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Cover: Spiro Razis [p] CMART
Contents: Carlos Padilla, Crooks [P] Jon Wolf
Editor / Graphic Design Mike Gustafson
Assistant Editor / Senior Photographer
Christopher W. Martin [CMART]
Videography:
Jimmy fucking Collins Joe Radano
Staff Photographers: Sam McKenna Jimmy fucking Collins Jon Wolf Andrew Foster Michael Cirelli
Editorial
Michael Cirelli CMART Liam Annis Taylor Garrett Ralph Murphy
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Contributing Photographers: Steve Sirvan Mike Heikkila Duncan Ewington Luke McKaye David Leidecker Nate Jackson
Liam Annis Sweeney Correira Kevin Fuentes Tyler Kufs Kyle Volland Chris Degrace
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UNCLE KEEGS BY: NATHAN KEEGAN
The Hard Road. At my age, a lot of my friends are getting married, having kids and buying homes. It’s just a thing that comes with age, and a natural progression of life, but I start to think of my life, and compare it to that, and how far from that I am. At times, I get really bummed, then other times, I realize how I am living free and that’s what makes me happy. Since I was very young, two things and only two things took over my life, and that’s skateboarding and painting. Every minute is dedicated to those two things, even my dreams. Its been like that for a long time. Within those two hobbys/passions and obsessing over them, I definitely made sacrifices. Whether it was having a lady and traveling/bouncing around with no plans, (I’ve lost girlfriends, which I do NOT regret, sorry girls), or missing out on living situations, job situations. Being injured from skating, and not able to work to pay rent. Nights that are spent hiding in the woods from cops, and barely making it to work the next day. It definitely has its tolls. I can only imagine being a big name athlete or something. Traveling around the world non-stop, and trying to hold down a marriage or relationship/be a parent. Marc Johnson said it well, in “Epicly Later’d”, it was basically the “Was it worth it?” scenario. He said he has no answer. He’s missed 4 of 7 of his sons birthdays because of skate trips, but traveling the world for free is also something you can’t put a price on. I have more pro’s then con’s to be honest. I can go to so many countries, and have a free place to stay, translator and be taken care of. All from skating and meeting people/traveling. I’ve become a part of the crews, and companies I looked up to as a child. That is such a luxury most people don’t have. Im starting to get used to the fact that, until otherwise, the wife and kids, house thing - I’m not going to force. I’m getting older, so I’m not against it either. I don’t care either way. It was a decision I have made many times. Whether it was not going to college (which I dont regret), or losing a chick. I’ve learned so much real life shit within these two hobbies, and experienced so much, its surreal. I have always thought that seeing as much of the world as you can while your on it, if given that opportunity, is one of the most important things you can do. I don’t think I really have any regrets. I just need to keep reminding myself what it is that makes ME happy, and not so much what makes everyone else happy. I thank my parents that never pressed the issue of marriage and kids, which has been the cause of a lot of forced marriages and divorce, haha. Either way, thanks for reading, and I hope you all enjoy your lives, doing whatever it is that makes you happy. Peace.
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CMART: Where were you born, raised, grew up, etc.? Spencer Fujimoto: I was conceived in NYC, born in Detroit. Spent a lot of time in California. Came back to NYC in ‘96 when I was 19. CM: Who influenced you and got you into jewelry? SF: My Step Dad actually. He was a Jewelry maker, Artist, Professor, Creator. CM: Whats in the name, “EL SENOR”? SF: I hear it all the time. A Saying I always hear. I felt like it described the Mr. of skateboarding. The gentleman skateboarder, the nice guy, not preppy or yuppy but not the dude thats being the worst all over town. It can translate for chicks too and they do things for the man. They dress up nice and get all dolled up with jewelry. They do it for the man and I hope dudes wear it cause they’re the man. CM: How did the creative process start for you and deciding what to make? SF: I wanted pieces that meant something to me. I think it was strictly personal, I wanted it for myself. The plaque at EMB was WACK! So I was just like lets do the spots. We have to do it for everything, every spot, keep them alive. Then people were getting hyped and requesting certain spots etc. and this still happens everyday. It’s cool that it sparks the creative idea in other people as well as it did for me, which I think is cool.
CM: What kind of iconic east coast spots do you make? SF: The BK Banks, the Jersey Barrier, the parking block are all pretty iconic to the east coast. CM: Like the wide variety of pieces, your team is kind of the same. Could you tell me who is on the team and what they bring to the brand? SF: I tried to cover all the aspects and gamuts of people. On our team we have Hasoi, Chico Brenes, Black Dave, Ellington, Braydon, Chaz Ortiz, Stevie Williams, Yelawolf … CM: Yelawolf the rapper? Thats cool I saw footage of him shredding from Jon Newport a while back. SF: Yeah Dude!! He rips! He skates well. He could crooked grind the top of table with cowboy boots on right now! He was one of the original riders. Maybe the fourth dude on. I just wanted a wide variety of players on the team so we can compete with the rest. If you don’t have a team then you can’t compete with other brands that represent skating. CM: These dudes are so different. That’s pretty rad. SF: The team was made organically. I figured at first that I didn’t need a team because I have these spots. The spots will be the team you know? Plus it’s tough to have a team when you start out, to be honest, We are a small budget brand and when your a small budget brand you
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don’t always get the people you want.
same for others?
CM: Do people ask you to be on the team as well?
SF: With each season one piece speaks to some more than others. People gravitate to certain ones. If nothing speaks to you then you don’t really skate or know a skater. Cause even if you know a skater they should speak to you.
SF: It works both ways. I go after people and people are trying to come to us. People always be fishing around though. It’s funny and flattering at the same time. It’s comical when someone approaches me and is all like, “Hey, I like the stuff….can I, uh, uh, uh...” Haha eith,er way it’s cool to see how far we have come and the people that have joined us. CM: Who is the newest team member? SF: Kevin Romar got on today and even a couple dudes this week. Dane Vaughn, Derek Wilson, Brian Peacock are the new guys that we focused on. It feels good to to send them some product. I mean some of these kids were not even skating by the time I was done. They have all been skating and developing their careers by the time I retired. CM: Your not retired! SF: Your right, I’m just tired. HAHAHA! CM: Your still skating though? SF: Yeah man, I’m still skating. Did a front board yesterday and I got a couple boards here. I’m never gonna stop rolling though. Knees are a little achy these days. I got some crazy Chinese herbal all natural WU JING JONG JEE shit and it works pretty good to keep me out there. CM: Since these pieces are made from metal, do you think in anyway you are preserving these things/spots for skateboarding? SF: Yes. That’s in our tag line. We are preserving skateboarding, skateboarding culture and history through the pieces. The jewelry will last awhile, it’s made of metal. It could last in a fire, you could bury it and someone might find it 1,000 years later and be like, “WTF is this?” and it will represent our culture. It means something to us and for that it becomes priceless. CM: I agree. All these pieces spark a catharsis when I see them. They spark some sort of memory or flashback. It definitely resonates something in the skateboarder in me. What are some of the pieces that have done the
CM: So with all the decades worth of iconic spots, Whats your next piece that inspires you for the next generation? SF: Next season we are working on bringing in some things from the 80’s. A tools of the trade collection. The razor blade and other tools we use. Because we are working on the designs and finalizing them now, I can’t really discuss them too in depth. You will see soon enough. CM: Has it branched out of skateboarding yet? SF: We can’t say we are a skate company because that pigeon holes us a bit. We started as the first skateboarding jewelry company. Now we are the first jewelry company designated to skateboarders. The bottom line is that we are a jewelry company. We have a focus on skating but we will branch out at some point to all jewelry but we are keeping it core for now. CM: I bet people’s girls be taking this stuff right off their Mans necks though, huh? SF: Yeah man. I get the call all the time, “My girl took it. Can I get another one?” HAHA. I mean I have a saying …People that are not thieves, become thieves for three things. Cash, Jewelry and Drugs, it’s sad but always true. It’s a weird thing. Let me ask you something. What one do you like? CM: I think the Stevie Williams skateboard rosary is pretty bad ass. (opens a drawer and hands me a gold plated skateboard SW rosary) SF: See! Each one speaks to different people. Here you go! CM: DAMN!! Thanks man. CONTACT- INSTA, TWITTER, E MAIL: @ELSenorNewYork ELSENORNEWYORK@gmail.com
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The Elusive 29 Words: Ralph Murphy
Well, I’m back, so enjoy something to gag on! Here’s a little story of the most epic sexual position of all time. It starts with a bottle of Penicillin, some booze and two very horny people. What I will say is this, if your girls sick - don’t, I repeat, DON’T jam your fingers in her ass while your eating her pussy 69ish.
“I’m eating box like Apollo Creed, she’s swallowing all of Rocky’s gloves.” My chick at the time was a bangin’, fuckin’ smoke show. How a dude with three brown teeth and a receding hairline does this, I don’t know. Butttttttt, fuck it, I did. I’m pretty sure it’s cause she got a mean ATM a few nights before. Alas, we start getting into it. I’m eating box like Apollo Creed, she’s swallowing all of Rocky’s gloves. I start reaching for the pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow and hear, “No, I don’t feel good”. I’m a horrible listener so I continue on my path. A few minutes later she’s convulsing and about to cum. I pull my fingers out and she straight shits on my face and into my mouth. What happened next was a mixture of puking, crying and laughing. But I swear it was pretty shitty. I’m sure I’m not the first nor will I be the last. Viva la 29! Enjoy your scummer turds!
Spencer Prati Switch Ollie [p] CMART
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Russell Freeman Three Flip [p] Steve Sirvan
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words & photo’s:
liam annis
Liam Annis: What trick is your worst nightmare? Brian Reid: Worst nightmare trick was that Fakie Ollie attempt in Seaport, where I gashed my head open and had to go to the hospital and get stitches. LA: What is it like living and growing up on Cape Cod? BR: Living on the Cape is pretty boring, but it makes you appreciate the city a lot more. There’s not that many spots close to where I live and theres no tall buildings, so when I was a kid coming to Boston was insane. LA: Were there any locals you looked up to? BR: I looked up to a bunch of Cape kids. Mostly Tim Burlingame, and James Nickerson. James was who I skated with pretty much everyday. I still don’t see anyone as dedicated as James was.
LA: Boston or NYC? Why? BR: Boston over NYC. Everyone knows each other and I’ve been going since I was pretty young. And of course Boston has eggs. LA: Where have you been skating most lately? BR: Either Hyannis park, BSP - but they just opened, or Eggs! LA: You ever been arrested? BR: Never been arrested, haha. LA: What is the most trouble you’ve ever got in? BR: I got a three week suspension once cause they caught me with a bowl at school. It was in my car and they had drug dogs search the parking lot. It was only a fine and the suspension. LA: Did you start out as a roller blader? BR: Yeahhh. I live close to Hyannis park so when I was like 8 or 9, I
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would ride my bike there. There were actually a lot of rollerbladers then, who skate now....but I ended up getting blades and did that for a while. I ended up skating on people’s boards all the time so I bought a board off a friend, Pat Allen, and did both. I actually remember bringing my blades and board to Skaters Edge once, haah. Roller blading got pretty boring though. So I started skating when I was like 12, I think.
“...they caught me with a bowl at school. It was in my car and they had drug dogs search the parking lot.” LA: Thanks? BR: I gotta thank my Mom and Dad and Shaunna, bsp, Paul Savini at the Boarding House and everyone that’s worked there. Mike Tallone, Tim Burlingame, James Nickerson, Brian Delany, Dana Ericson, Lee Madden, Rob Cabral, Will Mazzari, Kevin s. and Steve Costello. Brad Rosado, DGK, Dave Ashely, Orchard, Broderick, Armin, Chris Newall, Allahjah Daniels, Brandon Tavares, Myals Reid, ssp crew, Falmouth Emmits, Kenneil, Dougie Fresh, Louis Baker, Frenchy, Tommy Patten, James and Jessy Vaughn, Paul Dancheck, Codtown, Aiden C., Nick Rud, Liam Annis, based noblemen you know who u are!, Ariel Pearl, eggs, new shoelaces, Sam smith, Dan Browne, rc08, bsp tour, Maddy s., Justin Mcnealy, Mayo, fgm, Nnamdi, Benny Golds, Dillon Buss, and anyone I left out!
Switch Crook [p] Annis
Back Lip [p] Annis
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Taylor Wiles
5050 [p] Nate Jackson
Laif Johannes Blunt [p] Duncan Ewington
Stavros Razis
Pole Jam [p] CMART
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Jack Morris Switch Heel [p] Cirelli
philadelphia | words & photo’s: michael cirelli Cheesesteaks, getting directions from prostitutes, cops chasing us, skating Love Park and going to the ER!! Yeah ... That was our trip to Philadelphia. When you have a sister that is living in downtown Philadelphia and is down for a bunch of skate rats coming into town for the weekend ... hell yeah you're going to Philadelphia to skate. For this trip I picked up Mark Dodd, Jack Morris, and Mike Powley. The boys know how to skate street like true East Coast skaters. We woke up early Saturday morning with inspirational text messages from John Desimas asking us to put down heavy tricks in the streets but also asked us to hit up a Wawa to get some amazing Raspberry Iced Tea for him. Our first spot of the day was hitting this cutty ledge over a water hydrant. Mark put down a dope Crook and we moved on to the Municipal Ledges, where he ran into Matt Miller filming some lines for the next Sabotage Video. Don't you worry, Miller was handling things proper as fuck!! That dude kills it! Unfortunately, right after Matt Miller got his line, Mark Dodd took an unexpected fall and tweaked his
knee causing him to have to go to the ER. Now if you have ever been to Philly or an inner-city hospital, you know that this trip was going to be crazy…Crazy! So we walk in and the security guard makes you sign in and asked if Mark fell on his head and also asked if you knew Tony Hawk. His eyes also lit up because Mark has insurance and from the look of his face, it seems like he was the first person in 10 years to have insurance walking through that door. As Mark was getting checked out, an argument breaks out between a young couple over who gave who an unspeakable STD. The argument got so out of hand the guy call's a timeout and asked the registered nurse if you can get an STD from a toilet? The nurse rolling her eyes said "... I guess?… But let me explain something to you!! The STD you guys gave each other cannot be transferred by toilet seat!!" Completely over this shit show, Mark was happy to get a brace and some crutches and move on to getting a nice cold beer and a cheesesteak. Meanwhile, Jack was able to get one of the illest lines at the Municipal Ledge
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before the security guard came running in to kick everybody out. Later that night we hit up some street gaps and the highly anticipated Love Park, which we had a skate after 10:30pm because of the bike cops constantly kicking skaters out. Mike and Jack had a blast skating Love until the wee hours of the night. Being super exhausted I cut out early for some shut eye. Jack being a kid in a candy store, he skated until 3am. Skating home, Jack got lost and accidentally skated into the hood where he had no choice but to ask a bunch of prostitutes for directions. Jack, being that 19-year-old kid and realizing he was talking to a bunch of prostitutes, instantly started messing with them. These rather interesting looking women desperately wanted to know how much money Jack had in his pockets. Jack being a true negotiator, tossed out the low $40 number to see what they would say… instantly these girls broke out into a yelling match telling him they "We're not a bunch of ratchet ass hoes with no class...I need $100 to do my magic!! You gotta see those other nasty chicks down the street if you only got $40!!" the good news was Jack made it back in one piece.
Mike Powley Ollie [p] Cirelli
“We’re not a bunch of ratchet ass hoes with no class...I need $100 to do my magic!!”
The next morning Mike turned up his game and handled some ill bump to bar and a church ledge that was deep in the cut and had hypodermic needles all over the ground. One of the funniest parts of Sunday was sitting in the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot and have a 60 year old woman pull in spitting straight fire inside of her car as she listened to some terrible ass 50 Cent song. All and all, Philly was dope! If you're a street skater, a trip to this city is a must! You will find yourself skating the plazas with packs of kids 30 deep and it will remind you of why so many skateboarding legends came out of that city.
Mark Dodd Crook [p] Cirelli
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Dwaynne AnthonyAlmonte Savillo Switch Front Heel Backtail [p] Kevin Fuentes [p] Tyler Kufs
John Shanahan Halfcab Flip into Bank [p] Mike Heikkila
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Devin Colon Three Flip [p] Nate Jackson
Kevin Phelps
Halfcab Flip [p] Sweeney Correira
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Josh Narvaez Back 180 [p] David Leidecker
Ralph Murphy Switch Front Board [p] Chris Degrace
Summer 2015 | Step Dad | 21 Matt Seavy Crook [p] Sam McKenna
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taylor garrett
dead to the world.
“You got rigs, right?” I asked Dave as we pulled away from the curb at the Anderson/Woburn train station, “Yeah, man.” He passed a half gram of dope and a clean spike to me in the back seat. I tied off and did a shot while the car coasted down Route 3 and immediately puked out the window and felt the old comforting inner warmth of the dope. This was good shit and I had no tolerance.
I walked inside because the rain had started. Seeing a public bathroom I decided to do another shot. I immediately passed out. Four or five minutes went by and I woke up and exited the room. A father and son were in the station when I went out to wait for the commuter rail, the dad spoke to me and I couldn’t audibly respond. It was difficult enough to walk and I was certain that I had OD’d.
“It was difficult enough to walk and I was certain that I had OD’d.” The reason I had no tolerance was because I was only a few days shy of a year sober. I can remember telling Dave about how I was the president of a sober house a hundred miles away. Laughing to him, “There’s no way I’m going to get caught.” The next day I was promptly drug tested and kicked out of that sober house, rendering me homeless-but that’s a whole other story. In the back seat my world had slowed down to a crawl. I said nothing. Dave’s sister behind the wheel, we drove into Lawrence to get more dope (from a guy that only knew “one big,” or “one small,” in English) and after purchasing some for my friend and myself I was promptly dropped off at a trainstation. I couldn’t recall which town I was in-it, must have been Billerica, Chelmsford, or the surrounding area. I paid absolutely no attention to anything.
Two hours later I woke up on a bench outside the station. Even though their were unoccupied benches with awnings about twenty feet away, I laid on one exposed to the elements. It had been pouring on me for at least an hour, everything in my backpack soaked, and to top it all off the train had come and gone twice since I had passed out. Somebody from the MBTA woke me up, seeing that obviously something was wrong. I dragged myself onto the train and into Boston I went. I was awoke by one of the conductors. “We’ve been here for 45 minutes,” he said, I looked out the window to a dimly lit North Station. Believe it or not, beyond this point I successfully managed to get myself across town to Allston where the T broke down three stops away from my destination. I walked two hours, eventually finding a friends’ couch. Dead to the world.
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Jason Sherman Front 180 [p] Mike Heikkila
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Jake Baldini
Switch Wallride [p] Mike Heikkila
Glynn Osburn Back Tail [p] Kyle Volland
Max McFarlane
FS Flip [p] Tyler Kufs
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Connor Kammerer
Back 180 [p] Mike Heikkila
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Willy Akers
FS Air to Pillar Grind [p] Steve Sirvan