In a story on a skateboard photography exhibit in Auckland, New Zealand Skateboarder magazine editor Mark Barber says something we think every time we try to explain what we do to people:
It’s probably gonna sound really negative but why would anybody buy a photo of a person they don’t know doing a trick they don’t understand doing a move they don’t know, but that’s probably just me being negative about it.”
Exactly. . .
[Link: 3 News NZ]
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It’s nice to see quality art being created by hand without the use of computers. . . even if Bend, Oregon-based Adam Haynes is doing it for “the man.”
[Link: Nike 6.0]
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UK artist Oliver Bishop-Young has taken dumpsters (apparently called “skips” in Britain) and turned them into all kinds of cool things, including a pool, a lawn, and more importantly a mini-ramp.
Mr Bishop-Young designed his ‘skip art’ as playgrounds for youngsters. But he also hopes the works will help encourage people to share their useful rubbish – such as old furniture and clothes – with friends and neighbours. . . . ‘It’s something an individual can do to make their impact on the city,’ he said.
One man’s skip. . .
[Link: Metro.co.uk]
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The Burlington Free Press is reporting that Burton has been getting some heat for their new Love line of snowboards that are featured on the website with the following text:
Hi. My name is Love™ and I’m on the market for someone who’s looking to score serious action, no matter where they like to stick it. I enjoy laps through the park; long, hard grinds on my meaty Park Edges followed by a good, hot waxing. Whether you’re hitting it from the front or the back, my mid wide shape, supple flex, and twin tips like it kinky. Keegan and Mikkel love riding me, I hope you will too.
Donna must be very proud of these cutting-edge graphics. It appears her years of hard work on women’s issues in snowboarding have finally paid off.
[Links: Burlington Free Press and Burton]
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Volcom and Snow Team Ambassador, Artist, & Musician Jamie Lynn teamed up to create a piece to help raise awareness for Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC). One dollar from each piece sold from this collaborative collection is donated to B4BC.
[Link: Boarding for Breast Cancer]
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This show at LA’s Crewest Gallery on October 4, 2008 (opening 2:00 PM to 9:30 PM) is something we’re actually excited about. Then again, the Dogtown cross we hand-markered on the wall of our childhood is still there so we’re obviously partial to the work of Craig Stecyk, Skip Engblom, et. al.
The invite only opening party is the night before (October 3, 2008 at 7 PM).
[Link: The Label Lab]
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We wrote about Gil Le Bon De Lapointe and Pierre Andre Senizergues’ Skate Study House back in February, but the mid-century modern skate project has finally made it to the LA Times.
I’m the artist, and he has the money to do it,” De Lapointe says. “Pierre gives me inspiration, he pushes me to find ideas and concepts, new ways to use the skateboard. The skateboard has given him all his success, so he wants to give that back.”
Seems the Home & Garden section just can’t get enough of Pierre Andre lately.
[Link: LA Times]
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Photographer and skater Lia Halloran has a show of 10 photographs being featured at the DCKT Contemporary gallery in New York City. According to Time Out New York she was “featured in Thrasher Magazine at age 16, and went on to get an M.F.A. from Uale University’s department of paint and printmaking.”
The ten photographs on view were taken at night in various Los Angeles locations ranging from spaces appropriated by skateboarders, such as the Los Angeles River, to skate parks and backyard ramps. . . . The works blur the boundaries of photography and become self-portraits and drawings as well as records of performances. Light is used to form the drawing line while HALLORAN skateboards at night through different venues. The resulting images are each a trajectory of the artist’s movements over time. The photographs pair urban environments with lines of light which behave as physical objects or break apart into flurries of abstraction.
Yep, that’s a pretty fancy way of saying “strap a light to your head and roll around while your camera sits on a tripod with the shutter open,” but it still looks pretty nice to us. The show closes on September 13, 2008 so you only have ten more days to check it out.
[Link: DCKT Contemporary via Time Out NY]
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Skater/artist Andy Howell has launched a multi-disciplanary, all encompassing, arts and culture site on the web called Artsprojekt (in partnership with zazzle.com). Like much that Andy does this one is difficult to describe or completely understand, leading us to believe it’s will to be a lot like his book Art, Skateboarding and Life in that it will encompass everything that Andy is into.
Here’s a little about what we mean from the press release.
ARTSPROJEKT will also represent and manage artists, as well as host exhibitions curated by some of the best artists in the world, create limited and open edition reproductions of its artists’ works for sale worldwide, and establish working and collaborative relationships with major media brands. At launch, ARTSPROJEKT artists and brands include Lil Jon, Shepard Fairey / OBEY, Santa Cruz Skateboards, legendary skateboard artist Jim Phillips, Skateboarding Is Not A Crime, Bullet, Crooks & Castles, Blood Is The New Black, Hellz Bellz, Guttersnipe, legendary skateboard pro and artist Steve Caballero, Mars-1, Alex Pardee, and DALEK.
The site will also be “the first to utilize new printing technologies for one-off custom skateboard decks.” At worst it sounds like an amazing little online store for cool art stuff (ala Fecalface), at best it could be the site that pushes the entire movement to the next levels of synergy and creativity. We’ll wade through it and get back to you. Press release after the jump.
[Link: Artsprojekt.com]
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Aaron Rose is going the distance with the Beautiful Losers brand. There is no doubt about that. First it was an art show, then a traveling art show, and finally a film that continues to get more and more much deserved coverage as it rolls along. In a “special to The Times” Mark Olsen breaks down the story behind the film and the film itself.
Rose and his artists were navigating a terrain that could be seen as in opposition to the DIY ethos from which they emerged. With commercial success came claims of “selling out,” a watchword bandied about frequently during the ’90s. . . “I think corporations have changed since ‘selling out’ was such an issue,” said Rose. “Corporations have learned over the years, how to treat these alternative cultures.”
Of course, that’s probably not a bad thing to say when Nike Sportswear is “underwriting the theatrical release.”
[Link: LA Times]
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