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Cover: Wilko - Crooks - Leicester Photo: SPT
News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 4 Leiston Skatepark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 6-9 Aperture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 10-13 Slam City Skates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 14-19 Photoshop Quick Tips . . . . . . . . . . .pg 20-21 Time Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 22-25 T-Shirts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg 26-27
NEWS Globe’s Global assault went off with a bang in Sydney, Australia. With young Ryan Sheckler taking the $30,000 grand prize, followed by 11 year old Nyjah Huston and Rick McCrank, in second and third respectively.
Matix Clothing have just announced the UK team which will include Danny Brady, Chewy Cannon, Jody Smith, Snowy, Joey Pressey, Joe Linskey, Jak Pietryga and Josh Perret. Keep your eyes on www.matixclothing.com /europe for footage and Blueprint have completely team news. redesigned their site, which is due for more and és have just released a more updates. So far it’s couple of new shoes had 4 flavours interviews including the Breaker 2 and Standard with Baines and Steph Mid (below) Scrawl Mix Morgan. Conhuir Lynn has now joined the Zero team via the newly forming an Euro Zero team under the guidance of Seth Curtis, who is looking for more riders, so send your videos and footage to us and we can forward it on for you.
Eothen Skateboards are now working on the new lines of decks, wheels and clothing for 2006. Man in charge Craig has been out in India with the SK8 GOA lot. However fell off a moped and smash his face, get well soon. Eothen have also recently acquired the talents of Ben Bucklee for the team.
colorways, which has the és script logo and the team rider signatures re-mixed graffiti style on the side under some mesh. Available through A4 here in the UK. New és Standard Scrawl
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Leiston Skatepark Leiston in Suffolk, another shining example of a town in the countryside, not far from the North Sea, which has nothing for young people to do (or older either). There is a high crime rate among young people, leading to a ban on drinking of alcohol in public places in the town. Among measures previously used to reduce the juvenille crime. Councils have started youth clubs and similar associations for young people, giving them somewhere to go and something to do. Now It seems one of the main things Councils do is build skateparks, however most of them turn out to be Tin Toy ramps on Tarmac which not many people want to skate. However they occasionally build something nice to skate, made out of concrete and this is a nice little example of that.
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Tommy May - BS Heel to Flat
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Ash Lever - BS Melon over Hip into half bowl.
Getting There To get to Leiston you need to hit the A12 and turn off just North of the Village of Yoxford if you are going North. Then follow this road all the way until you reach Leiston. The skatepark is on the recration green opposite the Long Shop Museum.
Postcode for Map:IP16 4ES
Good Points:
Bad Points:
Best Times:
The coping on the ledges is perfectly set into the concrete. Some good lines! Bank to ledge feature, lots of fun. Smooth surface.
Shame it’s not larger. Not too good for drainage and leaves from trees in Autumn. The benches around the park need to be steel edged, as they have chipped.
When the kids are at school as it’s small and easily crowded by kids on bikes. Evenings after kids on bikes bedtimes.
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Rob - Barrier Ollie Photo: Paul Musson
Glen Cone - Wallie Lowestoft Photo: Paul Calver Myles Lucas - Ollie - Ramsgate Photo: Richard Murray
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Jay Gray - Melon - Beccles
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Marcus - FS Flip - MFI Photo: Paul Musson
Ben Emslie - Back 5-0 Photo: Pratty
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Featured skater owned shop...
Slam City Skates, Covent Garden, London
Continuing the Featured Skater Owned Shop series, we would have to eventually come down to Slam City Skates in London which has been holding it down in Covent Garden for 20 years now. With Chris Pulman at the helm at the moment and a super good team, Slam are keeping London skating strong. So I made my way to London and it pissed down with rain. Then went the week after and weather held enough to get the photos you will see on the following pages.
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details address: Slam City Skates 16 Neal’s Yard (Off Neal Street) Covent Garden London WC2H 9DP tel: 02072 400928 web: www.slamcity.com
Charlie Young - Back Tail - Near Parliment Square.
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Questions with...
Chris Pulman First off introduce yourself to the readers out there. Okay, my name’s Chris Pulman and I’m the manager of Slam City Skates only store in Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden. So how long has Slam City existed now, and how long have you been involved in it? Slam has been around for 20 years this year although it hasn’t always been here. The first store was part of the Rough Trade store on Talbot Road in West London then they opened the store in Covent Garden a couple years after that. I’ve been here now for about six-and-a-half years.
