Freddie De Sota, Variflex and the Curse of going too big.
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How Skateboard Movies Defined and Delineated Skateboarding Culture Since 1965 (and how the future is forever altered)
(Part 1) Every era, someone pointed a camera at a skateboarder, cut the footage into a shape, and smuggled the result into homes, contest halls, and shop TVs. The filmer and the director were usually the same person, so the image and the argument came from the same hands. In
Filling in the Blanks
Please forgive me. I was naive. I thought I was going to build a home for a couple of opinion-oriented stories, between curb-wax scented mind-fart and hopeless buoys in the ocean before El Niño. Alas, an app and my brain decided otherwise. Admittedly, there is a long
All In with Dave Swift
I. THE BOOK I really love your book. I think it's very original in the way you made it. Tell me about the process. Were you sitting on thousands and thousands of photographs and suddenly thought, Okay, I need to make a book now? DAVE SWIFT: I'
Not Lost in 翻訳
Japanese skateboarding is often described in a simple shorthand: an American culture imported and reproduced. Pretty much like in every other country around the globe. There is some truth in the first part. Skateboarding arrived in Japan carrying familiar source material: California imagery, American brands, skate videos and magazines, punk