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Introduction Neighbourhood Watch: Steven Steeves Archive w/ Jeff Comber 24-Hours Focus The “Making-of” the new supreme video Remembering Jimmy O’Brien
Cover: Cody Beaudry, 5-0 / Toronto / Stripp Here: Joey Boyce, FS Bigspin / North York / Stripp
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Matthew Sullivan / Stripp
Hello, and welcome to Volume 3 of Neighbourhood Skate Mag. They say third time is the charm, and that certainly feels applicable here. The magazine has a fresh new look thanks to our designer, it’s printed on the best quality paper we could get, and 1000 copies were produced to be distributed across Canada and abroad. The new mag also marks the end of a 4-year video project by Evan Perkins.This is of particular significance because it features the footage from many of the photos we have published. Evan has been here from the start taking care of the video side, and now everyone can finally see what he’s been working on. For the future we plan to work on a faster timeline (probably two volumes per year), as well as make an effort to post more actively on social media. Print has always been the Holy Grail for skateboard photography and the goal here is to keep that tradition alive. It’s a pretty surreal feeling for me to see this new mag come to life, and if you enjoy reading it just a fraction as much as I have enjoyed working to put this together I will consider it a success. -Nathan Stripp
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Neighbourhood Watch
Steven Steeves, 360 flip / Seca What are your sponsors? Working Class Skateshop, Dwindle Dist., and Globe shoes. Tell me a about where you live. I live in a small city, Moncton, New Brunswick. Blessed to have 3 local parks surrounding the area. Streets are limited with spots but we make do with what we got. Whats the best part about skating in Moncton? I’d say the Moncton skatepark is a happy medium for a lot of us. Either meet up there, or end up there eventually. Inspirational video part? Tom Penny in Menikmati fo sho. Top 3 Moncton spots? Red banks, Courthouse, and Event Centre.
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AR c hi ve Jeff comber Bobby DeKeyzer - Front Blunt Gap Out. December, 2015 This was another photo shot with winter looming. Bobby was collecting photos for a Thrasher interview and we mission’d to this North Toronto ledge to gap spot. Off to the side, you can see the chains they use to keep people off the stairs during the winter. Security is really tight at this spot, you only get a couple of tries. So after a little ‘cat and mouse’ with security Bobby came thru, popping this Front Blunt over the stairs and we got back on the warm subway south.
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Nolan Waller Ollie. April, 2013 Skating in the east end of Toronto always felt like kind of a mission. The spots are really good, some pretty steep hills and amazing driveway banks...but you gotta know where they are. Luckily Nolan Waller grew up out there and knows where the goods is at! We shot this Ollie back when he was working on an interview for Color Magazine (RIP). I love the way the spot looks, the moody sky and the classic Krooked Crimson Ghost shirt.
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Jay Brown - FS Ollie. April, 2012 It wasn’t long after Ontario Place closed its doors for good that skaters broke in to skate the waterslides. One spring day a large crew of us decided to hit it up. We timed out the guards rounds so that we could jump the fence undetected. We spent the afternoon exploring, skating and occasionally hiding when we heard the guards. For this shot I was stuffed into the narrow end of the pipe with a single flash as Jay blasted around the turn and into the full pipe before cracking this colourful Frontside Ollie. As we were leaving security rolled up and I was the only one that couldn’t jump the fence because of a knee injury. The $70 dollar trespassing ticket was worth it because I knew I had some epic shots from the day.
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Jesse Landen - Kickflip 5-0. May 2007 I shot this on my first trip to Barcelona. It was such an amazing trip... a great crew, skating the best spots in the world and living the skate-rat lifestyle as purely as you possibly could. This was the first experience I ever had of picturing the exact timing of a trick and then actually capturing it. In reality, the picture in your mind almost never is the frame you end up capturing (and thats ok) but in the case with this Kickflip 5-0 it materialized right in front of me. It really opened my eyes about how to go about visualizing a photo before I even try to shoot it in order to have it come out as close to the way that you want it.Â
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Unknown Skater Manual. APRIL, 2013 I shot this photo on a nonskate trip to New York City. Me and my wife Cassie were walking across the Williamsburg Bridge to scour Brooklyn for Vegan Doughnuts. When we passed over this 2 up 2 down manny pad spot I saw a session in full swing. I had my Nikon film camera on me and I managed to shoot a couple of frames through the fencing. I like the ‘Where’s Waldo’ effect of the unknown skater and his manual, the East River with the bridges and lower Manhattan off in the distance. They were still putting the finishing touches on One World Trade center!
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Evan Hay - Switch Pole Jam. November, 2015 Who doesn’t love a good dragged shutter shot? There is something so magical about a slow shutter speed, some strobes to freeze the action, and some colourful lights to paint the night with. This one is a favourite of mine because I thought the spiral bike rack complemented the squiggly office lights in the background. Evan is still super crispy tho, charging switch through this tight tube. Check the deck‌he is pretty much flat-bottoming!
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Mike McCourt - FS Noseslide. June, 2008 Mike has always been one of my favourites. He’s has a great style and a strong opinion, which I respect. Do yourself a favour and go watch his “Modern Love” part right now for a reminder. This day we found ourselves stuck at CBC when Mike and Bryan Wherry started skating the high ledge. To my knowledge nothing had ever been done on this ledge up until this point. Bryan got his Backside 5050 but not before Mike landed this picture perfect Frontside Noseslide. This has always been a favourite trick of mine to do and Mike does them really well.
