Skating Afghanistan
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- TheBlueOne
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/2…
"KABUL, Afghanistan — It looked like an ordinary neighborhood playground: six children tumbling off their skateboards to the tune of laughter. But only hours before, just 20 yards away, the body of a suicide car bomber was sprawled beside a glistening pool of blood. Afghan youth have learned to recover almost instantly from such routine violence. One person determined to inject some normalcy into their lives is Oliver Percovich. A 34-year-old from Melbourne, Australia, he plans to open this country’s first skateboarding school, Skateistan, this spring."
- rson0
wow they really stink.
- You're just full of fucking sunshine, aren't you?TheBlueOne
- Actually no I am not! But I do think it is a good think and was just attempting to be humorous :)rson
- It's all good...TheBlueOne
- 23kon0
RAD
- Andrew_D0
Someone forwarded this around the office, pretty cool. Can't even imagine how shit their situation is over there.
- 5timuli0
Skateistan? Are you fucking kidding me?
- rson0
Nor one person from the states has donated?
- ********0
that's cool.
now get them out of that pond and put some tarmac down.
- mg330
They may be about as basic as it gets, but man, that video really makes my day. If any of you that skated as kids remember how empowering it was to ollie the first time, drop in for the first time, etc. just imagine how great those kids feel. They probably feel as great as kids did when they first strapped roller-skate wheels to 2x4s and mimic'd surfing moves.
- autoflavour0
this is the project we were doing the sticker exhibition for at Hatch in Berlin last month. we raised like 3000 Euro or so for them
- +karma to youTheBlueOne
- karma to the 65 artists we had involved.. i just did the graphic grunt workautoflavour
- ArmandoEstrada0
wait till some radical idiot throws acid on those kids for skating, cause its against islam.
- KwesiJ0
maybe they can use the skate boards to get out of the way of coalition bombs
- kona0
i wonder if they've made up their own name for their tricks or if the naming convention is universal?
- a kickflip is a kickflip anywhere in the world.mg33
- yeah but to they know that? what if they call it a footflipboard trick. we need to teach them these things. :)kona
- I think in Japan it's a "Kick-u flipoo"TheBlueOne
- nocomply0
that's rad! I'm going to donate.
- univers0
thats great. good to see.