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Looks like this week will be the week of meetings. So if you wanna meet up, get in touch!  I’ll add you to the list. Pro-Cut, Ted Wojcik Custom Bicycles and Nemo Equipment are all officially on the BCS Top Secret Radar Device.  How’s that for diversity? Brake Lathes, Bikes and Tents…

Ted Wojcik KICKS ASS AND MOWS GRASS.  That should be his 2010 slogan. BUT Bikes Made to be Ridden will have to do…  Get in under the radar with these two articles via the Boston Herald and Treehugger.  Best quote in regards to making this pedal powered lawnmower happen: “I only want to do this if it leads to American jobs…I believe that Americans can’t compete on prices anymore, but we can certainly compete on quality.  I’d like to see this machine sold as a high-quality object that will last a while.” Words to live by people – high quality. LONG LASTING. Made in the USA.

Cool blog that will showcase some collections: A Collection Day 2010. Favorite out of the bunch…

This is awesome. Find a picture of yourself from a long time ago, then repose the son-of-a-bitch. Via zefrank.com

Carved from wood. Good grief…bust out your pocket knives and get whittlin’

Mister Mort: Still brings home the bacon and FRIES IT IN THE PAN!

Vintage WWII Life vest. Dig the stencil print kids.  DIG.

Diggin’ through the Rock-n-Roll Suicide episodes for a song right now…  More Rock-N-Roll Suicide episodes R-FINK!  COME ON!

NCZ / BCS Hometown Throwdown is well on it’s way with Joseph sending over Poster #16. Only the facts? OK. Since we’re talking facts, I need to declare one right here and now: MY MOM PACKED MY LUNCH EACH AND EVERY FREAKIN’ DAY. Like a champ, the best mom there was this side of the Masie-dixie line, she packed in big dagwood sandwiches, homemade banana bread, oranges, banana’s, yogart. You name it kids. It was in there to fortify my day.  Elementary school and hell yes if I didn’t sport a Empire Strike’s Back lunch box. STEEL IS REAL. The thing was awesome with Luke Skywalker on the front. Best part was the thermos inside was a YODA Thermos. Soup or juice sometimes. You never knew.  Ok – middle school and it was onto the big leagues. No more of that sissy recess stuff. You want recess? That’s kids stuff. Homework too. LUNCH?  Mom had me covered. Brown bagged it all the way. By this time, my friends had caught on that lunch for me was kind of special-and they wondered how big the sandwiches would get. Hell if I was growing. She made sure I had the fuel for my brain power. RAW POWER. Mind AND body kids. Then high school?  HELL YES. Mom packed it then too. I started packing it too most of the week-but my mom would pitch in here and there and still bring the goods for the good guys.

So #17’s about lunch.  I knew I wanted to do something about school – but had been putting it off since I didn’t know what about school I wanted to make visually. But now that I think about it, man, lunch had to be it!  A time when you got together with all your buds, put the pencils down and got to work chowin’ down. I recall the lunches were in a few periods, so first thing you’d ask at the start of the school year was who of your crew had the same lunch so you could hold a table for them. So this ones for my Mom.  Thanks MUM!

Man-it’s been a whirlwind of a past few days if I ever did say. Lynn’s 40th birthday yesterday. BCS shut down for the better half of the day so I could make preparations. Baking cakes, prepping meals, making the studio look snappy. You got it. Suzy home makers we are!  Good friends and good meals-that’s what it’s all about. Then earlier this week Ted Wojcik returned from NAHBS ASS KICKERY.  Big shout out to Ted for getting down there to Virginy for the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show. Just warming up with Pro-Cut this week. Watching the Olympics this past weekend when I hear the announcer during the ski jumping… “HEY THAT’S MY MAN JEFF!!” Sure’s shit if it isn’t Master Hastings from Pro-Cut. Then we lose power due to a Snowpocalypse as Joseph from NCZ fame would say.  Damn.  That put a light out here. 2 days. Not bad-but still, when work needs doin’, electricity NEEDS TO BE WORKIN’.  ”HEED. ELECTRICITY. NOW.” Speaking of NCZ, sounds like the good state of Tennessee is out of work and some of their workers are calling for some extra firepower. Joseph gave me the skinny that something’s brewing with our WORK! Posters. More on that. That’s all I got.  Gotta run for some stamps…

BACK TO WORK!  Shit-ton of work, why not show it again. Are you out of work? Need some muscle? Let us know and we’ll deliver the goods in the hands of the good guys. GET IN UNDER THE RADAR.

2010 NAHBS Photo’s.  Here’s the flickr pool for the 2010 show. GET IN UNDER THE RADAR.

Ted and his pedal powered lawn mower. Got to see this thing come together. Best part is it cuts grass quicker than you can say “WHAT THE FFFF…”

Speaking of USA. Here’s a few links of just the very best USA Made bikes and components from the BCS Engine Room:

Ted Wojcik Custom Bicycles
Chris King Precisions Components
Chris Igleheart
Richard Sachs
Independant Fabrication
Geekhouse Bikes
A.N.T. Bikes
Courage Bicycles
Winter Bicycles
Vertigo Bikes

I’ll do a more dedicated ‘east coast only’ list in a bit.

WWW.REALPUNKRADIO.COM on the turntable today..

Been busy recovering from the Plague. More on this in a bit kids…

Paper and pencils today. No computer.  Well-no computer for as little as possible.  Nothing like some clean sheets of paper and a nice sharp HB.

Here’s some nice stuff to get you going if you’re doing the same:

IDSKETCHING. Loads of cool stuff here kids.  Check out this down and dirty Photoshop tutorial.

