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Ryan AbrahamEditor in Chief

Contributing EditorsEvan Collisson

Hank Hansen

Daniel BeckStaff Photographer

Shivizle SiwajekEmotional Support

Featuring the Photography and Art Of:Tim Aguilar

Evan CollissonChristian Ericksen

Brandon GettyPatrick Sean Gibson:

(Responsible for the illustrated logo below)Terry Worona

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Issue #43. Selected Photographs30. Skateboarding and pyschogeography32. The Art of Patrick Sean Gibson

Cover:Steven TranHippie HopOakland, CAPhoto: Christian Ericksen

Back Cover:Jesse VieiraHurricaneSan Francisco, CAPhoto: Brandon Getty

Inner Cover:Gold NuggetsPhoto: Ryan Abraham

The Photography Of

Evan Collisson

Mike LemnitzerOllie

San Francisco, CA

Mike LemnitzerFront BoardSan Francisco, CA

John LindsayBoardslide

San Francisco, CA

Jarod TaberWallieSan Francisco, CA

John LindsayRock ClimbingSan Francisco, CA

The Photography Of

Christian Ericksen

Steven TranFS Smith

Alameda, CA

Eddie HigueraBack TailslideOakland, CA

Eddie HigueraKrooksEmeryville, CA

Eddie HigueraBlunt

Oakland, CA

Steven TranHippie HopOakland, CA

This Cover Photo Was too Gnarly to Crop.There’s Nothin’ Hippie Dippie about this Hippie Hop.

The Photography Of

Tim Aguilar

Alec TeffetellerKickflip

La, CA

(Right)Christian HoltFS 180Los Angeles, CA

(Left)Christian HoltHardflipLa Habra, CA

Either Christian Doesn’t Change His Clothes or he somehow ac-complished this hardflip and 180 the same day. Either way

it’s super gnarly.

(Right)Jeremy LeabresNosebluntCorona, CA

(Left)Luigi TinocoCrookSomewhere, 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 CastilloFS FlipLos Angeles, CA

Some Rando Meanderings&

Art Poop

Skateboarding and PyschoGeography

Photo By Terry WoronaWords 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 psychogeog-

raphy 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

endless concrete cityscape of

unfathomable possibility.

The great thing is, it’s not like

you have to do anything differently. Be-

sides, 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 re-

ally 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.

Evan CollissonOllie

Berkeley, CA

31.

The Artwork Of

Patrick Sean Gibson(Rad Artist and Human)

Scott FossHandplantMalibu, CA

Photo: Lorrie Palmos

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