DAVEBACHINSKY.
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Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, CA. His love for skateboarding began in 1992, when his uncles used a jigsaw to cut down a Santa Cruz skateboard into a mini board.
At the age of 20, City Skateboards presented his debut professional video part "WTF is a Bachinsky," making a name for himself in the world of skateboarding by setting the bar with a kickflip down the El Toro 20 stairs. As a multidisciplinary artist over the past decade, he’s been handcrafting custom projects through his recycled skateboard business, Shapethree.
He has shown his work in group exhibitions throughout the United States as well as London, and Beijing. In 2020, he launched a visual collection called "Roll Forever," featuring videos filmed from a bird's-eye view, observing a skaters' line in a pool and edited to loop indefinitely, as if the pool line never ends.
Through these digital collections, he bridges physical and digital art using blockchain technology to connect collectors with handcrafted recycled skateboard works.
Each visual is connected to a token to prove ownership and authenticity of a digital or physical item on the blockchain, making it valuable for creators, collectors. This provides transparency for both artist and buyer to verify the ownership. It's a unique digital certificate of ownership for digital art, collectibles, music, or even real-world assets. Collectors will be able to participate events like raffles, airdrops. Certain videos will come with redeemable pro boards or Shapethree physical pieces. This is a new way to support skaters, every art piece 25% of the proceeds go directly to the featured skater.
Dave Bachinsky is a professional skateboarder, woodworker, and visual artist based in Carlsbad, California. His love for skateboarding began in 1992 in Lowell, Massachusetts, when his uncles used a jigsaw to cut down a Santa Cruz board into a mini board. By 20 he had turned pro for City Skateboards, and in 2006 he gained international recognition for landing a kickflip over the iconic El Toro 20 stairs. He has since competed globally in events including Dew Tour, Street League Skateboarding, and World Cup Skateboarding, sold more than 25,000 signature skateboards, set Guinness World Records, and contributed to the 2023 USA Olympic skateboarding team as a Selection Committee member.
In 2014 he founded Shapethree Recycled Skateboards, handcrafting sculptures, furniture, and installations from broken boards, over 500 reclaimed from landfills to date. A percentage of every purchase funds new concrete obstacles at the skatepark in Lowell where he grew up. He has shown work in group exhibitions throughout the United States as well as London and Beijing.
Roll Forever is an ongoing visual art collection that documents historic skateboarding landscapes through aerial cinematography and seamless looping techniques. Each work captures a skateboarder’s pool line from a bird’s-eye view and is edited to loop infinitely, creating the illusion that the line never ends. Viewed from above, the pools reveal abstract landscapes shaped by curved concrete, the interplay of shadows, and the surrounding environment. The collection brings together pioneers who helped define skateboarding alongside the next generation. For Bachinsky, these pools are sacred geometry cemented into the earth, places where past, present, and future meet within a single line that rolls forever.