Sketch-a-day. More tastiness.  Fun stuff.

WACOM. Needs one people. Some major coin though.  Anyone want to sponsor me?  Anyone? Didn’t think so…

MIKE GIANT. Need I say more?

Here’s something interesting – SKETCHPAD. Online sketch pad?  Pretty cool.

Which reminds me. That new fangled iPad thing…  Wonder if it can handle or be a sketch pad?  NOW THAT would kick some ass!  $499 worth of sketchpad that can run all the applications like photoshop, illustrator or sketchbook pro?  WTF.  Come on Apple-gimme the GOODS!

One word. Cha-CHENG. Get in under the radar…

Jeremy Fish Studio tour over there at them thar Fecal Face website. Some nice schnizzle in there.  Was wondering how he was doing all those really accurate mirror images..  FOLD THE PAGE DUMMY.

What else? MATTHEW SKIFF…

Listening to The GERMS today.  Coming through nice and loud too…

Man-long time ago, I was listening to Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins… Basically I began my own musical search from the roots of rock and roll. Then I heard a song by Social Distortion and it all went down hill from there. Not literally, but musically my ears couldn’t get enough of LOUD, FAST AND ANGRY music.  I recall an ad in a skate magazine for a skate shop named “The Church of Skatan” as a kid. I had no idea where it was, but I knew basically that they had prescribed to their own religion and it was search and destroy in my eyes.. (maybe they are, but I have no idea.) I had a relatively calm childhood with the usual broken windows, scuffed up knees, throwing rocks at girls and endless baseball games. But somewhere in there it was punk rock, bmx and skateboards all swirled into a beautiful maze of feedback and broken chords. HELL YES.

So for this next edition of the Hometown Throwdown with NCZ, I decided to take on my affliction with Punk Rock. I had some ideas involving HIM but I recalled a picture of Johnny Ramone with a Mickey Mouse T-Shirt. So that’s pretty much where Mickey Mouse came in but I added in some sleeves, a little skull action to temper that Disney crap and of course he’s flipping the bird. Futura Bold all wacked heads up the typeface and naturally I had to add in some signature scuffs, scratches and halftones to the mix.  I’m officially SAVED BY PUNK ROCK. You can be too.

And yes, that is indeed an iron cross halo behind his noggin’…

Browsing my daily dose of bike porn today and I find this up in the ad space:  COUGARLIFE. Wow. We used to joke about Cougars. Out on the prowl.. In search of young men. You could spot them a mile away with that lusty look and WAY too short dress trying WAY too hard to get ones attention.  However, you always remember the golden rule: STAY AWAY WEARY TRAVELER. Do not seek the sirens call. Looks like Cougarville really does exist and is looking to lure young unsuspecting men.  Claudia Opdenkelder (president and proud cougar she adds..) is enjoying the tantric life of the cougar and so can you! Dripping with css / js design sex all over the web layout. What a way to run a railroad.

In other news: got the content for TW Catalog 2010. Should kick some butt now.  Chopping away at RITC’s logo and well if we didn’t arrive at a winner late last week. Gotta round up the masterminds this afternoon and brainstorm on a new clients branding. Slow and steady wins the race friends. However-I’ve been moving slow and steady for the last 7 years… where’s the race line again? Shit.

Wittle’n maniac Adolph Vandertie. DUKE OF THE HOBOS. Nuts kids. Get a pocket knife and some sticks and start wittle’n.

SKIL. Some nice wear on this here box.

Not sure of the origin or what’s going on here-but there’s some nice printing here..

NCZ’s got the inside line on THAT GUY.

Lynn’s always watching the weather. Checking the latest from NOAA. Me? I just look outside and see what’s doing. Not that I don’t watch the weather stations-I just like the surprise.  But it sounds like the Super Bowl Commercial spots were anything less than a surprise.  I was unfortunately traveling all day on Super Bowl Sunday.  So no football for me…  NCZ has the inside line on this-and good to hear I didn’t miss anything. It doesn’t surprise me.

So Eric Estlund has quite the project going on at Winter Bikes.  What do you do for someone who has two different length arms and reach issues? Cut the bar in half and make a custom double clamp stem.  GET IN UNDER THE RADAR.

Then I’ll Leave you with this Ripper. Christopher Payne Photography of  Asylum’s across the U.S. Wow.

Working on posters for the rest of the day and then maybe some SHOES. Giddy up.

No trips planned this winter-seems whenever we travel in the winter we get delayed, parlayed and Old Man Winter spoils the plan. But springs comin’ and we have some good stuff planned. No problem staying here and killing the North with summit approaches.  Maybe something in the Whites soon?  Need some Crampons…  Getting ready to dig though.  Sounds like some snow is on the way.

NCZ’s got the next round of the Hometown Throwdown poster series we’ve been working on with a zinger of a quote from Mother Jones. Grandmom approved kids.

Want some kick ass fonts? House Industries has your butt. Looks like they have some new Eames goodness coming out.  Rat Fink t’s back in stock too…

B Movies and monsters? Godzilla getting it handed to him by King Kong? No way friends. This is just a travesty…  And this one is just awesome. Gamera vs Jiger.  Godzilla’s Revenge. Befehl Aus Dem Dunkel? Wow…  looks gripping.  More three headed monsters attack!

Back to it for me. Rounding up some ideas for some posters and waiting on a call. Hurry up and wait is the theme for 2010 thus far kids. Dead Kennedy’s and some Adolescents today for the hearing impaired.