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life

  1. CITY

    Johannesburg is the engine room of South Africa’s economy. It’s a city of complete contrasts where immense wealth exists alongside...
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  2. HELTER SHELTER

    There’s no single skate house that is timeless. Each perfect example has its rise to infamy and its inevitable decline (think: Warner...
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  3. RICK HOWARD

    Vancouver-born Rick Howard unknowingly blazed a trail for generations of skate-boarders, by being one of the first Canadians to acquire...
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  4. FOLK SKATEBOARDS

    Woodworking is one the first known trades of man. When mud and rocks just weren’t cutting it, humans picked up wood and began to...
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  5. STEVE ALBA'S POOLS

    Once I’ve skated a pool, I never forget it. That is what separates me from all the others. I have been skateboarding in the Badlands...
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  6. MATT BEACH

    Sponsored at 12, pro by 16, Mr. Beach was a veteran of the skate world by the time he was 20. He spent a good portion of his career...
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  7. John Rattray's Paranoia in…

    Some time after Gus Van Zant released his film Paranoid Park (adapted from Blake Nelson’s young-adult psychological crime drama novel...
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  8. SOLITARY ARTS IN L.A.

    In an ’86 Vanagon nicknamed ‘The Mule,’ I traveled with three quarters of Solitary Arts (riders Bob Lake, Jef Hartsel and co-owner...
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  9. JOE TOOKMANIAN

    5BORO rider Joe Tookmanian is an underrated legend from the armpit of America: New Jersey. Known for his ambidextrous ways on the board,...
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art

  1. PAGE 36

    In 2010, Jason Schwartzman appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live wearing what appeared to be a Cheeto on his lapel. Stuck to his flat suit...
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  2. Timeless Art Show works

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  3. Cold Flows

    The environments in which we encounter stories play a big role in our remembering them. Smells, tastes, visions — all contribute...
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skate

  1. DUSTIN HENRY

    You just turned 18, high school is finally over, and you are skating better than ever before. The world is your oyster. There’s no...
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  2. $LAVE IN THE PACIFIC…

    Travel is the life-blood of skateboarding. To go beyond the normal places our push takes us, in search of new spots. We use the long...
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  3. TERRY FOX AT BC PLACE

    Our spots define us. Individual style is shaped by the availability of skatable terrain. In small towns, a simple curb-cut down the...
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fashion

  1. Surrealia

    PHOTOGRAPHY MILA FRANOVIC ART DIRECTION JANINE PREVOST hair and Make-up SHANNON REYNOLDS Models BRONTE at LIZBELL models
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music

  1. THE HIGH DROPS

    The High Drops started off with little musical knowledge, but that didn’t stop them from quickly gathering a local fan base. After...
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  2. PSYCHIC ILLS

    Psychic Ills hail from Brooklyn, New York, and have been pumping out their brand of experimental, drone, electronic-centered improv...
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  3. Pierced Arrows

    Sitting in my room, listening to the song “Keep Pushin’” from the newest Pierced Arrows 45”, I can’t help but feel inspired....
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Editor's Letter

Anyone can take a photo to freeze time but it takes a true creative to effectively transcend it. With unlimited advancements in available technology, suddenly everyone is an expert in photography while it is becoming easier to identify those who truly push the fundamentals; for their ability to tell remarkable stories in a single, thoughtful frame with keen sensibilities to mood, light and popular culture.

With every issue of Color, we attempt to create collectible snapshots; markers of a certain time and place that, when pulled down off the shelf, or uprooted from the bottom of an old box, remind us of where we were, what we were doing, and how we were living. Remember your first show? First trip? First pool you skated? Or how about that old mattress on the floor of the house you and your friends held down for all those years. It’s that immemorial feeling that consumes you

when thinking back on those days, that makes these landmarks so special and a big part of the reason we publish this magazine—that palpable second chance print gives us to literally hold these moments in our hands and deny the ephemeral at every return.

For our final issue of 2011, we reached out to some of our favourite photographers from the past nine volumes, those who persist in remaining unaffected by the passage of time or changes in vogue, and continue to retain that playfulness and untainted passion for this inexplicable obsession we share with our readers. Scattered throughout this special issue are over 20 pages of photos that embody a sense of abandoning all points of reference to time. From abstract to lifestyle to landscape, the photos included here are meant to remind us why simplicity and style are so inspirational.

See you somewhere down the road. —Color