Job Interview

Buddha

Visit from Jesse Watson, founder of Homegrown Skateboards

Before his flight back to LaHave, Nova Scotia after the opening of an exhibition of Homegrown Skateboards at Harbourfront Centre, Jesse dropped in to check out the skateboards our students are producing in class and to encourage students in their future career goals. (3 Homegrown skateboards shown here are part of the display on to January 3)

Beatles

Pro-Build Day 1

In a series of workshops, students are being mentored by Ted Hunter to learn the skills needed to custom shape skateboards and make their "dream deck". Today our four OSF teams conceptualized, measured, cut, sanded and realized four new foam molds (L-R: a drop-through longboard, "the rockit", old-school pool & a drop-deck longboard).

Art Entrepreneurs

- Visit to Show & Tell Gallery and talk with owner Simon Cole about the economics of art. Students working on cutting their own multi-layer skateboard stencils were inspired by seeing the different techniques used by international stencil artists Logan Hicks and C215.
-Talk about the local poster scene and business of being an artist with Michael Comeau, who will be collaborating with an OSF student on an upcoming limited edition series of boards.

Zombie