Chico Brenes may live in Los Angeles, but Minagua, Nucaragua, is his second home. He fled the country as a child but still has family...
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Color 7.6 Editor's Letter Buy This Issue Now
life
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Managua, Nicaragua
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Lucas Puig
Skateboarding to me is all about the good vibes and getting a good session going with friends. I'm very lucky to do what I do and to......
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Volcom Skate House, CA
I had a favorite book as a child, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It's the story of a boy and the tree that loved him. He would......
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Julien Stranger
Julien Stranger just may be the quintessential skateboarder's skateboarder Heavily dodging the limelight and staying true to his own......
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Beauty and the Beast II
This is the last time I will ever complain about my job. The truth is that pretty much everybody has to work, everyone has to put in......
skate
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Great Plains, Trains, and…
In the heat of summer, adidas spread their giant trident across the country, getting the Canadian team together along with team manager......
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Leaving Grey
Saturday night at the end of the winter. It's been two weeks since I've quit my comfortable job in order to change my life. The 30s......
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Ground for Glory
Cliche's new book, Resume, chronicles the first 10 years and changes of the French-made skateboard company and how it grew to......
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The Power of Tens
In our opinion, the best part in Plan B's earth-shattering video Virtual Reality doesn't have any Plan B skaters in it. It's......
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The Tour
The Beginning is a fragile, fragile time. 3 of us have brutally slammed while attempting to ride our touring bikes, first across the......
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Up in Stoke
In pondering the essence of the modern skateboarding tour, this famous sentence [above], as written in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles......
music
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Magic Diagram
Om is a duo featuring the sonorous bass tones and chant-like vocals of Al Cisneros, formerly of Sleep and currently also in supergroup......
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Repo Men
So let's say you're a homeless drifter in L.A. with a bad-attitude and huge muscles and one day you happen upon an abandoned church......
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Breakfast
Japanese bands rarely get exposure on the shores of North America, and Breakfast is no exception. Amidst the throes of hardcore bands......
fashion
art
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North of the Pedro
Hats. As we go through life we all wear different hats to suit the needs of the moment, job, trick or relationship. For Mr. Jenkins,......
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Tour Posters
There is a reason that we have been inundated with an endless barrage of limited edition shoes, decks, shirts, socks, etc. over the......
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Real Life
One of art history's best told tales recounts how artists learnt to convincingly render reality, hinging, of course, on the 15th century......
Editor's Letter
Let me paint a picture for you… after a long day of battling strong headwinds on your bicycle you have just been kicked out of a hot springs river (yep, a river of almost too hot water complete with waterfall) and had to battle a stretch of treacherous highway in the dark, massive trucks honking at you, giving you little to no room, but that’s all behind you now. There’s a full moon, bright enough to illuminate the faces of the cows and sheep you pass. You are riding four abreast taking up both lanes of a quiet country farm road. No one is talking, you look around and realize that everyone is just quietly taking it all in. it is simple enough, but this is a moment that I will remember for the rest of my life, a moment of pure contentment.
There were a few moments like this on a trip that started out as a simple plan, but eventually hatched into an elaborate tour on the other side of the world with an epic cast. The New Zealand bike trip was a career high, not just for myself but for most of the people on it. No signings, no demos, just some fun skateparks,
steep hills and the road. That trip was the catalyst of this whole special issue. You hold a magazine built in the spirit of travel and adventure. We did our best to track down photos from Albuquerque to Dnepropetrovsk, and from Wellington to Winnipeg. Josh Clarke had some friends help him shoot what became a full interview over a few weeks in Barcelona. Chico Brenes filled us in on his hometown in Nicaragua and Jay Revelle went to Japan to track down some skate rock band Breakfast. We also had Rick McCrank narrate some excerpts from Beauty and the Beast and in keeping with the “tour” theme, our own Ben Tour worked together with Gordon Nicholas to reate a nice marriage of ink and celluloid in our fashion editorial.
The photo that you see above is Hot Water Beach. We raged to make it there for low tide. That is when you are able to dig up your own personal hot tub, mixing in the sea water to get the temperature just right. It was the end of a long first day. I was exhausted but feeling more alive that I’d felt in ages.
- dylan doubt, photo editor
