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If you’re a regular here at Tinselman, you may be aware that I spent some years of my youth on a skateboard…

Look at me go! A careening rocket of raw skateboarding might! I am pure energy! I am pure control! I am tinselman!

I’m not skateboarding so often these days but I still enjoy the decks. They’re a lot more impressive then they were back then. So maybe the skateboarding kid in me has been thrilled to see these decks become slowly accepted as bonafide works of art!

If you’d like to view some of these decks, stop by the “3 Feet High” site and take a look at their gallery. 65 tattoo artists, illustrators, designers, photographers and fine artists, were each given a single blank deck and asked to explore a simple theme. The show will be running in Hoboken, New Jersey until June 2nd, 2006.

Previous skating posts:

• Whoah–Hey! and Dogtown
• Lords of Venice