{"id":31488,"date":"2012-07-20T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T21:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31488"},"modified":"2012-07-20T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T22:02:46","slug":"mike-giant-is-a-dirty-old-skateboarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31488","title":{"rendered":"Mike Giant Is A Dirty Old Skateboarder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1_giantflier.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1_giantflier.jpg','popup','width=695,height=1174,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\/2012\/07\/1_giantflier-tm.jpg\" height=\"337\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"1 Giantflier\" \/><\/a>Tonight at San Francisco&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ffdg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fecal Face Gallery<\/a><\/strong> graphic artist, illustrator and tattooist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegiant.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Giant<\/a><\/strong> officially opens his show <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ffdg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Confessions Of An Old Dirty Skateboarder<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The show features &#8220;a wide assemblage of recent drawings and also a rare opportunity to view Giant&#8217;s personal collection of skateboards he illustrated the graphics for, including boards from his early career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Giant says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a product of my generation. I grew up through the 80s and was drawn to the punk rock and hip-hop cultures simultaneously&#8221;, Giant said in a recent interview. &#8220;I threw myself in headfirst. A lot of those things were about personal expression, and also an anti-establishment attitude like, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need you, we have our own thing.&#8221; That&#8217;s the backbone of who I am to this day&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The opening begins at 7 PM. The show runs from July 20 &#8211; August 12, 2012. Fecal Face Gallery is located at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=2277+Mission+St.+in+San+Francisco,+California&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hnear=2277+Mission+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94110&amp;gl=us&amp;t=m&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">2277 Mission St. in San Francisco, California<\/a><\/strong>. For the rest of the info click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ffdg.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">FFDG<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/2012\/07\/friday-ta-on-sa-mike-giant-confesses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skate &#38; Annoy<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at San Francisco&#8217;s Fecal Face Gallery graphic artist, illustrator and tattooist Mike Giant officially opens his show Confessions Of An Old Dirty Skateboarder. The show features &#8220;a wide assemblage of recent drawings and also a rare opportunity to view Giant&#8217;s personal collection of skateboards he illustrated the graphics for, including boards from his early [&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\/31488"}],"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=31488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31491,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31488\/revisions\/31491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}