The title of this post comes from this essay. If you can’t be bothered to read it that’s fine but if you can then your life will be a little richer; although maybe not in the diamond earring sense of the word. It sums up some of the themes that might possibly be floating around inside […]
Tag Archives: Skateboarding
Bearded and Slightly Beweirded
Every now and again Jupiter and Venus are in conjunction in the western sky. Rare shit like that occasionally coincides with me getting a trick that might be worth dropping off at Zero and dumping into the Cold War folder. In between those scarce moments, in order to avoid plunging into the deathly-dark pit of […]
5 Great Reasons to Fail to Qualify at the Annual Tampa Pro-Skateboarding Contest
When you deplane at Tampa, Florida, you might walk over this mosaic of a spiral galaxy but that’s not one of the reasons to fail to qualify at the contest. Keegan might pick you up in a Chevy Malibu, rented, ultimately, by Vans Shoes. He might drive you to his hotel room all the way […]
Investigating Skateboarding Episode 2: Div
Div Adam talks frankly about the state of his skateboard
411 Video Magazine – The YouTube of it’s Time and The 411 Conspiracy Theory.
In talking about 411’s roll as an accelerator of skate-video content production is it safe to say that 411 was just the logical result of what the major electronics manufacturers were doing at the time? Would it have been impossible for 411 to have existed before that time because video camera equipment was strictly for […]
The Riding the Long White Cloud post
Below, in 5 parts, you should hopefully find a film of a muscle-powered tour that a group of skateboard enthusiasts undertook in New Zealand one summer. My idea was to use the trip as a speculative platform from which
Rats in the Trees
Rats in the Trees is a collection of interconnected short stories by Oakland based writer Jess Mowry
Div – the saga continues
Matt Winterberg, eminent, honourable filmer of Zero, $LAVE and Mystery donated this footage of The Mighty Div for exclusive use on the predatory bird and for that I think we should all be very grateful.