Skateboard Magazine Issue #8 Vol. 1 Spring 2021
EatTheBologna By Scott Morton
Issue 8 Vol. 2 Fall 2020
Content
• Skate Tourism in Spain
The last dance
at the milk factory
What makes it so great?
• Lessons learned • Rancho Penasquitos Park
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Vincent Milou Backside Tailslide
Sometimes you don’t have anything to say and that is ok. Listening is just as important as talking and talking just for the sake of being heard is quick way to stay something really dumb. Instead of just throwing together content for the sake of producing, ETB took a break to sit back and collect ideas. Taking time to be quiet and let other voices be heard makes it easier to say something meaningful. It lets you hear where other people are coming from and compare that to where you come from. Pushing Boarders in Malmo last summer showed me how big skateboarding really was. My California worldview is just a narrow slice of this great thing called skateboarding. Even in a world that is changing so quickly, the joy of polyurethane on asphalt is constant. It was great to get to meet and learn from so many different types of people while bonding over the shared joy of skateboarding. Skateboarding is richer for its diversity; we need the NoComplies to contrast the BS Tailslides. The 12 stairs to compare to the 12 foot bowls. After taking the time to quiet myself and reflect, I realized the value in still contributing my voice. Instead of trying to be some all encompassing skate zine, it is enough to just show my little view of skateboarding. I am blessed to live in San Diego surrounded by so many talented skateboarders as well as skate history. There is always some new kid skating some spot that is older than them and I hope to be able to be a link between the two. Telling the kids about the legendary tricks, and showing what the legends are still doing. If ETB makes you feel anything I hope it’s that your experience is valuable. Your spots, your local scene, your inside jokes, your skate trips with friends. They all add flavor to this delicious skate soup we are making together.
@gages._ 5-0
Bologna en Ba rca
Skateboard Paradise. Tierra del dios. The Holy Land as blessed by the Flip team in 2001. Barcelona is the dream spot of anyone who wants to travel on a skateboard. It is full of spots that we’ve all seen so many times that they almost lose their reality and become just a dream. Actually going there and bearing witness was as surreal as it was fun. To the California bred skater the spots really do feel like they come out of a fever dream. The cookie cutter architecurte of plain grey schoolyards traded for a burst of bright colored graffiti and strange angles. Justy swapping the dead concrete color for the shades of brown makes everything look more appealing. Even without going to the famous spots the whole place is more pleasing to the eye. Stranger too is the idea of Public Space. In America we are hiden away at designated skateboarding areas or hopping fences to empty spots. In Barcelona there is large open spaces filled with art. Space meant to be lived in by the people. People are walking through or just sitting on a bench enjoying their day. It is nice to not feel like the space you are in hates you. When we did make it to the famous spots it felt out of body. Getting out of the subway and turning the corner to see “Oh, there is paral-lel.” When you see it with your own eyes instead of through the lens of the VX it changes form. It still doesnt feel real even when you get to skate it. Paral-lel is a great example of how the way I am used to skating spots just doesn’t apply to euro plazas. I go to a spot with a trick in mind, for a single object, and when ive done it I am finished. Here it is more of a skatepark, it feels more natural to just hang out all day and session. Even after getting a trick it didn’t feel like I had “won”, I wanted to just keep rolling on the smooth manual pads. We went to Sants and it was the same thing. Sants is a spot that has changed over the years as well. The ledges that I remeber in videos are mostly gone except for one and the spot is filled up with a varierty of DIY objects. Again it wasn’t about the trick as much as just getting to enjoy the setting. Like floating in a river to just enjoy the water.
Matt Erlandson Crook
We fell into a routine that I could get used to easily. Wake up in the morning and a short skate away was a cafe with dozens of pastries I had never seen before with cheap little coffees that were delicious. From there jump into the metro stop that was right outside and teleport via the underground to some famous spot. If we got hungry throughout the day there is a sandwich shop on every corner selling delicious little meals. It wasn’t like america where you have to sit and digest after a big meal, this was just a quick fill up and it was back to the streets. The feeling of movment was freeing and it felt like we were never in one place for long, always ready to move on to something better. We spent a little bit of time doing sightseeing because there is only so much skateboarding the legs can handle. We checked out La Sagrada Famila and some other famous non-skating spots, but they paled in comparison to the monuments of skate that we were seeing everywhere. Seeing the wallride that JJ did switch had me in more awe than anything you’ll see in an art history textbook.
