Suffer The Joy, Before You Get Jaded

An October 2006 Skateboarder article written and photographed by John Bradford, covering a Suffer The Joy filming trip that took the Toy Machine team through Australia, France and Spain.

Some GIFs

Some GIFs I've made from photo sequences.

Brawlin' Dingoes: Fallen trip to Australia

Published in the March 2006 issue of Skateboarder, this article covers a summer 2005(?) trip the Fallen Footwear team took to Australia while filming for their full-length 2008 video Ride The Sky. Words and photos by Shigeo.

Conflicting Moral Values: Toy Machine's Good & Evil Tour

This December 2004 Skateboarder article covers a month-long filming trip & demo tour for Toy Machine's Good & Evil video. There's also a specific video that was made from this tour, which I didn't know about until I was searching for the link for the full-length. Words and B&W photography by Ed Templeton, and photos by John Bradford (his first Toy Machine tour!)

Billy Marks - January 2005 interview

In this interview, Billy talks about what it's like to have Jamie Thomas as a team manager, what it's like to skate for Toy Machine, and how a rail at the skatepark in Corona made him an overnight skate sensation. Words by Sean Christopher, and photos by Jon Humphries & Shigeo.

Lurkfest: Toy Machine Creeps Across The U.S.

This article, written by Ed Templeton, covers the two-week Toy Machine 2007 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).