Hand-Made Skateboards

 'The World Is Flat'
Mixed Media
2011
Featured in Holy Ghost's exhibition 'The Collection'

 'Rad Catflapture'
Mixed Media (board shaped by Adam Missions)
2011

Riding skateboards if fun. Heaping a load of stuff you tore out of magazines or found in the gutter onto the bottoms of skateboards is equally fun. Oh and making your own skateboards is a neck punch to consumerism.  Many thanks to the National Geographic, Japanese metal magazines, and those people who make post cards of deceased Royals.

Apartment

Apartment; a multi media / multi dimensional project to investigate space and the urban environments in which many of us find ourselves.  Boxes can be flattened down, shaped, coloured, re-imagined and then placed back in their original form, yet bent and re-conceptualized.


Boxes can be re-imagined whether they are concrete or cardboard. The spaces around us are ours for the taking — the key point is flattening them out and making our mark on them with our own creativity.

 

 

The piece:  


Apartment (2010) cardboard drawer, acrylic paint, ink, spray paint, permanent marker pen, found photograph, Powell Peralta 'Future Primitive' reissue with Independent trucks and Bones wheels.


[Piece was auctioned off with 50 percent of the proceeds going to charity at "Art for Love", IAC 2010 Autumn Art Bazaar/Auction, held at Yongsan District office, Seoul, South Korea on December 4 2010.]


The video:


Apartment (2011) Filmed in Seoul, South Korea. Soundtrack made with Nanoloop 1.5 run through a Gameboy DMG-01, with a bass guitar and some pedals, with minimal fx added in Audacity.

Untitled Canvas #1

 

"Fuck the fake shit." - JPBG IIII

'Action Calligraphy' with Tiger and Bear

Tiger and Bear are supposed to be two bad Englishmen in animal heads, although recently it's been one bad man in an animal head and another bad man in drag.

Action Calligraphy performance with Tiger and Bear at  Seoul International Performance Festival 2010 in Nowon-Gu, Seoul on October 9. Skating at 12:20 , not enough ink and the paper was too thin, so it ended up being a collaborative calligraphy project that was eventually ripped to shreds via skateboard.

Paper and Ink

 Seoul; street calligraphy. If air is canvas drinking coffee is Warhol.

Gallery Through Show - Sep 17 2010

Thanks to all the cats who came out, word to Ripley and the Gallery Through staff. Streets of Seoul howl with electricity.

 

('Street 2#' by Dann Gaymer, ink on paper, Seoul 2010)

('Rooftop #3 [Really Carpark]', renamed as 'Nashville Truck Stop' by the Gallery, by Dann Gaymer, ink and house paint on canvas, Seoul 2010)

Ripley and I were placed together in a sweet corner on the way in.

Ripley Tao

Lovely ladies and Mike Hern.

'Blooming Itaewon' Exhibition: September 17 - 30 2010

Grip Tape Art Circa '03-'05

(Acrylic and spray paint on grip tape, 2003-2005)

Two Wheels of Fire (2005)

 
Featuring Dann Gaymer and Gary Ptaszek, Dartford, UK, 2005.