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Issue #4 3. Selected Photographs 30. Skateboarding and pyschogeography 32. The Art of Patrick Sean Gibson Cover: Steven Tran Hippie Hop Oakland, CA Photo: Christian Ericksen Back Cover: Jesse Vieira Hurricane San Francisco, CA Photo: Brandon Getty Inner Cover: Gold Nuggets Photo: Ryan Abraham
The Photography Of
Evan Collisson
Mike Lemnitzer Ollie San Francisco, CA
Mike Lemnitzer Front Board San Francisco, CA
John Lindsay Boardslide San Francisco, CA
Jarod Taber Wallie San Francisco, CA
John Lindsay Rock Climbing San Francisco, CA
The Photography Of
Christian Ericksen
Steven Tran FS Smith Alameda, CA
Eddie Higuera Back Tailslide Oakland, CA
Eddie Higuera Krooks Emeryville, CA
Eddie Higuera Blunt Oakland, CA
This Cover Photo Was too Gnarly to Crop. There’s Nothin’ Hippie Dippie about this Hippie Hop.
Steven Tran Hippie Hop Oakland, CA
The Photography Of
Tim Aguilar
Alec Teffeteller Kickflip La, CA
(Left) Christian Holt Hardflip La Habra, CA (Right) Christian Holt FS 180 Los Angeles, CA
Either Christian Doesn’t Change His Clothes or he somehow accomplished this hardflip and 180 the same day. Either way it’s super gnarly.
(Left) Luigi Tinoco Crook Somewhere, CA (Right) Jeremy Leabres Noseblunt Corona, CA
Check Out Jeremy Leabres’s (Right) Toy Machine Ads; This guy always skates with a fiendish grin. Here, for whatever reason, not so much.
Manuel Castillo FS Flip Los Angeles, CA
Some Rando Meanderings & Art Poop
Skateboarding and PyschoGeography Photo By Terry Worona Words By Hank Hansen
Congratulations: even though you probably didn’t know, you are a practicing psychogeog-
rapher. No, not you vert guys. Not you either, park chargers. Y’all rule, but I’m talking to the street dudes on this one. Sorry. No idea what I’m talking about? That’s OK. I’ll explain. It’s your day off. You’ve just spent all morning hungover, drinking coffee and watching A Visu-
al Sound. Now it’s almost noon and you’re ready to stop being a pile, so you hit up your buddies to skate, but they all have work or class. Unfazed, you head out the door with nothing but your board and some stoke, and start pushing towards whatever random spots you can find. When you’re out drifting down alleys and hunting down some untapped urban gems, this is unconscious psychogeography in action.
The concept of psychogeography came out of the Situationist movement of the 50s and 60s.
The Situationists sought to break out of a cyclical, unfulfilling way of life that they believed was the result of Capitalism’s emphasis on objects rather than experiences. One of the best ways to invigorate one’s experiences and therefore, they reasoned, improve one’s quality of life, was to find new ways of interacting with the built environment that gets taken for granted on a daily basis.
The movement may have faded into the fringes since those days, but the ideas still live on via
groups like the Bay Area Rapid Transit Psychogeographical Association, among others. But listen up, dudes. Maybe it’s time for us to more knowingly carry that torch a bit, too. Think about it: we slam our bodies into curbs and handrails and walls. We get familiar with sidewalk fissures and stagnant puddles. We know better than any other urban observer how the built environment feels. Skateboarders take Walter Benjamin’s concept of the flâneur and drag him through gutters and ditches, feeding him a psychedelic urethane cocktail until he sees in the environment around him an
Evan Collisson Ollie Berkeley, CA
endless concrete cityscape of
unfathomable possibility.
The great thing is, it’s not like
you have to do anything differently. Besides, we’re all here because we don’t like being told what to do, right? But just consider: the drunken godfather himself, Dubord, claimed that the only way to really fathom the ‘beautiful language’ of Situationist urbanism was to put it into practice. And that practice is, well, it’s exactly what we’ve all been doing for so long that most of us can’t remember things being any other way. You’ve got the membership card now, dudes. In fact, it’s been in your wallet this whole time. If you ask me, that’s enough to make me crack at least a hint of a smile and keep pushing for a few more blocks. The spots are out there, waiting to be brought to life.
31.
The Artwork Of
Patrick Sean Gibson (Rad Artist and Human)
Celebrating legendary pool skaters. minimalskateboards.bigcartel.com
Scott Foss Handplant Malibu, CA Photo: Lorrie Palmos
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