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

April 22, 2018 by Administrator Leave a Comment

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.

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Go Skateboarding Day NYC 2017 Video

June 24, 2017 by Administrator Leave a Comment

Check out TransWorld’s video from Go Skateboarding Day in NYC! Go Skateboarding Day is an awesome, global event to promote skateboarding, held on June 21st every year. We celebrated at the park in the LES, with Nike SB sponsoring the event. If you missed it this year, be sure to check it out next time (and you can always celebrate this weekend!).

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Build Ramps Not Walls Documentary Trailer

May 4, 2017 by Administrator Leave a Comment

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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Get Used To It: Women & Skateboarding in South Africa

May 4, 2017 by Administrator Leave a Comment

Check out the below trailer for Get Used To It: Women Skateboarders in South Africa

Get Used To It is a documentary about female skateboarders in South Africa, and Skateistan’s efforts to promote skateboarding as a route to independence and education. You can find the full documentary for free on the Oolipo app on iPhone.

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