Valor Argentino: The Butcher Interview

Ed Templeton interviews Diego "The Butcher" Bucchieri for the December 2002 Skateboarder issue and asks him about coming up as a young skater in Argentina, how he got his nickname "The Flying Carcass", and his interest in designing board graphics and shoes. Photos by Mike O'Meally.

Divulge: Anthony Pappalardo

Words by Mackenzie Eisenhour and photos by Mike O'Meally. This interview came out shortly after Pops turned pro for Alien Workshop.

A Culinary Disaster: Zero in Barcelona

With words and photos by Brian Gaberman, this December 2002 Skateboarder article is a document of Jamie Thomas, Chris Cole, John Rattray, and Ryan Smith's (with filmer Lee Dupont) 2002 Dying To Live filming trip to the street skating paradise city known as Barcelona, Spain. Gaberman frames the intense productivity of the Zero team around personal anecdotes of not being able to enjoy the local cuisine because he spent all of his time taking photos. For anyone who grew up watching Dying To Live, this article is a real treat.

Jamie Thomas' Skateboarder covers

Jamie Thomas is tied with Stefan Janoski for the most Skateboarder covers, having 4 of them. Here they are, in chronological order.

Photo: Sturt

Photo: Brian Gaberman

Photo: Oliver Barton

Photo: Shigeo

Two early 2000s Pappalardo ads

Usually, I try to include a little quip or story with everything that I post on here. However, sometimes I don't have any words to say about something I've recently scanned, but I want to upload it so that people can see it in better quality than Instagram. This is one of those times. Below are two great Anthony Pappalardo ads that I recently scanned from the January/February 2001 and December 2002 issues of Skateboarder.

Photo by Josh Stewart

Photo by Giovanni Reda

Nike's "First Sponsor" ad series

This was a pretty interesting ad series that Nike ran for 5 continuous months, from September 2002 to January 2003. These ads I scanned were in Skateboarder; I am assuming that they appeared in other magazines as well, though. I only have Skateboarder issues from this time period.

Also, I can't say with 100% certainty that these were the only ones that they did. I checked in the issues immediately before and after these five months and didn't see any, but that doesn't mean that they didn't extend the ad campaign for a different magazine. 

It looks like Todd Jordan got photo credit for all of these ads. I wonder if it was his idea to do this series?

Richard Mulder and his father
September 2002

Danny Supa & his friend Vinny Ponte
October 2002

Gino Iannucci and his mother
November 2002

Reese Forbes and his friend Chris Hall
December 2002

Todd Jordan and his brother Jeremy Jordan
January 2003