We’ve been wondering what Snowboard Journal co-founder Jon Foster has been up to lately. And thanks to the La Jolla Light newspaper we’re learning a little more about the photographer who made so many snowboarders famous. The Light asked Jon who he’d like to have over for a dinner party. This is what he said:
Jim Morrison; Hunter S. Thompson; Helmut Newton; Natalie Portman; the Dalai Lama; Mark Procopio; my sister Kathleen, who died in 1984; and Olivia Wilde.
Having dined with one of the people on his list we can’t say we disagree. For the rest of the interview follow the link.
On Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 7 to 10 PM ID Prints, Frends, Burton, and PBR are bringing Snomad: A Photo Show featuring the soul-stealing stylings of Cole Barashand Dean “Blotto” Grey to the The Barn. Make the US Open experience complete with a cruise through these images.
Palisades Skateboards has lined up paint-pen artist Drew Brophy to design five new longboards for the Costa Mesa, California based company.
“We are very excited to be working with Drew,” Said Kurt Hurley, National Sales Manager in charge of Palisades, “he has a proven track record in this industry, his art connects with people and it sells.” . . . “As a grom, I remember making my first skateboard out of scrap wood and I had a blast riding it,” Said Brophy, “Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be designing graphics for such a wide variety of boards like I am for Palisades. It makes me smile to think of the things people will be doing on them.”
We all need longboards every once in a while. . . right? Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
Is it any surprise that these apparently S&M inspired Corbus aluminum art boards were created in Seattle? As the blog Rad Collector so eloquently puts it:
Legitimate longboarders have enough to contend with without having to explain why post-apocalyptic aluminum decks for ravers and S&M autoerotic asphyxiation freaks are now hitting the market.
If these design somehow tingle your taint, then please email robin@corbusboards.info or snail mail: Box 2608 #185 2nd Ave, Seattle//WA 98121
Seems like everyone was at Ed Templeton’s Seconds Pass show opening at Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles on Friday night, February 26, 2010. Well, almost everyone. . . check out photos from the event on emerica.
HARVEST by haroshi’sSkate & Destroy exhibition at Tokyo’s PLSMIS Gallery completely refigures the idea of art and skateboard decks and makes simply painting on decks seem like cave drawings. haroshi’s thoughts on the show (via Hypebeast). . .
I looked at these unusable decks every day and thought there must be something I can make with these. I decided to make some accessories with the old decks and this was the birth of Harvest. The works of Harvest are through the perspectives of a skater and as an artist. As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable. Also, as an artist I want to explore the possibilities of what can be done with skateboards. We see the care and effort that a skater can have for his/her deck and we also acknowledge the origins of a skateboard. We believe that if the small things we do can connect to sustainability then we’re doing something right. We’d be satisfied in our effort when people look at products and start thinking of ways to recycle.
The artworks are mind-blowing as are the photos of the show by Brandon Shigeta. To view photos of all the pieces in the show visit haroshi.com.
Wall Street Journal writer Conor Dougherty’s latest skateboard story for the business paper of record surveys the world of painting on skateboard decks and asks the age old question: yeah, but is is “wheelie” art? Get it? We are reminded of the old definition of art we learned our first day in art history class: art is what artists do.
As long as there have been skateboards, there have been pictures on them. The early boards in the 1960s tended to have child-friendly graphics such as images of surfers or baseball stars. Artistic styles shifted with the evolution of the skateboarding subculture, moving into images depicting everything from skulls and cartoon cigarettes to children finding their parents having intimate relations. Like skateboarders, the artwork they favor often exudes youthful protest and subversive themes.
We guess the bigger question is this: if an artist who doesn’t skateboard paints on a skateboard deck is it skate art? Our answer is no. Now were are those Jeffery Koons Supreme decks was saw lying around some where. . . ?
Include Thomas Campbell on the list of people who can do no wrong. Whether it’s shooting skate photos, making surf movies, or painting his way around the world, T. Mossian seems to capture everything perfectly. On The Road To Ummmmm is just one more example.
The video is a time lapsed sequence of Campbell, shot on location in his Bonny Doon, California studio and in Europe. It gives a behind-the-scenes preview of Thomas working on “stuff” for 3 months or so… in preparation of the Ummm, exhibit which was held in Copenhagen, Denmark at the V1 Gallery, late October 2009. . . . On the Road to Ummmm, gives an insider view of Thomas’s many artistic talents; painting, sewing, woodwork, silk-screening, bronze casting, doodling and um…more painting. But it’s not all work for Campbell, a quick stop-over in the south of France, revives this self-proclaimed stuff maker’s skills before he says “au revoir,” and onto his exhibit in Denmark.
Click the link, watch the video, and see just how easy making art can be.
Ed Templeton’sThe Seconds Pass opens at the Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles on Friday, February 26th at 6PM. The showing is an extension of Ed’s soon-to-be released book by the same name.
We’ve been wondering what Snowboard Journal co-founder Jon Foster has been up to lately. And thanks to the La Jolla Light newspaper we’re learning a little more about the photographer who made so many snowboarders famous. The Light asked Jon who he’d like to have over for a dinner party. This is what he said:
