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TEAM EDITOR IN CHIEF CODY DIODATO
EXECUTIVE EDITOR CHELSEY RAE
SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER CHRIS WARE
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estructive is a publication that is 100% devoted to reflecture the culture of skateboarding that was started in Venice Beach, Ca. in 1994. We are designed by skateboarders, for skateboarders. We give skaters everything they want to see in a skateboard magazine; Interviews with the top pros, musicians, and artist, the lastest gear and apparel, in sight news on everything happening in the indusrty, bad ass skateboading and more!
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KAWS &EFFECT DIVE IN THE MIND OF ARTIST BRIAN “KAWS” DONNELLY
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AWS was born Brian Donnelly in Jersey City, New Jersey.He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration in 1996After graduation, KAWS briefly worked for Disney as a freelance animator painting backgrounds. He also contributed to the animated series 101 Dalmatians, Daria and Doug.He began his career as a graffiti artist growing up in Jersey City, New Jersey. Later moving to New York City in the 1990s, KAWS started subverting imagery on billboards, bus shelters and phone booth advertisements. These reworked advertisements were at first left alone, lasting for up to several months, but as KAWS’ popularity skyrocketed, the ads became increasingly sought after. In addition to New York, KAWS has done work in Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo.In the late 90s, KAWS began to design and produce limited edition vinyl toys, “an instant hit with the global art toy-collecting community,”[3] especially in Japan, where this genre is well respected M
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M -18ft “Companion” wood sculpture
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ore toys and later clothing were made for Original Fake, a recent collaborative store with Medicom Toy, in the Aoyama district of Tokyo where an original limited edition product is released each week. KAWS has also participated in other commercial collaborations with Nigo for A Bathing Ape, Jun “Jonio” Takahashi for Undercover, Michael “Mic” Neumann for Kung Faux, snowboard projects with Burton, and sneakers with Nike and Vans. His most recent collaboration was with Comme des Garçons. As of August 2010, it is reported that Kaws has designed a limited edition bottle for Dos Equis, a Mexican beer brand. The bottle was released in Mexico in early September 2010. KAWS’ acrylic paintings and sculpture have many repeating images, all meant to be universally understood, surpassing languages and cultures. One of KAWS’ early series, Package Paintings, was made in 2000. This series, entitled The Kimpsons, subverted the famous American cartoon, The Simpsons. KAWS explains that he “found it weird how infused a cartoon could become in people’s lives; the impact it could have, compared to regular politics.”[3] In addition, KAWS has reworked other familiar icons such as Mickey Mouse, the Michelin Man, the Smurfs, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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TOP FIVE
ALBUMS TO SKATE TO
SUICIDAL TENTENCIES - SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Suicidal Tendencies is the eponymously titled debut studio album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. The album was released in June, 1983, through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 011. It became one of the best-selling punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success. “Institutionalized” was released as a radio hit to promote the album.
BLACK FLAG - MY WAR Suicidal Tendencies is the eponymously titled debut studio album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. The album was released in June, 1983, through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 011. It became one of the best-selling punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success. “Institutionalized” was released as a radio hit to promote the album.
WU-TANG CLAN - 36 CHAMBERS Suicidal Tendencies is the eponymously titled debut studio album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. The album was released in June, 1983, through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 011. It became one of the best-selling punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success. “Institutionalized” was released as a radio hit to promote the album.
NAS - ILLMATIC Suicidal Tendencies is the eponymously titled debut studio album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. The album was released in June, 1983, through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 011. It became one of the best-selling punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success. “Institutionalized” was released as a radio hit to promote the album.
NOFX - PUNK IN DRUBLIC Suicidal Tendencies is the eponymously titled debut studio album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. The album was released in June, 1983, through Frontier Records with the catalog number FLP 011. It became one of the best-selling punk albums at the time and launched the band into its future success. “Institutionalized” was released as a radio hit to promote the album. 10 DESTRUCTIVE|winter14
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FONTANANORTH S K A T E P A R K
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f you’re ever in or around the Fontana area (for whatever reason) you should go check out the newly built skatepark by the people over at California Skate Parks called Fontana Skatepark (North). This skatepark is 1 of 2 Fontana skateparks and is absolutely fucken HUGE. The size is pretty similar to Santa Clarita Skatepark except with a different layout of course. Fontana Skatepark (North) has 2 pools, a fullpipe section as well as a street course with ledges, ledges and more ledges. The only bad side to this spot is that they make you wear a helmet and pay a fee in order to skate. For Non-Fontana Residents like myself you’re gonna have to pay either $7 a month or $35 a year for a membership. It’s not bad for the price, but then again, “What the fuck would you be doing out in Fontana in the first place anyways?”
