are pleased to introduce their latest offering, the ‘Seaside Special’. Giving a little nod to the long running 1970’s BBC light entertainment programme which was a Top of the Pops outside broadcast, filmed in a big top in a number of British Seaside resorts including Torbay, Blackpool and here in Southsea. It was essentially a variety show featuring a music act, a comedy act and dancers. The show was hosted by the likes of Radio 1 and 2 DJ’s including heavyweight Tony Blackburn. They have kept the design as close as they can to the original and just added a small Bored branded flag to the back of the neck as a sign off.

Tee design by ‘Mini Dave’ Millard, modelled by Emily Tudor and photographed by LT Smash. Grab yours HERE.

Creatures of the Solent

Bored of Southsea are proud to offer you their latest work put together by none other than Richard Sayer also known as ‘French‘. For those of you from the world of skateboarding this man needs no introduction but for those un-familiar with French, he has produced work for the likes of Vans, 2K by Gingham and also kindly drew Bored the image for the ‘seagull tee’ which has been sold through the store on tee shirts and tote bags for a good few years now.

The work ‘Creatures of the Solent‘ features French’s drawings of a Sea Bass, Cod, Crab, Haddock, Plaice and Squid and why not throw a squid in there as times past suggest that there was once a Giant Squid living under the South parade pier here in Southsea. True or false?

This design is currently offered in a burgundy print on grey marl and also a black print on a white organic cotton tee. For the first time there’s also added a 3/4 length raglan into the mix, black arms, white body with black print. Keep your eyes peeled there may well be more Creatures of the Solent products on the way in the next few weeks.

PRINT THIS Photography Exhibition Opens

Thursday night saw the opening of the PRINT THIS Photography Exhibition at Wallspace Gallery in Albert Road. The show is an exhibition of photos submitted to the PRINT HERE photography competition put on at the end of last year with Bored, Blueprint Skateboards and Quiet Corners to mark the launch of the Blueprint X Quiet Corners series of decks. The opening was also supported by Carhartt and London’s Meantime brewery and had an amazing turnout, despite the bad weather Southsea was heavily represented plus people made it over from Gosport, Chichester and all the way from London.

The exhibition is now open today and next Saturday (plus some week days to be decided) so feel free to pop by between 10am and 5pm. A selection of Quiet Corners prints and other bits and pieces will also be on sale too.

A HUGE thank you to Tom, Gary, Hussey, Matt Sills, Dan and Paul at Blueprint, Meantime and everyone that contributed to the show and a big thank you to everyone who made it out for the opening too.

Photos and video by Claire Samborook. If you have any photos from the event please email them over.

More photos and video HERE.

PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage