rss feedin the beginning [skateboard]
I wasn’t at the beginning of the skate revolution that continues to sweep the world but I was close. Back then you wore what you could get your hands on made your own skateboards and rode what ever terrain you could find. Home made ramps, lip tricks on an ASB car park in the back of Mt Eden.
We poured over ruffled copies of Thrasher magazine and watched videos over and over and over again until the deteriorating quality of the tape added a grunginess that todays graphic designers can’t replicate to save them selves. So as a guy who is peppered with grey hairs now, it takes a bit to get me excited for something I have seen inevitably destroyed by marketers.
I introduce to you Bailgun. Online and free.
Great photography and nice story telling. Issue nine looses its way half way through but it returns.
