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J. Grant Brittain, Skateboard Photographer – One of the all time greats

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The New York Times recently featured J. Grant Brittain in their California Today newsletter. If you’re at all interested in skateboarding, you should definitely know about him. He is a legend in the skateboarding world, being one of the first to take and share great photos of the early skateboarding world. Check out some of his iconic photos below.

J. Grant Brittain's iconic skateboard imagery

J. Grant Brittain's iconic skateboard photography

You can check out the New York Times feature here or you can head straight to Brittain’s website at https://jgrantbrittainphotos.com/. Keeping up with the kids, he is also all over social media, like Instagram and Etsy. Definitely keep an eye out for his upcoming book, and you can find some books and magazines already featuring his work here.

Build Ramps Not Walls Documentary Trailer

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When he watches this movie, he’s probably just gonna say “OK, you know what? I’m not building this wall anymore.”

Build Ramps Not Walls (BRNW) is a project that began with a tight knit Mexican and American skate community on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Looking for a positive response to the negative rhetoric between Mexico and the United States of America after the U.S.A. 2016 Presidential Elections, this diverse skate crew decided to come together a build a new ramp with the same construction materials that would be used to build the wall between Mexico and the U.S.A. In the process of this construction, we saw skaters from all walks of life come together, overcoming barriers of race, age, gender and economics, to achieve a common goal– the goal to create the most unique DIY park in all of Mexico where Mexicans, Americans, all nationalities can come together and skate.
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