Slowly archiving photos and articles from Skateboarder Magazine and The Skateboard Mag, while also including stuff from Transworld, SLAP, Thrasher. I am not, nor have I ever been, formally affiliated with any of these magazines.
Surviving India
This is the article for the India trip that Josh Stewart brings up as his "wildest story" from filming for Static III in his Static VI interview that was in Issue 6 of Closer Skateboarding Magazine. Two bouts of food poisoning and a terrorist attack within 100 feet of your hotel room, I don't know a trip could get more stressful than that. Words and photos by Josh.
¡Guadalajara Guey!
A short-but-sweet article by Jonathan Mehring about a trip to Guadalajara, Mexico. He and Rob G, Danny Montoya, Raymond Molinar and Jose Rojo (and later Steve Nesser, who had been visiting Mazatlan at the same time) stayed at Rob's grandfather's house for a bit, skating the city and eating some of the delicious local cuisine. Mehring ends the article by saying it was "one of the best trips any of us had ever experienced".
Beavis & Bootleg: Bootleg Domestic Tour
This article from the May 2003 issue of Skateboarder covers a US tour the Bootleg team took through the US while filming for Bootleg 3000 Steady Crushin' It. Words by Mackenzie Eisenhour and photos by Ben Colen.
What's The Story?: Matt Beach
Below is Matt Beach's interview from the June 2009 issue of The Skateboard Mag. As is alluded to in Chris Nieratko's introduction, Matt flew under the radar during his pro career, but was a member of G&S, Birdhouse and The Firm before he landed on Skate Mental - a cross-generational professional skateboarder.
Photos by Jon Humphries.
Question Mark: Alex Gourdouros
Alex Gourdouros's Question Mark interview from the August 2009 issue of The Skateboard Mag. Words by Paul Zitzer and photos by Anthony Acosta. Check the 50-50 on the Carlos Ruiz rail.
Justin Figueroa interview - December 2009
Justin Figueroa's interview from the December 2009 issue of Skateboarder. Words by Chris Nieratko and photos by John Bradford.
East Bound and Down: RVCA Rocks the South
John Bradford and some of the RVCA team take a trip through the South, with Bradford providing some historical facts about each of the cities they stopped in. The article appeared in the September 2010 issue of Skateboarder, words and photos by John.
Kenny Reed - Noseslide in Kazakhstan
This Jonathan Mehring photo of Kenny Reed nosesliding the unofficial world's longest hubba in Astana, Kazakhstan was taken during a Mehring-led trip to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in October 2008 and appeared in the March 2009 issue of Skateboarder.
For reasons that are obvious, this photo has always stood out to me ever since I saw it for the first time. I spent the next 15 years occasionally searching for the clip on YouTube and Vimeo, wondering if it even existed. Finally, in 2022 when I posted a scan of this to Instagram, Mehring let me know that Mark Nickels was the filmer on the trip. I reached out to him over Instagram DM, and Mark said that he would be posting it the near future, as he was in the process of going through some of his old tapes. I forgot about the DM soon after. Fast forward almost exactly two years later (yesterday when I'm currently typing this), and I was reminded of the request after sending Mark a DM asking permission to repost his clip of Kanten Russell backside 180ing the Bercy 5. After a quick scroll through his Instagram account, I discovered to my absolute delight that Mark had posted the clip a year after I'd asked about it. After waiting and looking for fifteen years, I'd finally seen the clip! You can watch it here. Thanks Mark!!!
Milestone: Jerry Hsu
From the October 2005 issue of The Skateboard Mag, with lots of photos from tricks that appear in his bag of suck part. This article was the seventh post of this blog, all the way back in March of 2022, back when I was still figuring out the scanning process. The scans below are from September 2023 and look much nicer.
Words by Dave Carnie and photos by Jon Humphries. I also included Jerry's Osiris ad from this issue. Sequence by Ian O'Connor.
Back On The Beat: Listen Weathers The Storm
This September 2010 Skateboarder article was published to help hype up the return of Rob G's and Danny Montoya's first board brand, Listen. Unfortunately, Listen didn't last much longer, so then they started BLVD Skateboards, which was a pretty sick brand as well. I don't know if it is still active or not nowadays. Anyways, Rob and Danny are an awesome duo and despite things not working out with their board brands, this article is still enjoyable to look back on.
Words by Jaime Owens and photos by John Bradford, Yoon Sul and Jon Coulthard.
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