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Jim "RED DOG" Muir, original Zephyr Team rider and then later co-founder of DOGTOWN SKATES. Made this photograph at RESEDA SKATERCROSS, early 1976, night time available light pushing the film to the max, hence the blurriness. A classic frontside one wheeler with STYLE riding one of the very first DOGTOWN Skates ever made, in fact this one and only a few others had the cross burnt directly into the wood. Jim also the older brother of Mike who later formed Suicidal Tendencies, and only recently joined forces as DogTown/Suicidal Skates. jim has always been a great dude, and i was honored to be the one to induct him into the International Skateboarding Hall of Fame a few years back. I know Jim since i was probably 12 or 13 years old, and made this photo with the screw on fish-eye when i was probably 15. Oh, i forgot to mention my friend Mike Szeliga and I probably took the RTD bus out there from Westwood... Craziness... And this photograph appears huge in the MY RULES book! #DogTown #skateboarding #zboys #zephyr #dogtownskates #thedreddedVal #suicidal #woodburner #lifer #OG #SantaMonica #Venice #WLA #SMC #OldSchool #MyRules #GetTheNewBook

A photo posted by glen E. friedman Ⓥ (@glenefriedman) on May 25, 2016 at 4:45pm PDT

Tonight my good friends Jim Muir, Steve Olson and Lance Mountain are being inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame!

Here's are a few of my favorite photographs i took of them:













I'll be there!

JIM "RED DOG" MUIR/GEF/SF poster

On sale at OBEY GIANT sometime on Thursday, Edition of 450, sold at random, limit 1 per household, Signed and numbered by Jim Muir, Shepard Fairey and myself.


It's been a long time in the making, since my old good friend, original Z-Boy, "Red Dog" nearly killed himself in a surfing accident earlier in the year. Here's what happened. There was a benefit auction back in August, unfortunately we were not able to get this poster together in time, but here it finally is, as well there will be a one off fine art piece done by Shepard to be sold to the highest bidder at his next gallery exhibition, where 100% of the proceeds will go to Jim. For now we've got these great posters, which I've got to say is probably my favorite collaboration we've done to date (the others of Public Enemy, Tony Alva, and the Bad Brains, were great no doubt, but i feel this is the most beautiful of them all).

I first mentioned Jim's injuries and beginning recovery here in April. His injuries include two crushed vertebrae, C6 and C7, and a fracture to C5. On March 15th he underwent emergency surgery to fuse C6 and C7 vertebrae with a spacer, cadaver bone, two titanium straps and four screws.

Good news is his recovery is going along fantastically. Although he's getting around now he still can not go back to work yet, so the help we know is appreciated.

This is the last collaboration of the year for Shepard Fairy and I (after this we only have one "planned" for June 2010 and one for February 2011).

Benefit for Jim "Red Dog" Muir tonight in Los Angeles

MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE.

Later this fall Shepard Fairey and I will be releasing a collaboration print of one of my classic photos of Jim as well, I'll post further info as soon as it becomes available.

Jim "Red Dog" Muir is doing much better

Last month Jim (original Z-Boy and DogTown Skates co-founder) got in a serious surfing accident, he and others were afraid he would not walk again, he was in the hospital for a while and is now home. Good news is, even though he broke 2 vertebrae in his neck and was dragged out of the water after swallowing several lung fulls of water, thinking he was left for dead, family says "He's doing so much better. He's walking around on his own and is regaining use of his arms/hands. His fingers on the left side are finally moving but the fine motor skills are still very limited. He's doing extensive out patient physical and occupational therapy 5 days a week." My best wishes go out to him and his family obviously.

Here's a 1976 photo of Jim that was on my most recent show poster:



Jim has been mentioned/seen in this short lived blog twice already, so i don't need to tell you he's an old friend. But another old friend of mine dug up some old skate magazines and happened across this 1977 quote from an interview Jim did in Skateboard World (which was a rag compared to SkateBoarder back then) nevertheless this mention of me i can't say i ever remember seeing before:

What are your thoughts on the upcoming Henry Hester pool competition [the 1st pool contest ever]?
It's a good idea, but I think they're going about it the wrong way. First of all D.T. [DogTown] wasn't even notified. We found out about it from our local little photographer Glen Friedman, who had picked it up from Dennis Martinez. We just found out about it this week and the contest is next weekend... (Read the complete answer and a few pages from the interview that were scanned and sent to me by clicking on the images of the pages below):