Tom Botwid
Shot by Makke Bengtsson Tom Botwid is a skater and artist from Sweden who runs Poetic Collective. He’s put together some of the most unique ledge moves that we’ve ever seen. But alongside his ledge skating skills, his eye…
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Kevin Spanky Long
Spanky is a skater, artist and Art Director who’s pro for Baker Skateboards and Emerica footwear. Shooting to skate super stardom as a teenager in the early 00s, his ever-evolving bag of sick, stylish tricks has consistently been the focus…
Morph
Morph has filmed a series of some of the gnarliest and most stylish tricks that have been done in England over the last few decades. His keen eye and talent on a skateboard and handle of his camera, keen wit…
Mack Scharff
Mack Scharff’s epic clips and dope edits for Deluxe have become a major contribution to the SF-based distribution company’s ever flowing stream of video releases. Containing a series of their team’s latest tricks, lifestyle clips and off the board antics,…
Brian Panebianco
Brian Panebianco is a skater and filmmaker from Philly who’s the main lensman for Sabotage. His filming is on point and so is his skateboarding. There are not many skaters out there who have such a noticeably strong handle on…
Alice Smith
Alice Smith is a skater living in Birmingham sponsored by Nike SB who runs Brum Girl Skate. She’s got a creative trick selection, stylish No Complys and does original tricks on ramp and street. Her skating is interesting to watch…
Tony Ferguson
Tony Ferguson is a legendary Girl Skateboards pro and the founder of Rone footwear. Tony’s shoes are a lot like his skating. Classic shapes, comfortable style, made with attention to detail, that’s ready for all street terrain. As big fans…
Chris Emery
Chris Emery is a skater and filmmaker from Wolverhampton, England who runs Wolftown Skateboards. His dedication to documenting skateboarding in Wolverhampton is unparalleled in both quality and quantity. Over the last decade he’s produced a series of full-length skate videos…
Mario Realegeno
Mario Realegeno is a skater and artist from Los Angeles. Mario’s skating came to our attention looking through Matt Rodriguez’s Es La Boom skate roster where his creative style stood out to us. So as Matt is one of our…
Mia Gurary
Mia Gurary is a skateboarder and artist who runs Slacker. Through her creative brand she’s experimented with different forms of art, produce work in several mediums and made tighter connections with her crew and the collective of creatives she’s met…
Ted Barrow
Ted Barrow is a skater, art historian, lecturer and social media personality most well known for his former satirical skate account Feedback TS. His acerbic, assertive and always on point satirical skate commentary made him a household name in skateboarding.…
Paul Sunderland
Paul Sunderland is a skateboarder and musician who has been running punk and metal label Give Praise Records since 2005. You can see from his company’s collaborations with skate musicians and it’s skateboarding graphical output that he’s devoted to skating…
Henry Edwards Wood
Henry Edwards Wood produces skate videos that transcend the boundaries of art and skateboarding cultural documentation. His relentless drive to hone his craft and capture unseen skate talent, impactful tricks and the intangible moments that he manages to witness behind…
Zach McAdam
Zach McAdam is a skater and filmmaker from Lancashire who runs the Panasonic Youth brand. His skate crew, based in Sheffield and the North of England, has an eclectic bag of styles and mix of personal tastes but share an…
Al Hodgson
Al Hodgson is a skater and filmmaker from Brighton, England who runs Orwellian World Landscape. He’s produced a plethora of videos and products, where he displays his curious fascination with dystopian worlds, the inner and outer workings of the VX,…
RB Umali
R.B. Umali is the filmmaker behind one of street skateboarding’s most treasured visual gems, the Zoo York Mixtape video. He captured the raw intensity of East Coast skating in a finely polished way that inspires skating, fashion and music to…
James Bush
James Bush connects the dots on tech tricks that many cannot. His passion for complex constructions doesn’t just end on his board, he also works as a graphic designer which just further draws his focus into laying down well-spaced lines…
