“Art of the Skateboard Culture” Sept 27 2003 through January 9, 2004 at New Bedford Art Museum

A museum in the city best known for its role in the Herman Melville classic “Moby Dick” will be hosting a skateboard exhibit and cultural celebration. Tying in with show, the museum’s “Gallery X” is having a six-hour skateboard movie night from 5 to 11 p.m. Sunday, September 28. (Full Article) Search *
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Nike Skateboarding Steps Up

Nike *, already holder of a stake in the Savier * skateboard shoe brand and owner of Costa Mesa *-based Hurley *, is trying to instantiate its role as a skateboard shoe company with a series of ads in major skateboard magazines and the launch of a new branch of its website, entitled "Nike Skateboarding". (Full Article) Search *
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The Skateboard, The City, and Socio-Spatial Censorship

Here Architect Iain Borden * discusses "skateboarding and socio-spatial censorship in the late twentieth century city" in his article "An Affirmation of Urban Life." Says Iain: "Cities are always places of contestation and contradiction, conflict and counter-cultural engagements. ... But of course cities are also places of power, and the contradiction between homogenization and fragmentation of urban space is continuously fought over, as urban managers of all kinds ... seek to dictate the character of social space. The urban practice of skateboarding is one such area which they seek to control." (Full Article) Search *
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A Performative Critique of the American City: the Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-1998

About skateboarding, cities, and urban culture. An amazing essay by Iain Borden * on the interrelationship between cities and skateboarding, in which the author seeks to "focus on the compositional and representational mode of skateboarding, to consider how it represents the city without maps, and how it speaks something of the city, without recourse to theory or texts." Quote this in your term paper and make your teacher happy. (Full Article) Search *
    (Categorized under 2001 Archive, Museums/History)

Skate Films at New York Underground Film Festival

This year’s NYUFF skateboard program mixes new independent work with two highly influential, hard-to-find classics from 1991 *. With the close of 2001 * bringing recession and war, Wheels * of Change looks at skateboarding’s reaction to similar circumstances a decade ago, as the sport went underground and reinvented itself on its own terms. The D.I.Y. style of skater-directed team videos from the early 90s laid the groundwork for today’s indie skate documentary and video directors. Also included are some short contemporary films that shed light on skate culture today. (Full Article) Search *
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Leap Of Faith

Author Shayne Kennedy talks about Jamie Thomas *' Leap of Faith *. (extract: ...and try at something no matter how abstract it may be. Jamie never landed "The...) (Full Article) Search *
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