Fontski (Toronto) - worthlessart.com
Fontski was corrupted by Beat Street, Raising Hell, License to Ill and the 80's in general. I'm talking spiked hair, smoke out the mouth, fingerless gloves and a boom box on the shoulder at the age of 8. Participated in the evolution of skateboarding. From skinny fiber glass, to big fat and wooden. Building street ramps to the birth of a skate park. Designing board graphics for locals to printed matter for a skate culture magazine. Obsession with graffiti? Probably. From books to bridges, bathrooms to boxcars, stickers, posters, and fume filled alleys... I blame rap music, skateboarding and graffiti for what Fontski has created. Fontski points figures at a struggling world and the thirst to discover consciousness, happiness, and self.
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Gordon Ball (Montreal) - gordonballphotos.com
Gordon Douglas Ball (Montreal, Quebec), is a 21st-century Canadian frontier outlaw and photographer who's famed photography finally surpassed his celebricy. According to his legend, he killed 21 men. "He never seemed to care for money, except to buy film with", recalls former assistant Clyde Jinglesworth. "Film was scarce, and he always used about ten times as many as everyone else. He would practice shooting at anything he saw, from every conceivable angle, on and off his horse". |