The Bucket Board
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[The Bucket Board]
[Mac Premo:] Source: LYBIO.net
My name is Mac Premo. I’m an artist, director, stuff maker. I was contacted by the World Wildlife Fund this year for Earth Hour. They asked 15 artists from around the world to take stuff that already exists, repurpose it, give it a new life. That’s pretty much what I do for everything. So – so I rephrased the challenge in my brain – I thought, what do I give a shit about, and can that be made out of trash? And like one second after I was on the phone with Don.
[Don Sanford:]
My name is Don Sanford. I’m a home builder, carpenter, wood worker.
How I met Don.
[Mac Premo:]
My eldest daughter had a birthday. I wanted to buy her skateboard. I went to this local skate shop and some kid working there was like, check this out.
I just – I locked in with them immediately just thought there were the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Do you remember when we bought your skateboard?
[Girl:]
Yes.
[Mac Premo:]
What kind of board was it do you remember?
[Girl:]
No.
[Mac Premo:]
Do you like to riding it?
[Girl:]
Yes.
[Mac Premo:]
There you go. And then I was like, I got to figure out who these people are.
[Don Sanford:]
Sanford Shapes, is myself, my wife, my nephew, several other friends that create handcrafted cruiser skateboard.
So past four year and half..
So past four year and half…
[Mac Premo:] Source: LYBIO.net
Called Don I was like, dude a year ago, I bought a board, I love to ride every day, do you remember me? Can we make skateboards out of trash? Don was like…
[Don Sanford:]
I’m yet to think about that for a few days, drove to the next job site, looked at the stack of fixed rate buckets all piled in one another, and all of a sudden I’m like — whoa!
[Mac Premo:]
That’s it.
[Don Sanford:]
Interestingly my mathematical mind was going to work — the diameter of that bucket is about 12 inches, times that by π.
Before you know it, we had two old paint buckets cut off and flattened out and took some old wood and put it through the band-saw – glued it in, and put it together and clamped it down and popped it out and it actually worked.
[Mac Premo:]
Buckets. There are thousands of them on every job site thrown away. So this stuff goes in the earth and its stays there forever.
[Don Sanford:]
As a homebuilder it always bothered me how much material went to waste. So the concept is taking stuff out of the landfill, giving it a second life, is just fascinating.
[Mac Premo:]
And now we’re thinking like what if we can make this stuff and give them to people who need them.
[Don Sanford:]
There’s no material cost in these things, they’re free. All we have to do is build them.
[Mac Premo:]
And now there’s something for someone who otherwise wouldn’t have had it… and that thing is now a tool for empowerment, a tool for self expression
[Don Sanford:]
A win-win-win, all the way around.
[Mac Premo:]
Like, when I got a skateboard, when I was kid, I didn’t just learn how to roll, I learned how to express myself. For a while in my life, a curb was just a curb. And then suddenly a curb was an opportunity and that changed the way I saw the world. Once there was trash, now there is skateboarding.
[Don Sanford:]
It warms my heart to think of that.
[Mac Premo:]
If I can play some small role in making that transference, I can’t think of anything better to do.
[Don Sanford:]
Make skateboards.
Support the Bucket Board project and learn more:
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Credits:
Mac Premo (Shot and Directed):
macpremo.com
@macpremo
Ann Lupo (Edited):
annlupo.com
Production team: Pete Treiber, Adrianna Dufay and Divya Gadangi
Sound design by Mac Premo and Ann Lupo
Sound mixed, mastered and greatly enhanced by Luciano Vignola
Shot in Leucadia, Encinitas and Carlsbad, California on location at Sanford Shapes:
sanfordshapes.com
@sanfordshapes
Support the Bucket Board project and learn more:
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