Skateboarding is real fun
“Skateboarding is more a part of my life than I had ever realized. I quit and didn’t have anything at all to do with skateboarding for nearly 10 years—then one day, how important it is it all came back and hit me. It’s defined so much of my life and my thinking. I wouldn’t be who I am without skateboarding and I feel privileged to have been a pro skateboarder.” -Jason Lee
Third Man Records is thrilled to announce the release of the first three records in our highly-anticipated Document Records reissue series.
Pre-orders are available now in our online store (with a January 29th in-store release date) for Volume 1 of The Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and The Mississippi Sheiks. Subsequent volumes will be released regularly and new artists will be slotted for release from this fantastic catalog of blues greats as soon as this first series is complete.
The recordings we’ll be presenting in this reissue series are the building blocks and DNA of American culture. Blues, R&B, Elvis, teenagerism, punk rock… it all goes back to these vital, breathtaking recordings. Third Man Records is proud to present these landmark albums in conjunction with Document Records, with brand new, jaw-dropping artwork by Rob Jones and new insightful liner notes, on vinyl for the first time in decades. Every record collection should have ample room for these highly important and endlessly listenable albums.
Chong Wang
Last week I was asked by The New York Times to do this quick illustration for their Op Ed column with art director Erich Nagler. The piece was about the increasing crime, drugs, and poverty in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Even though I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked on this piece (less than 18 hours, with room to sleep somewhere in there), I was really happy with the outcome.
Coincidentally enough, just a few days before I did this illustration I had had another illustration killed with a similar western motif. It is always a shame to have a million ideas about a project swimming around in your head, and then have them cut short abruptly. It was nice to have such a quick turn around and be able to flush out some of those ideas, instead of just locking them away in my brain for use years later (or more commonly, to just let is waste away into the ether of unused mediocre ideas).
Going up
In Ezra Stoller’s photographs, buildings are pristine machines from a utopian future, just as their architects envisioned them.
