MAINTAIN MEMORY LANE

I am digging in the shoe boxes for some pictures dating back to 2005 when MAINTAIN first began.

Enjoy!

Maintain Sunset is closing after 5 years but will reopen in the middle of summer 2011

5 Years ago I was working as a full time artist making good money and living a great life style. And although my life could not have gotten better it did. After realizing that painting excessively would ultimate lead to my demise as an artist I decided to take a break and open a small shop called MAINTAIN. My idea was simple, create a place of business that borrowed from my child hood passions, skate boarding and graffiti art and build a communal space where like minds can meet and generate positive energy. Maintain by definition means to: to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: There are many ways that we all Maintain and for me my small shop was it. It enabled me to stay afloat long enough to reach my next level of evolution. The moment has come to finally say good bye to our old location. As of Monday the 31st of January our Sunset location will be officially closed.

There is no need for tears or sadness for we will still be in existence at our Cypress Park Location. And we will be moving our Sunset location and reopening it again in the middle of summer 2011.

I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to all of our supporters over the 5 years of Maintains existence. Without your support Maintain would not be what it is today and I would not have grown and evolved as a person. I am so lucky and
privilege to have been able to meet serve and befriend all of you. Thank you to all of you and please don't forget to MAINTAIN.


Please continue to visit us and support at 2643 N. Figueroa Los Angeles, Ca. 90065

Peace,

Alex Rodriguez
Owner/Servant


I leave you with a few memories from this past 2010 year and will be adding more pics during the week.

Its official!

Stevie Williams is on supra...What!


Check out this video I found on YOU TUBE. It features pro BMX rider Nigel Silvester and pro skater Stevie Williams competing against each other... cool video!

Not the Kings any more!

Krylon and Rustoleum where giants in the aerosol art scene during its early origins. They were the paint of choice. Its sad to see them making and inferior paint. The krylon is way to watered down now and the rusto's new look is not cool at all.

Amazing Graffiti

It amazes me that the quality of street art keeps getting better and better. I enjoy seeing our landscape be transformed into a living gallery.

Sea Level’ Premieres In Boston Tomorrow

If you’re in the Boston area this weekend, check out the premiere of Elliott Vecchia and Chris Fiftal’s new film ‘Sea Level’ tomorrow night at The Tower Auditorium.
Shot around the East Coast, the video features Orchard team rider Fritz Mead, as well as parts from Frankie Nash, Pete Moulton, Jimmy Lake, Nick Swanson, Jay Brown,Kevin Coughlin, Luke Suvino, Brian Kennedy, J Burton and John Desimas.

Adam Colton skates across South America

This is for all you long boarders out there.




Adam Colton
Adam Colton (you might know him from his Longboard Dancing trick tips, from all his work with Loaded, or from Adam Squared productions) took off on Monday to skate South America. This trip follows skating across America, then Europe, and the last trip was across New Zealand.
For this trip, Adam plans to take only what he can carry, and skate through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile ... he'll be skating around South America until March 18th. Personally, I think he's nuts! But I'm also jealous, and very impressed. You can read all about his trip, and his previous adventures, on his website - WhoIsAdamColton.com.