Lurkfest: Toy Machine Creeps Across The U.S.

This article, written by Ed Templeton, covers the two-week Toy Machine 2017 summer tour. It started on May 29 and concluded on June 14 and took the team through Denver, Kansas City, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Chicago and Nashville. John Bradford took all of the skate photos, with some incidentals by Ed included. I really enjoyed reading this when I first got it in the mail 15 years ago, and would occasionally revisit it over the years. I even remember using the Ed Templeton nosebluntslide photo for a school project (I took a picture of it with a Pentax K1000 for a photography class - my teacher wasn't impressed that I took a photo of an already-composed printed photograph).

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Photos from Stay Gold)

Brian Gaberman put together a Hearts of Darkness-inspired interview with Jon Miner about the making of Stay Gold. As far as I can tell, Miner wasn't actually interviewed for this; Brian pulled quotes from the documentary and arranged them in a way to make Coppola's words sound like Jon's. I thought it was a pretty interesting concept. I also included the Emerica ad on the back cover of this issue, capturing Jerry Hsu in a full meltdown.

Anthony Pappalardo interview - December 2006 Skateboarder

Short but sweet, with some good photos. Words and photos by Jonathan Mehring.

Bonus Chocolate ad from the same issue.

The Long Stretch: A month on the road with the Chocolate team

This 18-page feature from the January 2004 issue of Skateboarder covers the 31-day trip that became the Hot Chocolate video. Kenny Anderson was on the cover of this issue, which is one of the more infamous cases of a photo running of a trick that the skater never rolled away from. Words by Sam Smyth, and photos by Oliver Barton.

Divulge: Pete Eldridge

From the January 2004 issue of Skateboarder. Words and photos by Oliver Barton.

Ali Boulala interview - May 2002 Skateboarder

Ali got the feature interview and on the cover of the May 2002 issue of Skateboarder, which includes plenty of photos of tricks that appear in his Sorry part, released in the same month. Words by Mackenzie Eisenhour, and photos by Oliver Chassignole.

April 2002 Photo Issue

40 pages of nothing but photos from the April 2002 Skateboarder Photo Issue. Photographer credit is within the scans.