Ted Hesselbom opening speaks...
A proud guy, it was him who had done this skateboard…
This one I like...
Johan try to bench surf or… I don’t know…
A photo of a photo...
Johan and Daniel....
Daniel thought this was the greatest skateboard, I and I can see why… Not so much on it, more to your own imagination.
Skate or die… that was the opening word from Ted Hesselbom at Röhsska museet. http://www.designmuseum.se/I was at this exhibition opening with my friend Johan and his friend Daniel, and I have to say I’m glad for it…
Because even if it was a lot of nice colour and shapes at this skateboard exhibition, the one and only impression I got was; SURFACE!
Why was it a lot of fishes painting on the boards??? May be because of that the skateboard have come from the windsurfer culture, that the windsurfer need some other “tools” when the wind was gone??? Otherwise I don’t understand why all the fish motives were there… or where come all the “hard core” motives from???
I have to tell that I leave this exhibition with a lot of questions and a very few answers, even if Johan and Daniel are skate guys…
I think this exhibition is for people who already know everything about skateboard and the culture around this…
But another experience was that at this exhibition opening it was mostly guys/men there! That was a nice surprise!
History.
"There is no definitive origin or inventor of the skateboard. One proposed origin is that skateboards arose in the 1930s and 1940s, when children would participate in soapbox races, using soap-boxes attached to wooden planks on rollerskate wheels. When the soap-box became detached from the plank, children would ride these primitive "skateboards". Another suggests that the skateboard was created directly from the adaptation of a single roller skate taken apart and nailed to a 2x4, without the soapbox at all and that it was often surfers looking to recreate the feel of surfing on the land when the surf was flat.
Retail skateboards were first marketed in 1958 by Bill and Mark Richards of Dana Point, California. They attached roller skate wheels from the Chicago Roller Skate Company to a plank of wood and sold them in their Val Surf Shops.[1]
The skateboard has evolved since the first mass produced models in the 1960s. Boards in the past were often made in the shape of a surfboard, with no concavity and constructed of solid wood, plastic, even metal. The wheels were usually made of a clay composite, or steel and the trucks (axles) were less sturdy and initially of a 'single-action' design compared to today's 'double-action'."
Retail skateboards were first marketed in 1958 by Bill and Mark Richards of Dana Point, California. They attached roller skate wheels from the Chicago Roller Skate Company to a plank of wood and sold them in their Val Surf Shops.[1]
The skateboard has evolved since the first mass produced models in the 1960s. Boards in the past were often made in the shape of a surfboard, with no concavity and constructed of solid wood, plastic, even metal. The wheels were usually made of a clay composite, or steel and the trucks (axles) were less sturdy and initially of a 'single-action' design compared to today's 'double-action'."
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