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.
Showing posts with label Jake Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jake Johnson. Show all posts
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.
Jake Johnson - wallie tailslide
This sequence was shot by Jonathan Mehring and appeared in the Howl section of the October 2007 issue of Skateboarder. As I have mentioned before, I started reading the mag at my public library before subscribing to it, and the October 2007 issue was the last one I had to read there before getting them in the mail. The memories of flipping through those issues at the library are still very fresh in my mind, and one of the images I remember most is this wallie tailslide. It was one of the first times that I thought that skateboarding was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. You can see the clip here.
Jumpboyz: Alien Workshop US Tour
This article was published in the May 2010 issue of The Skateboard Mag, with words by Jason Dill and photos by Rodent. The title comes from the team being bitten by the "jump bug" at the beginning of the trip, steering them to different cliffs and bridges along the way where they could get their next thrill. Thanks to the person on the SLAP forum who asked for this one, for inspiring me to find & scan it.
The Amazon: The Ayahuasca Made Me Do It
This article documented a Jonathan Mehring-led trip through Brazil with stops in Belém, Santarém & Manausa. Highlights included a three-day boat ride on the Amazon, a tour through the jungle, and an intense Ayahuasca trip with emetic aftershocks. This was the feature article of the oversized run of Skateboarder which lasted from 2011 to the end of the magazine's print run in 2013, and it was a great example of how the change in format benefitted their content. Print was dying anyways, but it was cool to see Jaime & Co. still putting in the work to make the coolest issue possible each time. Words and photos by Mehring. The video series they made to accompany this article can still be seen on their YouTube channel, too! All videos by Josh Stewart.
Behind The Mind's Eye: Greg Hunt interview
This is the second of three features within the April 2009 issue of Transworld that focus on the people around the making of Alien Workshop's 2009 Mind Field video. It gives a great behind-the-scenes look on the making of one of the most influential skate videos of the 2000s. Words and photos by Mike O'Meally.
Jonathan Mehring's First Place photos from the 2009 Rotterdam Photo Contest
With a hand-picked skate crew of Jake Johnson, Dylan Rieder, and Kenny Anderson, Skateboarder's Jonathan Mehring entered and won the 2009 Rotterdam Photo Contest. His photos and some of the stories behind them appeared in an article in the December 2009 issue of Skateboarder, which is posted below. The JJ frontside flip photo is amazing, and I think Mehring even included it in his NatGeo book.
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