{"id":45497,"date":"2014-10-10T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=45497"},"modified":"2014-11-28T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T23:36:33","slug":"olson-art-in-the-making-high-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/olson-art-in-the-making-high-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Olson Art in the Making: “High Noon”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Olson, the ultimate jack of all trades, is at it again. In between surfing and skating with his bros, creating new skateboard graphics for Santa Cruz, making a video commercial for Milk Studio\u2019s MADE music project, introducing his own signature Independent truck (again), playing bass in a new band called the 169ers (with Salba, Pineapple and Brian Brannon) and doing interviews for Juice Magazine,<\/em> he has been making incredible works of art.<\/p>\n

For the last few months, Olson has been quietly brewing up a one-of-a-kind skate sculpture to adorn the new Grindline park at Spring Park in Houston, TX<\/a> (the largest skatepark in the United States at 78,000 square feet) due to open on Oct 17, 2014. Entitled, \u201cHigh Noon\u201d the final piece will be riding a steel full pipe that will be permanently displayed at the skatepark.\u00a0In the vein of the legendary Duke Kahanamoku sculpture that graces the shores of Hawaii, Olson\u2019s innovative bronze skate sculpture is sure to spark a new era of permanent tributes to skateboarding worldwide.<\/p>\n

By hand-shaping the foundation of the structure, Olson brought\u00a0this monumental piece to life by profiling the natural movement and agility of a skateboarder, as only a real skateboarder could.\u00a0Steve transformed\u00a0traditional chicken wire and Plaster of Paris to construct the base of the form, while adding depth and authenticity to the piece by including his own jacket and Chuck Taylor All Stars that he wore for\u00a0his cover shot of Juice [#71] double truck grinding Arto\u2019s bowl.<\/p>\n

The sculpture\u00a0has a flowing feel\u00a0with the\u00a0bold and striking body language of the skater\u00a0taking\u00a0you to the heights of being inverted and barreling through a full pipe at top speed. The dramatic detail of the frame\u00a0and contrasting smoothness of the bronze create a delicate balance of perfection. The organic lines of its shape will draw you in and mesmerize you while inspiring you to jump on your board and skate.\u00a0Steve Olson is the epitome of a contemporary artisan with an endless supply of ideas that will\u00a0always\u00a0make you wish you\u2019d thought of it first.<\/p>\n

[*Olson would like to thank Shawn McKinney, who assisted in the endeavor, as well as Robert and the good folks at Artisan Bronze Foundry in Oxnard.]<\/p>\n

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Steve Olson, the ultimate jack of all trades, is at it again. In between surfing and skating with his bros, creating new skateboard graphics for Santa Cruz, making a video commercial for Milk Studio\u2019s MADE music project, introducing his own signature Independent truck (again), playing bass in a new band called the 169ers (with Salba, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4022,4027,4041],"tags":[14039,7556,14262,14141,29,14362],"class_list":["post-45497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-featured","category-skate-2","tag-high-noon","tag-olson-art","tag-skate","tag-skateable-sculpture","tag-skateboarding","tag-steve-olson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_3107.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45497"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49133,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45497\/revisions\/49133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}