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skate

  1. Hashbrown

    I find interviews with people you already know rather awkward, so I picked up a six-pack of tallies to split with Mike to help take...
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  2. Going Down in a Barrel

    1. Torey Goodall lost his virginity wearing IPath Cats 2. Pat O’Rourke gets awkward in elevators with pro skaters 3. Alex Olson’s...
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  3. DVS IN-TENTS

    Take to the road with Cameo, McD, Russ, Joey and Jay Brown to explore the great wild Okanagan.
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  4. THE WRATH OF THE POLYMATH

    There are some people who are just skilled. At everything. I’m sure you know one of them, the kind of person who picks up a guitar,...
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music

  1. Quest for Fire

    Although the members of Quest for Fire don’t cite cavemen as any direct influence, nor the barren landscapes of primitive man as...
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  2. Warpaint

    Following a classic rock band success story, Warpaint built a slow-growing mass of praise for their debut Exquisite Corpse EP, which...
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  3. No Joy

    Getting the two frontwomen of Montreal’s No Joy together for an interview was as easy to co-ordinate as it gets. They were working...
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art

  1. Stroke Of Light

    For those who make the switch to digital photography from film, there can come a time where interest peaks, plateaus, and even sinks...
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  2. 10 YEARS OF SHIT

    John Trippe currated a show at Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco to celebrate ten years running the fecalface.com. We got it all...
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  3. Jay Isaac

    As Carl Sagan gazes off into the cosmos during his 1980s PBS television series of the same name, he ponders the delayed travel of light...
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fashion

  1. California Winter

    We wrangled Ed Templeton into shooting this fashion editorial. Gaze at it on those cold winter days as you try and remember the warmth...
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film

  1. JACKS OF TWO TRADES

    Mark Whiteley, Kyle Camarillo, Jay Bridges, William Strobeck, Mikendo, Fred Mortagne and Brian Cassie's transition from filming to...
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life

  1. Mike Mo Capaldi

    "I want to learn how to skate tranny. I want to skate handrails too. Dude, I’m going to frontside lip a 12 stair"
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  2. Tom Asta

    Booze, Tom Asta, Chima Ferguson and a recording device.
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  3. Paul Rodriguez

    Amidst a launch party for his fourth pro-model shoe with Nike, we managed to sit Paul down for a minute in his upscale SOHO hotel room...
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Editor's Letter

It’s hard to believe we used to wait days, sometimes weeks to get photos processed to finally see how they turned out. It wasn’t all that long ago either. Digital cameras were still just a novelty around the time I started Color. Every image in the first couple issues had to be processed, put to contact sheets, carefully selected, scanned, and then spotted for dust before it could be used for anything. Today we have full-length feature films being produced with DSLR cameras. It won’t be long before “taking a photo” will be something you do in post, grabbing stills from a video with no sacrifice in quality. It begs the question: Who then will be the photographer? The person who filmed? Or the one who ‘selected’ the frame to pull out for print?

One thing is for certain, filmers are taking the skateboarding world by storm. If you thought for a minute they were just going to sit around and watch every Johnny Laserflip with a tech new camera wash them out, then… Well, at least for Zach Barton it’s given him just one more reason to concentrate more on skateboarding. For other renaissance men like him who both make films and skate like mad, we bring you an article entitled Polymath (not to mention Zach’s cover).

Filmers are a finicky bunch. Fecal even. John Trippe, creator of Fecal Face Dot Com spent his

early years as a skateboard filmer as well. This issue’s artist feature chronicles the first 10 years of his famed website, with its recent addition of a physical art gallery, showing works from several accomplished artists who were featured in the anniversary show. This issue also highlights the work of filmer/photographers Greg Hunt, French Fred, Brian Caissie, and Jay Bridges among others. And our fashion editor, Mila Franovic escaped the compromising Canadian weather to meet up with the ultimate jack of all trades, artist, skateboarder, company owner, Ed Templeton, who graced us with his mastery behind the lens with an all-film-photo shoot that is this issue’s fashion feature.

As one of this issue’s contributors Isaac McKay- Randozzi said to me, “We’re on the crux of a new type of media gatherer: the multi-tasker.” We now hold the tools to merge photographer and filmer with a single device, allowing a near-limitless range and mobility. Be it technology or tech skateboarding, if there is one thing time leaves us it’s the tools to continue to progress. Realizing all possibilities and embracing them, not shying away from them, is what it means to be on the forefront of this multi-tasking movement, that has always been a big part of being a skateboarder.

Sandro Grison, creative director / editor-in-chief