VANS LOOKING SIDEWAYS VERNISSAGE
These artists will exhibit their work at the Vans Looking Sideways Vernissage open to the public at the Europahaus in Mayrhofen on Wednesday 21st until Friday 23rd March.

Check the Profiles of Featured Artists:
Schoph Schophield
Mark ‘Fos’ Foster
Richard ‘French’ Sayer
Corey Smith
Blaise Rosenthal
Ed Templeton
Tim Karpinski
Danny Wainwright
Danny Larsen
Tristan Huber

Blaise Rosenthal is a legend in snowboarding circles, and is rapidly making a name for himself as an artist. He’s a key part of our show at Wangl Tangl, and will also be coming along himself to meet the crew, check out the show and explain more about his art in person. As well as find time for a cheeky shred as well we hope. Check the interview the Looking Sideways crew just posted about his art by clicking here, and watch the film below for more from Blaise himself.

Artec Product Video – Blaise Rosenthal from Pat Lynch on Vimeo.

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With ten days to go until our show at the 2012 Vans Wangl Tangl opens, we’re stoked to release our official show poster, designed by Looking Sideways art director Owen Tozer. It’s the first of a series of three posters we’re releasing this year. The other two will commemorate the events we’ll be holding this summer at the Vans Downtown Showdown and Boardmasters.

We’ll be creating a very limited run of screen prints of this particular design, which will be available to buy at the Looking Sideways show itself, and on the website after the show closes. Keep checking the site for more details, or email us on info@wearelookingsideways.com to find out more.

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With just over two weeks to go until our show at this year’s Vans Wängl Tängl kicks off, we’re really pleased to announce that Ed Templeton, Danny Wainwright, Tim Karpinski, Danny Larsen and Tristan Huber will be exhibiting their work.

They’ll join Corey Smith, Fos, French, Schoph and Blaise Rosenthal to complete what we’re pretty sure is one of the most progressive line-up of board sports art ever gathered together. Our show will kick off with an opening party at the resort’s renowned Europahaus gallery space on Tuesday 20th March, and will be open to everybody until Friday 23rd March.

The latest five artists announced are

ED TEMPLETON
Ed Templeton is a skateboarding legend and artist from Huntington Beach, California. He is best known for founding Toy Machine in 1993, a company known for releasing board graphics, adverts and films that have always taken skating in a new creative direction. Away from skateboarding, Ed came to real prominence in the mainstream art world with the publication of his photography book Teenage Smokers in 2001. Today, he is renowned as a painter, film-maker and photographer, and manages to maintain a prodigious creative output across each of these disciplines while continuing to work as head of Toy Machine.

TIM KARPINSKI
Karpinski got his first break creating graphics for his childhood friend Danny Kass’s first pro model. The pair soon teamed up to launch glove company Grenade, with Tim in the chair as creative director. Today, Karpinski lives in Portland where he is art director of Gnu Snowboards and runs the Together Gallery. His solo shows have included exhibitions in Vancouver, Miami, San Francisco and London.

DANNY WAINWRIGHT
A pro skater, skate-shop owner, artist and designer from Bristol, and one of the UK’s most famous skateboarding exports. An interest in graffiti and street art introduced him to painting at an early age. Recent years have seen Danny’s art move further from their graffiti origins and take a more abstract route,
with a move to Barcelona in 2009 closely followed by the first highly acclaimed gallery show of his work.

DANNY LARSEN
Pro snowboarder and artist Danny Larsen is from Oslo in Norway. His stylish and creative riding is well known globally, and has been showcased in the renowned Pirates movies for the last five seasons. At the same time, his artwork has been steadily attracting more and more attention, particularly through it’s use on board graphics and t-shirts, and in exhibitions such as the recent Art on Snow.

TRISTAN HUBER
Tristan Huber is a 24 year old illustrator and graphic designer from Austria. As a skater, his work has been influenced by board graphics and other elements of skate culture, particularly flyers and posters from the hardcore music scene, which continue to be a staple part of his output. Tristan’s work was the basis for this year’s Wängl Tängl artwork and design.

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As part of the build up to the Looking Sideways show during Wängl Tängl, we’ve just published some more exclusive interviews with two of the artists exhibiting: French and Fos.

Both are heavy hitters in the skate art world, and we’re stoked they’ve agreed to take part in our show.
To find out more about our other artists, and the names of the five new ones we’ll be announcing next week, keeping checking the Looking Sideways and Wangl websites.

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With support from Ironlak, the Monsters on Snow arrived for the Transition Jam in Kufstien for an intensive Tag session that took over the entire area. In a four day mission, it left the location with a completely new look and new feel. The Monsters on Snow had time in Mayrhofen to put this timelapse together, before heading to Innsbruck for the first of the Austrian Spring events, the Shred Down Austrian Masters Halfpipe.

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Want to find out more about the artists exhibiting at the Looking Sideways show during Wängl Tängl?  – Just published the latest one with Corey Smith who, as well as giving us an insight into his art and snowboarding, had this to say about Wängl Tängl: “I think what Wängl Tängl  is doing is really special and I think it’s very important to positively and creatively contribute to snowboarding culture. There’s too many events and contests put on by promoters that don’t truly “get” snowboarding and are doing it for the wrong reasons. You guys have a really great thing going on.”

Check the Looking Sideways website for interviews already up with with Fos and Schoph, who had this to say “I’m stoked to be exhibiting at Wängl Tängl – the line up is great with the artists confirmed! Wängl’s a great event anyway…now that Vans, the Ästhetikers and you guys are affiliated on the art side more heavily this year, with a proper exhibition space and people getting behind the arts and artist in our scene, it looks like it’s gonna be a good one.”

And keep checking LS and Wangle websites for more artists announced next week, more info on the live art / ltd. snowboard project and of course the amazing snowboard, skate and music lineup!

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As part of our art show at the Vans Wangl Tangl, the Looking Sideways crew need your help to make some original artwork. To take part, we want your eyes so we can make graphics for a limited edition run of snowboards. It’s easy, and you might just win one of the boards. And even if you don’t win, your eyes will still be part of an amazing, original artwork.
STEP 1
Take a photo of yourself, the nearest person to you (your best friend, cat, mum – whoever), and make sure that their eyes are ‘looking sideways’. Look left or right, we don’t mind.

above: send us a picture of your eyes like this

STEP 2
Email us the picture to eyes@wearelookingsideways.com or upload it to our Facebook page (and while you’re at it, befriend – we like new friends)
STEP 3
We’ll then add your set of eyes to the live art piece we’re creating at Wängl Tängl, creating a big, beautiful mural.

above: we’ll print out your eyes like this and add it to the artwork

STEP 4
Looking Sideways crew and some of the exhibitions featured artists will then work on the mural throughout the event, adding their unique work to the eyes mural to create a truly interactive original work. We’ll document the process (film and photo) before using the final piece to create some original graphics for series of Ltd. edition Vans/Wangl Tangl snowboards.
STEP 5
We’ll be picking random winners for the snowboards from those who sent in their eyes, meaning you can get hold of an original ltd edition snowboard for nothing more than twenty seconds of your time.

So, get snapping and send your photos to us at eyes@wearelookingsideways.com or upload it to our Facebook page