bailgun mag #12

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Issue-12 WInter 2011

Fisheye point of view.......When I was shooting at the Malmö Ultra Bowl II this year Ihad a funny dejavue after taking a photo of Tim Johnson busting a huge stalefish. At first I though cool shot but a second later it struck me that I had shot the almost exact same photo the year before exept it was a frontside air. So while shooting the good ole fisheye lens might be a good choice a lot of times it s always good to try and change your perspective at least every once in a while. This issue brings you a nice mix of perspectives from the Ultra Bowl con-test in Malmö to the Filip Labovich interview , to the Studio Talk series with Claus Grabke, to the Berg Fest 2010, to the interview with Filmmaker DD Wallauer, to a photo journey through Detroid to the Bloom art show and in-terview with the skatebaord museum curators Jürgen Blümlein and Daniel Schmid and to the Spotcheck that finishes this issue.

Enjoy issue #12 Gerd

EDITORIAL

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CONTENTS - ISSUE #12

COVER Portrait Photo: torschmied.com

Filip Labovich Interview Page: 44

STUDIO TALK with Claus Grabke Page: 66

Wallauer Pictures Interview Page: 74

Malmö Ultra Bowl II Page: 10

Jürgen Blümlein/ Bloom Page: 108

Detroid - A BLANK CANVASPage: 88

Spotcheck Page: 134

Berg Fest 2010 Page: 72

jan solenthaler - ollie • photo: alan maag

MalMÖ Ultra Bowl

II

Malmö is one of the best skatecities in

Europe with rad concrete parks serveral DIY pro-

jects an indoor park that features everything you

could ask for and rad locals like Pontus Alv and

John Magnusson that push the scene.

So when it was time for the 2nd Ultra Bowl

contest skaters from all over Europe and some

US shredders made their way to the Stapel-

baddsparken skatepark to skate the famous

yellow kidney pool.

Enjoy the pics and see at Ultra Bowl III .

Photos and Words by gerdrieger.com

MalMÖ Ultra Bowl

II

Screech with a boneless to desaster, gnarly!

Kevin Kowalski, Madonna Desaster

Tim Johnson, giant stalefish

Benji Galloway fronside rocking the deepend

Josh Mattson Millerflip

Tim Johnson stalled egg

Steven Reeves, sugarcane possibly to revert

Screech with another gnarly stunt: taildroping from the concrete block into the shallow end

Björn Klotz with a proper frontside air and NOT a frontside indy

Sean Barkley, layback air

Kevin Harris, one footed nose wheelie

Freestyle seems to have some kind of a comeback these days.

In Malmö Kevin Harris former Bones Brigade member and

Stefan Åkesson Swedish pro from the 80 s did a freestyle

demo between the pool heats.

Lois Pendlebury from England, frontside hurricane

The Girls Contest didn t take place in the pool but they used the

streetarea instead to show their best tricks with contestants from

Canada, England, Mexico and Sweden it was a international battle for the trophys.

Lois Pendlebury from England, frontside hurricane

ANTWERP OvERvIEW Lester Kasai travels from shallow to deepen with this fronside air

Photo: gerdrieger.com

Photo: gerdrieger.com Jason Parks was all over the pool with his fast and agressive lines - tailslide

Joke Olsson did the highest bs airs and slaped some serious body jars but was also treating the poolcoping with some smith grinds.

