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Street Plant Japan tour 2017 April 28- May 8
来日メンバーはMike Vallely, Kristian Svitak, Joey Jett, Bigfoot
4月29日（土）観音寺 Ichinomiya Love(イベント) 10:00~
4月30日（日）高知 高知市営スケートボードパーク 13:00~
5月1日（月）佐賀 ハーベスト18:00~
5月2日（火）佐世保 ブライトアイデア 15:00~
5月2日（火）唐津 Possi 18:00~
5月3日（水）熊本 Olli 15:00~
5月4日（木）久留米 Grande 12:00~
5月5日（金）唐津 Soul Ride 2017（イベント）10:00~
5月6日（土）出雲 Evol 16:00~
5月7日（日）神戸 Shelter 16:00~みなさまお誘い合わせの上ぜひお越しください！
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Bigfoot Mobgrip spring 2017
In skateshops now!!
Straight from the forest to your board is the new 5 piece grip tape set designed by Bigfoot
for Mob Grip. Collect them all and save in your forest sanctuary for future four wheel sacred dancing, or set them up now for full freak flag representation. -
Bigfoot At The Beauty Bar
Bigfoot playing records at The Beauty Bar!
Valentines Day
Tuesday February 14th, 2017
10:00pm - 1:40am
2299 Mission Street San Francisco California
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Bigfoot at Designercon 2016 in Pasadena
For the 5th year in a row, Bigfoot will have a booth space at the artist vending convention and an imperative gathering of who's who of lowbrow art,designer toys, and figures known as Designercon.
Bigfoot will have for sale a new array of t-shirts, one of a kind original paintings, prints, and figures.
It all takes place on November 19th and 20th 2016 at:
Pasadena Convention Center
300 East Green Street
Pasadena Ca
91101BOOTH Space # 1721
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Mike Vallely Elephant board remixed my Bigfoot available for pre-order now!
Now Available for Pre-Order:
Vallely x Bigfoot Elephant Boards in Mini, Modern and Tusker Shapes.
About The Art:
In 1987, after watching a television program about the plight of African Elephants, I decided that I wanted to have an African Elephant on what would be my first Pro Model Skateboard. Since then, the Elephant has become synonymous with me and with my skating. And as many times as the Elephant has been reused, reinterpreted and repurposed for the different seasons, stages and junctures of my skateboard career, I have never felt a soulful connection to any of the art like I did with the original art from 1988, that is until now.
I knew there was only one artist that I could turn to who could truly reinterpret the original graphic with great reverence, perceive the depth of the primary inspiration for the art, honor my ongoing relationship to the Elephant and yet create something new and meaningful now: Bigfoot.
The path to this art was not taken in haste. Like with the original art, there was great reluctance from the artist, but both times it has been met with my certainty and persistence. Even at 17, I knew that despite Powell Peralta’s insistence that a different artist should create my desired Elephant, that VCJ was the artist for the job, just as I knew Bigfoot was the artist for this job. And just like with the original VCJ art, the Bigfoot Elephant has taken a year to emerge from the forest of inspiration to the streets of revelation.
Having my friend and my favorite artist create this art for me, and for Street Plant, is something very meaningful to me. A dream come true. After all of these years, I couldn’t just have another artist create another Elephant image on one of my skateboards. It had to be, just like with the original, THE Elephant by THE Artist to fulfill THE Dream. Very few times in life do all of the pieces fall into place, but when they do, everything is as it should be. This art represents such a moment to me.
Bigfoot’s personal story is intertwined in this art as well. Growing up Skateboarding in the mid-late 80’s in Central New Jersey, discovering his own Sensitivity and Compassion for Animals, finding his way to California, Communicating his Love and Concern for and his desire to Protect the Earth, Nature and it’s Animals through the distinction and symbolism of drawing Bigfoot, is very much inline with the awareness and preservation concept of the original Elephant art. In 1987 I chose an Elephant to tell my story, in 1994 Bigfoot chose Bigfoot. These are Kindred Spirits, and this art sees Bigfoot and the Elephant morphed into one resplendent being staring into the future of Skateboarding: A symbol of Love and Strength.
— Mike Vallely