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BEN LIFE IN THE BIRDHOUSE Inside look on Ben’s new life on Birdhouse Skateboards
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About a year ago, Ben Raybourn skated to Biz Markie’s rendition of the Elton John classic Benny and the Jets in his Birdhouse welcome video, and it worked perfectly. Markie belts out the lyrics over a slightly-better-t han-karaoke track and Raybourn skates his typical mix of random and awesome, sketchy transition here, random slipfoot there; the result of the mix is the reminder we all sometimes need, that skateboarding is still pretty great, kind of silly and for ever fun.. That Raybourn would rather turn into a robot than get his eyes fixed, makes perfect, absolute sense, and we can only hope that the march of technology continues on, allowing him to do so someday. About a year ago, Ben Raybourn skated to Biz Markie’s rendition of the Elton John classic Benny and the Jets in his Birdhouse welcome video, and it worked perfectly. Markie belts out the lyrics over a slightly-better-than-karaoke track and Raybourn skates his typical mix DESTRUCTIVE|winter 14 17
-Backside Bonless-Ventura, CA
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-Ben Raybourn Looking Goofy
HAVE YOU SKATED WITH TONY HAWK YET? Yeah, I watched him film a couple tricks for his part, it was pretty cool. He’s fun to skate with because he nerds out on old tricks and stuff
DO YOU HAVE A DRIVER’S LICENCE YET?
“...I SMASHED MY FACE AND BROKE MY GLASSES.”
Yeah, I have a driver’s licence, but I didn’t take my driving test. Like, they just sent me my driver’s licence without me taking the driving test because I scheduled it and missed it twice, and I have a restriction on my licence that I can only drive with someone who is 21 in the car. But I never do.
I have a ton of respect for dudes who skate in glasses because I used to too, but have you ever thought of switching to contacts? No, I feel like it’s been too long and I don’t care. Chet Childress gives me shit for that, but I’m too used to glasses now. DESTRUCTIVE|winter 14 19
-Backside 5-0 fakie-Columbus,Ohio
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ANY CLOSE CALLS WITH THE GLASSES? Yeah, definitely, on that Skate Rock Trip I smashed my face and broke my glasses, and I could have gotten glass in my eye or something. Yeah, usually, like, if I’m about to hit my face or something, or I’m whipped real fast, they’ll fling off and then I’ll hit. But that one, I hit right with my glasses and it could have gone in my eye.
HOW MANY PAIRS OF GLASSES TO YOU GO THROUGH IN A YEAR? Like, one or two.
WOULD YOU EVER DO LASIK SURGERY? I don’t know, glasses are free. If I was rich, I guess. I’d rather get fake teeth than, like, lasered eyes. I would just turn into a robot so I didn’t have to take care of my body, then I’d just eat whatever I want and not shower
“...I WOULD JUST TURN INTO A ROBOT SO I DIDN’T HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF MY BODY...”
-Frontside ollie-Hunnington Beach, CA
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-Backside Bonless-Hunnington Beach, CA
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IF YOU’D NEVER STARTED SKATING, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’D BE DOING RIGHT NOW? I don’t know, that’s a good question. I’m not good at anything else, so probably, like, nothing. I’d probably just be someone that I’d make fun of, right now.
WHAT’S THE GNARLIEST TRICK THAT YOU’VE SEEN GO DOWN FIRST-HAND? I’ve seen Jaws do some pretty gnarly shit. That’s hard to say. I’ve seen too much.
YOU HAVE SAID GETTING ON BIRDHOUSE WAS AN OFFER YOU COULDN’T REFUSE, ARE YOU STILL PSYCHED ON THE SITUATION? Yeah, I think I fit on the team good and we have fun trips and we stay productive. Slave was rad, went on a lot of good trips and got along with those dudes good, but I just feel a little bit tighter of a fit with Birdhouse.
