Skate mags
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- mrdobolina
What skate mags are the kids all about these days? I'm going to surprise my neph with a subscription and I know you dudes know where its at.
- dbloc0
I'd say Transworld, Thrasher or Slap
I haven't skated in over a year though.
- right on, those mags have been out forever, I feel less old now... haha thanks!mrdobolina
- dbloc is on point. fo'' sho'. although i get the feeling that thrasher is a bit more hardcore//aggressive than transworldmenos
- transworldmenos
- dbloc0
I wanted to get something like that for my nephew, but he's not into skating. He's all about football right now.
- rylamar0
All the guys who actually made Transworld what it was left when it was bought out by Time Warner and started this:
http://www.theskateboardmag.com/…
Also heard Big Brother is coming back but I'm sure his parents wouldn't be happy.
- mrdobolina0
my neph still plays football and bball and soccer but skates with his friends outside of that. he gets a big enough push from his pop on the football and bball so I just want to feed the other side.
- enfocusmedia0
Don't get Transworld. It's the thickest mag but over 2/3s of it are ads. I'd go with The Skateboard Mag...
- jobhall0
shit, i thought you meant figure skating...
(i'm joking)
- mrdobolina0
thank you very much.
- mg330
Ah, Big Brother... Used to get that when you had to be 18 to buy it, back in high school. It was owned by Larry Flynt back then, all the guys that worked there always wrote about having access to massive, incomprehensibly amazing porno vaults.
I miss my youth.
- mrdobolina0
hide-a-dook is the funniest thing I remember from Big Brother
- lol - I loved the stories of their "tours" and how they'd just fuck with random people.mg33
- mg330
There was a Big Brother cover with Steve Olson on a cross with wheels doing an ollie over burning bibles.
- czawada0
If you're looking for a well designed mag with killer photography and great content pick up The Skateboard Mag.
If you're looking for your standard mag which hasn't changed much in the past 15 years get TWS or Thrasher.
If and when Big Brother comes back it'll be crap unless they get the old crew of England, Knoxville, Termaine, Parker, etc. I doubt that will happen as most of em are on to bigger and better things.
- Hopefully they'll resell the Metallica font "HELVETICA" shirt.mg33
- handsomeboy0
Color Magazine is king.
- How could I forget COLOR! Beautifully put together mag. Can the Americans pick this up?czawada
- yea i think you can just subscribe through their site, last issue had Erik Brunetti art directing - i believe he hand-drew all the lettering on the pageshandsomeboy
- mg330
I love the wiki page about the magazine:
skateboarding magazine founded by Steve Rocco [1], which was notable for ushering in street skating and promoting Rocco brands and companies Rocco favored. No subject was taboo. Early articles featured step by step ways to commit suicide and rip off schemes such as how to make a fake ID. They would often use odd gimmicks like printing the magazine in different sizes, packaging it in a cereal box, and throwing in items like trading cards and a cassette tape. Early writers were Sean Cliver, Earl Parker (Thomas Schmidt) Jeff Tremaine, Marc Mckee, Mike Ballard, Pat Canale, and others. [2]. They also released a few videos with a few Jackass-esque stunts and pranks, but the videos were mostly skateboarding-oriented.
It contained mostly articles about skateboarding [3], as well as nudity, stunts, and random ramblings from its staff. Its later days were characterized by the clever wordplay of editors Dave Carnie and Chris Nieratko. The magazine was purchased by Larry Flynt in 1997. After Flynt began publishing the magazine, ironically the nudity was toned down or scrapped altogether, though the vulgarity remained.
In one of the most bizarre episodes of the magazine's history, the subscriber list for Big Brother got mixed up with one of Larry Flynt's hardcore magazines - Taboo. Subscribers were sent pornography, and those who subscribed to Taboo got a skate magazine. This incident was parodied on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in which one of the band members was delivered an issue of Big Brother live on stage, suggesting that he subscribed to Taboo and received it in error [4].
The magazine was unexpectedly dropped by Larry Flynt publications in February 2004.