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.

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LA Pools

Looking for a Pool in the L.A. area? Them you might wanna check out the “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”
Here´s a couple videos about the project:

The Big Atlas of LA Pools – #4 Downey from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.

The Big Atlas of LA Pools – #0 Process and Overview from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.

The LA Swimmer — 43123 Pools I Have Not Visited and Never Will from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.

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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.

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Novak – fs hurricane
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Wolf – speedy tailslide
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Anders – floating an ollie over the hip
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Parting shot – Novak with a barking grind on the red pool coping of the Woodworx pool.
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Zine Check

Here´s some cool zines to check out if can get ahold of them.

1st is New York based 43 Magazine it has some really good photography with some interesting writing that goes along with the photos and not to forget the cool 10 inch format. For more info go to their website

2nd zine is HUMBUG zine from Germany. It´s the standart A5 size but the photos and quality of photos and print is far from your average zine. For more info check their site

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Inspiration #2 – Mark Seliger

Actor Thomas Haden Church and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ed Keating join Mark Seliger to talk about how they got their starts, the work that is most meaningful to them. The three men discuss their experiences of 9/11 and their work in the days following. Finally, they reach into the fishbowl to ask each other questions about photography, including, “what’s the biggest problem with camera phones?”

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Inspiration – #1

JR

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world.

He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of Paris.

In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a Generation, portraits of the suburban “thugs” that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became “official” when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR’s photos.

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
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Dietsches with a thirsty frontside slash – cheers
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Tim Boom, local shredder frontside air over the shallowend stairs at the Fruchtallee Bowl.
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Tim has some gnarly tricks and lines at fruchtallee, fs rock on the hip

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

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

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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.

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