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skate

  1. The Tiltmode Army

    Jeff Thorbun mingles with the Tiltmode Army, a crew that parties almost as hard as it skates. Remember when skating was all about having...
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  2. Skate and Deploy

    Caleb Beyers and a twenty four pack of Vancouver’s greatest skateboarders invaded Western Canada on a Coors Light Coach Bus for the...
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  3. Trivial Pursuit

    Maybe Jamie Tancowny should have studied a bit more, but we'll let you decide... Click here to gather wisdom from Tim Gavin and Vincent...
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art

  1. Poweredge

    Sam Mckinlay tells how Poweredge magazine took skateboard art from deck bottoms to the page, and changed skate media forever. XEROX...
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  2. Nate Larson

    (THE ART OF...) Nate Larson turns the invisible into art. By capturing electrical fields surrounding everyday objects, this revolutionary...
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  3. Assume Vivid Astro Focus

    Leah Turner visits the immersive works of assume vivid astro focus, a Brazilian collective that blends multiple mediums to create...
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  4. Nomads

    Five world-renowned Vancouver artists showcase their craft in Nomads, a group exhibition presented by the National Gallery of Canada....
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  5. Ben Hlavacek

    ARTISAN “As a small time ‘zine maker, Hlavacek grew up in Wichita, Kansas, moving to Kansas City in 2007 to attend Kansas City...
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  6. NYC

    A photographic history documenting New York City’s budding street skate culture in the mid 80s. GALLERY NYC History "In...
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fashion

  1. Quantum Tapestry

    A good-looking time traveler wanders into a psychedelic realm of rainbows and fashion. photosby Gordon Nicholas with...
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music

  1. Buraka Som Sistema

    Michael Barrow writes on Buraka Som Sistema, a Brazilian group bringing the spicy Latin beats of the south to the great white north. BRINGING...
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  2. Hyperdub

    RJ Basinillo writes on Hyperdub, the new music genre that just might be dubstep’s final hope, and the artists that are creating it. THROUGH...
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  3. Thee Oh Sees

    Jenny Charlesworth talks to San Francisco psych-rockers Thee Oh Sees about their new album and melted cheese between bread. image...
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Editor's Letter

THE NEXT/BEST ISSUE

Color 7.3 Release Party on July 23 in Montreal at Reggie’s Bar (1455 blvd. de Maissoneuve Ouest) at 8pm. Grab a free Hypercolor mixtape from the Moustche Men DJs, and settle those stomach grumbles with grilled cheese sandwhiches and freezies to beat the summer heat. And, most importantly, there’s free copies of Color 7.3 SE Next/Best issue.

Vancouver on July 25 at Glory Days.

“Nostalgia, It Ain’t What It Used To Be”.

“When you have spent as much time as we have with something that you care so much about it’s hard to not reminisce about the “good old days,” and harder still to keep that sentimentality out of the magazine. So, we have decided to get it all out in one go. A special future/past, “next/best” issue that commemorates some of our favourite aspects of skateboarding’s past paired with what we believe is good about skating today, and where we see it (or hope to see it) going in the future. A perfect juxtaposition of what we liked, like, and where we would like to see it heading.

Covering the past is easy. We featured Mississippi records, who are doing a hell of a job releasing obscure and out of print jams. We also visit an interesting time in skateboarding as documented by the

defunct magazine Poweredge, and catch up with the Tiltmode Army to reminisce on times past and their present video, Bonus Round. In the pages of our Fotofeature, you will find a nice mix of photos from the vaults along with the best images currently being captured. The future is a tough one. All we can do is close our eyes and cross our fingers. Being optimists, we chose to focus on five skateboarders who we hope will keep skateboarding going in a direction that we will be proud of, and who better to interview them than the iconic figures who have helped to make skateboarding today what it is?

Peppered throughout the issue you will find a series of “next/bests”, this year’s new regular column that inspired the theme of this issue. For this we turned to some of our favourite skateboarders, artists and industry visionaries.

Someone recently pointed out to me that, like fine wine, nostalgia only gets better with age. Come to think of it, one can make some pretty elaborate plans when a few glasses deep. Pour yourself a tall one, maybe even keep the bottle handy (pot if you’re a coffee drinker). Reminisce and dream with us, ‘cause baby, this is one day that we will never have back.”

Dylan Doubt, photo/guest editor