What Is Dogtown And Why Has It Started The Skateboarding Revolution?

Finding unlooked-for and novel solutions out of old products or ideas is also key to success. By the 1950s, wallpaper cleaner has gone out of fashion and Kutol is on the decline once again. Fortuanately, the creativity from Kay Zufall manages to save the company. She discovers that Kutol’s wallpaper cleaner compound makes excellent modeling clay, turning an “obsolete walpaper cleaner into a toy” (7). With her ingenuity, she is able to turn an apparent problem into a profit.

Since its conception and development, skateboarding has been a controversial public activity. This negative reputation dates back to the origins of skateboarding and to fully understand the issue we must understand the history of skateboarding. In the 1950’s, many different surfers had the idea to put roller skate wheels on 2x4 wooden planks and “surf” the streets when they couldn't actually surf in the ocean during periods of low tide. This was the public's first impression of what would eventually evolve to become skateboarding; long shaggy haired surfers riding through the streets on planks of wood that could barely turn and would result in frequent injuries. The sport developed through the 1960’s and reached its peak in 1963. During this

Bob’s Discount Furniture can be defined in one word, “innovative”. In almost every aspect of their business, Bob’s is setting the standard for the furniture industry. Founded in 1991 in Newington, Connecticut, Bob Kaufman had a dream to build a successful company. This dream stemmed from his own experiences. In 1976, Bob was involved in a motorcycle accident that left one of his legs partially paralyzed. He was sent to bed to recuperate from his injuries, where he then found the benefits of the waterbed in his recovery. This experience inspired Bob to become a waterbed salesman. He sold waterbeds in 24 stores across New England.

Levitt and Sons needed to find building solutions that would suit the taste of their buyers, would be cost efficient thus resulting in an inexpensive price, and could be produced rapidly and in high yield. To solve this challenge Levitt and Sons designed a single level, four-room home based on the traditional American Cape Cod style.7 This simple design was modified to form four basic designs that were to be replicated. To produce the homes as quickly as possible Levitt and Sons based their construction strategy on the automobile assembly line of Henry Ford. Instead of moving the parts down an assembly line, Levitt and Sons move the labor along the product line.8 This method, along with the incorporation of off-the-shelf products, allowed for the rapid production of homes. The money and time saved on production and design allowed homes to sell at a lower price. These small homes

“American corporate designers were learned in Modernist theory, but nevertheless found bulbous aerodynamic bodyshells an appropriately slick garb for wares of a vigorous, efficient society with an aggressive faith in its future. Flashy exaggeration at the hands of the stylists, ever compelled to ‘improve’ on last year’s model, gave streamlining a bad name.” (Hodges, Coad, Stone, Sparke, Aldersey-Williams, The New Design Source Book, 1992, p.158) Discuss in relationship to the ‘innovation’ in household designs of the 1950’s, how do these designs compare to similar examples of today? Do designers today feel “compelled to improve on last years model?

The subcultures have often been considered as the phenomenon that stands out from the society and contradicts it. Nevertheless, the emergence of any type of subcultures is to a high extent stimulated and supported by the social factors as well as historical ones. The events that triggered the emergence and the development of the Z-Boys group and their subculture that later transformed into the complete culture and ideology among the American youth. The documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys depicts the story of a group of outstanding surfers who decided to use their skills on land and popularized the skateboarding in Santa Monica and throughout the United States. While in the 1970s both surfing and skateboarding were the countersport cultures, the

Now buck is one Dyea Island is a working sled dog. Unfortunately, due to the nature of his job there are little boundaries of who can and will do things. Everyone abides by the rule of club and fang. Curly a dog Buck met on his way to Dyea was killed by another dog for food. It seems as though the strays and the dogs with a sense of no remorse are the ones to fight and kill more often. After Curly is killed, Buck notices that Spitz the other dog Buck met on his journey to the island is one of the dogs with no remorse. Buck was from the death of Curly put straight to work. Spitz is the leader of the dog sled and Dave is the teacher of the younger less experienced dogs. After they the team stops two other dogs job the team, Billee and Joe. Billee

The people that were part of dogtown were originally known as the kids that were probably not gonna get far in life. In the beginning of the documentary they were depicted as the “bad kids” who didn’t follow the rules because that's how the community viewed them. They would sneak into peoples backyards without permission and skate in their pools, and were often scared out by the police. Unlike the kids from the piece Teenage Wasteland by Donna Gaines, where many kids took their life for being an outsider, and were labeled to death (1983, 11), the Dogtown and Z-boys just accepted themselves the way they were. The boys saw their behavior from a functionalist perspective, though they were the troublemakers, it did seem to work for their community. This can be compared to the piece written by Venkatesh called the Gang Leader for a Day (2008), where gang life was allowed in society because it was accepted by the community as a way of life. This is just life how the kids of Dogtown were accepted by the community, even if they were really known as the

To say that Gary Baseman is just a famous artist is submit to the most banality. Originál rude boy Gary Baseman has created what are perhaps some of the most spellbinding, intimate illustrations possible of LA’s Fairfax District, Gods of the Secret Society, and his cornucopia of mythical creatures. Blurring the traditional ideas between fine art, advertising, and animation, his body of work is seemly boundless. In addition to producing some of most iconic paintings and sculptures of the past two decades, his preoccupations span from designing a full spectrum of consumer merchandise (either for his own Gary Baseman label or for notorious fashion labels such as Coach and Frau Blau) to running galleries all across the globe- to name just a few

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Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.

Falling behind first in second place is the Style Master, Tom Curren. In 1990, Tome reemerged of obscurity and surfed his way from the trials to a third world title. His lack of conformity and stylized movement have captured surfing’s collective attention for the better part of 30 years. Whether it is the three world titles, logo- less pintail or searching in Indo on a 5’7” Tommy Peterson- Tom Curren continues to inspire many many

The term “Ethnomusicology” is defined as “the study of music in its cultural context.” Ethnomusicologists focus and study music in order to not only interpret its literal meaning but also to figure out its importance to its listeners and artists along with the way its purpose is communicated to its audience. . Ethnomusicology is highly versatile and multidisciplinary. People working in this sector could have solid foundations and basics of music ,dance, folklore and other different aspects related to music ,yet all ethnomusicologists share a meaningful and coherent foundation in approaches and methods followed.

In the 1960’s, the South Bronx started to decay due to white flight and economic change. This lead to the Bronx becoming a place for the working class as African Americans and Puerto Ricans migrated to the area. Eventually, poverty eroded the buildings and streets as land lords abandoned their businesses. By the 1970’s, gangs, violence, and drugs pervaded the South Bronx as citizens hoped for a cultural change. In addition to the urban crisis, immigrants from Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and Africa were arriving in New York as they filled the streets with different cultures. This allowed the cultures dance and music traditions to intertwine. Thus, the sound system from Jamaica, techniques from Spanish music, and African griot formed a unique style and sound that created Hip Hop. Overall, Hip Hop developed in the South Bronx due to the urban crisis and

The VANS is an American shoe manufacturer, based in California, is first founded in the year of 1966 by Paul Van Doren together with his brother James and two other partners, targeting active individuals primarily in surfing and skateboarding. Skateboarding during 1960’s – 1970’s was considered as a disesteemed sports, was not so respectable, among the dominant culture in the society as it was aligned with the anti-establishment, anti-Vietnam, and anti-war sentiment.