Centre spread picture (these mattered in the days when they could be pulled from magazines and stuck on the wall) of Warren Brown by Jay Podesta.
This was a golden age before the skateboard potential of the City of London had really been recognised. As its popularity grew, so did the busts. Perhaps somebody can remind us when the specific bye-laws against skating were introduced and when they started to really be enforced?
There was always a balance to be struck between showing rad spots and attracting too much attention to them. In the case of the City we came down on the side of giving it less prominence than it deserved. Such discretion was wasted, of course: the outcome was inevitable.
6 responses to “Warren Brown, City of London, March 1991”
Not sure about by-laws throughout the country but in Dundee they used to use a an old Victorian era by-law which prohibited ‘ice-skating’ in the city square to stop us from skating there!
I had to really restrain myself from mounting a protest a few years ago when they set up a temporary ice rink in the square over the Christmas period!
I had that t-shirt. Wasn’t it a Curry design?
Yes, I think it was. Dave Currey is one of the most prolific people I have ever worked with.
I remember visiting him when he was working in a studio in Pullens Yards at Kennington where he had a big old travellers trunk which was full to the brim with artwork of one kind or another. Whenever one of the people he was working for became insistent and sent round a bike to pick up new designs he would dive into the trunk and fish something out for them.
This was a more methodical approach than the one he adopted at Vision, where a bike once turned up to collect artwork for some Transworld advert and Currey started piling stuff on to the photocopier while the rider waited.
In a later age I remember going to a state51 party where Dave had knocked up hours of computer generated animation for the big screen, all of it produced that day.
Hi Timlb, hope all is well, only just found this site.
Tim, do you stay in touch with DC?
Tony: good to hear from you! Yes, all’s well here, thanks (though I messed up the setting on the site at some point, so nobody’s comments appeared. Sorry). And with you?
Jesse: (at first I thought “DC” meant DC shoes — a different story in my life) I swapped emails with Currey a few months ago and meant to go and see him. But didn’t. (Haven’t yet?)