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Skateboard Business
Tomorrow begins here in Frankfurt the Bright Skateboard Tradeshow. Business is going to be done between the walls of the old police building. Other than making money you can expect some great boarding during the 3 days of the fair. Earlier this year, at the Winter version of the Bright, a sick bowl with an insane wallride over the main door was built inside the building. This year there is going to be an additional surprise, a rollercoaster like skatepark at the back yard promising some sweet action. I will try to post some pics of the event so check back next week for that.
Until then, keep lovin’ .
Posted: July 25th, 2006 under Design Collaboration, Cool Events.
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Art Attack
As my friend Jochen Leinberger came back from Belgium and showed me the work of Panamarenko I felt I had to share with you. Panamarenko is an artist, a dreamer, his art pieces resemble fantastic voyages from our dreams as childs.
His maschinelike sculptures bring back the romantism that technology took away from us.
Works like his are able to take my mind back to places It has´t even been before.
Check his work, build your dreams, send a picture.
Jochen, thanks for sharing.
Posted: July 23rd, 2006 under Art.
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EVO Skateboard Project: Gluing Process
For those who don´t know yet how the curvature in a skateboard is achieved here is a brief example how a board comes to its shape.
Basically a skateboard is made from an uneven (7,9,11) number of wood layers laid between two CNC molds (Forms) that hold the positive and the negative side of the board’s curvature. When laying the wood layers, it is important to pay attention to the direction of the woodfibers making sure the they are always 90° in relationship to the top and bottom layers, this ensures a great deal of stability. Between each wood layer comes a small amount of epoxy resin evenly distributed. After giving them 18 hours of pressure we have strong skateboard curvature ready to be cut.
Posted: July 14th, 2006 under Lets Evo Projects, Design for Sport, Design Collaboration.
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Mapping Rio de Janeiro Skateboard Areas
Wouldn´t it be nice if you could get to a new city and download to your mobile every information about the best skateboard spots in town, If you like to ride a skateboard, you know what I mean. looking foward to that I started the “Lets-Evo Skateboard Areas Rio de Janeiro” at the google earth´s community page hoping that it grows with new spots every now and then.
Posted: July 6th, 2006 under Lets Evo Projects, Design Collaboration.
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Lets Evo may design your next flying robot
I hope many of you are not really into this whole robot hype. Technology is leading us to a future where we are going walk into a company or a fair and be received by a machine that is suposed to help us find our way and give us the atention needed.
Just like these call systems that already drive us nuts when all we really want is a human beeing to pick up the phone, Robots are really going to make our lives miserable. And then there is this whole facination with robots playing bad soccer at the “Robot Cup” etc…
The only cool use I can think for a robot is the one of flying around me and my friends while we ride our bikes, skateboards, snowboards, kites…. shooting cool videos at insane perspectives. I am starting to gather information about institutes that are researching about microflying robots, maybe some of us will get together for the design of one.
The first thing I would recommend to take a look ist the Delfly Project from the Technical University Delft. Other examples are welcomed.
Posted: July 3rd, 2006 under Lets Evo Projects, Design Collaboration.
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