Nicky Guerrero styles a crailslide

Photos: gerdrieger.com

* Final Pro

* 1. Kevin Kowalski USA

* 2. Josh Mattson USA

* 3. Benji Galloway USA

* 4. Ben Rayborne USA

* 5. Cody Lockwood USA

* 6. Josh Sandoval USA

* 7. Steven Reeves USA

* Final Masters

* 1. Jason Parks, USA

* 2. Nicky Guerrero, DEN

* 3. Lester Kasai, USA

* 4. Jocke Olsson, SWE

* 5. Jan Loft�n, SWE

* 6. Anders Tellen, GER

* Final Girls

* Final 1

* Emma Lindgren, SWE

* Kristin Ebeling, USA

* Annie Guglia, CAN

* Final 2

* Eloise Theoret, CAN

* Lois Pendlebury, UK

* Renata Ruiz Hermodz, MEX

* Final Pro

* 1. Kevin Kowalski USA

* 2. Josh Mattson USA

* 3. Benji Galloway USA

* 4. Ben Rayborne USA

* 5. Cody Lockwood USA

* 6. Josh Sandoval USA

* 7. Steven Reeves USA

* Final Masters

* 1. Jason Parks, USA

* 2. Nicky Guerrero, DEN

* 3. Lester Kasai, USA

* 4. Jocke Olsson, SWE

* 5. Jan Loft�n, SWE

* 6. Anders Tellen, GER

* Final Girls

* Final 1

* Emma Lindgren, SWE

* Kristin Ebeling, USA

* Annie Guglia, CAN

* Final 2

* Eloise Theoret, CAN

* Lois Pendlebury, UK

* Renata Ruiz Hermodz, MEX Julian Benoliel didn t make it into the finals but this fakie ollie to front truck

IntervIEw

Filip Labovich, long time Münster local and all terain shedder gives us

some insight on skating and live....

Filip originaly from Monte Negro grew up in a small rural town near Müns-

ter and started rolling down the driveway

with a neighbours board of at age of 8.

A few years later he got to experience his first Monster Mastership in 1987

and was blown away when he saw Steve Caballero and

all the other pros flying over the jump ramp and other obstacles.

From that moment I knew thats

what I wanna do, this is rad“

Before skating he tried some team sports like soccer or karate but was

missing the freedom that skating has and that was a really important as-

pect for him.

Filip

Labovich


Ollie to fakie ito a bank with a gnarly landing

Switch crooked grind

fs flip over a trashcan

With about 13 he decided to drop all other sports and just

skate and enjoy the freedom to do it whenever, wherever and

with whomever he wants.

The lifestyle and the freedom where really important for Filip,

to be outside and live life and experience other stuff than you

do staring on the computer screen or

training on the soccer field and with people telling you what

to do all the time.

"...that s propaply the most im-

portant thing, also the Lifestyle,

that s still what makes it interes-

ting“

Like most skaters Filip got to travel around quite a bit and it

was a way to get out of the small town and meet skaters from

around Germany and Europe.

impossible tailgrab

One of his best trips was a trip to Copenhagen in the mid 90 s. Skating

new spots with skaters that did skate on a better level as most guys at

home was big inspiration and motivation.

Berlin and Barcelona were two other citys that had a big influence on Filip.

He lived in Berlin for a couple of years fascinated from the vibrant energy

the city had when he visited Berlin for the first time by the age of 16,

later he moved there to skate the endless spots this city has to offer.

So after some cool years of skating in Berlin he moved back to Münster to

finaly study landscape architecture.

Bailgun is looking forward to see some of his skateable desings in some

citys in the future.

switch flip over the hip at Berg Fidel

stalefish over some tight tranny in Dortmund

Photo: willinothers.com

Why landscape architecture one might wonder but for Filip it makes per-

fect sense because he didn t want to work in the skate buisness which

migh ruin the fun of

skating for him. Working as a gardener he liked the combination of wor-

king outside and being able to create something and not just sitting be-

hind the desk all day.

Since landscape architecture involves planning of urban areas this is

where Filips professional interest meets his private one. There he gets the

opprtunity to add skateable structures into the architecture of a city.

Photo: willinothers.com flip down the ledge

parting shot: Filip switch ollie flips out of Bruce Naumans sculpture „square depression“

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Claus Grabke - skateboard legend, singer and mu-sic producer - gave us an insight into his ‚Claus Grabke Studios’ which we found out to be a trea-sure trove of unique equipment.

Read about the fascinating and funny stories be-hind Claus’ Studio stuff in BAILGUN. This issue: The red Marshall.

Here we have a little treasure from - - actually England, in this case from Hungary. A Marshall. - - Yeah? From 1972, I bought this in Hungary. My father-in-law had an accident eh on the way to Yugoslavia – and – needed to be picked up, he had broken several ribs. I went there with an English friend of mine (inhales) and yet on the way there I said: „I’d really like to have a red Marhall some time“, this was a COMPLETE coin-cidence. […]And then – we were outside for a little walk and we saw - - something like an Oleg- and Boleg dra-wing, - with some kind of – eh kind of keyboard in its’ hands and an arrow pointing to the right. Well, let’s go there. (laughing) Looks cool. […]And at some point we were standing – actually in front of a normal house with a garage and there were some letters saying something like ‚Hischli, haschli, butschli musiku’. – And we thought „Well, is a music school or something“ and we went inside. […]

