Exclusive interview with French skateboard artist, Space Invader: Were you an arcade game fanatic as a kid? ‘Not a fanatic, but I remember that I spent many times playing on Atari 2600 with my friends’. What is your highest score on space invaders? ‘Thousands of mosaics put up in the streets of 35 cities around the world’. As a creative medium, do you find the size offered by a skate deck to be a challenge to fill successfully or is it a great size ‘canvas’ to work with? ‘The point for me was to cover the decks with mosaics because the deck becomes a surealistic object. I mean you cannot skate with it anymore, it is too heavy and too fragile. Then it makes it either a useless object or a real art piece!’ What are your thoughts on the actual design of the space invaders characters and what attracted you to them? ‘I was attracted by the fact that they are made with big pixels. Therefore they are easy to be made with tiles. There other thing which attracted me was their name ’space invaders’ which is an exact definition of my project. I am a Space Invader’. Do you skate? ‘I don’t’.
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- lostateminor.com said | 18 November, 2006
[...] Exclusive interview with skateboard designer and all-round artistic juggernaut, Don Pendleton. Do you generally design decks specifically to a brief or do you have a complete free reign? ‘It depends. Normally I have free reign but I work with the owner of Element when he has ideas to make those happen. I also work with Matt Irving who is a great designer. We collaborate on some decks and then others are just free reign. So it depends’. Are there some colours and shapes that tend to work better than others? ‘You’re working within the confines of a deck shape, so that can be pretty limiting at times if you allow it to be. I try to work with the shape of the board to add to the overall design so it looks like it belongs on a deck. As far as colours, there’s no formula so whatever looks good works for me. I try to switch up the colours to make them interesting but I’m always just trying to have fun with them’. As a creative medium, do you find the unusual size offered by a skate deck to be a challenge to fill successfully or is it a great size ‘canvas’ to work with? ‘I’ve come to accept those limitations of working within the shape of the deck since I’ve been doing it for about nine years now. It comes naturally. Personally, I love it. It’s nice to get out a square canvas once in a while for a change but as far as design goes, I’ve gotten used to making it work for me. I no longer see it as an obstacle, I guess you could say’. Are you a fanatical skater and which deck do you use? ‘I don’t skate nearly as much as I used to but I still do it pretty regularly. I have an Element board with a more mellow concave 8″ X 31.5″ with a little longer wheelbase. I also have a cruiser board for downhill adventures. I was never very good at mini ramp but I like to ride one when I get the chance. I’m just always cautious of hurting my wrists. If I blow a wrist, I’m out of work for a while and I can’t have that’. [see also Space Invader] [...]
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Los Angeles-based artist Ronald Llanos takes his inspirations from the surrounds of the urban jungle around him. Of his work, he says: ‘I’m interested in the people and places of Los Angeles. The urban realities around me hold plenty for me to be inspired by’. His work has been exhibitede at the Pasadena Center for Fine Arts, ANDlab, Brentwood Art Center, the Art Center College of Design, and, more recently, the Wax Poetic Gallery. Read more
The young architect Junya Ishigami is pushing the boundaries of the weightless aesthetic stream of architecture. Here, for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, he has designed a glass and steel pavilion with a roof that floats on a sparse forest of thin steel columns or ‘flats’. Read more
Instead of spending another Saturday afternoon looking though an already plumaged St Vinnies or Beacon’s Closet before buying something you’ll never wear for $5, check out Mooka Kinney. Read more
Silence. In this world of near constant noise and motion, it really has become a sadly neglected and undervalued commodity. Yet, as I sit, looking down on a bustling metropolis of speeding cars, people, and minds, I can’t help but wonder what impact this sensory overload will have on not just our generation, but on all those to follow. Read more
San Francisco-based illustrator Luke Feldman has just had his first children’s book published, Chaff n’ Skaffs: Mai and the Lost Moskivvy, a collaboration with writer Amanda Chin. The book artfully tells the story of Mai, ‘a young girl who never ventured too far from her home. When a lost mosquito interrupts Mai’s sleep, her friend Chaff suggests they escort Moskivvy back home to a faraway land. So begins a courageous girl’s voyage into a fantastic world’, all communicated beautifully through Feldman’s colorful, dynamic and considered illustrations. Read more
I don’t get Flight of The Concords. I just don’t find it funny. I also don’t get most comedy these days. It’s so derivative and clichéd. Everyone wants the same laughs. I like comedy that pushes the boundaries in strange ways. Fonejack is one underground unit that have had me rolling around on the floor with their real life skits. Read more
New Mexico group, Alaska in Winter’s The Homeless And The Hummingbirds is a stunningly beautiful, slowburning song, featuring Beirut’s Zach Condon on trumpet.
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Cambodian born photographer Frederic Chaubin is the editor of French magazine Citizen K. His photo series on bizarre buildings built in the former Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s is absolutely fascinating. Read more
Forget battery powered vehicles. Cars made from ice are the future of transportation: no pollution, no honking horns, no painful rap music blasting out of souped up stereos. And if they melt, they melt. You just swim the rest of the way down the slipstream.
Thanks to Sony Australia, four Lost At E Minor readers will win personal audio prizes, including the new 8GB Walkman S series video MP3 player and the MDRXB500 Extra Bass headphones. Read more
From this artist selection of t-shirts comes this Christina Koustospirou illustration, silkscreened on a limited edition t-shirt, and distributed in a vinyl sleeve, with a biography of the artist on the back of the sleeve. Every t-shirt is numbered and signed by the artist, and comes in organic cotton. Read more
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chapolito said | 11 November, 2006
space invader is the shit.
i have a friend who thinks he’s from our hometown because she saw some there, also there are some at my school, ucsd, i sure hope it’s not imitation!!!