Skateboarding and copyright in Tel Aviv.

Vice Mag tried skating with the Hezbollah. I managed to skate the month-old concrete park in Tel Aviv.

The park was built by Gridline who did a seriously amazing job. People here are really stoked about it. I wouldn’t have thought that skate culture was so big here but it is – which is really rad because essentially no one is thinking about getting sponsored or anything. Instead, people are just into skating to skate.

The kids are rad too. Everyone reminds me of someone in North America. This one guy that looked like Tony Alva called his friend emo and asked if I knew what that meant.

Before the skatepark, I spent some time in a t-shirt shop off one of the main streets here. The operation is pretty intense. You can imagine that importing stuff is pretty costly so instead, a lot of things in Israel are made in Israel. Not only does this place print their own shirts but they make them too.

The most hilarious thing was that the owner would see some graphics on gigposters or threadless and simply download and print them. I suppose that licensing doesn’t really matter in this part of the world but seeing a MURPHY’S LAW design on a pink shirt is pretty funny.

No one really cares what’s on a shirt as long as it looks cool. The only has been doing this for 15 or so years. He also sells his own designs for dress shirts, jeans and other types of clothing.

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  1. hells yes, that’s rad, i’m pretty jealous you got to skate tihs place.. stoked on the photo too.

    Comment by brian — November 26, 2007 #

  2. what is emo? and rad? :D

    Comment by majaaa — November 27, 2007 #

  3. all these new photos on flickr are radical.

    do i have an israeli doppelganger?

    Comment by brandy — November 27, 2007 #

  4. I can tell you from and intellectual property point this is still very illegal! We have lots of clients who file for protection in Israel because it *can* be enforced there, unlike some where like china/vietnam/etc (although people still file there as well, for god knows what reason)

    Comment by michelle — November 28, 2007 #

  5. this is rad man.

    Comment by szeto — April 16, 2008 #

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