is the bank too steep?
I can’t tell. I’ve ridden skateboards on banks for 25 years, but I never really stopped to think about what the perfect angle for a bank was…
I guess anything is skateable though, even if it’s not the perfect anything. And skateability aside, I think it’s going to look like a very interesting object.
I also painted the cargo container. not really with anything interesting, just trying to block out some of the white with some colour.
This afternoon I went for the best ice cream with Microbo, as well as painting typeworks on a big painting/construction she’s working on. She also cooked fantastic pasta, and they had an amazing cheese with pepper corns, and they had jam you put on cheese!!! Jam you put on cheese!?!? Amazing!!!
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Now I should sleep. Thinking about a mission to find Milano’s concrete bowl tomorrow…
we made the papers!
la Repubblica
also in this issue: President Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, and the Pope!!! Rolling with the big dogs!!! Ha!
construction of the Papa und Ich wallride is well under way…
just saw this on Flying Fortress’s blog
sorry, but this is better than every single Simpsons piece KAWS ever made! so damn good!
super great DIY park in Canada
hopefully the skaters of Milan can take the obstacles from the indoor park that just closed and add to the little sculpture/park we’re building, so I’m posting this video to fill them with some DIY energy!
Today they built the wobbles
They built three, as per my design, but I fucked up I think. All the obstacles are too big for the small space we’re working in, so we’ll only use two of the wobbles. It’ll be ok, still skateable. They’re not too big to skate, just too big for this size area. I think it will look real nice, but be more challenging to skate than it should have been. Well, there you go, can’t be helped. If Lennie and crew had been here they would have realised my plans were too big and made them smaller. But they’re not, so there you go. I learnt something, and it’s always good to learn things!
Tomorrow I’ll finish painting the cargo container, then go paint some type works for Microbo. Sunday I go try to find a concrete skatepark…
But now I go to eat a falafel
Benoit and Tim built a Chimpy shaped kicker/manual pad combination type affair
we’ll put strips of metal down each side so you can grind up it and flip out
flip into it and grind down
jump off it and flip
flip onto it and manual
and plenty of other stuff that I can’t do, but have been trying to imagine the possibilities off when designing a playground for you all!
well the wood arrived, and things move pretty damn quick!
still waiting for the wood… the pope is in town and it’s causing massive traffic jams… and earthquakes too…
