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29.12.09

Like identically every artist before him, Phil Grinter was faced with the same dilemma: How do you get people to look at and -- better yet -- buy your exertion?

He found his answer under his feet.

Gliding there between the rubber soles of his sneakers and the hard pavement was his ticket to ride. Actually.

Two years ago, Grinter traded canvas for plywood and began making custom skateboards.

His BeasterBoards relate to in a variety of lengths and styles, and the seven-ply, three-eighths-inch decks are often cut to size based on patterns Grinter created. But with conflicting art on each one, no two are quite the same.

His inventory includes long boards -- slow gliding behemoths up to 5 feet protracted -- short ones, and anything imaginable in between. Some look like the standard-issue boards often seen hopping curbs and sliding down handrails, and some look like things you've never seen. They are shaped like teardrops and penurious rectangles and crazy cuts like you might find floating in a lab dish.

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