Saturday, June 21, 2008

Trench town rocked, small rant.

We went to the trench to look around yesterday,

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 a little skate-start recon mission that lead to a heated session on the manual pad

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Which lead to a even more heated, and much riskier, manual rampage over the water hazard across the sunken block.
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Then these dudes showed up and we all jammed the wall until everyone's board fell in the water at LEAST once.
It's a rad session when your skating the worst spot, with great friends, seeing everyone destroying their set-up in the water with no care but taking the next run.
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The guys also killed this tree on the way out. I mean figuratively, not really killed it.  More like creatively, like a "The Giving Tree" way.  (other highlights were MRE with a 'flip to front 50 stall and Illa Villa with a flip nosestall to fakie ) 
"I command Thee, to landy!"  
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Small Rant Warning:
 So I see all the unthought out, stock-cap, "Mark-ass-Buster" tags pop'n up all over town, along with the Billboards that advertise $500 rewards for convictions of Graff Writer's . 
  My problem used to be not with the advertisements purpose (graff is illegal, period) but the poor quality of the bilboard.  A photo of  a criminal's hands , in this case a "writer", in cuffs is a powerful statement. However it lacks impact with the blown out pixilated photo, which looks repurposed from the late 80's drug war. The plain one with the red ,black ,and white is only slightly better because you can read it. 
   I agree some people should chill on the "tags" but If graff is such a trouble and eye sore to the Valley, so much that a Hotline with a $500.00 reward and over a dozen billboards needed to be allocated to get the message out ( along with who knows what at the school level) Why would a company, or community  allow even a paid ad to run exploiting graff? So it is hip and attention getting? but wrong ? Unless your trying to look hip and current while advertising the new extra hour of news?

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  I'm not saying advertisers should hire street artists, I'm saying it looks like they could use some help, so Either go to school to become Ad Designers, or go buy some paste and repurpose your own Bilboard with some style, but know the unwritten rules out here. Graff is Graff, and even if I hate your wack handstyle everytime I see it , I can't hate the game. Play-on, Playa.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hahha.. that is true you can't hate the game