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Fear, Guilt & AgricultureLevi HawkenLevi Hawken is an artist and skateboarder based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Working with Blue Tile Lounge, Boom Skateboards, and Sector 9, Hawken has explored the streets as a pro, but always kept in touch with the personal joy that comes from riding, particularly gaining notoriety as a hill bomber. As an artist his works explore the mediums of painting and sculpture with a contemporary take on aspects of modernism and brutalism. Come hear about the legend Levi’s life this week on FGA!
2025-11-022h 27
Creative Connections with Mandy JakichLevi Hawken - Contemporary sculptorLevi Hawken is a brutalist | modernist sculptor living and working in west Auckland. His practice includes sculpture in concrete, glass, wood and bronze as well as painting.As a skateboarder, Levi understands the undeniable attraction of the urban concrete landscape. His work responds to the forms and elements of this environment.In this very authentic conversation Levi takes us through his extraordinary life from early graffiti days and his world of skating to his appearances on TV and in film and the Nek Minute meme that made him famous, although not necessarily for...
2024-09-292h 04
Junk Filter126: Paint Your Wagon & Black Adam (with Jessica Ritchey)The Maryland-based writer and critic Jessica Ritchey is my special guest for a show that compares the current decline in the interconnected comic book movie business to the collapse in the late sixties of the Roadshow Musical with a look at the notorious 1969 musical western Paint Your Wagon (starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood) with 2022’s box office disappointment Black Adam, meant to launch a new DC superhero franchise for star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Hubris connects these two movies: Paint Your Wagon was a troubled production that was extremely expensive to make and not nearly the hit Pa...
2023-03-311h 32
ALTBAYSLevi Hawken (NZ Artist/Skateboarder/Nek Minnit) - ALTBAYS SHOW #118Show 118 Levi Hawken (NZ Artist/Skateboarder/Nek Minnit)Welcome to ALTBAYS Show (feat. Leo Magri)Meet Levi HawkenLevi Hawken is a professional skateboarder (for Sector 9) from Dunedin, New Zealand. Hawken appeared in a viral video showing a scooter, apparently destroyed outside a dairy. The "nek minnit" video spawned many parodies and has become a popular slang term among the people of Aotearoa.Hawken began his artistic career painting graffiti in Auckland City during the mid-1990s. Although much of his graffiti work is no longer visible, t...
2022-11-041h 38
Verbal HighsEpisode 76: Levi HawkenLevi Hawken is a pro skateboarder, artist, teacher, mentor, writer & landscaper, who in 2011 unwittingly ended up one of NZ’s best-known Internet memes. Levi creates things out of concrete in a room full of giant Jet Plane lollies. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-03-061h 27