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A VERY LARGE PUZZLE: ON ANDREW REYNOLDS
MR. FRONTSIDE FLIP HIMSELF Because many of us are assholes, and because our passion lacks, thank god, any clear, established standards of value, any moment of agreement between skateboarders feels...
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MAKING UP LEGENDS IN THE ERA OF ZERO BUDGET SKATEBOARDING
Skateboarding is about nothing if it is not about itself. We are the men on the street talking to ourselves without shame or remorse. Even when we are doing it we are watching it done – it is beneath...
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PRETEND WE HAVEN’T GROWN
We know by now, by now even the most dire and morose of us, even grumbling Bobby Puleo hunched inside of a small room crowded with art and trash, even as he laces up his dead-stock iPaths and layers...
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IS PROPELLER WHAT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR?
Rowley and AVE. photo: Anthony Acosta Following the Chicago premiere of Propeller I could have reported a handful of facts about the video, at most. It was overwhelming. I know that the video was long...
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CLEARING A SPACE FOR MEANING: BOYS OF SUMMER
You’ve probably watched some if not all of Boys of Summer, that strange video that arrived the way skate media does today, with very little warning. It’s been a few weeks, so by now it’s buried...
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A DAY WITH CHAZ ORTIZ
art: anders nilsen 1. MAKE FRIENDS WITH CHAZ ORTIZ It might be hard, but try to imagine that the most recent Chaz Ortiz footage was the first Chaz Ortiz footage you saw. Imagine you’d never seen the...
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THE WORLD THE 917 VIDEO BUILT
[full] Over the course of 36 minutes, the 917 Video proposes a world. What kind of world? One of affection without sentimentality, a place where misfortune is delight. Everything here is pretty good,...
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