Posts Tagged ‘skateboarding’
07.09.09
Just came across behind-the-scenes films about renowned skate photographer Bryce Kanights.
Bryce Kanights- Part 1 of 3 from Nemo Entertainment on Vimeo.
Tags: BRYCE KANIGHTS, Documentaries, Nemo Entertainment, Photographer, photography, Portland, skate, skateboarding
Category: Art, Inspiration, Misc., People, film
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07.03.09
Free download of the new adidas skateboarding film ‘Diagonal‘ available.
Gonz, as usual, flowing with estilo…
Tags: adidas, diagonal, digital download, film, skateboarding
Category: Art, Inspiration, People, film
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03.27.09
The owner of this home in Athens, Greece is my new hero…
According to architect Athanasia Psaraki, the Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The result of the client’s request is a curved form interior, which “set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion” – The Architectural Review
Tags: Athens, Greece, Skateable Home, skateboarding
Category: Art, Design, Inspiration
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03.06.09
Earlier this week the Denver Egotist allowed David Burns (AdPulp) to take over its site for a day and talk about the Portland creative community. It was a great idea and reminded me how much I enjoyed a skateboard trip to Oregon a few years back.
Starting with Burnside, the proliferation of concrete skate parks is a direct result of events that took place in Portland during the late 90s.
‘Northwest’ is a Super 8 film made by NCP Films chronicling skate park construction efforts in the Pacific northwest. It actually inspired me to get involved in my own community’s effort to get a new park. After five years of hard work and dedication, Nederland (CO) now has the 13,000 square foot Nathan Lazarus Skate Park. The company that designed and built it is Airspeed, an Oregon based company with direct ties to what went down under the bridge in Portland.
Wonder if one day we’ll be able to calculate the creative potential of our communities based on the number of available free concrete skate parks in the area? Think they’ll fall under the scope of a stimulus related ‘public works’ project?
Today, Colorado is up there with Oregon in terms of parks that have been built. So its really no surprise that David Burns sees a bright future for Denver. This is something that can happen in so many other cities.
Want to get a park built in your area? These are great places to start:
Skaters for Public Skate Parks
Skaters for Portland Skate Parks
Colorado Coalition for Public Skate Parks
Even if you don’t skate you can still appreciate the film’s emphasis on the art & design that goes into building a concrete park. Worth watching the whole thing…
Tags: Burnside, Charnowski, concrete, NCP Films, Nichols, Northwest, Oregon, Portland, skate parks, skateboarding
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Mod Livin’ presents the Denver By Design Showcase. Vote for the best modern design object, art or furniture created by a Colorado designer.
Public Works is a group show featuring new works from Chicago artists Cody Hudson, Justin Fines, Andy Mueller, and Chris Eichenseer. WHOA!
Friday, July 31st
Andrew Rafacz Gallery
ART FOR OBAMA: Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change – Now Available.
Tuesday, July 21st, will be Denver’s 6th volume of PechaKucha Night. The line-up of presenters includes: Lawrence Argent/Argent Studios, Berger, Foehr, and Henry/cypher13, Charles Carpenter/EBD, Larabee & Thornton/DoubleButter, Scott Lary, Bruce Mau/Bruce Mau Design Inc., Ted Schultz/CTA Architects Engineers, Brand Shigley/Fashion Denver, Ravi Zupa/Parts and Labor Union.
July 16th MCA Denver: Kevin O’Connell shot wind turbines, while Arlene Shechet cast the surface of water.
The Date Farmers will be showing an entirely NEW body of work at Andenken Gallery on July 11th.
All sorts of hot arty shit goin’ down at INDY INK, TS Board Shop, and Think Tank tonight (Friday July 3rd!!!) – So, get after it.
Seriously Super Fresh East Colfax July 4th Block Party!!!
Joseph Shaeffer presents 3 bodies in 3 states: a survey of work from 2004 – 2009 – Opening Reception, Friday, July 3, 2009 – 6 to 9 p.m. at Sellars Project Space
Nice profile on our good friend Shannon Bonatakis at the Egotist. Read it – and look at the pretty pictures.
FLUIDIAM apparel launch party at Family Affair goin down June 27th. Check it.
Noise x Buffalo Exchange x XROCKSTHEPOT™ present: SPLASH BASH
Music from:
Le Castle Vania & Alex K.
Fashion from:
Buffalo Exchange
live art from:
Aaron Dubois, Mike Graves, & Josh Wills
The Splash Bash Alley Cat:
A Swimsuit Alley Cat through the streets of downtown Denver. Make sure to wear a swimsuit, the first person in the pool at Beta is the winner!
10PM – 2PM
1909 Blake St Denver
www.betanightclub.com
www.xrocksthespot.com
City Folk Art by Zshanna Kristoff opens this Saturday June 13th. The opening reception will be from 7PM – 10PM at The Fabric Lab : 3105 East Colfax Avenue Denver.
If you’re in Chicago… Saturday, June 13, 2009, 11am – Fuller Gallery Talk: Life Cycle of Products with Steve Belletire
The “Sneaker Prom” is a semi-formal cocktails and dancing event/auction to raise money
for Pulse Arts, a Denver based non-profit, and their bi-annual “Shoe Shine” Sneaker
Competition and Exhibition. Get your tickets, yo!!!
ARF live online art auction featuring the works of Matthew Doubek, Mikey Welsh and Chule (the talents of Ray Young Chu and Quang Le)
Lots of great new content and ideas being shared over at becauseweliketo.com – Go there.
Friday June 5th – Andenken Gallery is honored to host Chris “Daze” Ellis’ solo show, “Fat Caps and Burnt Racks: Recent Works.” The show consists of recent paintings and works on paper, inspired by and drawn from the artists’ vast collection of sketchbooks.
INDYINK at 84 s. Broadway in Denver is slightly frightened to present new works by Sam Turner on Friday June 5th. Show up and scare yourself.
Sounds fresh!!! More on Cluster Studio’s Creative Kegger’s here – shit goes down tonight!!!
80 Magazine - Classic Typography & Design
NEO DECO by Alex Trochut at HYPEFORTYPE
Mr. Bowlegs aka Jeffrey Bowman via finroo
TADO: Fortune Pork Series 2
59ft Gundam in Tokyo!
