Experiments in backyard maximilism
Tim Kulas is a man of few words. At least on the Interweb™ he is. He built a large wooden bowl (I’m sure he had help) in the back yard of a house he was renting in Orlando Florida, completely out of scrap wood. Renting, you say? Sure, why not. It’s the old fish pond argument we’ve seen before. A landlord would have to be very hands-off, absentee, or just plain naive to fall for that one. The bowl even has had some cement coping custom fitted (see pic above) and poured in long sections. Then there’s the save a tree ride. That’s Tim saving a tree in the shot above, left. There are a bunch of pictures and videos on the Bowl Surgeon blog. The only words you’ll find are the post titles, which are always to the point, as in “More Skateboarding in yard.” or “clicky dippy hippy fo viddy…” Don’t go looking for this spot because it’s already been torn down. Tim is moving to other parts of Florida and has already started documenting the next project. The tag line at the bottom of the page says it all: “Thanks for checkin’ it, now go find a dumpster with some wood in it and build something!”
Update: I decided to embed Mac’s video link. Check it out after the jump.
Random sessions@Tim Kulas’ Backyard Bowl..Orlando.
Posted by: kilwag on April 16th, 2007
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This video pretty much sums it up. Sick bowl, even sicker skating. Ride the trees.
Sorry, here’s the link (it’s buried in the Tree Surgeon site):
Thanks Mac, video is at the end of the post now.
Great segment…. but it just doesn’t do justice to how hard Tim Ripped that thing…Only those that were there can truely know what Backyard Skating has become…. Keep it up Tim!