{"id":22645,"date":"2011-04-09T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T01:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22645"},"modified":"2011-04-09T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T03:08:40","slug":"craig-stecyk-in-the-moca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22645","title":{"rendered":"Craig Stecyk In The MOCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/60729954.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/60729954.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/60729954-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"60729954\" \/><\/a>When ever anyone thinks of skateboarding as something more than rolling around on a plank with wheels, thank <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C._R._Stecyk,_III\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Stecyk<\/a><\/strong>. His Dogtown stories (and photos) took a bunch of Santa Monica kids and turned them into mythological heros with stories that carried a generation of readers far past the land of empty pools and smooth asphalt and into a world of possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning April 17, 2011 some of Stecyk&#8217;s art will be featured in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong>  <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/museum\/futureexhibitionslist.php\" target=\"_blank\">Art in the Streets<\/a><\/em><\/strong> show at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/museum\/moca_geffen.php\" target=\"_blank\">Geffen Contemporary<\/a><\/strong>. Aaron Rose is the show&#8217;s associate curator. Ahead of the opening the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-street-art-pioneers-craig-stecyk-20110410,0,2155506.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> asked Stecyk some questions. He answered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I started shooting surfers in 1962 or &#8217;63 \u2014 I was interested in documenting what I was seeing, and magazines weren&#8217;t doing it yet. The skate shots came later \u2014 just like there was demand for Miki Dora in surfing magazines, there was soon demand for Tony Alva. But I shot everything for no particular reason, which is what I still do today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The info is sparse, but reading this makes us what to see the show that much more. Art in the Streets opens April 17, 2011, but MOCA members can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/audio\/blog\/?p=1690\" target=\"_blank\">attend the opening<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday evening, April 16, 2011 beginning at 7 PM. Household membership is $100 (enter STREETS for 10% off).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MOCA<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-street-art-pioneers-craig-stecyk-20110410,0,2155506.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When ever anyone thinks of skateboarding as something more than rolling around on a plank with wheels, thank Craig Stecyk. His Dogtown stories (and photos) took a bunch of Santa Monica kids and turned them into mythological heros with stories that carried a generation of readers far past the land of empty pools and smooth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22648,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions\/22648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}