This December the Journey Through South Africa Tour will be going through Cape Town, Durban and Joburg distributing new and used skate stuff to kids who can’t afford their own. The tour features German skateboarders Louis Taubert and Niklas Speer von Cappein as well as local ripper Justus Kotze.
“Louis Taubert is undoubtedly one of the best skaters in Germany this year and could win almost every contest in which he participated. And he has carved out on the thick banger bus tour and was generally represented with the best footage ever. In the next time it could be somewhat quiet at Louis, as he sets out to explore South Africa for six months. But of course he does not disappear without saying goodbye to yet befitting. Here is his farewell clip from Cologne Cape is 686 plus a few words to his adopted country.”
The google-translated version of Louis’ farewell the blurb from skateboard magazine.
In January we will be running a full Tour Diary on www.revolution-daily.com where you can see who got what and how the goodness was shared across South Africa. They’ll be hitting up skateparks in each town and need your help to share the stoke and get a ton of kids skating. Revolution has setup drop-off depots at all the stores around the country and are taking in boards, trucks, wheels, shoes… whatever you’ve got to give.
Revolution Long Street, Cape Town Revolution Skatepark Pavilion, Durban Revolution Skatepark Festival Mall, Joburg Revolution Cresta, Joburg Revolution Menlyn, Pretoria
With the help of Red Bull and KFD Skateboards, Justus Kotze, Moses Adams, Jamie O’Brien and Sam Clark decided to head out in search of new spots in undocumented towns with the purpose of getting footage for Justus’s Close Up article in AV13 and Mosey’s section in the upcoming Session dvd.
We’ll be dropping an exclusive 4-Part tour diary on Revolution Daily starting next Monday, the 21st of November, with all the thrills, spills and photos from their Overberg Adventure. Stay tuned…
Searle Street Post is hosting an exhibition of artworks by studio-mates Paul Senyol, Justin Southey, and Verb artist Bruce Mackay, Vast, which opens this Thursday, 17 November 2011. Check out this super rad little promo video put together by the artists and the team at Searle Street Post – Charmaine Greyling, Udesh Chetty, Wim van der Merwe and Graeme Armstrong handled the 2D animation. The sound engineering is by Hans Raubenheimer. You can RSVP to the event here.
18 local artists were selected to design, illustrate or photograph work around the theme of Khayelitsha Culture. Curated by SJ Artists and local design website, 10and5, the work was turned into large scale wheat pastes and was pasted around Khayelitsha and the inner city of Cape Town.
The aim was to take the exhibition out of the gallery space and into the streets of both city and township. Spreading the art into the different cultures and allowing the greater community access. We think thats pretty freaking rad.
Round up of the Pro Vert from the 2011 Maloof Money Cup South Africa hosted in Kimberly. Featuring Andy Macdonald, Pierre Luc Gagnon, Bob Burnquist and others.