Matt Rodriguez
Matt Rodriguez’s skateboarding, music and art is flowing, fluid and fast. He’s got a unique, loose style on a board and a diverse trick selection and his spontaneous approach to skating on all-terrain oozes with creativity. So it’s no surprise…
Rich Smith
Rich Smith is a skate filmer and brand owner who has made his name by creating jazz-infused skate company Skateboard Café and also capturing hours of quality footage with skaters on his team and hundreds of others around the UK…
Kevin Romar
Kevin Romar is a skater and DJ who has done some of the gnarliest tricks with the smoothest style. He’s got a twisted trick selection. Kevin also regularly makes quick power moves on his turntables for thousands of nightgoers for…
Spencer Fujimoto
Spencer Fujimoto has skated for some of the most prestigious skate companies of all-time. As a kid, he was part of the original 90s World Industries team. During his teens in SF he was a local at EMB and by…
Alex Olson
Alex Olson’s ability to skate anything in his path, at the kind of speed you should really be wearing a helmet to handle, saw him landing memorable video parts for Girl, Lakai, Nike and Supreme from the early-2000s onwards –…
Patrick O’Dell
Patrick O’Dell is a skate photographer and filmmaker who created the Epicly Later’d series. Utilising interviews and archive footage Patrick’s online skate docu-series showcased the lives, successes and struggles of skateboarding’s most interesting and elusive personalities. It’s one of the…
Alphonzo Rawls
Alphonzo Rawls is an innovative skater, shoe designer and graphic artist who turned pro in the early 90’s. Alf went pro at a time when skateboarding was changing at an incredibly quick pace and although skateparks were being shut down…
Dan Mancina
Dan Mancina is a blind skateboarder who does gnarly tricks and tech ledge moves. But that’s not the only thing that defines his story. Dan’s passion to pursue challenges is unending. His lack of sight hasn’t slowed down his ability…
Daniel Castillo
Daniel Castillo is one of the most stylish skaters to ever do it, who has skated for Chocolate Skateboards since it began. His unique style and tricks have inspired skaters to switch it up for three decades and his ability…
Mike York: Reel Cool Interview
Mike York has done some of the most stylish skateboard tricks ever. His unique skills on a board and infectious sense of humour permeated through the screen in his iconic parts for Girl and Chocolate. His footage showed how you…
Don Pendleton
Don Pendleton is one of the most prolific and productive graphic artists of all-time. Born in America’s Midwest, his art’s unmistakable hard lines, affinity for nature, and surreal framing has left a firm imprint on skate culture that is never…
Weckingball
Weckingball is The Internet’s own self-proclaimed ‘Most Jacked Skater’ whose made his name from debunking manuals, doing incredible Frontside Flips and delivering a new kind of skate entertainment. He brings something new to skateboarding and we are super stoked he’s…
Marisa Dal Santo
Marisa Dal Santo is one of the gnarliest skaters to ever do it. Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, she launched into the skate world with an unforgettable part in Zero Skateboard’s Strange World. In that video, she skates some of the…
Angel Acevedo
Angel Acevedo is a skater and artist from Pennsylvania who runs Terror of Planet X, a sick new East Coast board brand. TOPX’s nods to graphic novels and nostalgia are unique and creative but it’s not just its boards and…
Kenny Reed
Kenny Reed‘s skateboarding is synonymous with exploration, his iconic video parts are filled with some of the best tricks and most obscure skate spots ever skated. His nomadic pro skate career and sick creative skateboarding inspired thousands of skaters to…
Henry Jones
Henry Jones is a skater and illustrator When did you first start drawing? Both of my parents are pretty talented artists, and as far as I can remember I’ve always had a marker, crayon, pen or pencil in my…
Joe Krolick
Joe was a filmer at 411VM and is one of the most prolific skate filmers ever When did you first pick up a camera? I first picked up a video camera when I was 13. I broke my leg…
Ragdoll
