Antti Lampinen, fs grinding Dave's Precious Pool in Sweden. From 4th to 20th of May, an skateboard festival took place at Belle Etoile shopping center in Bertrange, Luxembourg. A skateboard deck art exhibition called Board in Design, currated by Lowic Villa was displayed at the mall, celebrating 10 years anniversary of the gallery. A second space showcased a 20 years long maturated skate photography exhibition by Nicolas Bouvy. He is currently working on bringing this work to the Baltic. Here's some more info about it. Starting in 1993, Nicolas (pool_fight_club on Instagram) got an old freestyle skateboard he borrowed from his older brother. Since then, he couldn’t resist rolling the 4-wheeled wooden toy. And 30 years later, he’s still at...
Kristo Õismets Words and pictures by Nicolas Bouvy. Last Sunday was the last chance for us to ride and give a proper good bye to the oldest, most appreciated DIY park in Tallinn. After a rough two decades of dedicated and distinguished service, the park is gonna get a well-deserved makeover, starting from next week. We took the opportunity to have a very last session in the park. Paying respect to the soul, sweat and heavy commitment given by the local skaters, all over the years and several upgrades. Egbert Pahhomov Siim Sild During one of the first spring afternoons, the beast had still plenty to give. Radical, the park is still for sure, and, like and good wine,...
Jeremy Vaask words and photos by Nicolas Bouvy In around 2018 a dozen of skate renegades decided they had too much, enough with the general vision of our official governance regarding the public skatepark designs. Their persistence in doing it wrong... The group of friends felt the urge to have their own skate wonderland in Tallinn, a place designed, built and run by the skaters themselves. No compromises! That's a word you find only in the vocabulary of the weak, the ones who have lost faith in the fight. The Loigu squad had no more time left to waste, and after a long quest of looking for their own canopy, they miraculously found a huge factory facility, managing to strike...
suggested use of the product for illustration purpose Since 2010, there’s three days per year, some very special days… days that are gonna bring you a big present. Those are the days you go to mailbox and grab your new Confusion Mag. You enjoy reading it with your first morning coffee, then maybe later on, once the coffee did his job, when you drop the kids off at the pool... later after lunch coffee, repeat action, and in the evening with your friends at the session. There is always some time off your phone to devour this awesome pamphlet. This is one colourful illustrated piece of paper, the most interesting one in the business! Not only will you read...
Ralf Rasmus Words and photos by Nicolas Bouvy Last Saturday “Talve Kuningas” contest was on. Organised by Sisu, Nightwood Skateboards and Pääsküla Noortekeskus. We promised a good dose of adrenaline, awakening some muscles and promises were kept. The riders pushed themselves over their limits! Two categories were held on the course of Pääsküla Noortemaja Skatepark, under 18 years old and the 18+. Sadly we did not have the girls/women contestants showing up. For the young guns category, a crew came from Tartu, and even a Narva-Jõesuu representative, Villiam Müller, came to compete against the capital’s locals. And it was a tight competition. Grisha Barbashin was heating the rails so bad it made the wax melt under his trucks, leaving the...
