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If you pulled the pin on a grenade and forgot to throw it, there’s a chance you’d still be able to count the people who have been in a Thrasher video over 600 times on your charred fingers. Because there’s only one, and it’s not even a pro skateboarder. It’s Gary Rogers. Host of Skateline…

Black ice formations swimming in dog piss, mummified gum forced between sidewalk slabs, a bedazzled crack pipe glimmering on torn trashbags. These are the scenes that inspire Andrew Durgin-Barnes, a traditional oil painter whose subject matter is far from the idyllic landscapes and stoic portraits that have defined the craft for hundreds of years. Growing…

Two hours outside of Moscow, Russia, skateboarder Ilya Batrakov hikes along the frozen Iskona River looking for remote skate spots: natural ice ledges, fallen trees, and defrosted gaps. For Ilya, it’s a skatepark only he sees, and he’s spent years not only documenting the changing river through breathtaking photography but stacking clips as well. Recently,…

Discovering a new genre of music is one of life’s little joys. To navigate a web of unfamiliar bands, so giddy to learn more that you hardly make it to the end of a single song, is a special thing. Last time it happened to me, I got lost in the sea of alt-country. And…

Sidewalk pranks, music videos, and the inescapable Crazy Frog. Those are the things everyone remembers about exploring YouTube in the early 2000s. Well, that and the visceral, profanity ridden skatepark fight. Filmed on less than capable technology, these pixelated, shaky videos are one of the best synopsis of being a young skateboarder at that point…

Sidewalk pranks, music videos, and the inescapable Crazy Frog. Those are the things everyone remembers about exploring YouTube in the early 2000s. Well, that and the visceral, profanity ridden skatepark fight. Filmed on less than capable technology, these pixelated, shaky videos are one of the best synopsis of being a young skateboarder at that point…