When modern art is introduced on the streets, most people don’t grasp its meaning or its use. But skaters, they know: just like empty pools or remote ditches, modern art often means new gnarly spots.
VERT ATTACK – RIDERS OF THE LOST ART! – LIVE WEBCAST – SATURDAY APRIL 15!!!
Ferdz Valencia, skateboard graphic artist and father of two, had a massive stroke on December 9th, 2016 and is just waking up from it now, but can’t move or talk yet and needs another surgery but the hospital has suspended the surgery because of unsettled medical bills.
Artistic duo MORTADELA, consisting of two Greco Roman weight class painters Evgen Čopi Gorišek (104 … Keep reading
BOWLZILLA Chile 2016
Located in Northern Bavaria; Selb skatepark is one of the smoothest and most flowing next level parks designed by Martin Ehrenberger. For Blackriver building parks is an art form, not a business venture; non-profit building at it’s finest!
Starting in San Diego, hardened by the nexus of skateboarding’s emergence in the late 1950s, to Freiburg, where the virus had spread by the late 1970s, the two artists in this exhibition managed to forge, across time and space, a twenty-five year connection related to their passion for riding a simple plank attached by metal axles to four urethane wheels.
Catch a preview of the Skateboard Museum founded in 2003 in Stuttgart and planned to reopen in Berlin in 2014. The special preview exhibition at Stattbad will display an overview of the large and unique collection of exhibits from the Skateboard Museum archive which was put together over the past 10 Years.
“There was just one session on the indoor mini ramp at Pumpa because outside it was raining so we couldn’t skate the bowl. There were different artists selling art, photos, zines, cds, lps and other things. We sold them to collect money for buying new concrete. That’s it!” – Deso / R.O.W.
On my way to Barcelona to infiltrate as a double agent: working for a big multinational as an artist and at the same time working as photojournalist for this almighty underground skateboard magazine. Self-portrait taken inside the train bathroom. Fuck airports and their tight-ass regulations. In the train I can bring a pair of big scissors, a knife, a skateboard and lots and lots of liquids.