(sketch) page for discussion of (non-skate) articles loosely in relation to skateboarding or concepts connected to skateboarding
list of texts (mentioning/ reffering to skateboarding)
ocean howell - the poetics of security

list of texts (not mentioning/ reffering to skateboarding)
videos
NOTES:

if you'd like to add to this group e-mail me at behavioralguide@gmail.com for passwords and such

if anyone has William H. Whyte's "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" Then please contact via behavioralguide@gmail.com
Building your own spot, diy or skateparks with movable objects i.e. kickers and curbs.

I used to visit a local indoor that had a whole area of good flat with movable objects (pieces of plywood, rails, construction leftovers. Next to that area they had a perfectly finished wooden park that I hardly even looked at
NOT SURE WHERE TO TAKE THIS OR IF THIS PAGE IS THE RIGHT VESSEL BUT INTERESTING EXPERIMENT I HOPE
Guy Debord - Theory of the Derive
Marc Auge - Non Places
The Lurper's reply to Hansen O'Havers' "A Crime and a Pasttime"
random thoughts


building skateparks -> getting kicked out of spots
skateparks as training facilites, not for "the streets" but for competing i.e. SLS
Very little ''Street competions'' never capture spontanity of the act of street skating
Best video part awards are maybe more representative but hardly relevant,
judging usually by polling or 'professional' jury
either way hardly any insight into decision making process
videopart reviews?
MATTCHEW - Dane Brady ILIHIMMDWMTT
random thoughts

random thoughts

random thoughts

building less skateparks
build plaza like street spots,
the danish example
CURBCUT