Jai Tanju in Portland for the “just keep going” show at the dept of skateboarding. While in town Jai runs some lines at Beaverton with Chet childress, Al Partanen and Alex Horn.
Filmed entirely in Black & White Super 8, “Northwest” follows some of the most influential skateboarders/artists/philosophers of our time on a journey through their scene in the Pacific Northwest. “The narrative, provided by the skaters themselves (most notably from Munk and Red, the founders of Grindline and Dreamland Skateparks, respectively), offers the perspective of skaters [...]
“One time I made this huge stuffed animal with some seamstress friends of mine and I sold it for like $3000 dollars to this art collector and that felt pretty awesome.” – Michael Siebin Skateboard Artists Michael Siebin and Nat Swope promoting collaboration and art in PDX.
Inside Todd Francis’ artistic process. Lots of darts and anatomy books, funny with killing.
Jai Tanju has released some photos of people and places he likes with contributions by jerry hsu, andrew hutchison, bart jones, lance dalgart, joey ruiz, brendan klein and greg schmitty. You can preview the book here. If you don’t know how to read just watch this instead.
Well it’s Art whether you think so or not!