As I’m a bit obsessed by the crossover of skateboarding and art, and contributed my part to it on various occasions, I stumble upon projects every now and then, that are inspirational. The calligraphic structure by Tashkeel is definately one of them! The literal meaning of tashkeel التشكيل is “forming” or “shaping”. So they built [...]
character mould is an art project to combine skateboarding and character design on a large scale. Set up in a small town in Austria the location serves as a public skatepark as well as a legal graffiti wall.
Check out the final pics and a small video from the opening session (by rusk!)
Yeah, I made it into a magazine again, hehe! I think my last skateboarding coverage has to be back in the late 90ies, or maybe early 2000s … and now it’s a full page with one of my favourite tricks! The austrian Last Try Magazine visited my Lemming Bowl last summer to shoot, and we [...]
The first fotoshooting … it was about time. Stefan Mertl and me had a fun day yesterday at the Character Mould site, and finally some skatepics from the bowl are online ;) More pictures should be around after the opening next weekend, if everything works out this should be a blast!
July 17th is the officially announced lemming day! For the first time I’ll host an event, starting at the Lemming Bowl to open the Character Mould project to the public! Fingers crossed for nice weather, at least the timetable sounds like fun to me ;) See you in Radstadt, 07.17.
Yeah, what a great July … another concrete skatepark is about to open, once again built by the cradle crew (the guys who helped me to build the lemming bowl). Saalfelden finally has a small but fun Skateplaza, located at Ramseiden 218 (old SAFE area). Opening day is July 7th, at 17h – with a [...]
