The Side Effects of Urethane - Kiasma - Helsinki

Side Effects of Urethane – Kiasma

I should have guessed these guys were involved. The wave ramp at the Kiasma museum was another distinctive project from the collective known as The Side Effects of Urethane. This particular exhibit is called Aalto. TSEOU has images ranging from the concept phase right on through construction (time lapse video) and finally skating. One interesting […]

foldable skateboard by Chris Jackson

Foldable skateboard art

Before you get your panties in a bunch, this is an art piece, and not something that is in production, unlike this, and let’s not forget about this or this. This one comes from UK artist Chris Jackson.

Nash Nightmare

Nash Nightmare

This might be your last chance to get a Nash skateboard with graphics that aren’t an absolute pile of shite. This 80’s era Nash Nightmare auction ends at 8:47pm, Baltimore time. They must have hired someone from outside their usual talent pool for this graphic. To be fair, they had some really cool graphics in […]

Economics of skateboard videos

A man and his dream…

You would think that being a reporter for the Wall Street Journal would preclude you from writing about skateboarding, but one man found a way to make it happen. Conor Dougherty contacted me in reference to the New York Times piece of failed mortgages and pool skating. Over the phone he mentioned that he’d been […]

kiasma indoor art wave ramp

Kiasma grits

A museum in Helsinki, Finland had an indoor installation of a styley mini ramp, but incredibly enough, there seems to be only two [ 1 – 2 ] online pictures of it anywhere. Kiasma has some sort affinity to skateboarding. They also did a major outdoor mini ramp for a while as well. I am […]

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Gushing – Guy Mariano

Epicly Later’d is dissecting the Lakai Fully Flaired video. I picked up on this segment that mostly concentrates on Guy Mariano over at Mumble. Lot’s of people think of different things when they hear his name, for me, I can’t get past the “High Guy” Garbage Pail Kids knockoff graphic. This section of video even […]

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SOTW 3-09-09: Socal Jersey barrier

This week’s Shot of the Week is BJ Morrill on a jersey barrier somewhere in Socal. It’s a feeble to fakie shot by a mysterious character named Hurvey. I guess that’s no more mysterious than Kilwag. Check it out.

60s era skateboard shots

Campus fad, 60’s style

Swell! It’s 60’s week over here… or at least 60’s couple of days. I save these tidbits on a whim and then sometimes a few of them will bump into each other and make enough meat for a post. First up on the left is a shot from Max Schaaf’s 4Q Conditioning, some vintage hang […]

Skateboarding on CBC TV in 1965

Sidewalk Skurfing

That’s right, “Skurfing.” This is a short clip from a 1965 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation piece on skateboarding. The reporter interviews a gal who says she had to form a “Sidewalk Skurfing Association” to keep from getting kicked off campus. It’s got lots of Peanuts-esque light jazz piano and the soon to be archetypal reporter flailing […]