ALL THAT’S FIT TO DJGITALLY SPIT
ENTRY00009 / MAY 03, 2022 / ACROSS THE CONCRETE PRAIRIES
Growing up in rural Missouri I popped more blacktop bubbles with bike and shoe tread on country roads than skateboard ollies on urban concrete. Regardless, this didn't steer me from participating in a Kansas City, MO skateboard design show two decades ago. It was a fun challenge to tackle a different medium other than posters at the time. I'm still pleased with my results, even if the final product and production was never usable. I spent an afternoon photographing various construction markings on downtown KC streets. Then, I pieced it all together for the final image in the photo above. Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened to my board piece after the exhibition closed. I assume it was chuckled or has been rotting away in a Kansas City Crossroads crawlspace. It was more prototype than final product, anyway. That's okay. I've still got the photos and digital files to prove it. Maybe one day I'll have an actual board made? "Skate or Die" they say? I'll try not to trip on stay-put surfaces.
In other news, I missed National Poetry Month in April. Aren’t they all? I did slap some on my new Medium page. Maybe I’ll add more in due time. And if talking collections of poetry, I’ve got ten books at the ready over on Blurb. In recent weeks I’ve rounded up and written enough for another book or few. We’ll just have to see where those go. -djg (Photo: MMG, 2003)
