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Contemporary artists of varying acclaim from the mid/late 1980's to today have adopted the skateboard as their medium, and have been rewarded financially far greater than most of the old lions who been designing and skating for decades. I'm not going to shade the Beatles, but something's got to give when Sir Paul and Jeff Koons rake in millions off sales and one-off decks that will never taste/smell the streets. I think that is a shame; I bet Ed Templeton does too. Ed was forged in that mid-80's cauldron of Huntington Beach that minted all the pro skaters you know. Those guys yanked skating out of the surfing's-little-brother shadows, and then kept it from becoming a sideshow. Creating an enduring enterprise from the ground in the early 1990's, and focusing on how a board should perform and pouring all your art into the graphics, must have be one long grind. That venerable company he (co-)founded is Toy Machine, and I think one of the only true artistic scions of that particularly funky Pop Art spasm that convulsed 1980's skateboard graphic sensibility and design. Turtle Face carries those performance and design bloodlines. In the design one senses influence of Polynesian war masks, there's also a dash of Kermit and Incredible Hulk. Also inherent in the design are the distinct echoes of a past epoch when punchy Pop graphics and blocky subway fonts came to symbolize the 1980's Pop Art aesthetic.Read full review
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