Last Friday, surfboard glassing factory Global Glassing in Oceanside, Ca. went up in flames in a chemical fire. One of the surfboard manufacturing industry’s go-to glassers in Southern California, the $500,000 in damage is sure to be a boon for the holiday surfboard industry.
Surfboard manufacturing is an already under-appreciated industry, and when laurels are given they are typically to the shapers and not the glassers … More
An unconventional encounter between maths, art and skateboarding.
This film documents a series of performances at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore and Sainte-Croix Museum in Poitiers.
The project originated after Carhartt WIP approached Isle skateboards to work on a collaborative collection.ISLE, which started in 2013, has always prided itself on artist led conceptually driven ideas. Carhartt WIP and ISLE could think of no one better than artist and fellow skateboarder, Raphaël Zarka to work with. When they approached Zarka, he had been researching the work of 19th Century mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies.
Schoenflies was a master of geometry and crystallography. He had developed his own three dimensional models that specifically captivated Zarka’s attention, after he was inspired with their sculptural potential.
This film invites you to view Zarka’s large scale reconstructions of Schoenflies’ models, re-appropriated in a way never imagined before.
Featured skaters :
Sylvain Tognelli / Nick Jensen / Casper Brooker / Jan Kliewer / Joseph Biais / Rémy Taveira / Josh Pall / Chris Jones / Armand Vaucher
This year has been a busy one in terms of acquisitions within action and adventure sports.
It’s no secret that consolidation is happening within our industry, but some of the brighter stories are also found within companies taking their business private once again (Electric), and smaller brands scaling their business with reinforced infrastructure (Salty Crew).
Below, a look back on the year that was 2016 … More