That’s interesting to hear the backstory, such a shame he wouldn’t listen to advice.
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Bump for @wayout
Leo Valls, Bordeaux:
https://soloskatemag.com/leo-vallsHu
https://www.greyskatemag.com/post/what-are-skate-dots-skateboarding-and-londons-olympic-park/
There are a load of examples out there if you can be bothered to look.
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It has a wall at the bottom now with a lip…
Even the, it spits you onto where one motorway turns into another.
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Love the design of that, found the rest of the booklet here.
Even if it was skateable, how do you get to it, just trek through the fields?
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I’ve only just realised that I follow you on Twitter! Didn’t put 2 and 2 together for some reason (despite same username)
Absolutely loved this motorway booklet you posted yesterday
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ah yeah that’s how I found the photo above, on the search for archive motorway opening booklets!
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Off to see this later. Should be good.
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Reminds me of this, about 30 seconds from my mum and dad’s house
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ9ofJjFXN-/?utm_medium=copy_link
Some brutalist concrete in Tokyo
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As somebody on Twitter said, now we know what a skatepark in a prison yard looks like.
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It’s a training facility, all the children are there of their own volition
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One of the best comments on the GB skateboard page ,
Where’s the slappy curb?
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I wasn’t sure if this has been posted before?
He has done loads of other non skate ones as well.
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Someone needs to message that to skater xl/ea skate quick smart
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ah yes man! I filmed a really shite line there about 15 years ago. great spot!
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What did you think of this, buildafire?
My take was: really well executed but a bit ideologically odd. Incredible workmanship on the modelling, and a really strong aesthetic and atmosphoere, but it was strange to see an installation in Muirhouse (north Edinburgh, one of the city’s poorest areas with many ongoing social deprivation issues) by a non-local, rich artist presenting a satire of housing scheme life. Like is that the most useful target for your “punk political” art? The critique of that kind of housing as the source of social ills seems pretty outdated/simplistic and unhelpful imho. Maybe it caught me on a bad day.
It popped up quite a few times in the new Garden video, looks great!
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@llllloyd @ciaran not sure how I missed this, I lived in Totterdown for years, just a couple minutes walk from this place.
The old bumps could be fun if you had softish wheels, one even had a Wembley gap.
I could be wrong but I heard that the original plans had the spot filling the whole area, about 3 times the size it ended up, and that at the last minute it all got squeezed into that tiny space. Ended up pretty much unskateable, not enough room to get enough speed for the driveway, the flat bank and quarter were about all you could hit,…
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