SKATE MEDIA.
Lovenskate and Huck: Rolling Back the Years
I headed down to the HUCK and Lovenskate show, Rolling Back The Years, at the Red Gallery. A celebration of 80s skateboarding with loads of old school decks custom designed by a plethora of artists and skaters.
Skate & Snap: Dimitri Karakostas
We’ve known Dimitri for a while now. He shot those photos of the Canadian G20 protests for us a couple of years ago before rioting and protests were so, like, mainstream and lame, and we’ve been following his work since
Skate & Snap – Leigh Harrison
Skaters in Grimsby spend as much time smoking cigarettes as they do skating.
Wu-Tang & Zoo York on Diesel Fluid.
Bringing together two of the finest fixtures of the New York hip hop scene, the Wu Tang Clan and Zoo York, R.B.Umali has put this special skate video together for Wu Tang’s latest single ‘Diesel Fluid’ featuring Method Man, Trife Diesel & Cappadonna. Watch and marvel!
Skate & Snap: Larry Bao.
Living in Indiana sucks if you skateboard.
Skate & Snap – Chris Adrian
Chris is a Cali native, so he sent me an array of photos detailing the kind of landscapes people skate out there; street spots, skateparks, backyard ramps, backyard pools, backyard bowls, street plazas and drainage ditches. Drainage ditches, in particular,
One Skater, One Spot – Nick Chappell.
Nick ripping the Midsomer Norton concrete park.
The Firm hit Bristol.
Recently Karl Pearson and a bunch of skaters including Josh Munden, Chris Beaumont, Luke Olney, Jake Tilbury, Chris Bull, John Wildsmith, Luigi, Jimmy Trood and Maceik Janicki hit Bristol for a weekend of skating and partying. Knowing these guys it would have been a pretty messy one! Karl hooked up this edit from the weekend…
Timo T
Timothee seems kinda pissed with the French skate scene, but he still snaps these gnarly fisheyes.
One Skater, One Spot – Chris Lanaway.
Chris is one of our semi-regular contributors who also happens to be a dab hand at skateboarding, so Matt Murray filmed him skating Dorking skatepark for us and sent it over.