24 Facts About Ed Templeton

Ed Templeton was born on July 28,1972 and is an American professional skateboarder, contemporary artist, and photographer.

Ed Templeton is the founder of the skateboard company, Toy Machine, a company that he continues to own and manage.

Ed Templeton was born in Garden Grove, Orange County, California, USA.

Ed Templeton's family lived in various places in Southern California before moving to Huntington Beach.

Ed Templeton began skateboarding in 1985 in Huntington Beach, with friend, Jason Lee.

Ed Templeton has avoided alcohol for most of his life and does not smoke or use other recreational drugs.

Ed Templeton became a professional skateboarder a month before graduating from high school signing with New Deal Skateboards in 1990.

Ed Templeton left New Deal in 1992 to initiate two short-lived companies, "TV" and "Television".

Ed Templeton put his own artistic touch, or, or, his effort into that board.

Ed Templeton was featured in the Sheep video, Life of Leisure, released in 1996.

Ed Templeton joined other professional skateboarders, such as Andrew Reynolds, Aaron Suski, Chris Senn, and Erik Ellington, in the making of the company's second video This Is Skateboarding, released in 2002; Ed Templeton's part is edited to a song by Butter 08, entitled "It's the Rage".

In November 2012, Ed Templeton suffered a leg injury while participating in an Emerica demo that had the potential to end his career.

Ed Templeton used the time to prepare a photographic exhibition, later entitled "Memory Foam", that was opened in January 2013.

In 2012, along with numerous other team riders from the RVCA clothing brand, Ed Templeton left RVCA and joined a newly started clothing brand named "eswic".

Ed Templeton identified the following five skateboarders as his top five all-time influences: Gonzales, Rodney Mullen, Tony Hawk, Tony Alva, and Heath Kirchart.

Ed Templeton was identified by Transworld Skateboarding magazine as the twentieth most influential skater of all time.

Ed Templeton is a co-editor of ANP Quarterly, an arts magazine started in 2005.

Ed Templeton is a featured artist in "Beautiful Losers", a project that consisted of several elements: a touring art exhibit, a collected art book and a feature documentary film, all of which include the work of various contemporary artists.

In early 2011, Ed Templeton released a book featuring a collection of photographs, entitled Teenage Kissers.

In October 2011, Ed Templeton explained the origin of the project:.

Ed Templeton explained in an April 2013 interview that the Leica M6 camera is the camera that he primarily uses for his photographic work, but that he likes to use the Fuji GF670.

Ed Templeton stated that film is his preferred photographic medium and that he only uses digital photography for Instagram images.

Ed Templeton revealed his art influences in a 2012 interview for the FVF publication:.

Ed Templeton spent a lot of time painting on photographs.