Experiment with Nature » skateboards http://experimentwithnature.com Shwood Blog Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:07:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.34 The Bucket Board http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/the-bucket-board/ http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/the-bucket-board/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:17:15 +0000 http://experimentwithnature.com/?p=4372 Brooklyn based artist, director, and all-around stuff-maker, Mac Premo, was tasked by the World Wildlife Fund to raise awareness for this past years’ Earth Hour (which occurred March 28th, 2015 at 8:30PM). The project asked him to take something already existing in the world (namely, trash) and re-purpose it into something useable and beneficial to daily life.

 

As a highly accomplished assemblage artist, Mac was already a pro at digging through dumpsters, and after reaching out to Encinitas, California-based skateboard company Sanford Shapes, they settled on creating skateboards out of discarded paint buckets. Using a process similar to the one we used in crafting our hand-made cruiser decks (LINK HERE), they pulled discarded buckets & wood, planed them down for pressing and routing, then finished the process with fine-sanding and drilling holes for mounting hardware. The results were pretty phenomenal – watch the well-made and entertaining video above, check out photos of the process and finished decks along with some of Mac’s other work below, and visit his portfolio HERE.

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]]> http://experimentwithnature.com/03-found/the-bucket-board/feed/ 0 Skateboard Shades http://experimentwithnature.com/02-videos/experiment-no-1-skateboard-shades/ http://experimentwithnature.com/02-videos/experiment-no-1-skateboard-shades/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:08:18 +0000 http://experimentwithnature.com/?p=215 Follow Shwood’s own Eric Singer as he meets up with Keith Hufnagel and others to claim the streets of LA in pursuit of Shwood’s latest experiment, sunglasses made from broken skateboard decks. Crafted entirely in Shwood’s local woodshop, this one-of-a-kind pair of sunglasses was created out of curiosity, just to see what was possible.

Thanks to Keith and the crew at HUF. hufsf.com

Filmed and Edited by Joe Stevens. joestevensmedia.com

Music: T.Rex “Mambo Sun”, The Black Keys “240 Years Before Your Time”

 

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