Out of sight, Out of mind.

Some of you may have noticed that Don and Giovanni have somewhat slipped under your radars in recent weeks, but funnily enough I had’nt. Not until Rich pointed out that we hadnt posted anything in quite some time.

This got me thinking, how come we havnt posted in so long? we certainly havnt run out of things to say, so why werent we saying them…? I then took a look at our blog stats and realised, we have had progressively less veiws as the weather improves.  the reason we havnt been posting, is that weve been outside, sending it, making it happen, and sitting drunk in a rad van in a belgian campsite…

Don, Giovanni, and special guest Seb Otto flying V formation!

I chose to give Pete a bit of a head start on this run, for fear of passing him too soon and ruining his self confidence!

Giovanni himself on a rad little spot not far from us.

The elusive Mr Vanstone having it down Tempest hill.

And the Bristol skate massive after spending a morning having it down BVR!

As you can see, in the past few weeks we have sessioned loads of rad hills in and around the south west, been to Belgium, had the Lush Calne Jam, skated Bridge Valley Rd, and me and Rich have just started getting up at 5am and sessioning the secret bristol speed training facility… SO GEIL!

its all getting rad right now, the summer is here, go out and have some and leave the blogging and the facebook for a while! Out of sight, out of mind.

Don.

Gender Issues

It has been recently discovered that fellow gin enthusiast and jazz loving freak Robert ‘Don’ Borek has decided that his time in this life as a male member of our homosapien race has come to an end. It may come to you as some surprise that he is taking such extraordinary measures but apparently being a woman trapped in a man’s body has become unbearable for young Robert and the time has come to make a change. Unfortunately for him the price of a gender reassignment procedure is far more than he has in his piggy bank, so please, I beg of you, pledge what you can and help make this confused little boy become a confused little girl.

Please send what you can to this address:
Don’s sausage to slice fund
Don & Giovanni Headquarters
118 Beaufort Road
Bristol
BS5 8EN

p.s: As an added incentive, Roberta has promised to send a signed photograph of his/her downstairs mix-up once the procedure is completed….tasty!

Black and Tan Fantasy

There is a man, a man of outstanding talent, a man to whom brown is a way of life,  you should consider him to be up there with the pioneers of longboarding, Manu Antuna, Lee Dansie, Martin Luther King…

A few of his accomplishments would include shaping the worlds first drop through skateboard, teaching Adam Colton to dance, never ceasing to discover new spots, helping to construct the largest ever lego house, riding the same skateboard for 6 years and being a grade 8 singer.

In 2006 he was out there, on his own, skateboarding for nothing but his own enjoyment and he’s still as brown today as he was back then!

He has been longboarding since before it was cool and wearing brown since before it wasnt. Andrew McCarthy we salute you.

 

‘Progression brahhh!’ – Nah.

Today Adam dug out these rad bits of footage from Bristol back in the 80′s…

Early grabs, power slides, no complys.. to all the kids out there who think they are doing something new, ‘progressing longboarding’  (A la Original),  all you are doing is the same old tricks from 1980 but on a bigger piece of wood.  IF you want to do tricks, get yourself a skateboard,  and if progression is your thing, bring THESE BAD BOYS  back into fashion.

Although, as much as dislike people going on about ‘progressing the sport’ is is cool to look back at videos like that, and then see whats being done nowadays on the same spots…

go skate.

Gnarts Gnov GnarkGness Gnribute

Gnere Gnat Gnon Gnand Gnarovanni  Gnwe  Gnar Gnarmitted gnoo…    fuck thats difficult, time to stop using the word Gnar as a prefix and write properly…

‘every time that you put effort into work and your making money, you’d better have a very good plan for what your gonna do with that money, because your using up your life. we are not prisoners, we should not be prisoners of the economic system that we live in.’

that quote, is exactly the kind of message we love to see here at DonandGiovanni. we love to see people living life for the fun of it earning their money through exiting means. We have been particularly inspired by this short documentary ‘Carts of Darkness’ by Murray Siple.

We were in fact so inspired, that we felt it necessary to perform some kind of tribute act:

Thanks Mr Siple, and Fergie, Bob, and Big Al… keep holding life by the balls, and ragging said balls down a hill on a shopping trolley.

Life Wasters

So, one would think that in order to be a skateboarder these days you would have to ride a skateboard? Its common sense, its logical, its clearly true…WRONG. It seems the best way to become a skateboarder these days is to just TELL everyone you ride a skateboard through the medium of the INTERNET.

So Tommy you wanna be a skateboarder? Heres watcha gotta do,  get on that pornbox you call a computer and start typing away furiously, cos’ pretty soon those interveiws are gunna come a’knockin! This is where you can really tell everyone how much of a rad skater you are down at the park and how many miles per bullshit you’ve done on your washing machine. SERIOUSLY? Its cool if you want to skate but we all know…we.all.know, your just another one of these…

Please I beg of you, take a moment to think about how good those kids on scooters look, think about wearing fluro flat peaks, think about your sexual preference, become a professional car salesman, window cleaner, wanker (allready there) and leave the skating to the chosen ones, the ones who ACTUALLY FUCKING SKATE.

Now for some Juliette fucking Lewis shaped relief…

Happy Wangcake day

Rumor has it that many years ago, a man with a beard was resurrected, and ever since a great deal of people have made cakes in order to commemorate this strange act of witchcraft…

Bollocks to that.

Slum Life

As some of you may be aware,  our very own John Griffiths has finally moved into a squat in Bristol.  Today we collected him from his bed of discarded porn mags and newspapers, gave him a cup of tea, and took him out for a little skate to warm him up

Hundreds of poor people like John freeze to death every winter simply because they cant afford to pay their heating bills.  or in Giovanni’s case,  squandered all their money on gin and bicycle parts…  please, for just £2 a month you can sponsor a poor young man like John. We will even send you a small soft toy, and regular updates on his progress.

 

 

Public Service Message

We went to wales.

Giovannis new hookup

We are proud to announce that from February 2012 Giovanni will be riding for Mizuno running shoes, and Adidas apparel.

He chose to celebrate this achievement in typical Giovanni style…