bastard blog

In the picture above the artpiece made by Lorenzo Fonda (who’s leaving for Los Angeles where he wants to stay more than usual) and Sergi Sanchez after 12 hours of session alternating painting/skateboarding at the bastard bowl.

My take: if you smell something rotten do something… or pay the consequences after sometime.

Yesterday we have been very honoured to welcome the visit of Prof. Mario Antonio Arnaboldi, a well known Architect and Professor with a very special relationship with both COMVERT HQ and Bastard Bowl.

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On archinfo.it is published an article with the details of the bastard bowl construction, illustrations and a general view of the COMVERT Headquarter project.

On domus web there is an article with the main project and a few pics.

ITALIAN LANGUAGE ONLY.

They used a shot of Daniel Cardone frontside flippin over the extension of the bowl, taken by Giuliano Berarducci the day after the Grand Opening (ONLYWOOD), I put here the original pic at a better resolution.
(Click the picture to enlarge).

Daniel Cardone - fs flip @ bastard bowl

Saturday afternoon session at the bastard bowl - Photo: Nils Sveje

On saturday afternoon long time skate friends from Ravenna paid a visit to us and tested the bastard bowl. They put the session on fire (forgetaboutit)… it was a pleasure!

We hope they come back uphere to skate as soon as the winter arrives.

Here Giorgio certifies the extension with a Mc Twist at full speed…alla vecchia maniera.

Giorgio Zattoni – Mc Twist from jep on Vimeo.

P.S. This video was taken from the security webcams… don’t blame on me, everybody was busy doing something else ;)

Below what appeared today (Tuesday, October 28) on the italian newspaper La Repubblica. It talks about bastard and the new COMVERT HeadQuarter projectated by studiometrico. The grand opening happened on last friday night with a party named ONLYWOOD that left a mark in the over twothousands partecipants!

Un'arena nell'ex cinema per i ragazzi dello skate

Below some blogs that covered the event and published pics and interviews (italian language only):

• Bloggokin
• Blogosfere
• Lo spremiagrumi
• Milanodabere.it
• INTERNI
• Atelier-LC
• studiometrico
• inoda+sveje blog (japanese)
• kishirikiblog (japanese)
• Auto&Moto

In the last three months we haven’t been able to fully committ to building the bowl as, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), we have been swamped with work in between delivering the bastard winter collection and developing the new line.

Installing the metallic net along the borders wasn’t exactly a piece of cake, having to deal with drilling holes and screwing bolts into metal directly on the spot. To ensure the net to the crossbars we used bolts with selfblocking nutcases.. so we’ll feel safe even when Scott Bourne shows up.

We entirely redesigned the lighting scheme, in order to get rid of poorly lit areas:

We switched the big neons from the sides to the center.
Plus we installed a light ring all around the double ceiling and into the groove that used to host the old cinema screen. Now the lighting’s perfect!

The hips corners were carved out of multilayer wood blocks (larch + fir), leftovers from building the offices… recycling rules!

The first paneling layer was laid down using a custom tool created for the occasion, nicknamed The Longherone (thanks Nils @INODA+SVEJE and Andrea Paulicelli @mamadesignlab !)… and as the mind wanders looking for new lines we get ready for the grand opening night FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24^TH

Here are some pics, taken by Giuliano Berarducci, Gros and Jep:

Machine cut panels

Hip edges

Hip edge shaping

Monolith carving

Test-corner curved edges

We got plans for the future

Jep, Lorenzo Bini (studiometrico) and Nils Sveje (INODA+SVEJE)

bastard bowl

Beer case for the workers

Wooden steps

GroS WORKING

The Longherone

Securing the Longherone

Jep & Maradona chilling on the corner

Andrea and his longherone

Other pics are published in this post on the Atlier-LC website.

The structure for the bowl is almost completed without hand cutting any of the planned components… for the rest of us used to build ramps making adjustments with the saw, working at a millimetric level of detail sounds incredible!

More pics are published on Atelier-LC website.

This week the work on the bowl site slowed down a bit due to some building components not easy to produce… and the Polish worker (a.k.a. Marcin Solecki) being injured at the Parco Lambro skatepark. Nothing too serious and he’ll be back on board soon. On the other hand Giuliano Berarducci joined us to document the site with pictures beside working on a couple of parallel projects that sound pretty interesting.

Giuliano is the founder of the roman skateshop First Love, creator of the fanzine OrangeValleyEnt and he takes quality skatebording shots since 2001. He is one of the few Italian photographers that sport pictures published on Skateboarder, Thrasher and The Skateboard Mag. When he is not stuck in Milano he works for Affiliate in Chicago.

p.s. Other pics are published on Atelier-LC. Do it yourself! and on inoda+sveje blog (japanese lang)