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.
Bored team rider Adam Keys spreads some serious butter all over the Unit 19 mini ramp. That back tail revert and nose pivot revert line is just so steezy. High five mate. Nice little edit by Sam Bailey as always and a lovely tune by Hog as well. Enjoy.
Bored has organised ‘Print Here’, a photography competition in collaboration with Blueprint Skateboards and Quiet Corners (myself), in celebration of the release of the Quiet Corners series of Blueprint decks. The best submitted photos will win some Blueprint product and a signed A4 Quiet Corners print too.
The competition has a blog website which has all of the info and how to submit and also has all of the currently submitted photos on view too. The comp has only been up for 24 hours and there are a load of great photos up there already, very stoked! Get snapping and get involved.
P.S. The decks are available to buy in Bored and are on display on the back wall.
Some of you may have noticed all the colourful commotion in Boreds window on Albert Road. It’s the guys entry for the Emerica Stay Gold Window Display. Pretty RAD huh. Go take a peek at night time, take a cup of coffee and watch the Emerica team give lessons in skateboarding. Shout to Sharpie for putting the edit together.
Captain Josie Curtis of Southsea Fest very kindly hooked me up with a huge bag of badges today. Cheers Josie, really appreciated. I’ll be distributing them where ever I roam over the next few weeks, then they will be available to grab for free at our 2nd Birthday Party on the 30th September at The Belle Isle, Southsea.
Josie has also had bags of fridge magnets & single stickers made up. These are currently available in Bored of Southsea. The magnets are £2 a pack, so grab ‘em whilst their hot. More will be available during Southsea Fest from various points & shops. The Bronx one is a banger.
Its been a long time waiting but EMERICA footwears Stay Gold film is finished. The world premiere was last week in LA and judging from the reviews its going to be a banger. Quotes like “Andrew Reynolds has risen the bar of stair skating” and “Jerry HSUs come back part” make us think this is going to be the best offering from this team yet. The UK premiere is going to be held in London on August 26th then a few days after Bored will be holding a FREE regional premiere at home in the shop (details below) Come along and bring your friends! Oh, yeah there will be give a ways too.
As you may know each year we run a home brew competition in February where the winning brew has the opportunity to be brewed by Irving & Co Brewing Co. and sold around the city in the summer. Last year’s brew, the Strong Island Hopper Ale, was hugely successful being one of Inving’s best selling ales and selling out so quickly it went through a second brew run. This year’s winning ale is Dry Dock No. 1, originally brewed by Lee Immins, went on sale in some of Portsmouth and Southsea’s pubs over the weekend.
We spoke to The Hole in The Wall in Southsea who said the new ale went down a storm with it being their best seller on Sunday and with almost two barrels empty by the end of the Bank Holiday weekend. Those guys at the Hole in The Wall and their regular ale drinkers know their stuff so for us this was amazing early news with the ale.
To officially launch Dry Dock No. 1 we are having a launch party with the lovely souls at The Belle Isle on Thursday evening. The ale will be on full flow, come down and try a pint or two. As well as being on sale all around the city the ale will also be available in Chichester’s Belle Isle too, so you can drink it away from home for the first time too.
Just over a year ago, a group of Strong Islanders were sat on the Isle of Wight ferry on our way to the yearly Randonnee cycling event; 60 miles around the island spread across 5 checkpoints. Whilst on the crossing we couldn’t help but admire various enthusiasts and their custom team jerseys. Fast forward a year and it is my great pleasure to unveil the Strong Island cycling jersey. Made as a one off for the event, the jersey is our way of representing this city and all the values that come with it. Thanks to the combined designing efforts of Chris Ballingall and Tristan Savage, we were able to produce this clean, retro looking jersey that 11 of Southsea’s finest could wear to conquer the island’s endless hills. Well done chaps.
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