Hypnotic video of skaters’ shadows
05.10.2012
09:20 am

Topics:
Art

Tags:
Skateboards
Skate


 
Lovey skating shadows doing their thing. Soothing music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
 

 
Via DRLIMA

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‘This Ain’t California’: Documentary about 80s skate culture in East Germany


 
This Ain’t California is a 90-minute documentary by director Martin Persiel that takes “original clips of the “wheel-board-riders” – straight out of the East German scene in the 80s – and mixes it with animations and reencounters with the protagonists today. It is not just a well thought out story on its own – this film also raises the aesthetic bar.”

From the film’s website:

Life in the GDR as it has never been seen: a film that shows a unique generation from the GDR in the 80s which has never before been shown in a film. It is free from the classic GDR clichés, which are often adopted by the occidental point of view.

A film in which the East takes a look at the West, right up to the year 2011 – always with one theme clearly in focus: friendship.

 
Visit This Ain’t California‘s website to learn more about the film and how to support its release. 
 

 

 
Via KMFW

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Abstract ‘painting’ created in abandoned pool by skateboards with spray paint
07.05.2011
04:07 pm

Topics:
Art

Tags:
skateboards
decks
Skate
pools
D*Face
spray paint


 
This is a lot like the light painting with a Roomba that’s been making the rounds on the Internet the past few days. However, this one is a bit more dangerous.

Experimental and slightly mental. The D*Face spray paint skateboard interface. What better way to paint the pool then letting everyone get involved? With high-tech remotely controlled spray can apparatus mounted to the underside of skateboards…every line a skater took became the paint job of the pool.

 
(via The High Definite )

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