“I JUST FEEL A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER OF A FIT WITH BIRDHOUSE.” IYOU’VE PUT OUT A TON OF FOOTAGE THIS YEAR. IS FILMING HARD FOR YOU OR ARE YOU PRETTY MUCH JUST DOCUMENTING HOW YOU SKATE NORMALLY? I don’t know, it’s a mix of both because I filmed a lot so my normal skating is on film a lot. I have to push myself to learn new stuff because everything I can do has already been seen, I feel like.
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-SelfPortrait Portait of of Richard Richard Avedon Avedon -Self
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PORTRAIT OF AN
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FAHEY KLEIN PRESENTS A MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WORK. BY KELLY SMITH
What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte
Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery and brilliant insight into his subjects’ characters has made him one of the premier American portrait photographers.
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-Versace Advertisement shit by Richard Avedon
Born in New York in 1923, Richard Avedon
dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine’s photographic section. Upon his return in 1944, he found a job as a photographer in a department store. Within two years he had been “found” by an art director at Harper’s Bazaar and was producing work for them as well as Vogue, Look, and a number of other magazines. During the early years, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. His real passion, however, was the portrait and its ability to express the essence of its subject.
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As Avedon’s notoriety grew, so did the opportunities to meet and photograph celebrities from a broad range of disciplines. Avedon’s ability to present personal views of public figures, who were otherwise distant and inaccessible, was immediately recognized by the public and the celebrities themselves. Many sought out Avedon for their most public images. His artistic style brought a sense of sophistication and authority to the portraits. More than anything, it is Avedon’s ability to set his subjects at ease that helps him create true, intimate, and lasting photographs.
Throughout his career Avedon has maintained a unique style all his own. Famous for their minimalism, Avedon portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops. When printed, the images regularly contain the dark outline of the film in which the image was framed. Within the minimalism of his empty studio, Avedon’s subjects move freely, and it is this movement which brings a sense of spontaneity to the images. Often containing only a portion of the person being photographed, the images seem intimate in their imperfection. While many photographers are interested in either catching a moment in time or preparing a formal image.
Avedon has found a way to do both. Beyond his work in the magazine industry, Avedon has collaborated on a number of books of portraits. In 1959 he worked with Truman Capote on a book that documented some of the most famous and important people of the century. Observations included images of Buster Keaton, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pablo Picasso, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mae West. Around this same time he began a series of images of patients in mental hospitals. Replacing the controlled environment of the studio with that of the hospital he was able to recreate the genius of his other portraits with non-celebrities. The brutal reality of the lives of the insane was a bold contrast to his other work. Years later he would again drift from his celebrity portraits with a series of studio images of drifters, carnival workers, and working class Americans.
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-Twiggy shot by Richard Avedon
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Throughout the 1960s Avedon continued to work
for Harper’s Bazaar and in 1974 he collaborated with James Baldwin on the book Nothing Personal. Having met in New York in 1943, Baldwin and Avedon were friends and collaborators for more than thirty years. For all of the 1970s and 1980s Avedon continued working for Vogue magazine, where he would take some of the most famous portraits of the decades.
In 1992 he became the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, and two years later the Whitney Museum brought together fifty years of his work in the retrospective, “Richard Avedon: Evidence”. He was voted one of the ten greatest photographers in the world by Popular Photography magazine, and in 1989 received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art in London. Today, his pictures continue to bring us a closer, more intimate view of the great and the famous.
-Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Sr., Martin Luther King III shot by Richard Avedon
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-Twiggy shot by Richard Avedon
He is also distinguished by his large prints,
sometimes measuring over three feet in height. His large-format portrait work of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from the western United States became a best-selling book and traveling exhibit entitled In the American West, and is regarded as an important hallmark in 20th century portrait photography, and by some as Avedon’s magnum opus. Commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, it was a six-year project Avedon embarked on in 1979, that produced 125 portraits of people in the American west who caught Avedon’s eye. His mural groupings featured emblematic figures: Andy Warhol with the players and stars of
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The Factory; The Chicago Seven, political radicals charged with conspiracy to incite riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention; the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and his extended family; and the Mission Council, a group of military and government officials who governed the United States’ participation in the Vietnam War In 1982 Avedon produced a playfully inventive series of advertisements for fashion label Christian Dior, based on the idea of film stills. Featuring a stock cast of models and actors, the color photographs purported to show scenes from the life of a fictional “Dior family,” whose members managed to wear elegant fashions even when wrestling on a couch.
-Audrey Hepburn shot by Richard Avedon
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