#mikeballard

[weisskoeppel]

throw your house out of the window. michael weißköppel and mike ballard at Tick Tack

[elsenornewyork]

1989 nose blunt on the spine ramp at the private San Jose Warehouse as seen in @santacruzskateboards @strangenotes magazine, thank you Santa Cruz for believing in the 12 year old me 🙏🏽 🤜🏽🤛🏽 check the #bridgebolts too 📸 #mikeballard #elseñorskate #elseñorjewelry #elseñornewyork #elseñorsanjose #elseñorsj #runskatechill (at San Jose, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bZ6A3lDhw/?igshid=zvssr5vmf81e

[elsenornewyork]

So my friend posted a 'new trick' 'for him' on a vert ramp, padless. I put the comment from the business page, I used to he able to that in 1991, some kid writes, 'no you didnt.' I sent him this photo from #mikeballard publish in #poweredge at #visaliaskatecamp 1989 and another one from San Jose warehouse in 89 and he writes 'not the same trick' I told him to youtube it @jacobrosenberg filmed and posted it, I believe I did one with a nose grab that day🙏🏽 thanks for sending this over @peanut186 these kids have to be taught to have some respect, no one has schooled them, each one teach one, or get bombed on with knowledge #elseñorjewelry #elseñorskate #elseñornewyork #elseñorvisalia (at Visalia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Jt4kzlvmm/?igshid=u52h43x4h84g

[thedarkslideskateboards]

Thanks for the years of inspiration, R.I.P. Gabriel Rodriguez! repost from @gabrielrodriguez_sk8 Early 101 SKATEBOARD days 1991 📷 #MIKEBALLARD I believe, with the boss @oscarputdowntheknife (at Dubuque, Iowa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0_u7pBnue2/?igshid=ndy8kc1ztzb

[sstaypuftt]

"Writing graffiti is just actually signing the landscape and declaring it art. As Duchamp did by signing the urinal, now we just sign the landscape, rather than trying to represent it or document it. We declare it ours, and it really is. It is the détournement of the city. It is like a continuous remix of everything that has gone before; all we do is put our twist on and try to re-style it."

-Mike Ballard