DECKED OUT

摘要

All John Greeley wanted was an original Powell Peralta Mike McGill F-14 Jet Fighter skateboard. He scoured eBay for one of the three-decade-old decks with legible graphics, but no dice. Classic skateboards from companies like Powell and Santa Cruz, coveted for their history and artwork, are almost always torn up-the graphics ground off by asphalt, curbs, coping, and just about anything else a skater can shred on. So Greeley, executive chef at New York's 21 Club, took matters into his own hands-he remade the boards himself. Each replication took weeks or even months. Greeley bought blank decks from Factoryl3, an LA-based custom board maker. He then searched out battered vintage decks and scanned their graphics. Next, Greeley used Photoshop to painstakingly piece together the art from three or four scraped-up decks-creating a pixel-perfect template of the original. Finally, he hand-screened the design onto each new board.