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03/29/2002 Entry: "Poetics of Skate"
The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space is one of the great pieces of skateboard writing that I've read. The hostility of anti-skate devices is touched upon, and has been an issue that always bothered me. In Washington, DC, the IMF building installed iron clamps on the marble ledges that surrounded the building. These clamps (one of which I happen to have in my possession, for no apparent reason), made the space less hospitable to people sitting, and obviously to skateboarders, too. What's also so nice about this article is that it wasn't written by some boring academic, but by by Ocean Howell, a great Birdhouse Projects skateboarder from the early 90s who now writes for Slap.
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very good article.
I thought it was an interesting note that he retired as soon as he graduated. I never thought of skateboarding as a way to pay for a college education, and while not in any way a viable or even desired option for me, that small bit was quite the unique look at professional skateboarding.
Posted by joan @ 03/30/2002 08:53 PM PST
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