Off Piste: Neon Daze and Winter Waves

Artists Corey Smith and Mike Parillo bring snowboarding back to its roots with experimental handmade boards

Four years ago, burnt out on the way mainstream snowboarding was headed, artist and professional snowboarder Corey Smith turned to his Lake Tahoe garage/studio for refuge. Here, he founded Spring Break Snowboards, an art project aimed at bringing the activity he loved back to the basics by way of handmade wooden snowboards meant for riding deep powder. Shortly thereafter, we caught up with Smith and …

Lowline Young Designers Program

Local school kids reveal their vision for an underground park on the Lower East Side

This weekend, at NYC’s Mark Miller Gallery, an enthusiastic and clever bunch of middle-schoolers shared their visions—and plans—for the future of the city. The exhibit, which will run through March 9 and is sponsored by the Lowline’s Young Designers Program, revealed the vision of local school children for an underground park in the Lower East Side, and how such a marriage of technology, geography and …

Interview: Chris Burkard

The self-taught, globe-trotting photographer on his wild adventures and spending the night in a Russian jail

Photography is among the most competitive creative fields. With the advent of accessible digital SLR cameras and numerous social sharing outlets, it’s harder than ever to wade through what’s good to find what’s great. Based in a small town on the central California coast near his childhood home, Chris Burkard is among the most successful young photographers and perhaps one of the most unlikely. Completely …