Since there’s no date on this guerilla art installation by Madrid artist SpY, we can’t say whether his ramp reinterpretation in his Urban Furniture collection was something he conceived before or after he saw Conahan’s very similar vision. Still, the soccer field painted on a miniramp is pretty clever. I just saw a graphic on the the web that showed a soccer player kicking a ball and an American football player running with a football side by side. The caption under the soccer player said “foot ball.” The caption under the Dallas Cowboy said “hand egg.” Check out SpY.
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cold ones
All ramps should look like this with little goals on top. Then we could form skate polo teams and leagues. That would learn you punks some discipline and teamwork.
Junior Combmeyer
wow. where’s the material? this thing is like the geodesic dome of skate ramps. i like it tho. i’m a huge soccer fan, and this would look nice in my backyard. i’d skate it with a board painted like a socky ball.
ssk
Looks like it’s made out of concrete.
orezona
still, pretty cool *from an artistic standpoint*.
The coping looks like but hopefully isn’t PVC or the regression would be complete.
On another note, “SpY” is an interesting site. Reminds me a lot of Banksy.
nweyesk8
actually competition ramps that used to have a standard 16ft of flat are currently down to only 12 ft of flat. A friend from back in MS just built his kids a ramp, 4 ft tall with 4 ft of flat. I feel ya on the lack of proper flat bottom on ramps these days….
radam
Does nobody put flat bottom in halfpipes anymore? We are regressing back to Rampage ramps. Perfect U
KC
I’m not really into interpreting art, but the piece brings to mind the silly debate as to wether skateboarding is a “Sport” or an “Art”.