Recently added articles from Thrasher:

Shred spread.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008; Hutton, Joseph ... I am an old subscriber of Thrasher who is concerned about the effects of the images displayed in the magazine. Even though the company is doing great, I have a proposal that may help improve the magazine's popularity. I notice that there is a lot of merchandise being promoted for pros, and ...

For sure.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008 ... Well, life pretty much sucks in Minnesota. It's always 50 below and there ain't any die-hard skaters here because everyone snowboards, and they always brag about where they went to go snowboarding. There's only like two weeks where you can skate and then by the end of July ...

Who cares.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008; Creasy, Jeremy L. ... There has been a lot of talk lately about the impact TV has on skating. This was the cover story of the April SLAP. There were a variety of different insights, hypotheticals, and pros and cons looked at. It is a hot topic right now. Overall, I feel it will not matter in the long run. It is ...

On high.(MAIL DROP)(Letter to the editor)

Jul 01, 2008; Graham, Scott ... I had a skateboard dream the other morning; I was riding on a cruiser bicycle with a basket on the front and one on the back. Both had a skateboard in them. I stopped at Frank Atwater's house in Ventura. Then I was off to Santa Barbara on my bike to go skate. Then I woke up. I'm out here ...

Envelope of the month.(MAIL DROP)

Jul 01, 2008; Delgado, Yubey ... Yubey Delgado 1617 Stanton Way Stockton CA, 95207 THASHER P.O ....

Ryan Beavers.(CANVAS)

Jul 01, 2008; Kelly, Conor ... FOR YEARS, Mr Beavers had braved the harsh elements of skate and art life in the Midwest, waiting for the right time to make his escape and take the epic journey to the heart of the scene in SE Originally from Toledo, OH--the land where a good red curb is hard to find, winter feels like ...

Skate stardumb.

Jul 01, 2008 ... YOU KNOW, those Aztecs might have been on to something. If you skip the human sacrifice part, sun worship seems pretty logical. Our hydrogen-fueled friend above is the sustaining source of energy for our entire biosphere. But as for looking into the night sky for cosmic connect-the-dot ...

Anatomy of a demo tour day off.

Jul 01, 2008 ... EVEN WHEN skateboarding's your job, sometimes you need a day off to be a kid again. "You should really get some Lakai's, bro ..." "I hope I'm tall enough to ride the ...

Stagnation aversions, #3.(ZINE THING)

Jul 01, 2008; Dyer, Erin ... Where did this come from? I have no idea, but the best guess would be somewhere in New Zealand (Wellington, perhaps?) due to the references. Despite the lack of info, it's well worth a mention. It's a mostly personal-stories-andruminations-type of 'zine, but it succeeds where so many of ...

Levil uniform, #8.(ZINE THING)

Jul 01, 2008; Dyer, Erin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I gotta be honest; I have no idea what Levil Uniform means. I thought it was some kind of Frenchified term missing an apostrophe (ie, L'Evil Uniform). Then I thought it might be a misspelling of "level" but that if it is, someone would have told him (I ...

Razorcake, #43.(ZINE THING)

Jul 01, 2008; Dyer, Erin ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This issue of Razorcake is a little more shit-hot than most, containing interviews with Reigning Sound/Oblivians, git/voc Greg Cartwright, photographer Edward Colver (you might not know his name but you will recognize some of his early punk photos), ...

Urban fox gazette, #2.(ZINE THING)

Jul 01, 2008; Dyer, Erin ... These guys went all out with the packaging of this little number and the attention to detail as far as layout and aesthetic go, although the content is a bit sparse. This mag's theme is vampires and mustaches, but much of the content doesn't exactly follow it. The Cooking With Neff recipe ...

Punk is dead, punk is everything.(ZINE THING)

Jul 01, 2008; Turcotte, Bryan Ray ... By Bryan Ray Turcotte; Kill Your Idols, Inc, Gingko Press Punk died? Yep. What, when, how, why? Logical questions. In the grand scheme of things everyone will tell you what punk is in relation to how they came to know it. Today "they" say punk's a mass-produced unspecialized ...

Tattoo time two.

Jul 01, 2008; Sieben, Michael ... LAST YEAR I WROTE an article titled "Tattoo Time." Basically the article was about how I get requests to draw tattoos, but don't have time to fulfill all of the requests. And my solution was a set of custom tattoo flash art for Thrasher that consisted of some of the most ridiculous stuff I ...

Dangerous technology.

Jul 01, 2008; Hammeke, Joe ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE CHIEF sets his riders up proper. He sends out pre-gripped boards, mounting hardware, and wax in every box. No more sessions ending because you can't find a sheet of grip after midnight. He also sets the van up pretty sweet. DVD players in the ...

Penh ching chode: RVCA jerks visit Asia.

Jul 01, 2008; Burnett, Michael ... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] WHEN TRAVELING ABROAD there will always be some awkward moments of confusion when you, the dummy who only speaks English, might have to take a stab at some crude Spanish or French to get the Doritos your body needs. Some pantomime, a few choice words ...

You had to be there.

Jul 01, 2008; Hammeke, Joe ... EVERY WINTER, Arizona goes off. During the months of mid-October through mid-April the Phoenix area gets raped and pillaged by skaters from all over the country. Some make semi-permanent moves from the Midwest, and countless others make short trips from Southern California. It really makes ...

Rune Glifberg.(Interview)

Jul 01, 2008; Brown, Jake ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THERE ARE VERY FEW VERT SKATERS who can transfer the speed, power, and trickery achievable on the big ramps into the unpredictably-raw realm of the concrete curl. Not only does Rune Glifberg take progressive moves into the tight nooks and crannies of ...

Dame Satan.(Interview)

Jul 01, 2008; Henry, Ryan ... BEACHES AND BRIDGES, the second long-play album by Dame Satan, is a leviathan of a record that'll displace mass amounts of air from your speakers, whether it's creeping along or flowing with speed and soul. The sounds it contains are huge, surreal, and timeless, easily holding their ground ...

Walken.(Interview)

Jul 01, 2008; Furtado, Ryan ... From the Sleepy costal town of Half Moon Bay, Walken turned high school jam sessions into 10 years of good (and bad) times, traveling, and friendship. Members and musical phases have come and gone, and now, as a four piece, they've refined their sound and been killing it ever since. If you ...