Cities hire ad agencies to craft entire campaigns to woo tourists. The skate shop video achieves the same thing powered by a handful of skaters in their late teens to early twenties, a couple of responsible adults, and a steady flow of price-point shop decks.
Harry Lintell: In(ternational) Progress
"Watching him get his head around tricks was like watching somebody learn a trick by doing the ultimate version of it"
SLAPPY X CLOSER Presents “Do It Yourself”
Get in the van and let's roll.
CONS “FLORIDA” BY BEN CHANDOURNE
Jacksonville to Miami
ISSUE 14 OUT NOW
New Issue Out Now.
QUASI “HARD RESET” FULL VIDEO
A RETURN TO FORM
Rick Howard — The Chrome Ball Interview
The Full Interview
The Good and Evil of Shiloh Catori and Georgia Martin
Georgia Martin and Shiloh Catori broke out in Toy Machine's Real Life Sucks last summer. For the cover story of Closer Issue #11, we spoke to the pair about what it means to be in skateboarding's spotlight today. Words and Interview by Farran Golding Photography by Jaime Owens Riding shotgun on a California freeway, Georgia … Continue reading The Good and Evil of Shiloh Catori and Georgia Martin
Rampage: Skateboarding’s First Halfpipe with Tom Stewart
"People kept asking how they could build one of their own..."
‘Down By Law’ — Paul Young on East Coast Filmmaking
"There’s this idea I'm still so attached to of how you can present your local schoolyard in the suburbs the same as you can a spot in midtown Manhattan."