Studio tAlkWITH CLAUS GRABKE


Inside the store was COMPLETELY Cockaig-ne, full of Russian synthesizers, all kinds of effect machines and so on and so forth. […]And at some point my English friend Gerry came downstairs from the first floor, said: ‚You might wonna see this.’ And I just went upstairs und made a beeline for this Marhall Super Lead MK 2 which was just standing around there like that. With a spiral louds-peaker cable in mint condition.Got it for a chicken feed of 1800 bugs which is really cheap for that thing. Later we transported it home together with my fa-ther-in-law in my Passat (that‘s a car from Volkswagen just in case you don‘t know...). The poor guy had THREE broken ribs, was in a TERRIBLE state and then he even had to sit like this (is imitating the uncomfortab-le sitting position) because of the Marshall placed next to him.But the interesting story and for the reason for part of my MORBID tale, and I use the word morbid conciously, is of course this: the Marshall belonged to the first AIDS victim of Hungary, that means he was a famous guitar player of some band which must have been hip at that time and then, SADLY – (...) he was unfortunately the first AIDS-victim in Hungary. - Well. Part one of my eh, eh, yeah, - death defying story. There are some more interes-ting things that I bought which belonged to DEAD PEOPLE (laughing) so to speak. This is the first part.

Berg fest 2010 After the great succsess of the first Berg Fest

expectations for the 2nd Berg Fest where very

high but heavy rain kept some people away but-

when the rain finally stoped late afternone every-

one that did show up was rewarded with a great

last session in the old Monster Bowl.

Matt Grabowski and the Minus crew showed up

a couple weeks later to give the Monster Bowl a

major facelift. More about that in one of the next

issues.


Wallauer Pictures

Interviewwith

Skate Photos: gerdrieger.com Bolex Photo: wallauerpictues.de

Pl ease introduce us to the project.

For the „RideOn2“ project 8 athletes are portrayed and altogether this leads to a piece of art dealing with limits in the poorly defined „fun sport“ arena which are set, kept and conquered. (The statement „piece of art“ was coined by a television producer from the Bayern Television Studios who had seen the film.)

- How did the whole idea originate?

I made my first movie in 1999, back then with Super8 film. I tagged along with some friends of mine who used to go snowboarding, downhill skating, river and ocean wave surfing. After the film was finished and in the box I thought about making a sequal and I set a timeframe of two years for it. Ultimately it took around 7-8 years to film it. The original idea for the film was refined, lots of it was changed or even completely unexpected parts were added to it like the freestyle motorcrossing part which doesn‘t really relate directly to the the other board sports.. But Moritz - one of the main protagonistss who skates and surfs - came up to me and said I should head out to the Munich air-port as some guys who riding their motorbikes. Once you see the movie then you‘ll understand how it all fits together.

- Did you ever think that it wouldn‘t ever be finished?

I always had the goal to finish the movie but I didn‘t work the on it daily. Other movie projects brought in the money but I was still always thinking about what I could do next or what I had to do in the next steps. I was told quite often that I had to get the movie fi-nished really fast because the tricks would be out of fashion or just too old if I waited any longer but that‘s not what this movie is about. It‘s not your typical ska-te video that you watch to see the latest tricks.

Jürgen Horrwarth, bs tailslide, Moos Ramp

Wolfganster, grinding down the elevator at the I-Punkt skatepark, Hamburg

Sascha Müller, slob air, Moos Ramp

Why did you film it on 16mm? What are the advanta-ges and disadvantages compared to digital film for-mats?

Back in the year 2000 when I began filming, the goal was to complete the film in the classical manner with a negative cut. The role model as such were the surf movie classics from the 70‘s like „Crystal Voyager“ or „Morning Of The Earth“, both produced by Albert Falzon. Besides that there was the alternaive possibi-lity back then to film on Mini-DV which I put to use for a skateboard video. But I personally like the look with 16mm film so much that I wanted to make use of it for the new project. I also had the possibility to film everything in slow motion. HD and DLSR cameras arrived a lot later on the market.

Some time you decided to sell your digital camera and from that point on you only worked with 16mm film: was the changeover difficult?

I did start off with regular film, Super8. Then I had a Mini-Dv camera for commercial projects and on the side my first 16mm Bolex camera. In the meantime I have a professional 16mm camera and a HD camera as well. When I‘m working for production agencies as a cameraman most of the equipment is rental and I usually work with the Sony PMW-EX3.

