Ed Templeton

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Ed Templeton (born July 28, 1972 in Orange County, California) is a professional skateboarder who resides in Huntington Beach, California. [1]

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[edit] Biography

Ed started skateboarding in 1985 in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California, with his friend Jason Lee. He turned pro for New Deal Skateboards in 1990. [1] He left New Deal in 1992 to start the short-lived company "TV" with Mike Vallely. [2] In 1993, Ed founded Toy Machine skateboards. [1]

Outside of skateboarding, Ed is an artist and photographer. He began by painting the graphics for his skateboard company, TV and later for Toy Machine. In 2000, Ed's book of photography Teenage Smokers placed first in the Search For Art competition in Italy, winning $50,000. In the fall of 2001, Ed's artwork was featured in Juxtapoz magazine [2] and in the 2002 produced an art exhibition, The Essentiel Disturbance, in the Palais de Tokyo (Paris)[3][4] with the catalogue, The Golden Age of Neglet, published by Drago.[5]

Ed has been a vegan since 1990/91[2]stating "Once you read about the meat and dairy industry and the things they do, it is hard to keep supporting them. I didn't want to partake in the killing of animals or spend my money on the whole system." He is an advocate for animal rights. [6]

Ed Templeton is a featured artist of "Beautiful Losers", a touring art exhibit, collected art book and feature documentary film, which includes the work of various contemporary artists. [7] A lot of the art included in Beautiful Losers provides skateboarding and other urban themes. Templeton and some members of the Toy Machine team skated on ramps (and even a car) setup at the base of the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center in the summer of 2003 for the temporary showcase of Beautiful Losers. Ed Templeton is also an interviewee and his work and career one of the subjects of the Beautiful Losers film.

In 2008, after eleven years of selection and research, Ed Templeton has published Deformer (also the title of a 1996 documentary film about Templeton directed by Mike Mills), the summary of his personality as an artist in which he speaks of his human and aesthetic growth in the "incubator of suburban outskirts", Orange County, California. [8]

He is also a co-editor of the arts magazine, ANP Quarterly, started in 2005. [9]

[edit] Video Credits

  1. Emerica - Stay Gold - Releasing in 2009
  2. Toy Machine - good and evil remix 2005
  3. Toy Machine - Suffer The Joy - 2006
  4. Toy Machine - Good & Evil - 2004
  5. Toy Machine - Berzerker - 2003
  6. Toy Machine - Sucking the Life - 2003
  7. ON Video Magazine - Summer 2003 - 2003
  8. Emerica - This Is Skateboarding - 2003
  9. 411 VM - Stand Strong - 2001
  10. 411 VM - Issue #30 - 1998
  11. Toy Machine - Jump Off A Building - 1998
  12. Daryl Grogan - Cold Sweat - 1996
  13. Thrasher - Hitting the Streets - 1996
  14. 411 VM - Issue #17 - 1996
  15. Sheep Shoes - Life of Leisure - 1995
  16. Toy Machine - Welcome to Hell - 1996
  17. 411 VM - Best of Volume 2 - 1995
  18. Toy Machine - Heavy Metal - 1995
  19. 411 VM - Issue #05 - 1994
  20. Toy Machine - Live - 1994
  21. Spitfire - Spitfire - 1993
  22. New Deal - 1281 - 1991
  23. New Deal - Useless Wooden Toys - 1990

[edit] Contest history

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Ed Templeton's page on Toymachine
  2. ^ a b Emerica - Ed Templeton
  3. ^ News from Toy Machine
  4. ^ (French)News from www.paris-art.com
  5. ^ The Golden Age of Neglet - Ed Templeton
  6. ^ Famous Veggie - Ed Templeton
  7. ^ Beautiful Losers' Aaron Rose Interview
  8. ^ [1] Deformer, the book.
  9. ^ Transworld Skateboarding, "Catching up with Ed Templeton, June 20, 2005

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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