Festival Attitude European Skateboarding Cup in Montpelier, France

Street, Vert Ramp * and Bowl contest, 2nd, 3rd, 4th of August 2002 * Montpellier Grammont, France *. For the third consecutive year, the Attitude Festival includes a European * Skateboard Cup in its program. This event on French * soil brings together a selection of teams from different countries such as Germany *, Italy *, Netherlands *, Belgium *, Ireland *, Czech * republic, Spain * and Great Britain *. (Full Article) Search *
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Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta Interviewed on SkateboardDirectory.com

Our mondo Dogtown * interview with Stacy Peralta *, Tony Alva *, and a few other East Coasters, touching on subjects including Tommy Guerrero *, Sean Penn *, Gator *, staying pure, Mark Gonzales *, Christian Hosoi *, and pool skating. (extract: ...do Chicago * because we had a film festival that covered that. S: Same with Denver...getting. And it started at Sundance * (film festival 2001 *), with all these non-skateboarding people...kind of image, as well as that attitude, you know? So, there’s always going to...truth. Because kids nowadays, they have that attitude like, "fuck that, that guy can’t even...) (Full Article) Search *
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The Skateboard, The City, and Socio-Spatial Censorship

Here Architect Iain Borden * discusses "skateboarding and socio-spatial censorship in the late twentieth century city" in his article "An Affirmation of Urban Life." Says Iain: "Cities are always places of contestation and contradiction, conflict and counter-cultural engagements. ... But of course cities are also places of power, and the contradiction between homogenization and fragmentation of urban space is continuously fought over, as urban managers of all kinds ... seek to dictate the character of social space. The urban practice of skateboarding is one such area which they seek to control." (extract: ...Germany, the annual 'Chaos Days' anarcho-punk festival held in Hanover is now controlled by...or modifies space, espousing play, art and festival. Similarly, skateboarders deny the production of architecture...) (Full Article) Search *
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