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art

  1. MUTUAL FUN

    I drove into the pitch-black town of Bruno at the end of a long venture far into the eastern Saskatchewan prairie skyline. It was the...
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  2. DOUG BROWN

    Years ago, highly-detailed stenciled characters began to appear on piles of snow left by snowplows throughout Toronto. Created by Doug...
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  3. Mat O'Brien

    There are those that seek attention and those that just don’t care. For Mat, the spotlight is just something to put your hand into...
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  4. Damian Moppett

    Damian Moppett is an artist’s artist, but this dubious statement doesn’t refer to his audience, it means that he is haunted by...
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  5. EVERY SINGLE PERSON I DRAW…

    Jay Howell was born to be a cartoonist, pure and simple. Instead of paying attention in class, he passed the hours drawing, looking...
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life

  1. CITY

    Don’t ever come to Portland. It does nothing but rain, there isn’t any good food, no good bands, everyone is stuck up, no one rides...
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  2. Filthmode MC

    This is Filthmode Motorcycle Club—a fellowship of dirty dudes with Yamaha XT 500s, manufactured between ’75 and ‘81. Every weekend...
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  3. FACES N SPACES

    For over a decade Crailtap.com has been a skateboarding mainstay, bringing fresh daily content to its readers and setting the bar for...
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  4. The Crucial Fiction of Jereme…

    On January 4, Color sent Alexis Gross to the Affinia Hotel in midtown N.Y. to meet Jereme Rogers for a Tattered 10 interview. Throughout...
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  5. HELTER SHELTER

    Picture this: it’s summer, you’re driving down a long winding road in maritime Nova Scotia. There are green spruce trees on your...
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  6. TATTERED TEN

    You might recognize the name William Strobeck as the filmer behind Photosynthesis, or maybe you recognize “Fat Bill” by his chipped-tooth...
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music

  1. Not Wave

    Long Beach, California’s Crystal Antlers have had a revolving door of spontaneously combusting band members. At one time they had the picture...
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  2. GRIMES GLITTER GRIT

    What you see is not always what you get when it comes to Claire Boucher—the tiny, pixie-faced singer and producer behind electric...
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  3. Architects of Noise

    About six years ago I was in Paris in search of the most weird and interesting and ended up at Bimbo Tower, a store renowned for their...
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fashion

  1. Art is a Man's Name

    PHOTOGRAPHY Robin Black Stylist Beck Trumbo TALENT Justin Strubing, Benny Fairfax, Nick T, Jodie Smith at Next Brenna Box at Photogenics Beck...
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skate

  1. Shazam

    In this day and age, when skateboarders have fallen victim to, “I’m sooo positive,” Mr. Bong keeps it real and will tell you...
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  2. Nate Lacoste meets his…

    The first time I saw skate footage of Nate Lacoste was in 2006. My buddy Stacy Lowery and I were running (not owning) a skateboard...
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  3. THE UGLY MAN COMETH: MEXICO…

    Nothing left but hangovers and bullet holes. What a place. In a way it was the American dream that led to all this madness. But those...
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Editor's Letter

MAGAZINES ARE SEXY.

Things just aren’t the same between us. You’ve acquired this ‘need’ to know everything that’s happening with everyone, all the time. I’m beginning to think you’ve forgotten what it’s like to turn off, let go and just be. I know we’ve been chatting more often with the help of Instagram/Twitter/Facebook, but it’s just not the same quality, physical connection we had that was far more memorable than this bullshit one-liner banter that continues to consume you more each day.

I know you see others when I’m not around—I’m okay with that. You’re complicated; you require certain things that might be unmentionable (the Shecklers, the Nyjahs, porn). It’s nothing to be ashamed of, I get it. I know you love me because you tell me all the time, but… it’s just… you used to take me places.

Remember the road trip with your friends to S.F.? Everyone had their turn with me that weekend at the cabin… and all those

hours behind closed doors in the bathroom? You used to be so headstrong, so passionate! God, we were wild! You’d whip open the covers, spread me wide open and we’d just go at it for hours. You’d tear me to pieces when you’d pin me up to the walls in your room—it felt so good! And then there were the more sensual times when you’d pick me up after a long day working at your computer. You’d take me home and put your nose to me, smelling me; your fingers gently caressing my spine… The last thing you would ever consider was looking at a screen again.

You’ve always inspired me to be better and I’ve always been there to inspire you back, and I don’t intend on changing that anytime soon. But one day it could be too late and you’ll wish you could hold me and that I’d curl up beside you. This long-distance relationship thing is only going to work for so long; you can’t base a future off social media alone.

Love Always,
Color Magazine