We’ll pretty much listen to Ed Templeton talk about anything, but when he’s talking about skateboarding and art, then that’s required viewing. According to Skatedaily.net, this is an interview done by Wunderbaum Magazine in anticipation of his latest art show My soul is worried but not me.
The show runs at the Nils Staerk Gallery (in Copenhagen) until June 25, 2011.
[Link via Skatedaily.net]
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Turns out Danny Fuller isn’t simply a handsome man with nice abs and a penchant for dropping in way deep on really big waves. No, he’s an artist, too. And, though we apologize in advance for sounding surprised, his photos are compelling. We’re mentioning this because Fuller has a show opening tomorrow, Saturday, May 21, 2011 at the Known Gallery in Los Angeles titled Night For Day.
Fuller shot the photographs for his Night for Day body of work between midnight and 5 am during the brightest full moon at waters edge in Hawaii and Mexico. Fuller’s long night time exposures capture the hauntingly beautiful locations such as “Insanities,” “Keiki’s,” “Three tables,” “Hanakapi’ai,” “Monster Mush,” and “Playa Las Viudas.” The choices of these spots were based on the predicted effects that the tones of the sand and the clarity and depths of water would have on the eventual exposure to moonlight.
The opening reception begins at 8 PM. The Known Gallery is located at 441 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA. Night For Day which includes work by Kevin Ancell runs through June 11, 2011. Follow the jump for a video interview with Fuller regarding the show (or click here for photos from the opening.
[Link: Known Gallery] [click to continue…]
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Heralded LA street muralist Chase has apparently decided that after creating images for Adidas, Levi’s, Scion, Acura, Bloomingdale’s, and Western Union it’s time he started slumming and do some work for a skateboard clothing company. He chose Altamont.
Chase explains, “The stencil that I used for the “Nothing To It But To Do It” t-shirt is one of my main messages. It’s a message that is based on skateboarding, and it’s a valuable life lesson. Skateboarding taught me that, and I live by that motto every day. “The Messenger” graphic is one that Andrew Reynolds really liked. It’s a collection of the positive quotes. It serves as a reminder, right before you put it on in the morning, so you have a nice thing on your mind for the rest of the day.
For more info on Chase’s positive skateboarding messages follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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For fans of skateboarding, and skateboarding photography in specific there’s not much better that sitting in an old vinyl chair and listening to photographer Grant Brittain tell stories of back in the day. Grant’s stories have always been epic and in this new series Brittain’s Vault skate photog Ed Dominick plans to capture Grant in his classic best. This is episode one, we’re kind of hoping the next episode is a little bit longer, because this one was definitely, too short.
[Link: The Skateboard Mag]
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Mike Parillo is opening a new showing of his recent paintings titled Watch What You See at the CES/FA in Laguna Beach, California on May 20, 2011.
Observations and notations from current events, personalities, and places invoke a new series of paintings and mixed media work from Wyoming based artist Mike Parillo. Parillo’s report on the now comes in fragmented groups of work within one major body. Watch what you see is a social commentary conveying the artist’s fascination with various symbolic icons, locations and ideas from contemporary culture that have an indefinite resonating affect on his vision of the current global landscape.
The show runs May 20 – June 20, 2011 with an artist’s reception opening on May 20, 2011 at 6 PM. CES/FA Showroom and Studio is located at 2097 B Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, CA. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
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On Wednesday night (April 27, 2010), after a long day of typing at the IASC Skateboarding Summit, we drove up to LA to attend the Levi’s Film Workshop’s Skate Video Night at the Vista Theatre.
The evening, hosted by Epicly Later’d’s, Patrick O’Dell, was part of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s current show Art In The Streets. An audience of more than 500 packed into the theater for a series of skate video montages broken down by decade (80s, 90s and 00s). Between each decade Ty Evans, Rick Howard, Aaron Meza, Greg Hunt, Tobin Yelland, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, Spike Jonze, and Ed Templeton would take the stage and answer questions and discuss the skateboard filmmaking process.
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Panel photo: Mikey Tnasuttimonkol
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Photographer Jake Stangel’s latest project is titled, The Pacific and it documents surfing on the Oregon Coast, according to a story on the Good Magazine website.
“It’s cold,” says Stangel, an East-Coast transplant who started photographing surfers in the area after a hike through the nearby forest lead him to Indian Head beach, “and thick westuits are mandatory. . . The surfers are used to the cold,” he adds, “but I feel like I’m still getting used to the rugged lushness of the ocean and mountains of Oregon. I’m constantly surprised by its beauty.”
Stangel’s images provide a balance for all the ASP action we’ve been soaking in this week. Click here to see the project, or click the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: Good Magazine]
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In conjunction with the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art in the Streets show (which runs until August 8, 2011) the Levi’s Film Workshop is presenting a retrospective of skateboarding films along with a panel discussion featuring; Spike Jonze, Stacy Peralta, Lance Mountain, Ed Templeton, Greg Hunt, Ty Evans, Rick Howard, Aaron Meza, and Tobin Yelland.
Noted photographer and producer Patrick O’Dell (Epicly Later’d) will present a special compilation of seminal skateboard videos from the 1980s to today. The screening will be followed by a conversation with legendary skateboarders and filmmakers
This is a great chance to hear from the people responsible for creating skateboarding visuals for the past three decades. Skate Video Night is free and open to the public and goes down at 8 PM Wednesday, April 27, 2011 in the Vista Theatre at 4473 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA 92007. Click the link to RSVP.
[Link: Skate Video Night]
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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 asphalt and into a world of possibilities.
Beginning April 17, 2011 some of Stecyk’s art will be featured in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art in the Streets show at the Geffen Contemporary. Aaron Rose is the show’s associate curator. Ahead of the opening the Los Angeles Times asked Stecyk some questions. He answered.
I started shooting surfers in 1962 or ’63 — I was interested in documenting what I was seeing, and magazines weren’t doing it yet. The skate shots came later — 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.
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 attend the opening on Saturday evening, April 16, 2011 beginning at 7 PM. Household membership is $100 (enter STREETS for 10% off).
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When surfer Alana Blanchard was in SoCal for the recent premier of the Bethany Hamilton bio-pic Soul Surfer she apparently spent the day with photographer Bo Bridges. One thing is for sure. If she ever wants to hit the road as a “headlining adult entertainer” she certainly has the portfolio to make it happen. Follow the jump for more. [click to continue…]
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