In Mid-January I set sail to join my belgian friend Kjell van Hansewyck of MakeLifeSkateLife.org for their latest project in Vientiane, capital of Laos, where we were about to build the nation’s first public concrete skatepark
was born through the collective imaginative efforts and hard work of local skateboarders who decided to transform a vacant urban soccer field into a DIY free space. The regular crew of skateboarders at RK 69 show a disregard for normative aesthetics, approaches, and power structures in the global and local skateboard industry.
It started with getting shown a random photo on someones iPhone and as soon as I saw it – the search was on!