Head on down to the beach this weekend and check out the work of Garage Magazine’s very own photographer extraordinaire Tim Sutton. His work will be on display at the New Years Nuisance Art Show at Gasoline Gallery in El Segundo. What: New Years Nuisance 2 When:  January 9, 2010 6-10pm Where: Gasoline Gallery | 423 Main Street, El Segundo, Ca

Make sure you tell em’ Garage sent ya!

While Garage Magazine #19  is about to go to print, we have a super sneak peak on a special somethin’ we’ve been workin’ on for all of you!  Check out this timelapse vid of artist David Lozeau as he creates a limited edition Garage Magazine tee (On sale soon!)

There is a post over at Jalopnik celebrating auto-themed album covers.  Always a fun topic.  If it was my list I would have included The Big Sounds Of The Drags, The Birthday Party and King Tee’s Act A Fool.  That list is endless. I can only imagine what Grushkin’s or Coop the Collector’s list would look like.  We’d love to hear some of your favorites.  Leave us a comment and tell us.  

 Thanks  to Bastard Squadron for putting me on the road to cinematic enlightenment. 

Friends and contributors, Estevan Oriol and Mr. Cartoon have just opened their retail store in downtown L.A. They could’ve opened it just about anywhere, but they put their money where their mouths were and pulled back the curtain on the fabled SA Studios by opening the doors to Last Laugh in a notoriously seedy part of town. It’s good to see guys of their stature never forgetting or leaving the car culture they came from…

In the last issue, David Burge took us over the border into Juarez with Mike Lightbourn – the guy who discovered the remains of Ed Roth’s Orbitron – and embarked on the haphazard journey of one of the greatest car culture archaeological digs of the century. The Orbitron was found and was destined for more glory than it originally ever enjoyed.

Now, months and untold zillions of dollars later, Beau Boeckmann (of Galpin Auto Sports fame) unveiled the finished restoration of the three-light monster in fine L.A. style last night to a heady mixture of hot rod royalty and SoCal hipsterdom.Darryl Roth was there with brothers Dennis and Charlie, custom paint icons Bill Carter and Larry Watson were trading stories (Bill was on a cane after getting hit by a truck on his motorsikkle – guys half his age wouldn’t be doing so well!), Dave Shuten – who headed up the Orbi’s restoration – was breathing a well-deserved sigh of satisfaction, Robert and Suzanne Williams were chatting it up with some L.A. hip-hop guys, Xzibit and Jelly Roll were wondering “where all they alcoholics at?!?” and Mike Lightbourn represented El Paso with all his homies extremely well.

Now, I’m not exactly sure who all the celebs were on the step-and-repeat and I’m pretty sure there were more than a few hipsters in attendance who had absolutely no idea who Ed Roth was and what the big fuss over the little blue car was all about, but hey – that’s L.A. and it’s quite a scene.

Here’s the thing, though: there were a few thousand people at this event and it took 30 minutes just to get off the freeway exit and onto the Galpin Ford grounds. Even if just a handful of all the bedazzled blazer crowd were stopped in their tracks by one of the greatest car culture finds of our generation, that’s a good thing and I’d like to think a few more gearheads were born again last night…

The reigning king of Low Brow art, Robert Williams, was in Oakland this weekend as a guest of Phil Linhares – chief curator of the Oakland Museum of CA – for the L.A. Paint exhibit. He spoke to a packed house on Sunday and we got the rare chance to sit down with him and his beautiful wife, Suzanne, yesterday amid his mind-blowing paintings to just catch up and chat…

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GARAGE 13

20 Questions: Kat Von D

Photography: Estevan Oriol 

It finally happened. Outlaw culture, and everything that goes with it, has officially gone mainstream. It’s far too easy to just plunk down enough cash to be a weekend bad-ass – a new bike, a new tattoo and a new t-shirt can all be had just by parking the mini-van at one end of a strip mall and burning up the credit card toward the other. But that’s cool – those bike shops, tattoo parlors and Hot Topic chains are expendable. They all serve an important purpose by simultaneously quenching the thirst of all those Asses who feel the need to be Bad and preserve the authentic chopper builders and tattoo artists for the folks who have and always will do it for nothing more than the damned love of it.

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Vintage European matchbook covers.  More found at Delicious Industries here.

Boogie is a special breed of photographer.  He’s one of those guys who not only sees all the stuff you miss, but he records it.  He’s the kind of photojournalist that sees what the story is all about for you.  He’s been to places you are afraid to go and has found a beauty you cannot resist.  His work can seen in Paris galleries, high-end fashion advertising and the finest hot rod lifestyle magazine ever printed.

He may have been to the edge and back, but I am not sure he was ready for what we had in store for him when we dragged him to TJ to get an interior made for George Lopez’ Chevy.  Within 20 minutes, we had been pulled over and heavily questioned by the pigs and within 3 hours, had been arrested and robbed of all our dough by TJ’s finest.  We skated by on Boogie’s silver-tongued confessional stylings and, for some reason, he is still talking to me.

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