I was sorting through some old photography magazines to decide which were going in the garbage and discovered my December issue of The Skateboard Mag, which I thought had just been lost in the mail. So I was flipping through it and one ad immediately caught my eye. Not because it was an impressive photo, [...]
I don’t fucking like Nike. Sure, some early Nike models became skate shoe classics, but quickly fell by the wayside when shoes designed specifically for skateboarding started to debut. And yeah, in the late 90′s they started making those pretty cool “What If We Treated All Athletes the Way We Treat Skateboarders?” ads, but even [...]
Thrasher has started uploading complete back issues of their magazine to their website. Bored the other day, I decided to check out the Thrasher for my birth month. The inside is hilariously 80s, from dated skate lingo (one article, The Radical Manifesto, lays out the “Mandates of Thrashing”) to pictures of skate groupies with big [...]
Brandon called me up again today for a quick session over at Lincoln High and it’s pretty nice out, so I took it as an opportunity to work on some flatground to help build my knee back up. I was there warming up for… 10 minutes? Completely popped it out again. It’s not quite as [...]
I just learned that J. Grant Brittain, one of the most prolific and influential skateboard photographers of all time, was here for a skate photography art opening just 10 days ago, at a gallery 3 fucking miles from my apartment. Oh, Christian Hosoi and Tony Alva were there, too. Both Hosoi and Alva made an [...]
I know I posted a while back with my first attempt at skate flash photography, but as I had owned my flash for all of about two days, I didn’t really know what I was doing with it. Honestly, it’s a bit embarrassing, but I went out shooting without fully understanding how the whole flash [...]
Out of nowhere I got a text from Brandon, a guy I’ve hung out with maybe four times since moving here, asking if I wanted to go skate. Sure, I’ve bombed around a little bit in the past several months, but I haven’t had a “real” skate session since I blew my knee out way [...]
I was skating downtown today and was stopped at a crosswalk by traffic. A cop caught up to me and told me that skating on the sidewalk was a $25 fine. I got the whole “it’s for your protection, when you lose control of your skateboard and it hits somebody, they’re going to sue you, [...]
Was down at Goodwill a little while ago and came across a board game called Zombies!!! That’s right; three exclamation points. It was only eight dollars and it was new, in the shrinkwrap, so we picked it up. On the back it said it came with 100 zombies, but I figured it’d be something lame [...]