Ragdoll has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever on a skateboard but everybody knows his skating brought more to the table than that. He took classic tricks to dizzying new heights. Ragdoll, Hippy Jump, Hollywood …
Harry Chilcott
Harry is a skater and artist who runs DISJOINTED I think skateboarding and being creative go hand-in-hand. Skateboarding exposes you to so many things from fashion, filmmaking, photography… the list is endless but even if you don’t get…
Mike York
Mike is a pro skater and company owner My name is Mike York and I’m am a proud father of two, a professional skateboarder and I run Roller Horror. For me, the relationship between skateboarding and art to…
Michael Sieben
Michael Sieben is an artist, managing editor of Thrasher Magazine and co-owner of Roger I run Roger, make art, skate, hang out with my family and friends, go swimming and read novels. I also enjoy eating breakfast tacos and…
Erik Ellington
Erik Ellington is one of the most stylish skateboarders of all time and is the creative driving force behind Deathwish Skateboards What do you think about the relationship of skateboarding to design and creativity, and what’s your approach to…
Feedback TS
Ted Barrow aka Feedback TS is a Satirical Skate Critic. You’ve critiqued a load of skateboarding and honed an enjoyable style in the process – why did you decide to start Feedback, and how long have you been…
Jeremy Wray
Jeremy Wray is a skater, artist and designer who has done some of the gnarliest tricks ever Do you think there’s an inherent link between skateboarding and creativity? I believe it’s all undeniably linked – at least, it…
Deville Nunes
Deville Nunes is a skater, Powell TM and a photographer Born to a lawyer father and a circus performer mother, skateboarder and photographer Deville Nunes had already lived in five countries before he started skating in his teens. All…
Nicolas Morales
Nicolas is a skateboarder, artist and filmmaker from Argentina I am the editor-in-chief of Detiro Skatezine, an autogestive, open call, fanzine to promote local and around the country skate artists for free. I also founded Escoba Films with…
Chris Miller
Chris is a skater and Editor of nyskateboarding.com I’ve been the editor of NYskateboarding.com for 3 years. I’m also NY ambassador for boardsforbros and a high school art teacher. It’s because of skating I picked up a camera.…
Callun Loomes
Callun Loomes is a filmer who runs Get Lesta What’s your approach to skateboarding, design and filmmaking? Wing it. No – I’m sure, like me, everyone looks back at things they did and thinks, ‘What was I thinking?’…
Bobby Puleo
Bobby Puleo is an East Coast Street Skateboarding Legend. He’s known for his unique artistic style and defiant commitment to creative exploration on and off his board. He owns and runs online-based board brand VICTIM What’s your full…
Biko Issah: Reel Cool
Biko is a tattoo artist and illustrator whose photorealistic style is so accurate it’s scary. When we discovered Biko’s talent we had to make him a member Since he joined a lot has changed for Biko. He moved to Barcelona,…
Yoon Hyup’s Best Ever Interview
No Comply Guy and New York city-based skater-designer Yoon Hyup is amazing. He’s one of the most fascinating and unique illustrators out there. So we hit him up to deliver to you a whole new kind of interview to find out…
Doobie Doodles
Zander Sattee is an artist and skater who runs Doobie Doodles I draw, make music, make videos, design clothes, and sometimes try to make short cartoons. I think skateboarding inspires me partly just because I love it and…
Jazz Wade
Jazz is a skater and illustrator Skateboarding is the best thing out there! It opens your eyes to such a varied and creative world, it gives you the chance to meet so many people and look at life around…
Boss Dog
Mikey McKennedy is a skateboarder and artist I’m an artist and a creative spirit who grew up skateboarding and making art so my creative process always takes in everything that I thought that was cool when I was a…
Mister Tucks
Mister Tucks is a skater-illustrator who runs Temple of Skate My real name is Tuck Wai but my friends from the online community know me as Mr Tucks. I’m an illustrator. Skateboarding was my main source of inspiration…
Dan Joyce
