The Curse of [Puerto] Rico

Written by Chris Nieratko and photographed by Jonathan Mehring, this article was published in the March 2006 issue of Skateboarder and features some of the Zoo York team at the time.

Optical Delusions

This is an interesting photo feature by Shad Lambert - for each photo, he tells a story related to the session when the photo was taken, or a brief story about the skater in the photograph. It includes a back story to Ragdoll's wallride in Slaughterhouse, although the photo in this doesn't appear to be the same as the make on video.

Dennis Does Paris: The Adidas Team in Gay Paree

*this is actually the 2nd time I've posted this article - I had forgotten to check if I'd already posted it when I did this one. Oh well. Didn't catch it until almost a year after the 2nd post, so I'm going to keep them both up.

This article from the May 2008 issue of Skateboarder covers an adidas trip to Paris, which produced a 9-minute DVD that was included in the issue. Tim O'Connor did the write-up, and Benjamin Deberdt took the photos (aside from a few incidentals by Bryce Kanights).

Dennis Does Paris: The adidas Team in Gay Paree - May 2008 Skateboarder

An adidas tour article covering a trip to Paris, which they also produced a tour video for that came in the form of a free DVD within this issue. This was the 7th magazine I'd ever gotten in the mail and I thought that maybe this was something that happened every few issues. Unfortunately, I was wrong. However, a couple of years later, online parts would become a thing, and now we get new skate videos pretty much every single day.

I watched that DVD hundreds of times. You can watch it here on YouTube.

Words by Tim O'Connor and photos by Benjamin Deberdt.

Harsh Crowd: 2004 eS Canada (and New York) Tour

Atiba Jefferson writes an article about a skater's perspective during a demo tour to accompany the photos that he took of the eS team during a Canada demo tour (and at least one New York spot). Appears in the October 2004 issue of The Skateboard Mag.