| RIVINGTON LUDLOW skateboards is a culmination of a lifelong passion for art, skateboarding, New York City and Natural History, all mixed together to create an amalgam of my life and passions, passions my 4-year-old son Varg Ragnar has grown up around. |
| In 1989, as a 14-year-old fan of music, art and skateboarding, I was mesmerized by the album cover for Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. It became my all-time favourite album cover, and with NYC being my favourite city, and one of my biggest sources of inspiration, years later and after dozens of visits I realized that the intersection of RIVINGTON street and LUDLOW street on the Lower East Side was the location for the original album cover. |
| Both fish graphics are studies from the Natural History museums in Vienna and Paris. Both are done in a mixed media of ink and spray paint. The B&W top logo is a ink sketch from my sketchbook and a reflection of my style and most-used medium, ink. The portrait graphics are ballpoint pen and spraypaint studies |
| RIVINGTON LUDLOW skateboards Are designed in Oslo at our small studio and pressed and printed in Berlin at Quarter Distribution. |
8.5 shaped
8.5 X 32.2
Wheelbase 14.63
Nose 6.88
Tail 6.5
Graphics/art av Ole Skedsmo. Brett er Canadian Maple, produsert i Tyskland hos quarter distribution, med stained bottom og top wood.
RIVINGTON LUDLOW Skateboards har dype røtter i New York City og byens rike og inspirerende historie.
Navnet Manahatta stammer fra Lenape-folket, urbefolkningen som levde i de nordøstlige skogsområdene i Nord-Amerika. Områdene deres strakte seg over det østlige Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, vestlige Long Island og New York-bukten.
Før de første nederlandske kolonistene seilte gjennom The Narrows og inn i New York Harbor, het øya det Lenape-folket hadde kalt den i århundrer – Manahatta.
Fra gatehjørnene på Lower East Side og historien som er meislet inn i gatene, til røttene til skateboardkulturen på USAs østkyst – RIVINGTON LUDLOW Skateboards hyller stedene, menneskene og historien som inspirerer dem.
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