good things.
What’s good is the new doc my friend Matt has been working on, SK8FACE. This doc, unlike others of similar flavor, features artists that actually were skateboarders, talking about the evolution of skate graphics. It has a killer soundtrack so far and I’ll be excited to see the finished product….
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24. July 2008 - 06:57 Uhr
Sk8face will be interesting.
24. July 2008 - 10:09 Uhr
Hell yeah. I saw this trailer the other day.
Skateboarding is such a generational thing. I started skating in the winter of 1984 and started doing graphics full time in 1998. For my money, nobody touches Neil Blender or Gonz. Jenkins was a big influence on me when I was growing up too. But that’s why it’s so hard for it to be categorized or dissected; I’ve heard people refer to ’skateboard artists’ and I’m like, ‘they ride a skateboard?’ I’ve been around for 24 years now and I’ve seen their art but I’ve never seen footage of them on a skateboard.’
So it most definitely gets cloudy at times.
But thank God for diversity. Lots of people I grew up skating with were really into Pushead, VCJ and Jim Philips but I was more drawn to Blender, GSD, John Grigley, Gonz and Natas.(all pros)
Grigley never gets mentioned when people chronicle skateboard graphics (books/videos, etc) but if it weren’t for him, I most likely wouldn’t have made this stuff my life.
So I agree… if they didn’t skate, the art didn’t really mean that much to me as a skateboarder. And to this day, it’s still the same way.
29. July 2008 - 23:07 Uhr
Yeah, I do enjoy lots of related art that has nothing to do with being made by skateboarders. I see no drama with creating art for skate stuff if you don’t skate but I find this movie refreshing in that the artists themselves are (experience-wise) well versed in the subject matter for which they are creating the art.