“Too Drunk” from Ryan Ady Putra at 99% No Skill.

Haroshi makes lots of cool sculptures out of used skateboards, including this forthcoming electric guitar collaboration with Deluxe and HUF. Pretty damned cool, although what does Deluxe need to be involved for, other than to provide pre-recycled skateboards? Maybe they are seconds. Rock on.

Too late for the opening, but the show is up through November 19th. S&A Readers might recognize one of the artists, Michel Skart Poulin. Thursday, 15 September 2011, 06:00pm – 08:00pm Organized by artist Rick Kreiger, this exhibit will explore the many diverse strands of skateboard culture featuring decorative ideas and ancillary art related to this popular, daredevil lifestyle. The show will include artwork produced specifically for skateboard decks, paintings, sculpture, photography and sticker art related to skateboarding. The intention of the show is to present the various ways the sport is depicted in these art forms, and the role art plays in this highly selfexpressive lifestyle. Location : Hudson Guild Gallery / 441 W. 26th Street / NY 10001

Gary Holl knows howto send out a press release, namely by including the flyer in addition to the same info in the body of the email, thus saving hapless web editors from the temptation of not bothering to type everything in themselves. 2nd Annual Board Rescue Skate Art Show Fundraiser September 16, 2011 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM The Santa Cruz Boardroom 825 41st Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Featuring Artists: Steve Olson, Lance Mountain, Jason Adams, Steve Caballero, Justin Forbes, Duane Peters, Jason Jessee, Lucas Musgrave, Todd Francis, David Hackett, Keith Meek, Kevin Walsh, Bryce Kanights, Mark Whiteley, Pat Ngoho, Cindy Whitehead, Desiree Ronald Astorga, Christian Cooper, Danny Sun, Erik Fieber, Chris Sprouls, Eli Atkins, David Swift, Chris Pastras, and Angela Stucky DJ Ray Stevens II will be spinning tunes, check out the Artwork and purchase a Board Rescue T-shirt. Boards will be auctioned on Ebay all sales will go toward Board Rescue. Art Work will be In the window at the Santa Cruz Boardroom from September 16 – October 7th, Ebay Auction will end October 12th. More Details: boardrescue.org – Facebook – Twitter All Proceeds go to Board Rescue. Board Rescue’s mission is to provide skateboards and safety…

From the upcoming Bumbershoot music festival in Seattle, a scheduled art installation called ‘Skaters Gauntlet’: W. Scott Trimble’s sculptural installation is a fantastic obstacle course that includes a 360-degree skate pipe, skate bowl extension towers, a freestanding quarter pipe, ramps over obstacles, and more impossible structures that would taunt the most seasoned and reckless of skateboarders — if they were allowed to skate on it. As Bobcat pointed out, “…basically, not only are they going to close Seaskate for Bumbershit…. they are going to build an ‘art exhibit’ and not let skaters ride it.Time to rile up the Daggers.”

Holy Cow (skates) It’s the legendary GSD and his seminal zine Skate Fate. I’ll bet he hates being called legendary.GSD is celebrating the 30 (!) year anniversary of Skate Fate by releasing a 320 page best of volume, which you can pick up for a reasonable price at Blurb, except the shipping (fixed pirce from Blurb) is pretty steep. Anyone want to go in on a joint order? Press release and sample pages after the jump.

I envision a post apocalyptic future where gangs of longboarders maraud the outskirts of a dying civilization, raiding the unprepared and the weak, pillaging and plundering for the only currency left from the the modern world’s halcyon days, the recycled skateboard. Seriously, soon enough broken boards are going to become almost as valuable as a new board. Shwood makes sunglasses out of old skatebaords, something we’ve recently seen before, but this incarnation is constructed in a different manner. Shwood is out in the burbs of Portland, and fittingly, local filmer/photog Joe Stevens put together a video that shows the skateboard pre-demise, post-reincarnation and everything in between.

Some people are obsessed with skateboards, others with making 8 bit pixel art in the style of old video game perspective. Head on over to eBoy for an odd little assortment.

More plastic skate army men, although a little more literal than the the ones from Toyboarder, and near as I can tell these aren’t being mass produced. There is zero information available from the the artist Steve Nishimoto’s web site. These might be nothing more than doctored photographs. [Source: Hypebeast] – Thanks to Seth Levy for the tip.

MC’s driftwood skateboard made an appearance in GVK #70. As Mark explained it, “I got the idea to make a skateboard out of driftwood.” Photos by Rich Burton, courtesy of Earth Patrol Media after the jump.