Random snippets from old ’80s mixtapes.
Track Listing:
The Cure - In Between Days
The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You
Echo & The Bunnymen - Never Stop
The Smiths - Hand In Glove

The Cal Streets website has one of the best collections of retro skateboarding advertisements going. Dig in deep and enjoy!

Kintaro (commonly translated as “Golden Boy”) is a well-known hero in Japanese folklore. According to various legends, he was raised by a Yamamba ogress in the mountains, possessed supernatural strength, and had the ability to communicate with animals. Rumored to have slaughtered monsters, crushed boulders with his bare hands and defeated bears at sumo, Kintaro [...]

On Saturday October 17th 1978, the district of North Vancouver opened Seylynn Skateboard Park to the public. Now in its thirtieth year, it’s the oldest surviving park in Canada, and arguably the longest lasting park in North America. Its authenticity and classic design has surpassed skateboardings many popularity waves, and it was a featured venue [...]

More than 100 Olympic posters, including work by heavyweight artists like David Hockney and the late Andy Warhol are on display at The V&A Museum of Childhood in London.

In Vancouver, fixed-gear bikes have achieved a cool factor that’s been compared with skateboarding culture circa ‘92 - ‘95. They’ve evolved from being the lightweight and low maintenance choice of bike couriers into a sought after fashion accessory. Is Vancouver’s single-speed obsession more about being seen with a fixie than actually riding one?
In Paris, fixie [...]

Track Listing:
Talib Kweli Ft. Kanye West and Roy Ayers - In The Mood
Wu-Tang - Take It Back

Kage-e was commonly used to entertain guests at parties during 19th century Japan. The pictures are comprised of two parts: a silhouette image (viewed first) that resembles an easily identifiable object, and a real image (viewed second) that reveals the silhouettes true identity.

According to the manifesto on jl.incrowd’s Flickr set Vintage classical album cover graphics, “It was the pioneering graphic designer Alex Steinweiss, who first had the idea of ‘album cover art’. Prior to his efforts for Columbia Records beginning in 1939, the covers to multi-disc 78-rpm ‘album’ sets of records were fairly generic - often referred [...]