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Back in the 90''s I remember seeing amazing photos of skaters making the best out of quake spots in San Francisco. I can not get the images out of my head and thought, what if a skatepark was designed to look like an earthquake hit it? If anyone knows of some online references to skating earthquake damage contact me and I will update this post.
While we are on the subject, a few people are using skateboarding as a catalyst to raise funds for Haiti.
Weelie Artin the title. Ugh. So to sum up the article, people who don't even skate, are making skateboards their canvas. Why? Oh because it sells! Big surprise.
Skateboarders have been holding group shows for well over a decade that encourage the concept of skateboard art. Usually these shows serve a purpose, to bring together the skateboard community for some sort of fund raiser. Today our own skateboard market place is full of slapped together graphic design and logos heat transfered to Chinese manufactured decks while our creative screen printed graphics of yesterday are fetching a few hundred (at least) on eBay.
What can we learn from this? Skateboarders as artists need to evolve. We don't need to accept graphic design as a skateboard graphic any more. We sure as hell should be tired of graffiti and skulls as imagery that classifies our community. We have a lot more talent. In this time of skateboard as a canvas
, the true skate artists deserve the spotlight, not some women who has changed her subject matter from horses and clouds on canvas to skulls on skateboard just to make a living.