If you are ever a pro skater in your 30s, from Aberdeen, Scotland, in the year 2012 then the chances are you’ll find yourself standing in Antisocial Skateshop with a bag of tees your friend has designed for your small-ass, home-grown, aggressive-gull-themed brand. Luckily your friend is none other than the prolific, A1, prime-cut British […]
Author Archives: Rat of NIMH
The Process is called Marquetry
Details of the 2nd and final run of Predatory Bird inlaid veneer decks
An Attitude of Exactitude: Custom Deck Construction and the Precision of the Veneer Inspector
The final run of decks went into production up in Vancouver the other day.
Storytime Part 2
You’re just some washed up bearded weirdo making Jackanory videos for skaters.
Getting There: The 2012 Dew Tour in SF
The streetstyle setup – at the 2012 SF stop of the Dew Tour – was one of the raddest things I’ve ever skated. Who’d have thought? Mountain Dew, killing it. Omar Salazar had a hand in designing the course. I’d been thinking something like this would be super fun for a while now. In my […]
The Bear Necessities
Whether Peter Greenaway’s violent unknown event had any bearing on what we in the skate world now know as ‘The Creative Hiatus‘ – or The C.H. – is difficult to say. What we do know is that up until The C.H. occurred I masqueraded as a pro skateboarder representing skate footwear brand éS (generally believed […]
Let The Wild Ruckus Begin!
After stretching synthetic silk across a plain wood frame, securing it in grooves with slender rope and coating it with a light-sensitive emulsion the WuBird image was burned into the screen using a torrent of photons radiating from the bulb of
Storytime Part 1
The Predatory Bird comic is the result of a troubling social media exchange between a morose, desperate, aging pro skater and a bright, talented, young artist. The benevolent souls over at Thrasher Magazine have been kind enough to publish the print version each month