Victor Perez has been skateboarding since 1977. He was sponsored by Kryptonics and Santa Cruz in the 198o’s but as with many skaters his interests turned to art. His latest work is the Sk8Lamp, a series of high-end lighting centered around skateboard inspired shapes and reclaimed lighting fixtures.
Sk8lamps is different. It’s about the repurposing of otherwise discarded materials to a new, improved state. The lamps are constructed of used or rejected decks, wheels and trucks that have either fulfilled or cannot fulfill their intended purposes. The electrical pieces are removed from devices no longer deemed aesthetically pleasing and given extended life. It’s more than a recycled skateboard, a recycled lamp, or a recycled idea. It is Upcycling. The Upcycling is art. The Art is unique.
The work pictured at right is titled the Rolling Verical Cheese and it’s for sells for $315. To check out more click the link.
Austin Smith and Bryan Fox better keep those Drink Water screen printing presses running after being featured in a New York Times story on January 7, 2012.
Fox and Smith say they find the heavy marketing of such products, especially toward younger fans, problematic. Top brands like Red Bull, Monster Energy and Rockstar have swarmed the international sports market, sponsoring athletes, events and video shoots in motorsports, surfing, snowboarding and skiing, mixed martial arts and others. Brand logos appear on event structures like half pipes, and on athletes’ apparel and equipment.
The story behind one of the coolest ways to get from Portland, Oregon (or Seattle, Washington) to the snow–the Greasebus. Almost makes us want to go ride Mt. Hood Meadows, just for the ride to the hill.
David Carrier Porcheron is traveling the globe preaching the POW gospel of winter protection with help from Spy Optics. A portion of the sales of DCP’s signature Zed goggle will go to Protect Our Winters.
“I have become aware of my impact on the planet in recent years and, a snowboarder, I appreciate being in nature so much—my career completely depends on it,” says DCP. “SPY and POW help me give back to the environment with a portion of sales of my signature snow goggle going to POW’s reinvestment with organizations that share our sustainability mission and focus.”
Winter does come in handy for snowboarding. . . Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Surfer Dave Rastovich and his crew of surfers, actors, artists, and musicians is sailing south in the Transparent Sea along the Southern California coast following the migration of the California Grey Whale from Santa Barbara to Baja, Mexico to raise awareness with “an emphasis on engaging key coastal community groups and drawing awareness to the causes they support.”
Tonight (Friday, October 7, 2011) Dave is at the Malibu Inn across from the Malibu Pier. Doors open at 6 PM and tickets are $15.00. On Sunday, October 16, 2011 he’ll be at the Ocean Institude Dana Point Harbor. Click here to buy tickets that that.
Each time Santa Monica, California high-school teacher Benjamin Kay goes surfing he picks up all the trash he finds brings it back to throw away, according to a story in the Santa Monica Mirror. The photo above is just one Sunday’s catch. Now he’s trying to get more people involved with a Paddle Clean-up.
“I’d like to engage the surfing, boogie board, paddle board, kayak, and diving communities in an aquatic cleanup to help us all get on the same page about the reasons for and sources of plastic pollution and build a greater activist coalition,” he said. “I heard a guy in the water yesterday blame beach-going litter bugs for the problem, but the reasons for plastics into our oceans is much more complex than that.”
We’re not super informed on all environmental fronts, but there is something so simple, straight forward and pure about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s mission to defend ocean wildlife worldwide that we almost have to love them. If they don’t like what’s going on they go out and physically stop it.
Bob Burnquist is continuing the development of his Vista, California Mega-ramp complex with the addition of a new “Chipoltle Research Garden” according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
With the Chipotle Research Garden, the purpose is different. This new garden will not only provide food for Burnquist and his family but research data for Chipotle Mexican Grill, as the company will grow new varieties of tomatoes and bell peppers not used in its restaurants. Food from the garden also will be donated to a program for teenage mothers in Vista.
No one grows “green” sponsors better than Farmer Bob. What next, a new eco-house project sponsored by Home Depot?
Billabong founder Gordon Merchant has decided to pay $8 million dollars to help save a business that makes biodegradable plastics. Plantic Technologies is a Melbourne, Australia-based company that creates “green” plastics made from corn starch, according to as story on Goldcoast,com.au.
Since Plantic’s shares listed at 64 pence ($1.02) each in 2005, they have fallen to ‘penny dreadful’ status, trading around 4 pence for most of the year and creating a sizeable hole in the value of Mr Merchant’s original investment. . . The businessman, who is currently in the US attending the funeral of surfer Andy Irons, has proposed a scheme of arrangement where he would acquire the remaining capital of Plantic that he does not already own. . . Mr Merchant made the offer of 8 pence a share on July 24, and this has since boosted the Plantic share price to around the offer level over the past three months. . . The Plantic board has recommended shareholders accept the offer, in the absence of a superior bid.
Hopefully, it will all work out. The world could use better plastic.
This may be one of the few times we agree 100% with Laird Hamilton. For more info on how to join Laird and the Surfrider Foundations in stopping offshore drilling, visit Not The Answer.com.
Victor Perez has been skateboarding since 1977. He was sponsored by Kryptonics and Santa Cruz in the 198o’s but as with many skaters his interests turned to art. His latest work is the Sk8Lamp, a series of high-end lighting centered around skateboard inspired shapes and reclaimed lighting fixtures.
