Category Archive: Artsy Fartsy

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Skateboard Stairs: Take 3

Another skateboard stairs concept reaches reality. Though featured on Recyclart, those are clearly all new skateboards, and kind of crappy modern Kryptonics if I’m not mistaken. The metal supports are a custom fabrication. See skateboard stairs: Part 1 – Part 2 Addendum: I was looking at the Kryptonics web site, and they have a little page bragging about being around the original Burnside skatepark! There are some weird illustration/caption combos in their timeline.

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BFF

Best Friends skateboard. You know, like the little girl’s necklaces. By Carlton Dewoody, for sale on Grey Area. The price tag is absurd, but my hats off to Carlton for having the hutzpah to get it done and listed for that amount.

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Data Dance

The description is pretentious, and even though it looks fitting, there’s absolutely no Devo in the soundtrack. You’ll never get the next 3 minutes and 34 seconds back. I like a lot of weird, pointless stuff, but this? Well, you’ve been warned.

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Animal Vegetable Mineral Commonwealth

Animal Vegetable Mineral group show opens Thursday at Commonwealth in Portland. Featuring works by Jason Angelo, Ashley Anson, Will Beardslee, Anthony Bradford Ciarlo, Alex Davies, Jack Graydon, Hayes Peterson, Josh and Charlotte Rodenberg, Craig Wheat, Dave Wien, and more. Thursday, Nov. 8, 6-9 p.m

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Olly Moss

My first ever 10-minute crack at making an animated gif. Nicely done sir.

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Grindbakken by Rotor

Dezeen has photos of some skateable industrial architecture painted up pretty and chopped up a little and presented as an art installation. The bank looks fun, but the installation looks really intriguing actually. Rotor is the collective culprit in Belgium. – MC is an art phag.

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Board Rescue – October 13th

The 3rd Annual Board Rescue Art Show and Fundraiser is going to be held at the Santa Cruz Boardroom Skate Shop on Saturday October 13th from 7PM to 10PM. DJ Ray Stevens II will be there spinning tunes while the crowd views this years donated artwork. Raffle tickets with some great prizes and limited Jimbo Phillips collectible event t-shirts and posters will be available at the show. All artwork will be auctioned off on eBay under seller ID: boardrescue beginning on October 15th. All proceeds go directly to Board Rescue. Featured Artists:* Jim Phillips, Jimbo Phillips, Colby Phillips, Duane Peters, Jason Adams, Steve Caballero, Justin Forbes, Jason Jessee, Lucas Musgrave, David Hackett, Keith Meek, Kevin Walsh, Bryce Kanights, Cindy Whitehead, Christian Cooper, Danny Sun, Eli Roe, Erik Fieber, Chris Sprouls, Eli Atkins, Barret Deck, Laura Thornhill-Caswell, Richard Sanchez, Desiree Ronald Astorga, Angela Stucky, Joey Vela, Adrian Pina, Gary Holl, Jonny Miller, Lizzie Armanto, Allysha Bergado, Stan Strocher, Jeremy Micheal Elder, Judi Oyama, Frank Wessels, Darren Lee, and more… *not all confirmed as of this press release To stay on top of all the news related to the 3rd Annual Board Rescue Art Show Fundraiser please visit, LIKE and follow Board…

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Primo

Sure, but where’s Diane? Nichlaus Abraham, AKA Warm Fuzzy Co was not offended when I said his illustrations reminded me of Superjail. There are a few other skateboards in there too.

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I want to skate

No kidding? Me too. Arthur King made these alternative skateboards and Hugues Lawson-Body photographed them. {Source: White Zine] – Thanks to Matthijs for the tip

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animation

Very reminiscent of skateboardanimation, and also very cool. Almost as interesting? The making of video. Still more at Cleptomanicx. – Thanks to… I’ve misplaced the email with the tip, Help!

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