#jim thiebaud

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Natas Kaupas drawing for Jim Thiebaud deck, 1991

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Anything at All: Tempe

(The following is the benediction I read prior to the reading on February 17, 2023, that featured Jim Thiebaud, Marbie Miller, Alex White, Christian Kerr, Yelyah Miller, Adam Burns / Jokamundo, Cole Nowicki, José Vadi, and Chandler Burton as Titus.)

Hello, everyone. If I could just get your attention for a minute…I’d like to begin with a real simple group exercise if that’s alright.

Imagine, please, a heart that is also a house. That’s it. Imagine a heart that is also a house.

Imagine a heart that is also a house that is also, sorry, one more step, a nation.

Imagine a house that is is also a nation that is also, of course, a heart.

Imagine this house is also a city, and also a house, and also a nation. Imagine the house is also a hovel, a tent, a castle, a nest. Imagine a heart is also a nation, a city, a borough, a town. 

Now, imagine the people inside of this house. Imagine their fingers and fears, their silverware and sorrows, imagine their people things. Imagine they live inside of this house doing their people things. They feel and bleed and murder and fuck, they give and need and take and bleed, and they wonder, at times, about this house that is also a city and also a heart.

They wonder if it’s okay to bleed as they do, or fuck as they like, or feel about murder the ways that they feel, and they’re definitely very good at feeling alone. They wonder of gods and the stories they’ve heard, they wonder if houses can even be hearts, or cities, or nations, or homes. 

They murder and die and wonder and bleed…and because there is blood, there is endless blood, they speak of the blood, and speak of the fucking, and tell to themselves what we might call stories, and tell to themselves what might call blessings. They write prayers to gods to tell them their stories, they pray to gods and beseech them to listen, they pray and tremble in their bones.

But the gods, my friends, have no interest in stories, because gods have no concept of time. The gods have no after, they have no before, so why would they care? Why would they even listen? It’s no wonder we feel so alone.  

Sorry, sorry. I’m sorry. Here: Imagine a heart that is also house, and remember the people things. Imagine a person who overhears a story and in it discovers a home. Imagine a heart that is the story that passes from speaker to crowd.

Can we imagine that the soul, the human soul, is itself a matter of time? Imagine the soul is not an idea, or even a matter of gods. Imagine the soul is a human thing, a story that passes like time. Imagine the soul that passes as story between you the people you're not. 

Imagine the soul is a thing that happens, each time that a story is told. Imagine the soul is what lingers of story what lingers beyond its own time. Imagine that death is not an ending, imagine a house is a home. 

Imagine the heart that is a city that is a house that is also this place, here. Imagine the blood that flows through this city imagine the people you're not. Inside the house that is also a nation, inside this place flooding with blood. You, I can see, my friend, are bleeding, and you, I can hear, my friend are screaming. Please trust, friend, that I am too. Around us flows blood unlike any we've known, and tonight this place is our home. 

My friend you are bloody, my friend I can see you, my friend you are also my home. Around us flows blood, and the gods are long gone, but in truth, there is no alone. Tonight we are here, and between us pass souls, and between us this blood is our own.

Time is religion. Stories, our scripture. So welcome, my friends, to church.

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MIKE BLABAC - FAMILY PORTRAITS from Jacob Rosenberg on Vimeo.

Photographer Mike Blabac dives into process, history and the meaning of a life in skateboarding as he captures portraits for his latest book.

Featuring: Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, J. Grant Brittain, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Jason Dill, Chico Brenes, Wes Kramer, Karl Watson, Jim Thiebaud & Frank Gerwer.

