Posts by Ian Michna
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HUNTING DOWN A REMOTE QUARTERPIPE IN A SECLUDED DESERT TOWN
We heard stories of a quarterpipe in the post-apocalyptic desert town of Bombay Beach and went off to find it.
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WE FLEW TO SWEDEN TO FIND OUT HOW SOME OF THE FASTEST BEARINGS ARE MADE
We hit Sweden to check out one of the largest and oldest bearing manufacturing companies in the world.
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THE SEARCH FOR STEVE ROCCO, OG SKATER AND FOUNDER OF WORLD INDUSTRIES
We got him. We got Steve fucking Rocco.
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LOCALS: FRANK THE MAGICIAN
Meet Frank, a magician and dedicated maintainer of the sandy, trash-accumulating Venice Beach Skatepark.
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JOHN GARDNER ON STEPPING AWAY FROM PRO SKATING AND HIS NEXT CHAPTER
"I’m sure I could have kept my career going for a while, and it was tempting to do that because I was making really good money, but I felt strongly I needed to do something else."
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HARDBODY, MUSHROOMS, AND CANCEL FLIPS WITH ANTONIO DURAO
"Skateboarding should feel like when you were a kid. If you can't reinvent it and make it fun, you should go do something else."
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MIND FIELD, JAKE JOHNSON AND MUSIC WITH ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
A quick conversation with Animal Collective about their music in skate videos.
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THE STORY OF THE NAKED 540
"Hopefully it’s not remembered. But for anyone that got a laugh out of it that’s about as much as I could hope for."
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RIDING THE SUBWAY WITH NEW YORK’S MOST WANTED TRAIN SURFERS
We met up with some of NY's notorious subway surfers to try and go beyond the cheap thrills and understand why they are literally risking it all.
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WHAT FILM CAMERAS ARE SOME OF SKATING’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS USING?
It’s easy to feel lost in finding your own go-to camera. We hope this helps.
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HUNTING DOWN A REMOTE QUARTERPIPE IN A SECLUDED DESERT TOWN
We heard stories of a quarterpipe in the post-apocalyptic desert town of Bombay Beach and went off to find it.
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A CHAT WITH LUDVIG HAKANSSON, THE OLDEST SOUL IN SKATEBOARDING
The man loves to read Nietzche, skates in some expensive vintage gear, and paints in his own neoclassical-meets-abstract-expressionist style.
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THE WAIT IS OVER: IPATH SHOES ARE BACK
Cats, Grasshoppers and Fred Gall. What's going on with this IPATH reboot?
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AN INTERVIEW WITH DUSTIN DOLLIN, THE LAST OF THE PISS DRUNX
"It’s so weird being an alcoholic for 20 years and now my body feels fine."