Tag: Vans
Brady’s Raw Clips
Today is Tony Hawk’s birthday.
But it is also Danny Brady’s birthday.
Wait, so it’s still Tony Hawk’s birthday, twice.
E.T’s Raw Clips
So much effort, money, etc. is spent avoiding being here the first two months of the year, but then March hits, and levels of low morale you once thought were impossible to plummet to begin to surface.
What better way to feel better than to time travel to skate trips of yesteryear, yaknow?
(Yes, it’s April, but the dive happened in March, you Type A jerk.)
How Skateboarders Won & Got A Skate Plaza At Philadelphia’s Muni Building — An Interview With Pat Heid
📷 Photos by Chris Mulhern, Zander Taketomo & Pat Heid
For some skaters, the sight of a sanctioned skate plaza at the Philadelphia Municipal Services building — one made out of Love Park, City Hall and old Muni materials — is surreal. For Pat Heid and his crew, it is a victory produced by years of advocacy, meetings, dead-ends, close-calls, and divine timing.
Philly’s new plaza opens on April 17, and here is the story of how it became a reality.
Diego’s Raw Clips
📷 Photo by Stafhon Boca
When we were doing a compilation of all of Nick Michel’s clips from our “For Nothing” Vans trips — on the occasion of him getting The Cover™ — a few people asked for a Diego edition. While doing the cutdowns for Diego’s Five Favorite Parts earlier this week, that suggestion floated back to mind. Great idea!