Spring’s creeping in, and Nightwood just dropped a deck so sick it might need a doctor. To honor our four-wheeled warlock, we unleashed Maik Grüner with nothing but a melting pencil and a brain full of beautifully deranged ideas. The result? A graphic straight outta the Le Boulanger d’Eeklo playbook—a nod to that 17th-century Flemish fever dream where the cure for madness was simple: off with their heads, into the oven, and back out good as new! Meanwhile, a lonely cabbage kept the body company, just in case things went sideways. And who better to ride shotgun in this surrealist nightmare than Mulgi mees—Estonia’s legendary matchbox mascot, a symbol of old-school design burned into the national psyche? Usually, he’s just...
The Pool exhibition at Aalto2, (Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä, Finland) is like a cosmic collision of worlds—open until September 15th. It smashes Alvar Aalto’s architectural genius into the gritty, rebellious worlds of skateboarding, rap, and hip-hop. Imagine the wild marriage of Aalto’s clean lines with the rough edges of international skateboarding culture—sounds crazy, right? But that's exactly what's happening here.Three skateboarding exhibitions orbit around Aalto’s iconic Villa Mairea pool—yes, the kidney-shaped one. This design didn't just make waves in architecture; it seeped into the veins of skateboarding culture worldwide. And there’s more. The exhibition throws you headfirst into the deep end of Finnish rap history, showing how Central Finland, of all places, helped shape hip-hop into the beast it...
Ritsuki Takenaka, crailslide. The Simple Session, that mad circus of chaos and plywood, returned to its roots for the 24th edition, and Tartu—our gritty, wind-whipped Estonian fortress—was ready for the mayhem. Not only a contest; it’s a proving ground where the lines between genius and insanity blur, where the sound of two Indy trucks grinding metal is a battle cry. This is the Estonian capital of skateboarding now, and we’re all just squatters in its ruthless arena. Danny Leon, bs air. If your soul moves on four wheels, this was your Mecca. The heavy hitters were here—Aaron "Jaws" Homoki, Jake Wooten, Shawn Hale, Tim Aguilar, and Nolan Miskell—all of them circling like sharks in a pool of concrete blood. The...