- What camera do you work with?- What is your opinion about the new DSLR cameras?

With the full format sensors and the large selection of lenses you have a lot of new possibilities.

Sascha Müller , front feeble , Moos ramp

For those filming with big ambitions and goals, the DSLR cameras really offer a great possibility to make good results with a small investment. But it is only the photo cameras that feature the filming functionality. If you want to dive in deeper with a selection of good lenses and a rig so that you can use the camera as a film camera, that‘s when you can easily get into paying thousands for the complete set of gear. In my opinion filming is just more expensive and complex than photography.

If you look around on vimeo you can see a lot of gre-at footage. But finding good footage with a good story is a lot harder.

And that‘s where it‘s comparable to skateboarding. The skater always does the tricks but they are easier to do with good equipment.

How was the feedback to the movie?

The reactions have been very postive. There have some girls for example that have been taken (almost dragged) to watch the movie by their friends and they really didn‘t want to see another action sports movie. After they have seen it they are thrilled. And even the hardcore movie fan who watches every skateboard and snowboard video is sitting back after the movie and letting all of the scenes work on them. Stories about people who live their sport are being told so that extremely hard trick isn‘t what is important: it is the way the story behind it all is portrayed. And on top of that the soundtrack has been getting some really good reviews.

For more infos on the film and dates go www.wallaurpictures.de

Jürgen Horwarth lipslides the channel of the Monster Bowl, Münster

www.freebeule.com

DetroitDetroit, Motortown, Motown -a city that lived the American dream like no other US metropolis. it boomed along with the growth of the auto-motive industry, that did attract the largest companies - and not less than around 1.8 million people lived in the area in the early 50s.But Detroit live has been downhill ever-since with the population cut-ting down to a minimum after the financial crisis and the tremendous industrial downturn in the last couple of years. What remains is an area large enough to fit Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco in, with a to-tal population of only around 90.000.

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As city was built exclusively for individual transport the remaining 6-lane city streets stretch deserted and empty while a large scale of houses remain unused or ruined. What looks like an urban disaster on first sight provides room for a young generation of individualists and artists moving in. As there is plenty of space in abandoned factories, lofts, houses and cellars they reclaim the city block by block. And as commerce and profit is displaced by creativity the city shows its true character: such of a blank canvas. More on bailgun.com/photo/detroit

words&photos torschmied.com

Back to life: Fox Theatre was refur-bished and hosts music and cultural events again.

Symbol for the downturn: aban-doned Michigan central train depot.

coffee & performing artsat1515Broadway

Slows BBQ proofs with great success the concept of bringing life back to areas that suffered most

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photos&words torschmied.com

from october 29 till November 1st the blooom aka art.fair 21 iN cologNe took place. the New fouNded blooom is said to be aN iNterdiscipliNary coNveNti-oN for the creative iNdustry. i had a walk arouNd aNd talked toJürgeN blümleiN aNd daNiel schmid from fauxami - exhibitioNs

interview

with

interview

with

fAuxAmi &

bailguN: wheN i walked over the veNue there where

iNcredibly lot of skateboard related exhibits. do

you thiNk skateboardiNg as a „creative iNdust-

ry“ was represeNted iN a compreheNsive way?

Fauxami: actually we tried not to show too

many board designs by artists released

by a brand... we wanted to show the

creative side oF the skateboard

culture and clariFy that

the skateboard deck

is an important

c a n v a s

F o r

the designers and artists. besides we wanted peop-

le to recognize that we are a skate“board“ museum...

we tried to display a large range oF diFFerent artworks,

techniques, materials and styles. also the order in which

we arranged the art / artist was a timeline. steFan marx

was the First artist we got in contact with aFter our

exhibition in stuttgart in 2003. he joined us at the 2004

exhibition in berlin where he painted a great art pie-

ce in the miniramp we had built inside the venue. then

there was also some original artwork we got From Flying

Förtess. in 2005 we invited jeremy Fish, andy howell and

steFan to our First exhibition at a Famous art galle-

ry called iguana pop in barcelona. this was Followed by

a solo exhibition with todd bratrud we curated in ber-

lin in 2007 and next we will have a herr schulze solo

exhibition at our gallery inside the skateboard museum

stuttgart in april 2011. each oF the artists we present

has his on style and they are all connected through the

world-wide, colorFul and comprehensive skateboard scene.

blooom is meaNt to be about „applied art“ while art.

