Powderly Powerfully

Brian Powderly grind-to-sketchyroll-to-ollieoutbeforedying in Philly, from new State ad.

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BALLOON

BALLOON, a new zine featuring photographs by Richard Hart from Feb ‘20-July ‘21; on pandemic and parenthood. Printed and hand-assembled with sewn spine, from A La Maison, Paris. Edition of 29 copies, in the SHOP now..

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In The LOOOOOOOOOP

The wonderful Loophole Wheels video is now online in full.

Watch Jesse and the rest of the crew surfing the hills of locked-down San Francisco, filmed and edited by the masterful hand of Zach Chamberlin..

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Books, Pods & Cobblestones

Fans of British shred-sledding will enjoy the new Statue Hardware video and the harsh spots in Lintell’s latest part. (This photo from PP14 cover.)

Those of you that enjoy watching podcasts (or, probably, listening to them while working), might want to check out the latest two from The 9 Club: longtime videographer Anthony Claravall and even-longer-time NY lynchpin Eli Morgan-Gesner. (The editions with ‘behind the scenes’ guys are generally more interesting, I think.)

Another medium entirely is The Book.; remember those? Two new ones to recommend are ‘The Most Fun Thing’ by Chicago writer Kyle Beachy; a collection of essays about- or somehow relating to- skating; and ‘An Act of Imagination’ by Scott Bourne, a children’s book of poetry illustrated by Todd Bratrud.

That’s it for now, except to mention that if the names Markus Wyndham, Ocean Howell and Colby Carter bring back good memories, you should prob’ly check this out..

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A Global Gander

The new Aussie contingent of the Magenta family was introduced recently in this edit by Antipodean VX wiz Josh Roberts.

Nice to get yr teeth into a full-length vid in these days of ‘The Part’; the Threads guys come through with a typically thoughtful and detailed hour-long (!) new work featuring some lesser-seen US skaters and cities.

Episode 2 of the fun new DZTV video-magazine project hailing from Swedish skate haven Malmö is out.

And what have those Wknd scamps been up to on the US east coast lately? (Nice filming on that downhill line, Grant..)

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Assemblage

Well… what’s new?

I enjoyed seeing a new full-length Boston scene video by Tim Savage: Grace has some tech moves and some cool spots.

The new short Hockey video prob’ly doesn’t need any more hyping from me, but one that may have slipped under your radar is a Mexico edit from the Snack crew. (Photo above of Krebs from the second Push Partial World Tour..)

There’s also part two of Jake Todd’s raw footy edits from the Traffic video; lots of Philly ripper Josh Feist in this one.

Lastly, some more raw footy from a different era entirely- the SMA team’s 1989 US tour with lots of Natas and some rare footage of Stranger, Sheffey and AP. Amazing to see what they are able to achieve with the WORST assemblage of dodgy obstacles imaginable. (A far cry from the perfect skateparks of a US tour nowadays.) Great stuff as far as I’m concerned, but I’m old.

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Abair

It’s always sad when we lose one of our own.

Dave Abair was a raw street skater who put out many video parts in his time.

His infectious energy will be missed. RIP.

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Go Skate

It has come to my attention that today is ‘Go Skateboarding Day’, so, like any other day, I encourage you to do just that. And here’s a couple of recommendations culled from the expanses of the WWW in the last week to watch before/after you do so..

First of all, a video interview that I think should be essential viewing- Karl Watson had a chat with neuroscientist (and skater) Andrew Huberman who is full of interesting, useful and reassuring information.

As far as watching people ride skateboards, the best thing you could do right now is check out Chris Athans’ part for Loophole.. Excellent stuff.

There’s also a nice little edit of Philly VX man Jake Todd’s raw footy from the last Traffic video, including the beast of a grind pictured above (from PP16)..

I can’t Go Skateboarding (to-)Day; it’s Go to the Playground with the Baby Day for me.. but that actually shares a lot of similarities with GSD…

Have fun.

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New & Old

New: Excellent (as ever) video part from Brad Cromer. (Photo above from PP2 cover diptych.)

Also, PP pal Jameel Douglas’ silky smooth part from the Loophole vid is online; full DVDs available now.

Old: Meanwhile, Josh Stewart has been delving into the Static archives again- pretty epic tape, this one..

