Skateboarding god and artist Mark Gonzales created a “Circle Board” out of nine skateboards for his current exhibit, Round n’ Round, at New York’s Franklin Parrasch Gallery (up through 11/28). Our friends at Animal NY pointed us to William Strobeck’s jazzy footage of skater Anthony Pappalardo trying the contraption out. Gonzales appears at the end of the video to smoke a ciggy and show us how it’s really done.
Pretty cool, huh?
On a side note, this gives us a good excuse to call out Jason Kottke’s recent post on the evolution of skateboarding.
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too rad!
I went to the gallery opening and though it smelled pretty bad in there, it was so cool to see skate boarders as young as 15 in there all inspired by Mark. There is some pretty personal stuff on display there like a series of post cards. It is a really cool and unique exhibit.
I recently youtubed some videos of Mark and got motivated to take it back up. He was a guy whose tricks i would copy when i was a kid, before i quit, because my friends quit and i had no one to skate with. thanks for sticking with it mark.
Hello,
Iam really wonderful and happy to be here and would love to contribute to this forum more.
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