fair 21 is more about tradiNg free artworks… how

does it feel to have a staNd betweeN maNy of the-

se established traders? did you get aNy commeNts?

we got many comments! most oF them were

very positive but we also recognized some

shaking heads. but we think you have to

diFFerentiate the „normal“ visitors From

e.g. gallery owners. the visitors were

mostly open to graphical art and design

and some oF them even knew artists we

had on display at our booth. but when we

walked around at the art.Fair 21 area the

gallery owners and older art collectors

/ or art buyers looked very serious and

grumpy. when they walked around at the

blooom section they looked like the were

angry about all the new and as we thought

interesting booths. maybe they were a

little bit Frightened that this might one

day become the next interesting kind oF

art what collectors like to purchase and

that they might become outsiders by then.

on the other hand we totally enjoyed to

see a lot oF interesting art works and

talk to all kinds oF people. also Fauxami

exhibitions has its origin in organizing

art shows since 2003 it was our First time

at an actual art Fair. the idea to combine

the high price art with a new exhibition area called the blooom is a great concept hel-

ping to bring a wider range oF art Forms together. so we Felt very welcome and the maybe

the only issue we sometimes was clariFying that all the artworks we had on display were

not For sale because they are part oF the collection oF the skateboard museum stuttgart.

oN your staNd you showed stuff from stefaN marx, Jeremy fish, aNdy howell, bratrud, flyiNg fort-

ress, oliver schulze aNd yourself, JürgeN blümleiN. Now the art of skateboardiNg exhibitioN as

you call it moves oN to the bright. are there more dates where people will be able to see this?

besides the Fact that you had to pay an entrance Fee the blooom was open to the public

while the bright is just For a proFessional audience and you need to get access via the

skateboard business. so still many people which are related to the skateboard scene

will see it in january but we normally like to present our special exhibitions to the

public. so we are working on that issue and are already having talks with a gallery in

berlin so that we will have the opportu-

nity to show it to a wider audience soon!

JürgeN, caN you tell the story behiNd

the the pictures herr blümleiN i&ii from

mr.fish? they obviously carry your Name…

well, i told jeremy that i would love to

get some original artwork From him and it

would be great to be a cut-out board. i

had a graphic in mind that For me is one

oF the best ones From powell. the kevin

harris graphic From vcj where a canadi-

an mounty has a beaver over his shoul-

der. but jeremy had stopped making tho-

se cut-out boards. so i told him to Feel

Free and make it however he thinks... so

jeremy decided to paint two pictures and

changed the canadian mounty to an „uncle

Fritz“ in a typical wehrmachts uniForm...

so i hope i can talk to him soon and

thank him For his great paintings and that

he named them aFter me. i Feel honored!

are you opeN to add artwork from youNg

- yet uNkNowN - artists from the skate-

board sceNe? caN they get iN coNtact

with you to get their art oN stage?

we already got some requests at the bloo-

om and sure we are open. but also we

have to admit that we have to look at the

art, photos or graphics they do and de-

cide to Feature them at an exhibition or

at the gallery inside the museum... the-

re is this great line we saw on a sti-

cker in sF at jeremy Fish studio - say-

ing „just because you skateboard dosen t

mean you are an artist!“ well to reFer

to that statement the creative movement

inside the skateboard community has re-

ally pushed it to the limits... but eve-

rybody Feel Free to send us an email to

[email protected] and present his artwork!

i hope you guys get some rest betweeN all

of your proJects, aNd hope to see you sooN!

thanks to you and keep up the gre-

at work with the mag! we can t wait

to see the next issue oF bailgun!

art

SPOTCHECK Neumünster is a small town just about an hour north of Hamburg that has a new skatepark with a real nice kindney

pool that features everthing you could ask for: stairs, deathbox, poolcoping and some nice tiles.



Neumünster is a small town just about an hour north of Hamburg that has a new skatepark with a real nice kindney

pool that features everthing you could ask for: stairs, deathbox, poolcoping and some nice tiles.

The skatepark also has a small steetarea with some banks, ledges and some red bricks to add to the flavour. The park was built by Matt Grabowski and the Minus Ramps Crew

and they have done a good job just like on their other project they completed ove rthe last years. So if you re in northern Germany make sure to stop by.

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bailgun mag #12

Documents

spotcheck page

photo of tim johnson

ultra bowl contest skaters

filip labovich interview

claus grabke page

photo journey

malm kevin harris

jrgen blmlein bloom