As a self taught artist, Toyko-based Haroshi takes on the DIY ethos, translating it into some amazing artwork. Focusing on skateboard culture, Haroshi creates full-scale, 3D, wooden sculptures, utilizing skateboard decks in his work. His passion as a skater from a young age led him to collecting broken skateboards in order to recycle the parts and create his vision as art.
Tell us a little about your hometown and when you first got into skateboarding.
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Dane Peterson demonstrates his skilled footwork, noseriding technique, and his exceptional ability to link maneuvers as he longboards some long peelers in Oz.
This films looks like it will surely be worth the wait. After catching a sneak peak a while back at our Korduroy Short Film Festival at Sacred Craft, the anticipation has been building to see one of surfing's most talented artist and board riders out there today. Learning under the tutelage of some of board building's legends, Tyler Warren makes and rides everything from kneeboards to longboard and does it with style and flow. With an incredible ensamble of...
** the list is a new weekly feature on korduroy 2.0 aimed at chronicling the passions and ideas of our culture... **
The tongue in cheek event, the World Bellyboarding Championships, has become an annual event in Cornwall, UK beginning 9 years ago. But riding these simple wooden bellyboards date back way beyond the event, some say into the 1800s, however, the activity did not become popular in the region until after World War 1 in the 1920s. With help from the rebirth of the alaia, this event continues to help to preserve and commemorate this almost forgotten...
Tom Veiga is a talented artist working as a designer in Brazil. He describes himself as "an artist of the Ocean," and is the creator of Waves Series, a union of his passion for design and surf, reflecting his vision of the waves with the design. These very unique illustrations of waves are not to miss.
Who is Tom Veiga?
I am 30 years old and am married and father of two sons. I work as an art director for a digital agency in Brazil, which gives me the exact balance...
"Happy Beach is a web series spinoff from Jack Coleman's upcoming film "HAPPY BEACH," which features the surfing of Andrew Doheny, Josh Hoyer, Ozzie Wright, Ford Archbold, Chippa Wilson, Al Knost, and Dane Reynolds. The web series will be a platform to showcase a plethora of surfing talent, and the characters that keep the beach happy!"
Look for Episode 1 coming soon on Korduroy.tv 2.0.
With Korduroy 2.0 just around the corner, we wanted to introduce one of our new features, The List, an interactive directory of surf culture consisting of weekly Top 10 lists determined by comments on both our Blog and on Facebook. We are doing this to create a living database of people, places and things that we deem valuable. Simply add your answer to the weekly question by commenting (or liking someone else's comment). We will then take the top 10 most voted...
If you grew up watching the Lost videos like we did, then you will appreciate this new clip of Chris Ward doing his thing in Indo. If not, you'll quickly see their recipe for what made them famous...loud punk music, high flying airs, a bit of debauchery, and some long tube rides. Warning...may not be suitable for children.
Geoff McFetridge is primarily best known for his simple graphic design, creating images that often provide the viewer with a bit of a puzzle, combining detailed and abstract aspects at the same time. From poetry, animation, graphics, 3D work, furniture, film, fabrics and silkscreened wallpaper, Geoff excels in a wide array of mediums. He has worked for some big time companies such as Patagonia, ESPN, Burton Snowboards, Nike, Girl Skateboards, Stussy and is a part...