Dan is a skateboarder and filmmaker and photographer. He starred in MTV UK’s ‘Dirty Sanchez’ I run my own film company Joyce Division and I have started taking 35mm photography and I’ve just made my first zine this year.…
Kim Sedman
Kim is a skater and illustrator based in London After I broke my leg I realised I couldn’t physically be a part of the skate scene in the way I once was so I started drawing my friends skating…
Dinero DIY
Dinero DIY is a skateable art experience in Spain We are Levanna and Eve. We are skaters, DJs and DIY makers. Art and skateboarding are instrinsically linked and we love to explore ideas that fuse the two together. …
The Hated Skateboards
The Hated are a collective of skateboarders and artists Our relationship with skating is a love/hate one, we love to skate and hate injuries. We love creativity…having an idea and pursuing that into something real is very satisfying. starting…
Russ Longmire
Russ is a skateboarder and illustrator from Liverpool I create black and white, brush and ink illustrations under the name Sketch Stance. The name spawned from a fanzine many years back. I curate monthly exhibitions on the walls at Bold…
Louis Slater
Louis Slater is a skater and artist who runs Sex Skateboards Lately, I’ve been painting a lot. I think the thing that keeps me painting is detaching my brain from the physical world that we see, and creating something…
Jenna Selby
Jenna is a skater and photographer based in London For me skateboarding and photography have always has gone hand in hand. I started photographing friends down at Long Live Southbank in the late ‘90’s (which was also around…
Cosmo Pyke
Cosmo is a skateboarder, singer-songwriter from South London I think the relationship between skateboarding and making art is an important one. Because the skateboard can be an instrument too and you can make sounds and movements out of…
Ross From Friends
Felix Weatherall makes music as Ross From Friends For me, there has always been an important relationship between skateboarding and music. Not only in a directly audio-visual sense, which you see often in a skaters’ music choice in…
Jean-Charles Leuvrey
Jean-Charles is a skater who runs Hotel Radio Paris I used to work as an international banker but after 10 years away from France, I’m back in Paris working on Hotel Radio Paris. As a kid, I mainly…
Biko Issah
Biko is a skater and artist from London I’ve never really thought about the connection between skateboarding and making art too much. Although, there’s definitely a similarity in the thought process. In the same way that you might…
Chris Morgan
Chris is a skater who runs Science Skateboards Skateboarding and creativity go hand in hand. The very nature of skateboarding is to be creative since we utilise the streets and architecture in ways that they were never intended to…
Fos
Fos is a skateboarder and artist who runs Heroin Skateboards My urge to skate, paint, design, film tricks and edit videos all come from the same place. I think skateboarding, making art and my creative process are all related.…
Simon Peplow
Simon Peplow is a skater and artist from Birmingham Skateboarding and art are inextricably linked – one informs the other & vice versa. Both are legit lifestyle pursuits which require boundless energy, creativity, imagination, contemplation, integrity and heart.…
Joe Gavin
Joe Gavin is a pro skater, artist and filmmaker I think I’m one of those people who always wants to make something. Whether it’s skateboarding, film, art or whatever! I just need to keep busy and all those…
Kyle Platts
Kyle is a skater and illustrator based in London My name is Kyle Platts, I grew up in Sheffield and I’ve been living in South East London since 2008. I think the key to making art and to…
Eloise Dorr
Eloise is a skater and artist What do you think about skateboarding, making art and your creative process? I’ve always seen art and skateboarding as very similar creative outlets – that’s why the two fields cross over in so…
Greg Conroy
Greg is a skater who runs Serious Adult Skate Company. I’m a decorator and in my spare time I draw, what I hope, are funny insights into the skateboarding community. I think skating as a hobby, pastime or…
Rob Salmon
Rob shoots photos, skates and runs Eastern Skate Mag I’m a skateboarder first and foremost but I’m also a photographer and I film sometimes. I run a skate mag called Eastern. I also work a 9-5 for an engineering…
