July 31, 2006
It's About TIME
Swoop-Swoop! TIME magazine published a decent little article featuring design-build skateparks and their creators:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1220532-1,00.html
There's also a photo essay "on the history and evolution of skateboarding" ... but it looks like the editors left out the 1980's and 90's.
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July 27, 2006
Could you help a brother out?
From ATL veteran Roobs comes this plea to help a broke-off brother out.
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Street Skating Defined
Here's a neat little clip from the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade classic, Public Domain. An ersatz anthropologist makes some poignant observations about the "cult" of street skating, circa 1988.
"Here, in a clandestine observation, we see a roving band of skateboard cultists practicing obscure urban rituals amidst the cultural detritus of an abandoned manufacturing facility. How is that these cultists can derive pleasure from the seemingly insignificant, the debris of modern society?"
Want to see more? Go here.
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July 26, 2006
Red Bank Ramp
Chattown Skatepark not for you?
There's just something about a fenced, locked, prefabricated, pad nanny skatepark that's sandwiched between fresh piles of doggie doo, a stinky foundry and a busy highway that makes it feel and smell like a concentration camp. Until the Chattanooga area gets a real skatepark, we'll just make do with hills, ditches, curbs, rails, ledges and other open-access, no-cost solutions.
And just to blow the stereotype of lazy, good for nothing skaters, we're also building a miniramp in Red Bank. We are gathering quarter pipes from around town, got tons of metal layer from an old vert ramp, and outside power for lights, music, tools! All we need are more brainless old skaters to help us cobble this mess together and keep us motivated to skate.
Geno Ollie to Disaster
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A Sucky Place to Ride Skateboards
The Department of Transportation built this nifty little ditch as part of the widening project for Signal Mtn Rd in 2006. It's downhill and has a very mellow transition with banks, hips and other features to make the ride more fun. Plus, it's lit up like a real skatepark, 24/7/365.
Dan (punkrock flower farmer and journeyman tattoo artist from Rock Island, TN) was in town making a delivery, so we got together for an afternoon skate session. He busted out this stylish mute bonelessone.
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