Welcome Boys Of Summer Have you ever tried to explain what’s so great about skateboarding to someone who doesn’t skate? It’s hard to convey in words why we love skateboarding so much, isn’t it? This is because we need more than words: we need images. And every once …
Carpet Company In this part of the world, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, is predominantly known for HBO’s The Wire, a show about the city’s drug trade and the persecution thereof. It’s certainly not the first destination of choice for hip, travel-hungry ska …
2020: A Year in Review We get it. You’re probably more than ready to leave the Shitshow that was 2020 behind. We know we are. While 2019 saw a bunch of fun events like the Jam of Mainhattan, this year’s plans were largely thwarted by the pandemic. Even though there has …
Welcome Hoddle Skateboards Australia is known for a lot of things, all of them absolutely terrifying. It’s well-known that pretty much every animal is out to get you (and probably will). Australia’s also the only continent that is covered by one single country, which is fu …
Bonkers Frankfurt Hand Dyed T-Shirt By Mark Gonzales There’s no better time for picking up a new hobby than during a pandemic. With nothing to do but staying at home, people start to get itchy feet. Some turn to pottery and other folks enjoy the dullness of baking bread. Well, others cut themselves. …
Nike SB Dunk Low Pro “Holiday Special” by Sean Cliver Remember doodling dicks on each other’s exercise books back in high school? If you weren’t careful, one slight distraction could result in a wiener parade marching across the pages of your French textbook. Now imagine making a career out of annoy …
Adidas Aloha Super (Karol Winthorp) What do Woody Allen, Willy Brandt, and Mark Twain have in common? They’re not the respective person’s real name, but pseudonyms (look up their real names for yourself, you lazy people). Pseudonyms, or noms de plume for pretentious assho …
On Record: Vans AVE Pro x Fucking Awesome Here’s how we imagine the process of designing a shoe for a collaboration between two well-known skateboarding brands. Stacy, the Corporate Guy: “Yo Clive, we need you to create two colorways for our collaboration with this super-hyped brand.”& …
A New York Thing Before your barkeep friend’s localist, neighborhood-worshipping basement-run “cult” brand, before the trend to purge all vowels from your favorite city’s name and use the consonantal remainder as a wordmark to print on a Fruit of the Loom who …
Adidas Skateboarding X Thrasher Magazine The world’s most famous t-shirt brand— sorry, skateboarding magazine, Thrasher, has joined forces with sportswear juggernaut Adidas Skateboarding to create a limited release of two best-sellers: the classic Superstar ADV and Tyshawn Jones’ pro …
NIKE SB x CONCEPTS “TURDUNKEN” DUNK HIGH PRO FLIPS THE BIRD TO VEGGIES Nike SB’s and Concepts Store’s latest, uh, serving sure ain’t for the faint-hearted — let alone vegetarians. It’s one of the most insane sneaker concepts ever realized, and that’s saying something when you think about all the goofy shit N …
Carhartt WIP Relevant Parties Vol. 1 It is a terrible year for parties. General lockdowns, dancing bans, health regulations prohibiting nightclubs from opening, and an almost omnipresent wariness towards the virus have pretty much obliterated the party scene across the globe. Already, v …
Intruducing Book Works Book Works is a relatively new company based in NYC and founded by Martin Davis and Oskar Mann in 2017. It’s a brand for graphic design and music nerds: both Davis and Mann, who connected via their shared love for jazz and album art, are musicians …
Nike SB X Wacko Maria Wacko Maria is fucking weird. And we mean that as a compliment. The Japanese streetwear brand, founded by former soccer player Atsuhiko Mori in 2005, is known for its idiosyncratic style, animal prints, and religious imagery. Additionally, Wacko Mari …
Pop Trading Company X Safe Trip Records Trip safety is of great importance. As international tourism has been reduced significantly and people can’t go to exotic places to Instagram the shit out of white beaches and ridiculously oversized Pina Coladas in decapitated pineapples, a rising …
Vans X Dime Mt. Half Cab Pro Everyone’s favorite Canadian skate company Dime Mtl., got involved with Vans for a limited edition Half Cab Pro. The Half Cab is one of Vans’ most storied shoes, dating back to the 70’s skate legend Steve Caballero. During his career, Steve set …
Nike SB Air Trainer 1 (McEnroe’s first choice back in the late 80s) John McEnroe is one of the best tennis players the world has ever seen. He’s also the world’s most confrontational tennis player, earning him the reputation of an enfant terrible in a sport that is just as concerned with looks and etiquette as …
Rassvet (PACCBAT) x The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi) In 2019, Gosha Rubchinskiy’s and Tolia Titaev’s Moscow-based skate brand Rassvet (PACCBET) made headlines with a collaborative capsule collection that featured a number Paul Gaugin’s post-impressionist paintings. The collection was realized in …
The new Adidas Puig Lucas Puig, French national hero and about the only person that looks good skating in short swim shorts, just got a new pro model courtesy of his sponsor, Adidas Skateboarding. The shoe was designed by Puig’s other sponsor, Palace Skateboards, and …
Pontus Alv’s last Resort AB No day goes by without someone, somewhere in the skate biz deciding to launch a t-shirt brand. If they’re well-heeled, they might even throw in a couple of boards per season. If commercial skateboarding is the Bubonic plague, random t-shirt brands …
Taking ecological sustainability seriously: The Nike SB Janoski Flylether Sustainable fashion is bee’s knees right now. And for good reason: scientists have warned us of the dire effects of climate change, and with temperatures rising across the globe, it’s no longer enough to dismiss it as just an abstract phenomenon …
Nike Sb X Civilist Berlin / Heat It Up! Berlin-based skate shop Civilist teamed up with Nike SB for a collaborative Dunk Low release. Mitte’s go-to destination for skateboarding needs has catered to Berlin’s skate scene for over a decade now, and whenever we’re in the German capitol, …
Nike SB X Medicom Toy [email protected] Dunk (2020) This year’s Nike SB Dunk releases sure are hairier than Richie Jackson’s armpits. Next to the release of the pilose Grateful Dead Dunk Low, Nike has invited longtime partner Medicom Toy to collaborate on the elusive model. Medicom, a Japanese toy …
Vans X Lotties Mike Gigliotti, owner of tiny but popular LA skateshop Lotties, will not, by all accounts, take any shit whatsoever. For instance, he has a strong disdain for “territorial” surfer dudes, “kooked-out vegans” that want to save the world but can …