Hot Shits: The Valverde Brothers
An interview with the Valverde brothers, Alex and Nick, from Redwood City, California.
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SC Pool Sculpture going down… Zagreb, Croatia
Since the conclusion of the Students center pool sculpture being built, we’ve been introduced to a whole new way of riding a skateboard, and to a new skateboarding style which, until then, we were only able to see on tape. In the same year, being skateboarders, we were facing great depression not being properly understood and listened to. We didn’t have anything. After ten years of riding street, now and then even a skatepark that was being demolished faster than it was built, we didn’t have as nearly as much room for creativity and progression as we needed to. A lot of us gave up on skateboarding.
FDR Skatepark – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FDR Skatepark began its life in 1996 with a few small obstacles built by the City of Philadelphia in an attempt to meet the needs of a growing community. In true D-I-Y fashion, local skaters soon gathered their resources and began the ongoing construction of a space of their own design. Today, FDR is recognized throughout the world as a landmark in the skateboarding community. It has been host to heroes, villains, triumph, and tragedy…
PFK Skate Support Center – Japan
The PFK SKATE SUPPORT CENTER is in a town called Itoshima, Fukuoka Kyushu which is on the western island of Japan. The skatepark was built by a group of skateboarders and punks that are friends. We are taking the form of a recycling based non-profit organization. PFK SKATE SUPPORT CENTER keeps an independency that does not belong to any other Japanese scene and which returns profits to skateboarders directly by building a skatepark.
DIY taco inside skateshop – Münich, Germany
The düdes from Tirol, Austria who built the Wörgl skate park cruised up to Münich, … Keep reading
DIY Busua Beach – Ghana, Africa
After a surf holiday in Ghana in the winter of 2010, Michael offered to buy piece of land in Paradise village in Busua (west Ghana coast). The dream of opening their own hostel would become a reality and Michedetermines that he must build Ghana’s first skatespot in its plot.
Mr. Wilson DIY – Kassel, Germany – 2013
OK, destroy our work – fuck you! Than we build it in another place, but even bigger.
Behind the Lens: Dan Sparagna
In this second edition of Confusion magazine’s online exclusive skate photographer check out “Behind the Lens” we check in with Dan Sparagna, a skate photographer from San Diego, California who started shooting skate photos in the 70s and early 80s, and after a 25 year break – he’s back!
Guretxoko Kokoloko Bowl – Bilbao, Basque country
This is no fuck’n governmental indoor project, trying to promote the local skateboarding at Bilbao, Basque country. Built by the people at Gure Txoko skate school with the collaboration of the Zut Skateparks crew with pure recycled style. After some years with a little street course, they bid to build a closed bowl but the place is: little, narrow, and long.
Ikaria Mini Ramp project – Greece
Now i’m a greek-surf cynic, so when I discovered a mini ramp on the surfy beach where we planned to spend most of August I felt a genuine jolt of excitement. This was short lived however as we soon discovered it was in the kind of condition a flimsy wooden structure would be in if it had been left to endure the weathering of a beach environment for an entire year. Which it was. And it had.