Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.
Jeffrey DeitchStreet skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.
Jeffrey DeitchTo be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gรชmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.
Jeffrey DeitchStreet culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.
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