February Calendar Wallpaper

Here´s the February Calendar Wallpaper – Enjoy!
To download just click on the image and save it to your desktop.

2014 Bailgun Calendar

Happy new year to all Bailgun friends.
This year we made a free PDF calendar that you can download and print on some nice paper
at home or your favourite printshop.
The 2014 Bailgun calendar features 12 images of beautiful concrete structures and curves.
We also made a screen version that you can use as a Wallpaper on your computer screen
that will be updated every month.
Enjoy!

Printable PDF Calendar:
– to download just click on the image.

Wallpaper:
– to download just click on the image.

Free Beule XMAS Session 2013

Here´s some pics from yesterdays Free Beule XMAS Session.
A great session with lots of noisy grinds for our friend Beule at the Woodworx Bowl.
Special thanks to Philipp for organzing this session and Anders, Hermann, Thomas, Dietches, Markus, Wolf, Lui and everybody who came and did some grinds for Beule.

Novak – fs hurricane

Wolf – speedy tailslide

Anders – floating an ollie over the hip

Parting shot – Novak with a barking grind on the red pool coping of the Woodworx pool.

Session at the Woodworx Bowl

Great sunday session at the Woodworx Bowl.
Enjoy the pics.

Philipp, builder and owner of this fun place with a monty stop.

Anders shredding with a bs blunt

Paddel feebles to fakie on the pool coping.

Weste grinds the pool coping with a nice bark, too bad you can´t hear the sound in the photo.

Bergfest 2013

After some rain earlier that day it dried up and sun came out
for another great Bergfest session this year.
Here´s Krause smith grinding into the sunset at the end of the day.
More photos and info in the next Bailgun issue soon.

Bailgun Black Blog Collection II

The Bailgun Black Blog Collection II book is online now and available as print version soon.

Skateboard Herzblut Photo Exibition Düsseldorf

Skateboard Herzblut – not a motto from a random marketing department. More a try to put a feeling in words that some old skateboarders may experience after many years on board. Being on road trips with friends, seeking for new spots or may be just cruising down the street in the local town. Many of the ones that started in the 70’s and 80’s kept skating on while beginning a “established” life in parallel – which often lead to contradicting but quite welcome contrasts in their lives. Others got themselves actively involved, contributing and forming todays scene by establishing skateboarding companies, building skateparks, founding skate mags or doing graphic design, producing movies or making photos. Axel Torschmied’s photos show skateboarding, skateboarders and spots from Spain to Sweden trying to tell some of these anecdotes.

Vernissage and Video Premiere:
09.08.2013 ab 18:00
Exhibition:
10.08.-15.08.2013
in damenundherren e.V.
Oberbilker Allee 35 40215 Düsseldorf

Opening hours: during regular opening hours and upon appointment.

Hamburg Skate City

Hamburg has some rad concrete spots and is really worth a visit and if you´re lucky you might even session with Lester Kasai.
Spots to go: Rote Flora Bowl, Fruchtallee Bowl and the brand new IGS Snakerun and if you take a short drive north there´s the Neumünster Pool and a gnarly 3/4 Pipe from the 70´s.

Photography by Gerd Rieger and Axel Torschmied

Rote Flora overview

Dietsches with a thirsty frontside slash – cheers

Tim Boom, local shredder frontside air over the shallowend stairs at the Fruchtallee Bowl.

Tim has some gnarly tricks and lines at fruchtallee, fs rock on the hip

Eric Möller, has the Fruchtallee Bowl dialed, speedy lipslide over the shallow stairs.

On the way to the new IGSPark we made a quick stop at the legendary Wilhemsburg banks. Axel with a feeble.

Axel with a classic smith grind at the ISG Snakerun. This is a rad snakerun with lots of poolcoping and fun lines.

The only drawback might be the kinda high admission for the IGS. But all the other spots are free to skate.

Exhibitions-II – Christo – Big Air Package

The Christo – Big Air Package exhibition at the Oberhausen Gasometer is pretty amazing and worth a visit.

Exhibitions I – Jim Rakete

If you´re into photography and happen to be in the Münster area make sure you don´t miss this photo exhibition by Jim Rakete at the Kolvenburg in Billerbeck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_8XS2zBvl0

Mark Seliger on Reserve Channel

Mark Seliger´s interview series Capture on the Reserve Channel has a couple of new episodes, one of the latest shows feature Ben Lowy, award-winning war photographer and Mikhail “Misha” Baryshnikov, one of the best male dancers in the world as guests.
Lowy shares his experiences in Iraq and Libya, while Baryshnikov explains his transition from in front of the camera to behind the lens.

Mologue Magazine

Check out the current issue of Mologue Magazine with photos of Matt Grabowski and his Minus crew shooting concrete at the Berg Fidel skatepark and Stefan Berger working on his old Fiat 500.
To see more great photography check out all issues of Mologue Magazine here

March Calendar

To Download a printable PDF of the March 2013 calendar just click on the image.

Krasse front rock on some gnarly bank.

Francis Wolff – great photographer

BOOKS

BOOKS:

Andrew Zuckerman: the Music Book, a really cool book with great portraits and interviews with various musicians and a video that comes with it.
Check out the preview:

Free Beule show at REVERIE store in Münster

Here´s some pics from the Free Beule art show at the REVERIE store in Münster.
More info on Beule on his situation and how to support him on the FREE BEULE Website

Some cool new stuff: Shirts, Bags, the Beule: “Portrait of a Skateboarder” hardcoverbook, postcards, notebooks all available at Black Heaven Skateshop

Govy by Seana:

Beule by Gerd Rieger

Photographers Interviews

If you´re interested in photography make sure to check out this interview series with Mark Seliger where he meets some of the best photographers in his studio for a talk.
The first 4 interviews are online now with Albert Watson, Bob Gruen, Martin Schoeller, Platon and more guests.

Sessions at the Monster Bowl

The Bergfest 2012 is getting closer – July, 20th-21st – and with some really good weather in the last days there´s been some heated sessions at the Berg. Looking forward to the Bergfest.
More info here

Thilo Nawrocki – judo air over one of the hips.