Real Skateboards have teamed up with UK graffiti artist and skater D*Face for these very limited decks, priced at £55 a pop and dropping on 30th July. Get your hands on one now

D*Face has grown in popularity in the US in a huge way of late, his guerilla pieces around the Oscars caught the eye of mainstream press, and now rumours have been confirmed that the artist has created the new album cover for Christina Aguilera. Aguilera is reportedly a big art collector and this is the latest in a growing list of accomplished street artist making a move towards commercial pop art worlds.

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Following on from our video post of D*Face transforming Peter King’s ‘ridiculous pool’, here’s a couple of pics from his time over there.

D*Face was recently asked to paint a skate pool owned by pro surfer Peter kKing. The project took four days and saw over 500 skulls hand stenciled into the pool which was christened by legend Steve “Salba” Salba, one of the original members of the Santa Cruz skate team

“Peter and legendary skater Steve ‘Salba’ Alba discovered this pool, as they have with many, in the back yard of a vacant house in San Bernardino; hit hard by the economic downturn and subprime mortgage fiasco, San Bern or BadLands has left many properties vacant, like many downsides there’s an up to those who are searching… this area has the most amount of pools built in the 50′s… which unlike most pools built today are beautifully curved and shaped, offering up dream like transitions to those committed, pool hunting, backyard jumping skaters.

This particular pool got Christened the ‘Ridiculous Pool’ as it’s transitions and shape are God given. The pool remained empty and secretly skated for a few years until the property was put up for sale, fearing it would be brought by one of the property developer vultures circling overhead, which would have seen the pool turned back into it’s intended use, Peter stepped in and brought the property, pool and all, the rest is history … I was asked if I’d like to paint it… I didn’t need asking twice.”

D*Face has worked on a new print along some other interesting new works. This edition was created during a 2 week residency with the master printers at Modern Multiples in Los Angeles. “Riot” was printed in 3 versions; 4 on Antique Road-Sign Metal, 4 on Antique Wooden Board, and of course a limited run of 50 sheets of 320gsm coventry archival paper. Wood and Metal are Hand-Finished by D*Face; sanded, airbrushed, aged, and presented in a tray frame.

You can purchase the metal, wood and paper print editions now from Jetsetgraffiti.

Source: High Snobiety

If you’re in the Tokyo area be sure to check out Close Encounters, a show brought to you by UK Adapta featuring some of our green and pleasant land’s finest artistic talent.

D*face does LA LA LAND from Tom Blachford on Vimeo.

D*Face hits downtown LA for another stunner. Video by Tom Blachford

Released tomorrow (November 2) at noon (Pacific Standard Time) from jetsetgraffiti.com for $500, plus shipping.

While we’re on D*Face, here’s a nice little stop motion video of D*Face painting in the meat packing district of NY on his last visit over there for his recent Ludovico Aversion Therapy exhibition.

Dface Meatpacking District Piece from Tom Blachford on Vimeo.

The tinterweb is awash with praise for D*Face’s new show ‘Ludovico Aversion Therapy’ and from the pics we’ve seen it all seems to be justified.

Arrested Motion and Juxtapoz both caught up with the graphic designer turned pop art supremo for a quick interview, read them here and here respectively.

Catch pics of the work from the show over at JonathanLevineGallery.com.

Jonathan Levine also organised for a mural to be painted to coincide with the show, nice:

D*Face has got a new show coming up at Jonathan Levine gallery in the U S, opening from September 12 it’ll run until October 1o. Here’s a few words on it from the man himself:

“Here’s the scoop on my upcoming show ‘All Your Dreams Belong To Us’ / ‘Ludovico Aversion Therapy’ and where I’ve been pretty much all year.
If you ever wondered what goes on inside my head, this is it, so sell your wife, cash in your boyfriend, polish your peepers and get a ticket to NYC… all new work, exclusive NY show print and a free opening night summin.

I’ll see you there… well here:

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 1001

D*”

Catch an interesting little interview with D after the jump.

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