PAST EVENT
Skateboard Science
This event explored both the physics and cultural exploits of skateboarding. Professional skateboarders* performed on the ramps inside the museum while staff scientists broke down the physics behind their tricks. SLAP magazine’s Mark Whiteley related the history and culture of skateboarding and San Franpsycho encouraged visitors to screen print their own t-shirt designs.
*Drawn from the Real, Anti Hero, Spitfire, and Thunder skateboarding teams, the DLX team included Dennis Busenitz, Tony Trujillo, Elissa Steamer, Jessie Van Roechoudt, Brian Anderson, Frank Gerwer, and Peter Ramondetta.
Highlights
- Skateboarding: A Cultural Evolution Shaping SF's Urban Landscape with SLAP magazine’s editor-in-chief Mark Whiteley
- Skateboard physics with renowned skateboard designer and producer Paul Schmitt, Exploratorium senior scientist Paul Doherty, and the DLX Skateboard Team
- Screen printing with San Franpsycho
- Skateboard Cinema: Claremont (2008, 10 min.), featuring skaters Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo filming each other by handing a camera back and forth while zooming downhill; Skater Dater (1965, 18 min., 16mm), a cult classic that features “a group of 1965 barefooted skateboarders with their single-striped windbreakers hanging 10 on their clay-wheeled pinner boards”; Stuntwood: The Birth, Life, and Death of a Skateboard (2006, 40 min.), a fast-paced documentary directed by Jeff Roe that traces the life of a skateboard, from maple forest to urban streets
- Bone dissection
- Skateboard-related exhibits
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