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Where’s the name Slam City from? I have absolutely no idea, I think someone was on crack that day... What’s it like having lodgers under the floor boards (Rough Trade)? Rough Trade is probably one of the best record stores in town. The guys that work there know better than anyone when it comes to any music that’s worth listening to. I think having that store underneath Slam is probably one of the best perks of the job to be honest with you. What’s in store for Slam, any collabs, videos etc? Slam video out this year I reckon, the footage is coming in quicker as the weather gets better. We have a shoe in
Chris Pulman - Stalefish Nosepick at Southbank.
collaboration with Etnies as we’re both celebrating 20 years this year. We’re releasing limited clothing as the year goes on starting with the star logo from about fifteen years ago which is out right now. What made you come to London from the Valleys? Well, I had a slight detour via Southsea for a couple of years so I could go to university. Then I was riding for Foundation through Slam and they offered me a job. I thought packing boxes four days a week at the warehouse, turned out it was managing the store. I think I adapted to the situation quite well.
And then any thanks? Thanks to all the brands that we stock, thanks to the British industry for getting its balls out and doing things properly, the distributors that we have chosen to work with including Shiner, Faze7, Power, Dwindle, Revival, A4, Mad Dist. Thanks to all the riders and the staff that have made this the great shop that it is today. -Chris Pulman.
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Describe each of your team riders in less than ten words. Nick Jensen:
NJ Madd, tweaker, artist, skates on your level, the best.
Vaughan Baker:
Limp lettuce hand shake, been killing it longer than you.
Olly Todd:
Tight as a gnats arse, best style in British skateboarding.
Rob Mathieson:
Characiture of himself, made himself good at skateboarding, good lad.
Charlie Young:
A bit of a c*nt really but some good points.
Chris Pulman:
Should have quit ages ago but just can’t seem to.
Nick Jensen - Kickflip Fakie at Westbourne Park
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Rob Mathieson - Wallride into the Bank
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Photoshop Quick Tip #2:-
Crop Tool & Size The Crop tool is used to remove unwanted space in an image by re-framing it to the look you want. It is the button pictured left, which has a logo featuring two cropping angles which darkroom assistants use to re frame and mark the photo before cutting the image. In photoshop it’s pretty similar you select the area of the image you want and it shades out the area it will remove, then you hit return and it commits and cuts the area out. You can also rotate the selection to change the look
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Guide to Image Size The “Image Size” tool is in the “Image” menu and is used to give size details and to resize and resample images.
Pixel Size This can be very useful for doing work for websites as they are measured in pixels. It can also be switched over to percent so you can scale images to 50%, 75 % etc.
Physical Size This is used to resize images to the width you want them when they are printed so if you had a frame that was a 10 x 8 inch frame you could size the image to fit.
Resolution
This is how many dots per square inch (dpi) there are, generally 72 for the web or on-screen, 150 for photo prints and newsprint, 300 for magazine and high res photo prints and 600 or above for line art drawings.
Resample Image With this checked it will keep the resolution the same when you change the width or height. However when increasing the size of an image it guesses the data to help it resize and doesn’t make the quality better. With it unchecked you can change the resolution and it will change the width to match the resolution. So you can workout how large you can take a digital image, that needs to be at 300dpi rather than 72dpi.
Constrain With this checked when you change the height of an image it will automatically change the width to keep the shape of the image. Unchecked it will stretch an image.
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Moments from the
All Photos: Paul Calver www.calverphoto.com paul@calverphoto.com
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Making T-Shirts Using a Vinyl Cutter and Heat Press
1. Prepare Digital File
You basically start with the EPS file that you have created in Illustrator or a similar program. And use the software that comes with the cutter, to prepare the image for the cutter.
2. Cut The Vinyl
Then you send the file to the cutter, and it will move the vinyl and cutter following the lines on the image.
3. Weed Unwanted Bits
Using a weeding tool, which is similar to a bent needle, you remove the areas of vinyl that you don’t need, picking and peeling them off.
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4. Heat Up Press
Typically the press is heated up to 180 degrees centigrade, and you press for around 10-20 seconds depending on the thickness of the vinyl.
5. Position Design & Press
Position the design on the t-shirt with the vinyl down and acetate up. Then clamp the press down for the required time.
6. Remove Acetate
Remove the acetate backing and hey presto you have a t-shirt ready to wear.
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