brooklyn article - slap magazine - 2006

around 2011 when i was redoing my portfolio website, i never got the PDFs of some of my favorite articles i had published. it didn’t seem too important, because at the time it still felt like everyone in skateboarding saw the magazines regularly, but i finally photographed them.

slap magazine - december 2006

this was an article idea i had pitched to slap. the concept and brand many of us now know as "brooklyn" was not quite what it is today. it had already started to transform towards what it is now, but it was still unfamiliar and intriguing to many of us. the ideas in the article might even be considered cliche by now.

anyway, i didn't think the article would go through, or end up getting 16 pages, since a lot of these skateboarders were not sponsored by companies that advertised in the magazines, which made it hard for skateboard magazines to give pages to them. but it ended up being one of my favorite articles, with some of my favorite skateboarders who lived in, found spots, and/or skated in brooklyn regularly. jay riggio interviewed all of the skaters and did a lovely job writing the article.

dave caddo - gap to frontside tailslide

brian brown - backside 50-50 gap to cellar door

pat smith - frontside 5-0 grind
max price - feeble stall fakie

dan pensyl - gap to frontside wallride
dustin charlton - switch frontside 360

danny falla - kickflip nose manual
jerry mraz - backside 5-0 grind

bobby puleo - backside nosegrind

james frankhouse - frontside 180

danny falla - 5boro skateboards professional

danny falla - frontside bluntslide - lower manhattan, ny - 2009
5boro ad in the skateboard MAG around feb 2010

recent published works - february 15, 2009

9 photographs

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zach lyons - fs 50-50 - maryland - 2007
as seen on www.slapmagazine.com as their first online only cover, around december 2008.

some other frames:

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walker ryan - backside nosegrind revert - manhattan, new york - 2008
transworld skateboarding magazine, january 2009 issue, downtown manhattan

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backside tailslide

rest in peace, van wastell, 1984-2008.
these were shot in/around washington dc, june 2008
he was there filming a "behind the griptape" with rory sheridan, which was to be his going pro video.
these 2 photos were in his skateboarder magazine interview, february 2009 issue.

pole jam

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eli reed - frontside nosegrind - boston, massachusetts - 2008
autobahn wheel company ad, in the february 2009 issue of thrasher magazine

i like this version without flashes, and shot horizontal, to see a little geometry, architecture, foliage, and rollaway.

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olly todd - frontside ollie - los angeles, california - 2008
kingpin magazine : skateboarding europa - february 2009 issue 62
couldn't believe it. printed in 4 languages!

original composition

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ben gore - kickflip - 2008
skateboarder magazine - march 2009 issue
shot outside los angeles, california
the footage is from the stereo sound agency's website, for his welcome to the team announcement.

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darrell stanton - switch frontside 180 - the bronx, new york - 2007
espn action sports website - february 2009

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danny falla - ollie up, backside 5-0 fakie - brooklyn, new york - 2008
the skateboard MAG - april 2009 issue
shot in brooklyn, new york
look out for danny falla's "mag minute" video on www.theskateboardmag.com