The ‘Art’ Category:
Behind The Great Kook Attack
September 1st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Found this goodie this morning and it made me realize that I’ve been seriously neglecting a big part of my life and problem most of the readers of Europeskate – art. It’s on our boards, we skate over it, we wear designs and ideas and I know I love it. Imagine everything looking the same, nothing new…that’s where we would be without those creative minds who actually sit down, think something through and create their dream.
This Great Kook Attack took place earlier in August of this year on the “Magic Carpet Ride” statue in Cardiff By The Sea, California in the form of a 15-foot tall Great White shark made out of paper maché. Enjoy the video and keep those ideas coming – I love this!
Video Impressions From the Eyes Wide Open Art Exhibition
June 30th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Getting things back up and running on Europeskate after 5 days full of incredible feelings and experiences with my newly born son so I have quite a bit of catching up to do. My mailbox is about to explode but with the long nights with my son I’ll be able to catch up quickly!
Just this past weekend the “LOVE & GUTS” art show returned, and this time in New York City at The Red Bull Space in SoHo. Skateboarding’s past and present heroes converged for an exhibition entitled “”Eyes Wide Open, which is centered around skateboarding’s fallen soldiers whose lives expired far too soon.
These losses have left a void in skating, but, their spirits and legacies continue to live on and as a special way to celebrate their lives, Love and Guts has chosen to further immortalize them via Eyes Wide Open. Participants in this year’s show include Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Steve Olson, Pat Ngoho along with others who were all more than willing to lend their talents to this special exhibition.
LOVE & GUTS – NEW YORK from KIRK on Vimeo.
Creature Skateboards And The Idle Hands Deck Series
June 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Creature Skateboards has teamed up with Shawn Barber to create a limited editon series of three decks with 300 altogether (or per deck graphic, not sure!) available. Don’t know anything about Shawn Barber? Then click into his website and have a look into what he’s created – it’s more than worth your time!
Skaters Show Their Sculpture Appreciation
May 25th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
The makers of Mpora have put together a collection of skate photos showing skaters putting their skills to work on pieces of art which were in most cases were created to make people stand, look, contemplate, have ideas – not ride, slide, grind and flip a plank of wood with wheels under it. Maybe that’s why skaters are some of the most underrated artists and creative individuals around.
Adapting the general environment to our needs and using the materials at hand (or foot) to create some new, different and fun to look at – man, we’re moving sculptures and I need to stop writing this stuff! Click here to have a look at the skaters enjoying sculptures!
Dennis McNett Interview With Fecal Face
January 19th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Who may know him from the Anti-Hero Skateboards show or just find out more here… Read more…
Machotaildrop – Skateboard Dreams Become Reality
January 16th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Machotaildrop – a visually stunning journey of an amateur skateboarder dream. Read more…
Vista Skate And Art Magazine From Brazil
December 9th, 2009 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The web is packed with information, videos, pictures, social networks, interviews´- you name it, you can find it and about 20 times more than you can ever consume and that’s a really bad estimate. We’re being flooded with information and yeah, I’m contributing to the flood, regurgitating information that you can find as well and sometimes I do ask myself if all that I am doing is for any good.
Hell yeah! Plain and simple, we all decide for ourselves if we are going to just have friends online, spend our time in chatrooms and believe we are cool if we have over 1000 Twitter friends. I don’t care about that – the possibility to use the means of communication are fantastic and when I find a goldmine which has it’s roots all the way over in Brazil (Vista.art.br is the website I’m talking about here!), I just love the web for what it has to offer! The people behind this website have put together a great mix of skateboarding, art and music and from what i can barely understand due to the language, it even looks like they have a print mag going (??)…click on the picture below for an online Flash mag packed with animated pages, pictures and a bunch of videos – just plain good work here!
D*Face And The Ridiculous Backyard Pool Project
November 23rd, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Long story made short: Peter King and Steve ‘Salba’ Alba discovered yet another beautiful pool in the backyard of another vacant property in the States. This one is so perfectly rounded and smooth that it was named the “Ridiculous Pool”. Not wanting it to be destroyed, the property was bought and UK-based artist D*Face stenciled the shit out of the pool…man, it does look just incredibly smooth!
Disposible – Sean Cliver’s Skateboard Art Blog
November 19th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
I’m guessing most of you who are even a bit interested in the graphics that we ride on our boards will have heard about Sean Cliver’s book “Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art” – a 228-page, full color book which showcases over 1000 graphics from the past 30 years. And the follow up book “Disposible – The Skateboard Bible” Well, now he has joined the blogging community with some great posts so check it out right here!
» want the Disposible books? Get them right here!
Cliché Skateboards and the Résumé Book and Board Series
October 27th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Cliché Skateboards have come a long way since 1997 when Jérémie Daclin started the company up with just about nothing. 2009 and it’s a completely different ballgame with an internationally renowned team, top videos and expansion around the globe. Putting all of the history behind this amazing development is the brand new 320-page book entitled “Résumé“, written by Mackenzie Eisenhour and art directed by the ill Studio in Paris.
The high quality hardback book will be available this Christmas 2009 and around the same time a special limited series of seven decks will be hitting the market as well. Looking good and the future of this team as well – hope to get my hands on a copy of this book soon!
» Cliché Skateboards: Résumé Book and Board Series mini-site
» Cliché Skateboards website
August 27, 2010: Ricardo Batista
August 22, 2010: Jonas Wedelstädt
August 21, 2010: bill Danforth
