Old Skateboards needed

Southsea Skatepark is looking for old skateboards to be donated as part of a fundraising drive. These will then be recycled into products made and designed by local artists and makers in the city with a percentage of profits going to the skatepark.

If you have any skateboards that you don’t use or are broken then please drop them into the skatepark. Please leave your name and contact details as we would like to include a history of the board on the product tags. Further information on where and how to buy the products will be revealed soon. Below are some prototypes and also testing the cutting.

Created Local – Sadie Tierney & Neal Layton

I had the pleasure of spending a few hours last week with husband and wife Sadie Tierney and Neal Layton. They are both established artists and have lived in Southsea for the past 8 years.

Sadie is an artist and film maker who trained as a printmaker at the Royal College and was encouraged during her studies to investigate as many different disciplines as possible. She was head of printmaking at Eton College taught Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and Fine Art at Brighton and Swindon. Sadie has had her work shown extensively locally, nationally and internationally in galleries including Flowers East, Rabley Drawing Centre, Aspex and Transition.

Neal is an award winning children’s book illustrator and author. He has illustrated and written 13 books and has worked on over 40 titles. His books have been translated into 18 different languages. Some of his titles he  illustrated include the Emily Brown series, The Mammoth Academy books and Poo, A Natural History of the Unmentionable.

He studied graphic design at Newcastle University and then went onto do an MA in Illustration at St Martin’s, London.

“We moved to Portsmouth because of the skatepark, Wedgewood Rooms and nudist beach. It’s become a lot cooler than it used to be and it’s so nice to live by the sea. The locals are very supportive and it’s a very welcoming city also like a mini Hollywood with the hill and everything within 5 miles – beach, docks, forts, forests, Hilsea Lines, bike rides”.

Sadie Tierney – http://www.sadietierney.co.uk/

Neal Layton – http://www.neallayton.co.uk/

Sadie and Neal also run Saft and Boneless a film production company specialising in downhill skateboard racing. ROAD BUZZ is a feature length film documenting the downhill skate scene featuring interviews and riding from all over Europe.

Vintage Skatepark Photographs

I’ve been holding on to these truly amazing vintage photographs that Simon Tiller kindly sent in as we went through a pretty heavy skateboard period and thought we should chill back a little. Loving the roller hockey team photos too. The 1978 trophies photo is a epic and they were British Champions in 1973 too. Belated congratulations to you all.

This is just a small picking from the Southsea Skatepark website www.southseaskatepark.com. Check them out and if you see anyone you recognise or want to bring something to our attention then remember to add your comments at the bottom of this post.

Special props to the final photo and all the Southsea boys representing ‘back in the day’. Some young looking faces there. Rippers.

Old Skateboards Needed

This is a plea to those of you that have any old skate decks and wish to donate these to a new exhibition coming up later on this year.

Cannot say anymore at this stage but its going to be a collaborative project between Portsmouth and Southampton.

Tom at Bored has kindly donated a couple of decks and Southsea Skatepark have about 20 saved up.

Ideally I am looking for about 50.

Please can you email me if you have any.

Slammers & Hammers game of S.KA.T.E this Sunday.

This Sunday Bored along with Slammers and Hammers (Jon Sekuda) and 6:57 will be hosting an invitational game of S.K.A.T.E. The 16 skaters are hand Picked by Jon Sekuda of slammersnhammers.blogspot.com fame. Be sure to come down and check it out, there will be some pretty amazing skateboarders competing. 1st place prize is the Nike SB P-Rod complete set up. Sunday is also Love Albert Road day, last year an estimated 40,000 people passed through the street and this year will only be stronger.

6:57 ‘Something For The Weekend’ Video Entry

Rob Crawford from the 6:57 Skate Crew emailed us this new footage for the ‘Something For The Weekend’ film competition, hosted by Reskue. This is a heavy gig and those boys are seriously killing it. With plenty of buttery tricks these lads should easily be in the running.

To vote head on over HERE and the voting button is after the entries. Good luck boys and keep up the late backfoot flips.

Skateboarding is Sundays…

Bored store Manager Tom (pictured) has posted a few skate photos from a Sunday in the city. Be sure to check out his Diary to see a few more snaps from skateboarding, shooting, snow and more. Oh, and read the How To Tie Dye post. Classic.

Hubba Hideout

Bored Store getting represented at one of San Francisco’s legendary skate spots, Hubba Hideout.

Vintage Southsea Skatepark articles

Articles about Southsea Skatepark can be hard to come by, and articles from 1988 even more so. I found these on the ‘when we was rad’ website a while back. I remember having the picture of Tommy Guerrero pulling that slob torn out and on my wall for years. Sick.

› Continue reading

Support Southsea Skatepark

Southsea Skatepark was established back in 1978 and after all the years it’s been shredded she looks a little worn around the edges, literally. The Southsea Skatepark Users Group and bored have teamed up with Spitfire Skateboard Wheels to help out. Check the flyer in the article for all the info and head over to bored on Albert Road and do your bit.

› Continue reading

PRIMARY – A Phoneography Exhibition by Strong Island – Call for entries

This coming new year we will be proud to announce our latest exhibition PRIMARY, a Phoneography exhibition by Strong Island and we are even happier to announce that it’s open to you, the readers.

With the continuing increase in impressive camera technology in mobile phones and the ability to alter, tweak, post process and upload the photos to social media networks and websites like Instagram, the popularity of Phoneography has never been greater.

The ‘of the moment’ ability to take a photo at almost any time and any place by most people has really driven the fact that the camera does not make the photographer. By which I mean, you don’t need an expensive camera to take outstanding photos.

Agreed, the quality of the physical image may not stand up to the big guns, but new learnings in composition, style and aesthetic by a new generation of camera users via online media has really driven this popularity, and encourage people to go beyond a ‘quick shot’.

PRIMARY invites you to get out and about around Portsea with your mobile phone camera and take photos of anything and everything based around the three primary colours red, yellow and blue. What you photograph is entirely up to you, but submissions will only be accepted if they stick to the theme.

The call for entires has now begun and the deadline is the 31st of January 2012 with the exhibition being held in March of 2012. Photos can be taken on any mobile phone model and we ask that a maximum of 3 photos per applicant are sent in to primary@strong-island.co.uk.

Please submit along with your photographs your name, photo title, phone model, location of photo on the island and any post process apps you used, if any, to achieve the final shot.

We look forward to seeing all the entries, and the final installation will be something special using every photo submitted in a slightly different fashion from your average photographic exhibition. CLICK HERE TO PRINT YOUR OWN POSTER

Poster by Tristan Savage & Photo by Paul Gonella

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage