Giant Pinwheels, Talking Trees and Not-So-Temporary Tattoos: Swerve Festival Photos

We spent a few breezy moments sitting beneath a pinwheel designed by Mike Mills as it spun over Hollywood at the first-annual Swerve Festival. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday.

Festival papa Jonathan Wells opens the first night’s screening of Surfwise.

Aaron Rose does a sound check at the BARR Listening Tree; art by Jesse Spears.

Spears also manned the highlight of the festival, a Sharpie tattoo booth.

Crowds swelled to both observe and receive Spears’ awesome semi-permanent artistry.

More lines, this time to silkscreen shirts.

Or anything else that would take the ink.

CreateAskate workshops were booked solid throughout the day.