By Joshua Finnell There are dragons to be slayed. Hearing that line will always conjure a baby-faced Geoff-Rowley staring directly into the camera while reverse time-lapse footage of surfers tossing a football in the Pacific ocean plays in the background. The segment would be one of many great clips forming Transworld’s first video release,...
Interview from Sidewalk 220 Portrait by Ryan Leathem Let’s start off with your life growing up and how you started skating Stu. I’m from the Cave Hill area of North Belfast. I had a normal childhood, doing the normal things that kids do; playing football, climbing trees. Then I was in Easons in the Abbey...
Amongst all the skate publications, websites, catalogues or whatever it’s possible to slap photos on and jam words alongside, most writers will struggle to play cleverly with words or be inventive enough to prevent the reader from skipping the intro straight to the crux of the feature (wait, wait, there’s more). Kyle Beachy’s insights to...
Words and video by Tony Moore We’re not Brazil we’re Northern Ireland, But its all the same to me. These words sang by our national football teams fans, ring true to me in our wee world of skating. We’re not LA, SF, NYC, London, Barca, Sydney or Shanghai. We’re Belfast. And we paint the streets...
Every skater out there has at least a few Transworld videos that they hold close to the heart. Chris Thiessen has to have skating videos that fall into that category too. The only difference? This time around he’s continuing the Transworld video legacy as the man in charge. We caught up with Chris to be...
Jimmy Carlin’s skating speaks for itself. Despite his classroom clown image in skateboarding the fact is he completely rips. Not to disappoint, but he’s a relatively normal person and much less hyper than we expected. It must come out in bursts? We caught up with Jimmy to talk about the move from Mystery to Enjoi,...
You all know about Wes Kremer’s lack of an iPhone, his refusal to take photo incentives and of course, how much he loves to roll – ambiguity eh? So rather than rattle on, I’ll let the catch up with Wes speak for itself. Enjoy – Photography – Mike Blabac Interview – Stephen Cox ...
Rob Mathieson is one of those dicks who is unfairly exceptionally talented at two different things: skateboarding and illustration. Well, he’s not a dick really. In fact, he’s a really genuine guy (which on top of his talents sort of makes him a dick). Rob’s wonderful illustrations grace all sorts of bits and pieces of...
Three issues in with the fourth on the way, Graham Tait’s magazine predominately featuring Scottish skateboarding content but also reaching further afield, is receiving nods of approval and fist-bumps from all over due to its film-only/non-digital photo policy. I recently spoke to the Focus Skate Shop manager, photographer and skateboarder about how it all started,...
Hi Dave, how are things? Good, just in Sydney, Australia at the moment. My wife, son and I had to come back to renew our work visas. Actually, about 5 minutes ago the courier dropped by with our passports with the visas. Happy days. Yeah, we’re good to go for another couple of...
A review by Walker Ryan About a month ago my grandmother bought a book for me entitled Zen in the Art of Archery. Grummy, as she’s known to all of her grandchildren, recommended the book with the foresight that I might find some parallels between my experiences as a skateboarder and the experiences of the author...
When I spoke to Nick Boserio a few weeks ago he was in high spirits. After all, the beginning of The Cold War Tour was the next morning, he’d had a beer or two, and he expects to reside in the US by the end of the year. We spoke to Brass about his part...
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Great interview! Let's all take off our hazmat gloves and usher in a new era of skateboard activism, you damn...
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He is an artist. He paints, draws etc. Basically, he makes art. Idiot.
TheDeafWord: Brian Lotti Interview
"(I hate) that every skater thinks hes an artist, fuck your photos, fuck your art and fuck your music". ...