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 Omar Salazar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Omar Salazar. Show all posts
Focus: September 2004
The Focus section of the September 2004 issue of Skateboarder. Photo credit is in 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.
¡Viva Threat! Nike SB Northeast trip
Kevin Wilkins uses this January 2006 The Skateboard Mag article to briefly speak about the cyclical relationship between skateboarding culture and corporate branding. Even if I didn't always understand what he was trying to say, I always found Kevin's pieces in TSM interesting to read.
Photos by Jon Humphries.
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.
Three exceptional wide-frame photos in the June/July 2011 Skateboarder
One of the best advantages of Skateboarder transitioning to an oversized format for the last two years it was in print was how the photos looked. These issues were roughly 21"x12" end-to-end when laid flat with both pages open, and holding and looking at photos this large from some of the best photographers in the industry was incredible. To me, it felt a little more like I was able to insert myself inside of the frame and understand what it was like to exist in that space at that exact moment when the camera clicked. Below are three from the June/July 2011 issue that particularly stand out to me.
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| Omar Salazar, back tail photo: Jonathan Mehring |
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| Casey Rigney, switch front blunt photo: Jon Coulthard |
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| Kevin Spanky Long, wallie in Istanbul photo: Jonathan Mehring |
Spanky's wallie photo above can also be seen in Mehring's book, Skate The World. I highly suggest picking that one up.
(Blogger note: I understand the irony of uploading scans of these pages right after explaining how they are best appreciated in a print format. Don't @ me!)
Omar Salazar's Milestone feature
Omar Salazar's Milestone feature, from the April 2009 issue of The Skateboard Mag. Words by Rob Brink and photos by Jeff Landi, Anthony Acosta and Anton Miettinen.
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