Lastly, utilizing old technology for new ends; a couple of excellent FILM projects. Matt Payne made a nice 16mm short of Tom Karangelov; and Colin Read (mastermind behind the wonderful Spirit Quest) made a somewhat mind-boggling ad for Cons involving a circle of pin-hole cameras with one roll of film running between them all.. and.. uh, well, just watch it and try to figure it out..

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Re: Your Gran

You’ve prob’ly watched enough skateboard videos lately- how about reading some interviews..?

There’s a cool little series on Free exploring different Europeans’ experiences ‘making it’ in California, back when you had to go there to do so. Includes Benny Fairfax (above; this photo first published in PP18).

There’s another interesting interview from the only skateboarder that your Gran has heard of..

The trailer for the forthcoming NY doc ‘All the Streets Are Silent’ is online. Looks great.

..And then there’s this beautiful display of flying..

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Covers, Baby..

This photo of Ben Gore was the cover of PP11. Look Back Library made a little video with Ben discussing this and his other cover for Transworld.

LBL are doing good stuff for the appreciation and preservation of skateboard magazines- if you have mags to donate, contact them and they'll add them to the many skate libraries they've set up. (If print is indeed dead, think of them as nice graveyards.)

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Il Fantasista

One of the smoothest movers out there, Italy’s Ruben Spelta has a new ‘going-pro’ video part for Magenta.

This photo from PP18.

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The Road Less Travelled

Jordan Taylor has a new part out for Wknd on Thrasher.

Excellent unusual spot selection..

(This photo from PP10)

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-Ish

Recent-ish stuffs on t’interweb:

Up-and-coming Philly shredder Josh Feist has a new video part out. (This photo from PP16.)

There’s a really good Quartersnacks interview with Jahmal Williams covering a few topics.

Chris Jones is the latest video interviewee in the series exploring mental health in our community.

Aaand Louie Lopez: one of the best.

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Updatery

It’s been a while; I know. So, to recap:

This photo is from PP1 which sold out long ago, but I recently unearthed a few copies of PP11, 13 and 17 which were all previously sold out. So if you want any of those, get on that SHOP tab above.. (Note: PP13 is the ‘No Skateboarding Issue’, and a rarer one as the 400 copies headed to the US mysteriously disappeared.)

Check out Taylor and the rest of the Picture Show crew in their new promo.

You’ve prob’ly seen the new Quasi video but have you seen the latest raw Rios Crew edit from Budapest starring PP pal Ricsi?

(Also: this…)

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Talk Talk

The four interviews from PP17 are now up on here.

There have been a couple of other interesting interviews lately, too. There’s one with UK filmer Dan Magee (Blueprint, ‘Cover Version’ etc.) on the Vague site, and one with Don Brown (ex-pro freestyler and driving force behind the Etnies/Emerica/Es family of brands) on the Slam site.

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INTERVIEWS

Up at the top o’ the page there, you’ll see a new ‘INTERVIEWS’ tab.

PP17, the Interview Issue, is now sold out; but for those of you who didn’t get a copy or who can’t read English (and are reading this translated by a helpful algorithm), you can now read the four interviews on the loose theme of creativity in skateboarding.

First up is Soy Panday, the other three to follow soon.

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5

5 years of Push Periodical (2015-2020)

Edited by Zach Chamberlin.

Photography by Richard Hart.

THANK YOU if you have ever appeared in, contributed to, or somehow supported the magazine during these last five years and 18 issues.

This last year has been generally awful; best wishes for brighter days in 2021.

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PRINTS (Finally)

Photo prints are finally available.

Most of Richard Hart’s images are now available as high quality Lambda prints on archival paper. Both US frame sizes (in inches) and Euro sizes (in cm) can be arranged.

Please use the CONTACT tab above or DM through Instagram to enquire.

For now, though, the first of a series of limted edition prints is on sale in the SHOP.

The first image I have chosen is everyone’s fave, Jake Johnson with this nose manual in Yokohama from 2015.

11x14” glossy print, hand signed and securely shipped.

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Toms Rips

Tom Knox: Ripping for decades..
Footage from Santa Cruz's Speed Freaks (1989) and Jacob Harris' Atlantic Drift (2020).
Music by Tom Tom Club.
Silly idea by Richard Hart, 2020.

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