Archive for the ‘Skateboard & Mountain Board’ Category
The rain couldn’t stop Raybourn and the NW homies from firing up a night sesh in downtown Portland.
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Apr
Skateboarders Won
Skate parks, once considered a menace, are booming everywhere around the world. Now we head toward the first skateboarding Olympics.
In July 1995, the artist Maura Sheehan installed a skateable sculpture in the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, over on the Brooklyn side. Ms. Sheehan became fascinated with skateboarders after observing large groups of them careening through the streets downtown in the era before 9/11.
Much of that part of the city was still accessible to herds of rule-bending youth. “Their building of community is really a profound thing … More