Heavy Metal
August 1st, 2008 by Eric Cherry
I can’t get away from my wasteful lust for old-growth maple veneers. I’ve been skating for too many years and am set in my ways. But my ever aging and growing inner-nerd can’t help but be intrigued by the innovations of using alternative materials to make skateboards. Aluminum boards have been around forever, but boards like Corbus Boards are all together something new. Made to be a functional piece of industrial art, these boards are meant to be ridden claims Corbus. A runaway board could make one of these metal monsters an ankle guillotine. Images via Corbus, link thanks to Make
Their product shots and models remind me so much of my tenure in art school, where your only goal was to invoke the viewers first thought of “WTF is going on?” Which is all it takes to qualify it as art.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Man, I was saving this for Monday. The models were cracking me up too.
Especially this character:
I’m going to go listen to some Bauhaus now.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:28 am
Haha that guy looks like a duck.
I doubt any of these are actually THAT functional.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 am
he looks like a future gay serial killer
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 am
looks like one of the models is posing at the pike place fish market.
on behalf of seattle, i’d like to apologize.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I’ve riden a few of Corbus’s boards and I can attest that they are completely functional and not much heavier than a regular longboard.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Say what you like, I think that pink haired girl on the site is fuckin’ hot!
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I think that pink haired girl is the same guy above in drag.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
ITS A MAN, BABY!
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
He’s at a playground with a cemetery in the background. 100% goth!
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
No tits!!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
So anyone gonna bite the bullet and buy one?
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I had every intention on buying one of these boards until I realized I wasn’t goth enough to pose with it. It’s a sad realization that I’m still reeling over.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I’m too sad to skate. Why bother buying a board at all… Conformists!
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“hey you guys wanna go rip it up on my new $300 skate board that’ll make me look more like a faggot” says dude in above picture”maybe ill go hit up that park after i slit my wrists” …………wow this is soooo gay ….i’d actually punch someone off of one of these if thhey were riding it..fucking emos
August 4th, 2008 at 2:09 am
…because nothing helps you deal with your own homosexuality quite like fagbashing!
August 4th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Bunch of wank, there should be a law against people making this shit. I couldn’t care less if its functional or not.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:06 am
whats the difference between this kid and my lawn? my lawn doesnt cut itself.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am
If I’m going to rid e ametal skateboard it’s a Lars Tetens board or mothin!