This past Saturday, Element premiered Yves Machon’s documentary of Janne Saario. The 20 minute film is now up on the Element Europe site for all to see. He’s quite a character, Janne, so this is 20 minutes well spent. The premiere event was also a session to open the new obstacles and the extension to the Suvilahti DIY park in Helsinki. For the two weeks running up to the premiere, Janne gave a workshop for architect students to learn a bit about shaping. For many architects, concrete is something you order from a catalog in definite shapes, not something that you sculpt on the spot. Out of the 12 participating students, most didn’t have any skating background, but they did a great job shaping. The leftover concrete was used by the local crew to build a platform and a couple of bits and bobs to extend the existing park. Have to say it’s a fucking rad park right now. And in fact, there’s a shitload of bricks and four tons of cement arriving today, so we can keep going with it.