Anderson Schmidt Bluntslide
Scott Morton Poseslide
There is something comforting about being in Europe. It is far away from the worries that are shoved in our face daily ehre in America. Donald who? Health care what? While it has it’s own problems to fret about, as an American abroad we had the freedom to not worry about any of it. The feeling was the opposite of taking things for granted you are grateful for. Instead I was shown things I wasn’t even aware were stressing me out. To oder a meal and it simply be enough to eat, not shoved full of large fries and a large coke. To be able to get from place to palce via convinient public transportation rather then pushed aside to make way for the all powerful automobile. The skate trip is a powerful tool for making you feel good about yourself. I don’t know what other people get out of vacation other than an excuse to be lazy. A skate trip makes me feel like I have a solid bag of tricks to use on spots as well as spots that unlock things within my bag of tricks. My skateboard feels more like a paintbrush than ever before and each spot is a new place for me to leave some paint on it. Standing at a skatespot I have seen since I was a teenager and looking out into the mediteranean, there was an overwhelming feeling of “This is where I am meant to be right now.”
Rod James Invert
Kids Love Stickers They love loud music and bright colors. They love free stuff. They love skateboarding. They might even like milk. In the week I spent teaching skate lessons at the US Open of surfing I got to see a lot of really stoked kids. Teaching skate lessons is weird for me because I am not particuallry adept at skateboarding and even less so at describing what happens to make a trick happen. I do not posses any secrests or advice on how to get even to the level I am at. I don’t even like children very much. I forget that as a kid it is cool to get anything. To roll over a pyramid for the first time feels like an accomplishment. To get a free sticker feels cool, even if its for a brand that doesn’t even exsist anymore. The kid in the picture below wanted my autograph. I had to stop myself from laughing, “Kid, I’m nobody.” but to him I was the skater guy that was so good he got to work at the park. He showed up every day when we opened in the same clothes and chipped baord, so I know he didnt live in Hunington Beach. After a few days I decided to set up my new board and gave him my old one. I couldn’t have knocked the smile off his face if I tried. And I did try because later I was coming in fakie from a trick and didn’t see him and ran straight into him, luckily my frail ass got leveled while he stood there unphased laughing. This is why I am giving skateboarding lessons not football lessons. Eventually all these kids will outgrow the loud music and cartoony colors. They will (hopefully) stop drinking milk, but the best case scenario is they don’t move on past the hype of skateboarding.
Gabe Ryan Fs ollie
There are 37 skateparks within an hour from my apartment. Sure I spend a lot of time at Connor’s because it is close but if I had to choose one it would be PQ. It’s been around forever and luckily redone in the last 5 years. The ledges may not have the best coping and there is some weird design choices, but what keeps me coming back is the vibe. I feel welcome at PQ. I know a handful of the locals but mostly it is just a welcoming group of skaters that hangout there. The center bench with the palm tree is always good for sitting around and playing games of skate. I do more dorking around at PQ than I do at other parks. Sure there are lots of choices, but I choose PQ as my local.
Rod James & Mark Bs Boneless
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Yes, My Homies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwC-NZC4Cuw&feature=emb_logo
The San Marcos homies are my favorite thing about skating in this town. I’m sure every city has its group of up and coming young bucks but these are MY local up and coming young bucks and therefore I love them. They are gnarly and have an obvious love for making skate videos. They make the most out of the spots around them, seeing things that most other people haven’t ever touched. They are the ones bondo-ing the cracks and cutting off the kinks on the rails. They have an affinity for rolling off of roofs or rolling into terrifying banks. The section of Smilers skating into the drain during the rain had me screaming at my TV “Stop it!!!!” but that’s the thrills they are after.It’s the energy of GX1000 chasing hills but for a town without any hills. In this video alone Andy takes like 3 horrific slams from the top rope, but that’s kind of just how his skating is. Make or break. His footplant over the wall at La-Z-Boy is legendary and for that alone he is going into the history books. Ozy has the same mysterious power found in greats like Heath or Shorty’s Steve Olsen. He will sit on the sidelines and then just do something crazy perfectly. He didn’t have that period of potential, he just woke up one day and was incredible. There is an Instagram page called @rightbymyhouse that posts comments people make about a spot being right near their house. I don’t know why as skateboarders we have the urge to yell the name of the spot out when we recognize it in a video, but right now i am guilty as charged. These spots aren’t just ones i’ve been to, its the spots that I walk past every day. In addition to the skating the video is filled with hijinx. The
kid with the airsoft gun shooting smilers as he bonlesses off the roof and they play the voice message of the guy complaining about “Mexican kids on the fucking roof ” is instant classic. So much of it is hyper local that it is in conversation with the space it is filmed in. A super long manual down a mellow hill isn’t that cool, but when it is the super familar hill behind San Marcos Skate park it becomes sick because everyone knows the area and to do that is awesome. There is also the part where he decides to skate into a ditch during the rain. This isn’t normal california rain, this is real downpour rain. It is literally a drainage ditch he is skating into and at the bottom of it is all the rainwater collecting. He slams over and over hitting the puddle and sliding across the slick asphalt every time. There isn’t even a make its just a moment of pure passion to get a good clip. It is more than just getting the trick. it is the build up when they are in the care looking at the rain pouring down on the windshield. It’s the type of cinema people write scripts for. These kids are filled with a love of skating that is contagious and I am so lucky that they are from my neighborhood crushing all the spots I see everyday. Today San Marcos, tomorrow the world.
