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Jamie Owens makes a beautiful skateboarding magazine & I'm not just saying that because he rarely denies my random ideas.

Whether I have a piece in the mag or not, it's a joy when Closer shows up in my mailbox. Closer has become a home for the ideas I have that might seem niche but Jamie "gets it." Who else would devote valuable pages to an article about the history of a hunk of metal in Boston?

"We wanted it to be free from the constraints that were imposed by our previous publisher but also free from the ‘conventions’ adopted by skateboard magazines in the past." — Arthur Derrien

Sam Ashley, Arthur Derrien, and Will Harmon were working at a corpo skate mag and things got sketchy. They could have ridden it out but instead, in 2015 they got together to start Free. I love that & I'm hyped to have worked on this piece with Free, Pep Kim & Chrystie NYC.

Size matters. Greatest leverages a larger format to tell big stories with nice photography and design. The editorial looks lovely on their app as well.

"Today is the greatest day I've ever known." - Billy Pumpkin 1993.

The first piece I wrote for Greatest was with Eric Elms (designer & founder of Powers). Elms named his brand after a street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where I used to live. Also, with former Alien Workshop/Chocolate pro Anthony Pappalardo lived a few blocks down from me on Powers. That's a crazy one, right?

READ THE ERIC ELMS PIECE

READ THE CREATIVE MISFITS PIECE

READ DECODING THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF SKATEBOARDING

READ THE EVOLUTION OF SKATE FASHION

Custom GOAT Fingerboard With Artwork by Brian Anderson

The second cover story of my career. When I saw the magazine on the racks of one of those magazine/smoke shops in the West Village it felt awesome, so I got a slice & bought some records.

I've written a solid amount of pieces for High Snobiety but this cover feature with Lucien Clarke was memorable because my TapeACall Pro app was fucked. This also happened when I interviewed Ray Barbee. Luckily, Lucien is a very nice person and clarified the bits of audio I couldn't make out. I did this interview on a hollow sidewalk on Bleeker Street. Seriously, look it up! Some of my favorite High Snob pieces have vanished from the World Wide Web but peep the links below while they're still active.

READ THE JASON DILL PIECE

READ THE PARIS PIECE WITH SOY PANDAY

READ THE KCDC PIECE WITH AMY GUNTHER ELLINGTON

READ THE JAHMAL WILLIAMS PIECE

READ THE GINO IANNUCCI PIECE

I had a nice run with this magazine but most importantly, each of these conversations taught me a lot about what I didn't know. I'm still learning & don't plan on stopping because that's weird.

Writing for Huck Magazine was intimidating at first because it felt kind of highbrow. The editors were very "proper" in their correspondence and it reminded me that Americans can sound pretty budget.

I got my first-ever cover story with this UK-based periodical and it was also the first time I ever really "pushed" to make something happen. I'm sorry if I was a punisher Huck Magazine.

READ THE LEO BAKER PIECE

READ THE NORA VASCONCELLOS PIECE

READ THE GREG CARROLL PIECE

READ THE JERRY MRAZ PIECE

The "Bible" of skateboarding. That's not up for debate. I wouldn't be making this website if it wasn't for Thrasher, specifically the writing of Pushead & Mike Gitter.

As the alphabet would have it, this editorial journey ends with the beginning. OK, Thrasher Magazine wasn't the first magazine I ever read but it's absolutely the one that shaped how I dressed, talked, and thought about skateboarding.

Bonus: I shot the photo for the Battles feature.

Whether I have a piece in the mag or not, it's a joy when Closer shows up in my mailbox. Closer has become a home for the ideas I have that might seem niche but Jamie "gets it." Who else would devote valuable pages to an article about the history of a hunk of metal in Boston?

Sam Ashley, Arthur Derrien, and Will Harmon were working at a corpo skate mag and things got sketchy. They could have ridden it out but instead, in 2015 they got together to start Free. I love that & I'm hyped to have worked on this piece with Free, Pep Kim & Chrystie NYC.

Custom GOAT Fingerboard With Artwork by Brian Anderson

As the alphabet would have it, this editorial journey ends with the beginning. OK, Thrasher Magazine wasn't the first magazine I ever read but it's absolutely the one that shaped how I dressed, talked, and thought about skateboarding. Bonus: I shot the photo for the Battles feature.

As the alphabet would have it, this editorial journey ends with the beginning. OK, Thrasher Magazine wasn't the first magazine I ever read but it's absolutely the one that shaped how I dressed, talked, and thought about skateboarding.

Bonus: I shot the photo for the Battles feature.