{"id":22563,"date":"2025-01-31T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22563"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:58:33","slug":"celebrating-the-skate-art-of-jim-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/31\/celebrating-the-skate-art-of-jim-phillips\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the skate art of Jim Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you may well have spent hours of your youth lovingly recreating the iconic designs of pioneering Santa Cruz artist Jim Phillips. My first deck was a Roskopp 6, and I covered countless notebook covers, a leg cast, my bedroom door, and other surfaces with my humble recreations of his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That work is showcased in the documentary &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/artandlifemovie.com\/\">Art And Life<\/a>,&#8221; screening on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riotheatre.com\/events-2\/2025\/2\/06\/jimbophillips\">Thursday in Santa Cruz<\/a>. I hope to be there, and maybe to see you there as well. (To this day I can&#8217;t quite get over the fact that &#8220;Santa Cruz&#8221; is a real place, and that I can actually visit it. Growing up it was like &#8220;Timbuktu&#8221; or &#8220;Shangri-La.&#8221; Funny ol&#8217; world.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Art And Life: The Story Of Jim Phillips | Official Trailer\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlKvIqE5Fv4?start=147&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you may well have spent hours of your youth lovingly recreating the iconic designs of pioneering Santa Cruz artist Jim Phillips. My first deck was a Roskopp 6, and I covered countless notebook covers, a leg cast, my bedroom door, and other surfaces with my humble recreations of his work. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22564,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}