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Brian Delatorre Nollie BS 180. November 2013 In 2013 Paul Liliani and myself drove down to New York City for a week to skate and shoot photos. It was late November so it was pretty cold and we also got a flat tire while moving the car around Chinatown, so it didn’t make for the most productive trip. However, we did meet up with Rob Harris and he was rolling with Brian Delatorre at the time as he was trying to film some last minute tricks for “Search the Horizon”. For the next few days we skated around Lower Manhattan with those guys. Nothing was too planned out and Brian’s Nollie Backside 180 just happened naturally at this iconic NYC spot.
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Sam Beaulieu Shifty Ollie. June 2015
While in Stockholm, Sweden during the Lewis Cruise #choiceboyseu trip, we took an hour and half boat ride from Stockholm, Sweden up the archipelago to this epic spot. Its located on a small island called Siafortet. It was a Swedish army fort that was designed to look like an island. It’s ‘rocky’ surface is filled with bumps, banks and wallrides along with the occasional cannon. Sam casually tweaked this Shifty with the heavy artillery in the background. We brought a BBQ, skated all day and took a dip in the icy waters before catching the last ferry back to Stockholm.
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24 HOURS By Nathan Stripp
If I’m being perfectly honest, the idea for this article came about from my lack of spare time. As I get older I find myself with more responsibilities and less time to skate. The idea of shooting an entire article within 24 hours seemed fun and made for an extra reason to escape said responsibilities and only focus on skating for a whole day. I knew there was a good chance I wouldn’t get enough for an article, but that was the goal none the less. I began a group chat on Instagram and there was enough interest to try making it happen, so I picked a day (September 1) to meet up. Some people came out to every spot, while others only skated a few. In the end, everyone had a good time and I was even able to scratch up enough content to do this article.
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Gianni Giarrizzo Front Crook. 12:08am This was the first trick at the first spot, just minutes after the clock rolled past midnight.
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This rail had lights so it was a pretty easy decistion to stop off here. Everyone else sat back and watched.
Joey tipped over an ashtray and jumped into it. Pretty self explanatory.
We ended the night at this grass gap before giong home to bed.
Cody Beaudry FS Lipslide. 1:14am.
Joey Boyce Noseblunt Pull-in. 12:32am.
Cody Beaudry Varial Heel. 2:40am.
Gianni Giarrizzo Kickflip. 3:25pm This was an orthodox church and the lady who greeted us upon arrival wasn’t too happy. Immediately I began putting my camera gear away, until I was interrupted by Gianni throwing himself down the stairs and past the parking block. I guess he knew he would get it quick. The lady eventually went back inside.
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Justin Fabus Nollie Heelflip. 5:14pm This spot was down the street from the church gap. Being a Saturday afternoon we couldn’t have picked a more busy time to be skating this gap into the road. We had constant cars or pedestrians in the way, and a surprisingly chill encounter with the police where they only requested we stop the game of skate that was going on in the road.
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Stephen Gharghoury Nosegrind Transfer. 7:45pm
This nosegrind came out of nowhere. Stephen is so quite that when he steps up and does a trick everyone immediately notices.
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Coy Calver Switch Ollie. 7:24pm For anyone keeping track, I don’t think there is a trick left at this spot that hasn’t been done. But it was on the way and many of us had never been there. Sometimes keeping it simple is best.
Justin Fabus Noseslide Pretzel 270. 8:15pm While everyone else was chilling or skating the rail Justin was waxing up the only ledge. He slid this entire ledge on his nose before doing 270 off the end.
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Kori Philippe BS Overcook. 11:54pm We capped off the day by skating the infamous gold rail at Commerce Court. I never like to ask for someone to do a trick again, especially on a spot as hectic as this. But after Kori landed this I had a nagging feeling that I should have shot the photo differently. He agreed and we dodged security a second time, putting another one down minutes before midnight. After it was all said and done I ended up using the first angle. Sorry Kori.
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Sean Evans, Bluntslide / New York / Shafer
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Kilian Zehnder, FS Bluntslide / San Francisco / Carabarin
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Will Cohen, Frontside Air / North York / Nathan Stripp Mitchell Coward, Suski / Etobicoke / Stripp
Nathan Stripp, Noseslide Pop-Over / Toronto / Perkins
John Shanahan, Bump to Crook / New York / Shafer
Phil Santosusso, 5050 / San Francisco / Carabarin
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Michael Ray, FS Feeble / North Vancouver / Fidlin
Mitchell Cowerd, Will Suski Cohen, / Etobicoke FS Air / North / Nathan York Stripp / Stripp
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Evan Perkins, 5050 / Etobicoke / Stripp
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Lane Mosolf, Nose Wallie / Calgary / Glass
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Kevin Lowry, Ollie / Calgary / Glass
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The“Making-of” the new Supreme Video by Alex Hann
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Remembering Jimmy O’Brien
Comber It’s been four months since our friend Jimmy died, yet his absence is still so shockingly abnormal. Jimmy was the type of guy who would always be invited to the session or the party (or anything, even a romantic couple’s Mexican getaway as a 3rd wheel), because his energy was so uplifting and his laugh was contagious. Not to mention he had the best flick in the game. I am so grateful that my hard drive is full of photos and footage of that handsome man. Whether he knew you for five minutes or five years, he made everybody around him feel like they were his best friend - the 500+ people who attended his Celebration of Life can attest to that. He truly was one of a kind. I had the pleasure of meeting Jimmy, through skateboarding, when we were young and boy did we make some memories over the years that I will never forget! I know I share that sentiment with the rest of the homies in Hamilton and those he knew around the world. Jimmy had a big smile and an even bigger heart. Despite the awful circumstances, Jimmy’s death has brought so many people together and created a new-found openness for compassion and communication amongst those he left behind. Mental illness does not discriminate. Check in on those around you. What’s displayed on the outside may not always match what is felt on the inside. This loss is a big one that will never be forgotten. We love you Jim. -Steve Kettings
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