Ride to this shit Three 6 Mafia are always at their best when they get out of their own way. By 1998 they were getting enough noise about the main group that the best releases came out on the artists they signed. Juicy & Paul’s production ends up front and center and the attitude of Hypnotize Minds carries all the raps. It’s all about aggression and attitude over movie sampled beats. There is a fascination with death, whether it’s killing the haters or dying yourself. The samples are on another level. Juicy & Paul are just in autopilot tracking any song with synths and throwing booms, claps and 808s over it. The choice to sample the level select screen from 007 Goldeneye is transcendent. The bridge between being a kid playing multiplayer on n64 with my friends and a bunch of gangsters in Memphis is complete. I can picture them sitting at their pause screen smoking a blunt and spitting rhymes on a late Sunday night, just like me and my friends.
Indo G - Angel Dust (1998) The samples just keep rocking too. Superfly, Scarface, Whodini, and even other Three 6 Mafia songs. The conversation between Three 6’s other songs and this makes listening to the group an experience that brings you in. You feel like a part of the groups inside jokes and ways of speaking. It is music that has less to say with the rest of the rap world and more to say with its own world. This is where Three 6 Mafia sets itself apart from the rest of the era and becomes timeless. They are on their own wavelength and the formula they created not only worked then but would go on to influence rap a generation later as people caught on. But really it’s just that Goldeneye sample.
Bad Art/Good Fun
Collage the World aka Curtis Bergesen
What is your experience with skateboarding? I started skateboarding in middle school, in the early 1990s. I was never very good, but I was passionate about it and would go skating with friends in Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC. Freedom Plaza in DC was a cool spot to see people shredding. I had a subscription to Transworld Skateboarding magazine for many years and would devour every issue. The first video I owned (VHS of course) was Goldfish by Girl Skateboards. I stopped actively skating in high school at some point, but I’m a huge fan to this day. Anytime I see someone skating, I will stop and watch. How has collage changed the way you view print publications? It has changed things 200%! I create handmade collage, so everything I use is from some kind of print source. When I look through a magazine or book, my main focus is on the imagery. The worst feeling is when I am flipping through a magazine/ book that belongs to someone else and I see something I’d really like to cut out.
Do you start with an idea in mind or do the images write their own story? I usually start with one image and build things out from there. Occasionally I have an idea in mind that I try and bring to fruition, but for the most part it starts with a cut. Collage is a very inclusive medium because anyone of any age can do it, for little to no money. All you need is a magazine, scissors, and some glue or tape. What are some of your favorite sources to pull images from? I’ve cut some stuff out of my grandmother’s old engagement calendars, which has been very fulfilling on a sentimental level. My go to sources are National Geographic, Rolling Stone, and nature photo books. I’ve made a couple skateboard collage pieces, and I’ve cut the skaters out of Stoke Much magazine. Zach Moldof runs Stoke Much and was a big influence on my collage art when I started getting serious about it in 2017. I rarely turn down free magazines, you can always find at least a few things to cut out of a publication, regardless of subject matter.
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TRICK TIP Draw Cal the Skate Rabbit!
1. Start with an oval
2. Add two ears
3. Dick and balls right on the face
4. Add heavy eyelids, weary from skating’s struggles
5. Add lips and a snarky comment
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