Cory Hainline

as seen on Behold a Drawing of a Pale Horse

I believe I started blogging in 2008.  A blog, as a free public medium, was very appealing as a dated place to write. And the fact that blogs can be read worldwide is also a plus. I eventually started devising interviews and posing the ideas to close friends of mine who were keen.

Perhaps it was in the autumn of 2009 that I had compiled more than a handful of interviews, when my close friend, Cory Hainline, a man who I have always admired, inquired about an interview.  But when he asked I was starting to become bored with the  interview process, and blogging as a whole.  I drifted away from Rice and Egg and sought new undertakings.

Well, another great friend of mine, John Lindsay, has been an avid blogger of the underground, international skate scene, and because I like John and his artistic visions and persona so much I proposed we use his blog as the site to launch that interview I forgot about almost four years ago; the Cory Hainline interview for Behold!  I feel honored to have been apart of this. 

If you have time to kill, feel free to check out some of the aforementioned interviews from a few years ago:

Soy Panday
Craig Kaths
John Lindsay
Scotty Conley
Dustin Eggeling
Brett Davis
Ashley Albritton
Travis Adams

Shogo Tanaka

Natsuki !

Give it up for Natsuki Yasunami! Natsuki skates for 5Nuts skateboard shop, Japan.

In 2006-2007, Natsuki, myself, and friends skated all over Yokohama's Naka Ward, and Shin-Yokohama, every week, usually at night after we got off from work. We had some really fun times living the urban Japanese dream through skateboarding; guzzling beers and devouring butter peanuts outside of convenience stores, wandering the dense urban forest that Yokohama and major Japanese metropolises really are, and catching the last train home, exhausted with sweaty socks and beer breath. Experiencing Yokohama's vast array of architecture and 19th century European influence, as well as Yokohama's China Town, was a blast! And to experience it with Natsuki and friends (5Nuts crew) really made my time in the Far East memorable.

Oden

Last Minutes with ODEN from Eliot Rausch + Phos Pictures on Vimeo.

Dali x Kuniyoshi

Voluptas Mors, photograph by Philippe Halsman (in collaboration with Salvador Dalí), 1951

Most people know of Salvador Dali; a Spanish painter, whose imaginative
renderings catapulted the surrealist movement pre-World War II. Dali’s imagination was distinctively authentic, eccentrically unique, and far-out groovy, man! But from where did his imagination propagate? Perhaps you can find slight similarities in
Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s woodblock prints, circa 1840-ish, and Dali's collaborative work, Voluptas Mors, that has wiggled it's way into pop-culture.

Give Thanks Every day

The world needs more role models, and we all need to realize we encounter role models everyday. Observe and learn from people, cultures, and nature; observe and learn from your surroundings in a positve manor.

"The greatest patience is humility. "

Farewell San Francisco

After a four year stint we decided to press on into familiar AND uncharted territories, with hopes of establishing a new base camp. The food options better be good...

Shun Moroi しゅんくん!

Shun Moroi has been filming for Pursuit with Jin Nakajima. It looks as if Hisashi Nakamura will also star in Nakajima's latest film. By the looks of Nakajima's cinematography and his choice of Yokohama shredders, I am led to assume that Pursuit will be an underground classic.

Augustus

I miss Japanese TV

Harvest Moon

Tomorrow the sun will pass directly over the earth’s equator and the Fall Equinox will be underway, or perhaps it will have taken place. Along with the Fall Equinox, star gazers and horizon hunters will be awed by the Harvest Moon, a concurrence that hasn’t happened in 19 years, as well as a small star-like light close to the moon; “star-like” because it’s not actually a star, but the planet Jupiter. This will be the closet Jupiter has come to Planet Earth since 1963.

“Harvest Moon” was coined by Native Americans, denoting the proper time to harvest crops and bring the yield in pre-winter weather, and to give thanks to all living things of the fields and earth that provided them with life. Let’s give thanks

Photograph by Jeff Kiessel, Ludington Daily News/AP