Skate Mag Scans by Skate Media Nerd: AVE

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NBD: Vans Austria

This article covers a trip to Austria that the Vans team took, presumably for filming for Propeller. Printed in the January 2012 issue of The Skateboard Mag. Words and photos by Anthony Acosta.

Focus: June 2002

The Focus section from the June 2002 issue of Skateboarder. Photo credit is within the scans.

The Regrouping of the Sovereign Sect: Alien Workshop in America

This article was published in the September 2011 issue of Thrasher, about two years after the masterpiece Mind Field was released. The team had gone through some changes ("axed the Scientologist and acquired two new ams") and the trip was a way to regroup after recovering from filming for the 2009 full-length. Ironically, two years later Jason Dill and AVE would depart to start Fucking Awesome, and the rest of the team would quickly disperse as well as The Workshop would be completely revamped.

This tour takes the 2011 team from the AWS home base of Dayton, Ohio, all the way through Pittsburgh, Richmond and Atlanta. Words by Dill and photos by Joe Brook.

The European Brain Drain: Six skaters spend their summer in Europe

This article covers six skaters' 2002 summer trips to Europe, capturing their thoughts on the food, nightlife and spots they encountered. It was put together by then-staff photographer Oliver Barton for the January 2003 issue of Skateboarder.

Riot In The Streets: Vans in Cyprus

This article appears in the November 2010 issue of Skateboarder, and is another good example of why Jonathan Mehring's features were some of my favorite parts of the magazine. Rather than a bunch of stories about how many beers were consumed or joints smoked, how many civilians were pissed off because they don't "get it", or other familiar themes that appear over and over in trip articles, Mehring uses the space to give the reader some context of what it was like to exist in that space at that moment: describing the exhilaration of being in the streets after a Cypriot soccer team win, approaching and exploring the war-torn areas of the de facto state of Northern Cyprus, and finally returning to the comfort of Aya Napa stacking clips during the last ten days of their trip. His words immerse you within the spaces you see in the skate photos, and make the tricks feel a little more meaningful.

Another photo from this trip appears at the front of this issue before the Contents, and is one of my favorite photos ever: a two-page spread of Chris Pfanner ollieing through a tree. There was a pull-out poster of this photo included within the main article, and it's been on my walls ever since I carefully tore it out of this issue thirteen years ago.

TWS Pro Spotlight: AVE

I read Anthony Van Engelen's April 2009 Pro Spotlight interview for the first time on the chromeball incident blog, and it has stuck with me ever since then. A few months ago, I finally ordered a physical copy of the issue from Look Back Library for my own collection and decided recently that I also want the interview on my blog, since it meant so much to me when I first read it. I'll let Eric Swisher's words preface the interview: "A very different Anthony Van Engelen re-emerges from the Mind Field and comes clean about getting clean in his second Spotlight. Never one for nonsense, this is AVE pulling no punches as he describes his descent into a world where most never comeback. An inspiring read."

Words by Skin Phillips and photos by Mike O'Meally.

AVE also got the cover of this issue.

Has This Thing Ruined Skateboarding?

Four skaters and one filmer weigh in on the pros and cons of filming for skate videos for an article in the April 2001 issue of Skateboarder.

In 2013, I wrote a college thesis about skate videos and media culture and used this article for it (thanks Eric for posting it and emailing me the bibliography information!)