Director - Jacob Rosenberg Cinematographer - Guillermo Garza Editor - Chris Amos First Assistant Camera – Tony Oberstar Featured Family Members – J. Grant Brittain, Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Karl Watson, Jim Thiebaud, Jason Dill, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Frank Gerwer, Chico Brenes, Wes Kramer, Noah Blabac, Tai Blabac. Producers - Joe Toronto, Ari Weiner Executive Producer – Adam Warren Associate Executive Producer – Michel Murciano Associate Producer – Chris Grannon Sound Mixer – Matt Miller / Lime Studios Colorist – Tyler Roth / Company 3 Additional Photography – Kevin Horn, Martin Fobes Camera Equipment provided by 2020 Camera Rentals / Tim Hanaseth 16MM Film Processing and Scanning – Fotokem Special Thanks – Saint Archer Brewing, Ryan Slavin / The Reserve Label, Suzy Ramirez / Final Cut LA, Mario Castro / Company 3, Robin Ricks / Ray Morfino / FotoKem RIPMT Copyright – Formika Films, Inc. 2019

Song 1 “Vesica Pisces” Andrew Bernstein Courtesy of Hausu Mountain

Song 2 “Tree Smoke” Performed by Kikagaku Moyo Written by Go Kurosawa Courtesy of Kikagaku Moyo By Arrangement with Light in the Attic Records & Distribution, LLC

Song 3 "Time" Performed by Angelo De Augustine Courtesy of Asthmatic Kitty Records By arrangement with Ghost Town, Inc.

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Old School SKATEBOARDING: JIM THIEBAUD on FIRE SANTA CRUZ DEMO (1988).

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Skaters Vote from Colin Read on Vimeo.

A charity PSA for SKATERS VOTE, part of a big push to energize the skate community to vote in the 2020 election, and explain that voting is an easy way to stay activated and to make your voices heard.

Made by skaters, for skaters. Visit skatersvote.com/ for more info.

STARRING: Tony Hawk Leo Heinert Connor Kammerer Jessyka Bailey Colin Read Jae Cooper Mark Gonzales Jesse James Clement Oladipo Grady Smith Nick “Buggy” Ferro Angel Delgado Matias Candia Mark Suciu Dylan Gaffney Taji Ameen Aaron Wiggs Adam Zhu Jenny Irving David Giuseppone Leo Gutman Huy Nguyen Brad Williams

VOICES: Tony Hawk Jae Cooper Mark Gonzales Theotis Beasley Alexis Sablone Matias Candia Brad Williams Lee Smith Aaron Wiggs Taji Ameen Leo Gutman Guy Mariano Samarria Brevard Leo Heinert

Director & EP: Colin Read

Project Lead, Skaters Vote: Anthony Pappalardo

Producer: Leon Derriey

Segment Producer: Cameron Cuchulainn

SEA COW: Creative Directors: Jacob Ireland & Colin Read

DP: Eric Schleicher

2nd Unit DP: Andrew Price

1st ACs: Dylan Gaffney Alex Huang Tom Van Scoyoc

2nd AC: Cody Kussoy

Swing: Harry Kroessler

LA Unit DP: Cameron Sanchez

Music Producer: Kat Hom

Score & Sound Design: Bennett Eiferman

Editor: Colin Read

Post Facility: Company3

Color Producer: Anna Kelman

Colorist: Joseph Bicknell

Production Design: Alex Fogt

Photographer: Cole Giordano

Additional Camera: Sam McCormick

Cameras provided by:  Eric Schleicher Cooper Winterson Christian Banda Colin Read

Created with support from: HUF KCDC

Special thanks to: Company3 Derrick Dykas Jim Thiebaud Tia Gonzales Ben Kelly Amy Gunther Ellington Jacob Rosenberg SCG

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Sanity...

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Jim Thiebaud in Speed Freaks (1989)

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Fuck the KKK and fuck Nazi's

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Build it, Skate it

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Jim Thiebaud Skateboarding

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New Realists, Edited by Sidney Janis, Introductory text by John Ashbery, Text by Pierre Restany, Foreword by Sidney Janis, New York, NY, 1962 [Exhibition: Sidney Janis, New York, NY, November 1 – December 1, 1962] [L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico, Gussago (BS)]. Feat. Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Martial Raysse, Arman, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Agostini, George Segal, Raymond Hains, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano, James Rosenquist, Harold Stevenson, Peter Blake, Christo, Daniel Spoerri, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, John Latham, Gianfranco Baruchello, Tano Festa, Peter Phillips, Robert Moskowitz, Per Olof Ultvedt, Enrico Baj