Skateboarding

This powerful collection of stories, set in the midWest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razorsharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection was to become one of the most influ...

The star of Roberto Bolaño's hairraising novel Distant Star is Alberto RuizTagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving skywriting, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions.For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry wo...

For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bu...

The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating....

Though Skinema "reviews" over 150 pornos, Nieratko hardly ever mentions them, focusing instead on the pillpopping exploits that he's documented unapologetically over the past seven years in his column for Vice Magazine?much to his editors chagrin. As Johnny Knoxville so succinctly put it, Nieratko is an asshole, but whether Chris is rescuing a sta...

"It's Not About Pretty" is the FIRST comprehensive hardcover book ever to be published on girls skateboarding. The 8x10 hardcover book is 144 pages and features 65 different skater girls from pool riding, park, street, downhill, vert and cruising, to pro female skateboarders and soul skaters this book covers it all. With powerful imagery by awar...

With the release of Disposable A History of Skateboard Art in 2004, author Sean Cliver made a brilliant attempt at artfully cataloging every important skateboard deck ever released. In the process, he created a classic, but was left feeling less than satisfied. Ever the completist, the gaping omissions in the first book gnawed at him and drove hi...

The story of the simple skateboard is part thriller, part underground, underdog success tale. It?s chockfull of innovations, farout graphic artistry, and evermoreincredible hotdogging feats. And the story?s told in this book with contributions from the stars themselves?Tony Hawk, Stacey Peralta, Jeff Ho, the Dogtown ZBoys, and more. Beautiful...

A celebration, chronicle, and musthave for Vans sneakers fans, Vans: Off the Wall offers vivid photography and the compelling story of a casual canvas shoe and a DIY spirit that helped turn pop culture inside out. This updated edition, published to coincide with the brand?s 50th anniver­sary, brings to life the Vans community of boarders, bikers, ...

Cliche: Resume spotlights the largest European skateboard brand from its establishment in 1997 in the days of VHS and polaroid to the present. This epic volume features skate photography from inside the crew, and is packed with wicked shots of kickflips, ollies, wallrides, and front nosegrinds. The book follows Jeremie Daclin, founder of Cliche ska...

Longtime skateboard artist Sean Cliver put together this staggering survey of over 1,000 skateboard graphics from the last 30 years, creating an indispensable insiders' history as he did so.Alongside his own history, Sean has assembled a wealth of recollections and stories from prominent artists and skateboarders such as: Andy Howell, Barry McGee, ...

This retrospective of Jims skateboard art bombards the reader with colorful decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos, and stickers to illustrate the history of skateboarding, from the urethane revolution to the present. Take a ride with an inside view of Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio artists and examine their gra...

The bigger, newly designed edition of an iconic skateboarding book, including additional neverbeforeseen Glen E. Friedman photos and a new C.R. Stecyk III postscript.In the early 1970s, the sport of skateboarding had so waned from its popularity in the 1960s that it was virtually nonexistent. In the DogTown area of west Los Angeles, a group of yo...

Hit the streets with 200 exhilarating photographs of the world?s greatest professional skateboarders in action. In this dynamic collection, awardwinning photographer Jonathan Mehring takes us from New York to Hong Kong to Istanbul and beyond as he sets out to capture the heart and soul of skate culture on six continents. Featuring stars like Tony ...

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions ? a billiondollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, countercultural heart.Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf...

The world?champion freestyle skateboarder and the man who brought the ollie ? the trick that revolutionised the sport by taking it from the ground to the air ? to street skating shares the history of skateboarding, as he tells the dramatic story of his life.At the age of 13, Rodney took the freestyle skating world by storm. He won 35 world titles i...

"Skate, drugs, and rock 'n' roll!"Kat Von D, LA InkForward by Tony Hawk Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other deathdefying stunts on the road to recovery...At seven, Brandon was a skateboard prodigy. By the time he was fourteen, he was living the dream. Discovered...

One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, for the next t...

A cool selection of classic skateboard stickers from five key skateboard brands.This new book of fully peelable stickers, compiled by the Stickerbomb team, brings together the best skateboard stickers ? both classic and new ? from the 1970s to today.From Jim Philip's legendary drawings for Santa Cruz, to the innovative, graphic?led creations from G...

Charlie Abbott is the new kid in townagain. He hates everything about moving, especially trying to make new friends. Then he meets a kid called X who shares his love of skateboarding. Together, they rip some moves at the town skatepark. But then Charlie's skateboard vanishes from his garage, and he sees X riding around on a skateboard that looks ...

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Legendary skateboarder and artist Jerry Hsu started his blog NAZI GOLD in 2009 as a repository for the cell phone photos he'd been collecting alongside his more traditional photography and film practices: shots of friends and strangers, roadside curiosities, and anything else that seemed to merit instant sharing with both peers and the public. In t...

When a group of bullies decide they own the local skatepark, Conner and his best friend, Hannah, are forced to practice elsewhere. Conner and Hannah have to outsmart the bullies if they want to practice for the upcoming competition. Because in the end, the fight for the skatepark will come down to the ultimate battle of the boards....

The stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by petkilling hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005. His new book includes both unpublishe...

Designed for a dedicated readership of skateboarding fans and aficionados, The Concrete Wave provides: A spectacular history of skateboarding (19602000); Hundreds of fabulous photographs from the archival to the awesome!; An interview with world champion Tony Hawk, and much more...; All presented in a format both radical and readable and designe...

The Handmade Skateboard is the definitive book on building custom skate decks of all shapes and sizes, from the highperformance street deck to the classic longboard to a vintage pinstripe cruisers that will turn heads everywhere you go. When you make your own skateboard from scratch you have the opportunity to create something that is perfectly t...

Every culture has a creation myth, and skateboarding is no different. The Ollie forged a new identity for skateboarding after its invention in the 1970s, and it lies at the root of nearly every significant move in street skating today. This groundbreaking nohanded aerial has also affected the evolution of surfing and snowboarding, and has left a p...

William Sharp began taking surfing photographs in southern California in the early seventies. and was quickly drawn into the nascent skateboard scene, shooting friends emulating surfing moves on pavement. By 1975 he was brought in as a staff photographer for the magazine Skateboard World. During the next five years he documented the meteoric rise o...

Southern California is the birthplace of skateboard culture and, even though skateparks may be found worldwide today, it is where these parks continue to flourish as architects, engineers and skateboarders collaborate to refine their designs. The artist Amir Zaki grew up skateboarding, so he has an understanding of these spaces and, as someone who ...

A young skateboarder reflects on the complexities of his perception. Starting from his childhood, he meanders through distant memories, wondering what led him to become a skateboarder. He questions everything in the world around him, all the while he is both confused and thrilled by writing it all down. What begins as a memoir soon begins to share ...

These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party, " " La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans," to name a few seem even more powerful, and are read and...

This sketchbook is perfect for the creative, artistic skateboarder, any age, boy or girl.Total of 48 templates, including 12 for each of the four main board shapes: Cruiser, Popsicle, Old School, and Longboard. Each template has a facing page with space to name the designs, and make note of details and inspiration.Use pen, pencil, crayon, stickers,...

From the hardridden halfpipe of a suburban driveway to teens doing boardslides down stairway handrails in Rio de Janeiro, from the brightlight glare of ESPN's XGames to the groundbreaking streetskating videos of Spike Jonze, skateboarding has taken the world by storm and if you can't deal with that, get out of the way. In The Answer Is Neve...