Lauri Täht by Nicolas Bouvy Today let’s go back a little, just a little back in time… A time where we were smarter than our damn cell phone. T’was not the phone the smartest thing on earth. When our fingers weren’t glued to the weird, rectangular, little glass screen. When a skate-photo appeared from the surface of a film roll coated by a thin silver layer instead of instant frame on the latest device from the market. When music was listened from a plastic disk coated by aluminium, or even worse, from magnetic tape rolls. The Tallinn skate community was in big boom. Shit started to move. Haigla park was the place to go. Now we are lucky little...
Talve Kuningas Rula contest 25.03.2023. Together with Sisu Skateshop, Nightwood Skateboards and Pääsküla noortekeskus, we are organizing a skateboard contest at the Pääsküla Youth Center Skatepark. Winter is getting a bit longer this year, we are all getting tired to a point where we can’t even open the Vitamin D jar. We gonna help you get a good adrenaline dose. To get ready for the long-awaited sunny sessions outdoors. Until then let’s join forces and wake up those muscles. So take your board and your best skate pals with you, and come to the contest, show us some wild action, your best moves or just chill, watch and listen to some great beats. Don’t forget your loudest cheer-up for the...
words and photos, Nicolas Bouvy
A couple of years ago, we got the need with the family to leave our old soviet flat and seek for a house. For month, we struggle to find the One and at the end found a perfect little old house in the center of Tallinn. In the backyard, it has a garden with a little garage/barn in the backyard.
Portrait of Raakel in his backyard. words and photos, Nicolas Bouvy Way out south-west there was this fella... fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Raakel. At least that was the handle his parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Raakel, he called himself Raakel Bloody Raakel. Now, Bloody Raakel that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then there was a lot about the dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interestin'. They call Pääsküla the "Passage Village." I didn't find it to...
words and photos, Nicolas Bouvy The “rouer”, the pipe as they call it in Luxembourgish, is a kind of a fullpipe, a ditch that stands under the highway in the southern part of the Grand-Duchy. My good friend Dan discovered it around 1990. Its main purpose is, actually, for the farmer to drive his tractor from one side to another to go to the fields. At the same time it’s part of a national green path for people walking their dogs or biking between villages. As you can imagine in early 90’s, a young teeny Dan would only see this in the mags. “It looked like the stuff I had only seen in 80’s videos from the USA: vertical, concrete...
