Sentences with phrase «skateboarders turn»

Top skateboarders turn up their noses at the sports - wide popularity of fiberglass and epoxy resins, sticking with seven - ply boards made of maple.

Danny Minnick is a skateboarder turned painter whose work has been compared to Basquiat's.

Not exact matches

Following the death of their son, an avid skateboarder, Mr. and Mrs. Holler turned their grief into a triumph by spearheading the drive to construct the Gregory Hayes Holler Memorial Skate Park at Ives Pond Park in the City of Tonawanda.

«This is a pretty awesome news for skateboarders,» said longtime skateboarder Diego Voglino, who turned out from Brooklyn on opening day to check out the free ramps.

The young actor scored an equally memorable follow - up via a collaboration with director Catherine Hardwicke playing legendary daredevil skateboarder Stacy Peralta in the period drama Lords of Dogtown (2005), and enjoyed small turns in the Pierce Brosnan western Seraphim Falls and the effects - heavy sci - fi action saga Transformers.

Evans — who has long since become famous enough for us to lose the traditional (no, not that one) after his name — will play skateboarder - turned - movie star Lucas Lee, one of the seven evil exes that Pilgrim (Michael Cera) must overcome before he can win the heart of his true love, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

Meahwile, Switch is an ex-working class robot turned skateboarder who hits the ball with his skateboard; Raptor is a young, determined up and comer in the Lethal League scene with a special ability in which he can turn around and quickly hit the ball twice in a row; Latch is a cyborg crocodile; Dice is a ping pong player who wields his ping pong paddle to hit the ball; and Sonata is an athletic street dancer who carries a giant hammer with an equally large boombox attached to the end of it to hit the ball.

Growing up in Winnipeg, where his father was an architect and his mother a music teacher, Funk was a die - hard skateboarder as a teen, but at 21 he turned to painting at the University of Manitoba.

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Los Angeles The skateboarder - turned - artist Chris Johanson built his first chair, for a 2008 show at Deitch Projects in New York, from discarded seats he found on the sidewalk.

Believing the bench to have been left by skateboarders, they instructed the employee to dissemble the work and throw it away (in a nearby dumpster, as it turned out).