Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
This 2009 Levi’s commercial stays with me…I’m always on the hunt for creative and visual ways to communicate poetry. I’m a poet as much as I am a prophet…the free verse poem is my weapon of choice to confront a cold calculating culture. Yet in this modern society of guns and rough violence it’s almost like I am walking around with a sword. En Garde isn’t Avant-garde. Or is it?
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Sammy Younan Girth Radio Presents… Levi’s has released the third and final installment of their Skateboarding In India series, for which they linked up with the local Holystoked skateboarding team in Bangalore to help the build the first free public skate park in the country. You can view Episode 1 and Episode 2. In this…
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Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
Skateboarding in India Episode 2…go here to check out Episode 1.
So the basic facts: the setting is Bangalore, India. The location is the country’s first free public skatepark.
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Sammy Younan
Girth Radio Presents…
First of all I didn’t know Levi’s did this whole skateboarding thing. Did you? If so you are wiser and cooler than I.
Directed and filmed by Simon Weyhe & Mathias Nyholm…this is inspirational work. I found myself fist pumping often! Everybody involved from the filmmakers to the skaters to Levi’s should get a high five.
To inject a diverse and infectious culture like skateboarding into the rich Indian civilization is powerful. A whole group of youth will discover a unique voice equipped with a liberating perspective. These are the humble building blocks to dissent…not careless teenagers rebel without a cause that anger is fleeting. Rather a genuine and authentic questioning of the dominate culture’s values.
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