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.

Styles for Miles

In the Mail today the Bailgun Black Blog Collection 2. www.bailgun.com

Bailgun Black Blog Collection II

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

Kalles and Beer in Malmö

Bergfest Session 2013

Don´t miss this years Bergfest Session at the legendary Berg Fidel skatepark in Münster.
Check out some of the last years action below.

Kampflimmern.de yesterday

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.

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

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?“

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.

Inspiration

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