This Saturday, help raise funds for the Wilmington Skate Project. The WSP is a Delaware based non-profit organization that’s been lobbying city government to provide a high quality, free public skatepark for the locals of Wilmington, DE.
Entitled “Some of My Best Friend’s Are Skateboarders”, the show will feature a mix of different media (painting, graphic design, sculpture, fabrics, etc.) from over thirty artist including Shepard Fairey, House Industries, Jim
Houser, Evan Hecox, Andy Jenkins, Chris “Dune” Pastras, Ben Woodward (Space 1026), Thom Lessner, Gina Triplett and Matt Curtius, Anthony Skirvin and Joe Castro.
The one-night-only show will take place Saturday, April 22 from 5-10:00 PM at the Brandywine Community Town Center
(Route 202 and Naaman’s Road) just north of Wilmington, DE. We’re asking for a suggested donationg of $5 to help raise funds for the construction of a free outdoor skatepark in Wilmington. Some of the work will be for sale, with proceeds also going back to the WSP.
For more information, visit
www.wilmingtonskateproject.org or
www.mightyjoecastro.com
House Industries is awesome. You gonna go check this out Haveboard? If so let me know I might be interested in going. Sucks that its in Wilmington but whatever.
Sounds like a great idea….I;m all for it!!
funny how wilmington delaware is doing something of this magnitude while the entire skate community of philly aint got shit. oh except a bunch of hate on a website. get it together homies! theres a really expensive park to be built and no money!
It’s been a long ways coming though. We’ve been having skate jams for about 5 years now, with all proceeds going towards the Wilmington Skate Project; hopefully something comes out of it soon enough.
I call it debate. I asked questions and the only answer I got was that I am washed up hater. I asked for financial data and got nothing, and I asked that a bowl be added to one of the grassy fields at srsp and was told there wasn’t any room. I was told to go build something personally. I was told to start my own committee too. But eventually, I realized that my own preferences don’t matter as much as I thought. I have some opinions about a few things, but I really do hope that you all get to see your spot get built.
Day late and a dollar shot.
If that is what you think, then fine, but I would say that the whole issue cost me more that it will cost you.
Here we go again…
uh, once again im stupifyed by everything that this dude types. are you the biggest troll in the world or are you really this retarded?! what may i ask has this issue cost you? your street cred?(oops, pool cred) your self respect? the fact that your wife is fuckin sick of you sounding off about your “hunger for roundwall”? if your thinking of all the precious time you wasted crying via the internet, think about all the people that have to read it and then actually do anything related to making our skate scene better. believe me i would rank anyone who has lifted a finger to make a new park happen a little ahead of you as far as who has sacrificed the most.
I argued for what I wanted and I got this sort of reaction. That is the cost I am talking about. I didn’t lose anything, or sacrifice anything (of value)besides a few good times, a few road trips. To those who have worked on it, like the first SAN Guys and their current lineup, and even FP, I do hope that they get to see success. I think that its wierd to be so determined to get a park, or a zone or whatever, without a little bit of everything, but that is my own problem.
Some of My Worst Enemies Are Skateboarders
You only started whining about a bowl on the internet and cause all kinds of drama AFTER the design was finalized. And, for the record, didn’t you quit SAN almost as soon as you were involved?
who is this DO guy anyhow? do i know him? curiosity is killing me. haveboardwillhate.com in full effect. word to yo mama.
I left SAN because I was too busy with other things to be able to contribute on the same level as everyone else. To me, it was out of respect for the time those guys were giving to the cause. My design suggestion for the SRSP was the first online submission that skatenerd even got. Do you have any other questions?
i think its weird to be unable to think of a “skate park” without thinking of a bowl. its also kinda weird to continually chime in on a website with a adversarial and usually confusing point of view. but what do i know? i think a skatepark looks like a manny pad with some curb cuts. im not casting any more “interweb stones”.
I thought this problem was all ready solved.. With FDnar having bowls, tranny, etc.. And the new spot if it ever does happen to be a place like LOVE with REAL STREET like obstacles….Truthfully…FUCK IT i will shredd anything…..IT’s ALL SKATEBOARDING…..RELAX DUDES….we should all be working together because we are all skateboarders here. We gotta make something happen…. Everything is Everything…
Fuckin’ right, Phil. I’m not much of an ollier–I’m a tranny skater or an “old schooler,” if you will. Dispite that, I can still have fun on any terrain–except handrails. I can’t do shit on those, but that’s beside the point. DO, I don’t know if you ever heard, but there’s a spot in South Philly called FDR. Tranny parks don’t get any better than that. Four-year-olds can have all the toys in the world and still whine when they want something new. Who wants to be like that? SKATE EVERYTHING!
At this point I could give a shit if the city just let us have bridge spot. JUst something. I think it is truly ridiculous how much red tape we have to go through just to skate..Renegade spots are just the best. Spots where someone took it upon themselves to make their scene better on their own dime. People keep asking me if there IS gonna be another bridge spot…I really don’t know if anyone I know wants to waste their time building another thing that might get destroyed. But I will say this..Expect to see a few random ledges popping up here and there in the city…Keep people moving. Keep people guessing. But in the end…and most important..keep people shredding.
YEAH KI…….that’s word…..I have some ideas of spot placement….Actually someone beat me to one already…..Renegade spots, I LIKE HOW IT SOUNDS…breakin the law , breakin the law….will share ideas soon…peace
Word
Oh my God….I have actually said something people don’t want to kill me over for a change….I must be slippin..
to be official, and because I put a lot of time and effort into making our scene better, if anyone has any questions about why SRSP is the way it is, or whatever, feel free to email me. DO, i have tried my best to work with you (asking that we meet in person to end this childishness), however was informed many times that it is not worth it. I smell bridges burning? Thanks, Brad
I have yet to see a renegade bowl made anywhere……FDR kinda counts, but you know what I mean…Now THAT would be some serious shit right there!!!
There was a renegade bowl in Malvern for a little while.
Okay, if anyone is listening…It would be nice if there was a renegade mini-ramp somewhere close by……Is there such a thing???
Dan… What gives? About 4 months ago we did this before. You said you wanted to get in on finding land and building a bowl. We even talked about it being near Pats and Ginos. I said I would help. You never called me back / emailed me back, or Brad… I heard you just like to see us get all pissed off. As far as I can tell the 14 skaters working toward building parks in the DE, PA, NJ area are all blogging on this site and you try to yell at us? Bull sh**. I really hope your bs antics are over. I used to like you but this is getting lame. Good luck with being too busy for us, the skate scene and all your friends who insist that bowl skating is the only way to go. The rest of us are going to keep working, the only way we know how.
You tell ’em, Nugget! How about this: the day SRSP is built, I’ll cry to you, “Why isn’t there a vert ramp?!” And hey Dan, if you really wanted a bowl, you’d be building the fucker instead of whining about it on the internet.
“fdr kinda counts” we are the biggest bag of used tampons….our park is known the world over as one of the top 10, and we are bitching…man the fuck up, wanna skate a pool, go search backyards, wanna skate one of the best parks in the world take the orange line south ya fags….DO, your a pussy, fuck off
mini in the works ki, in the works, and we’ll need some help, so best show your faces…
trust me…your best bet is to just get some money off me…..helping you build it will only contibute to your ramp being unridable…But, I can build quite the nice manny box!!! Daewon holla!!!!
think we’re gonna get some experienced dudes to handle that, we need grunt labor for moving all the wood, ya got arms right? hahahha