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Skate Adjacent - Village
Skate Adjacent - Village Books
Our housemate Village is a bookshop and gallery offering a selection of contemporary art, design, fashion and photography publications. Village also source self-published and small press zines from artists around the world. Alongside these works they stock some of the best skateboarding based publications available in the world.
To big them up and to add some flavour to our selection of interviews, continually updated footage and products here's the good stuff, books.
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Supreme - Phaidon - 2020
"Featuring more than 800 stunning images, from photographers such as Larry Clark, Ari Marcopoulos, and David Sims, readers will have unparallled access to behind-the-scenes content, including the company’s highly limited products-everything from t-shirts to bicycles-and collaborations-Nan Goldin, Comme de Garçons, and Nike, to name a few. The book also features a curated section of lookbooks and an index of T-shirts released since Supreme’s Spring/Summer 2010 collections. And, with written contributions by pop-culture critic Carlo McCormick and film director Harmony Korine, readers will get exclusive insight into Supreme’s core ethos from two lifelong devotees."
It's pretty hard to deny the influence Supreme has had on our culture at large, the images in this book are a perfect example of this. BOGOs aside there's skating from shop fave Alex Olson, cuts from editorials and actual writing. This book doesn't just belong on a Hypebeast's coffee table beacuse a skate rat needs to sit with this for a moment and appreciate it deeply.
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Party In The Back - Tino Razo - 2017
"Tino Razo has documented — and shredded — abandoned backyard swimming pools throughout Southern California. The resulting body of work, showcased here for the first time in Tino’s book, elevates itself beyond a bunch of thrill-seekers navigating the suburban landscape, juxtaposing renegade sessions by world class skateboarders with dramatic architectural photographs of a lost American dream. Party In The Back is a lyrical photo-eulogy for this disappearing pool culture, bathed in the golden Southern Californian light."
Flicking through this you'd imagine that skating perfect pools should be easy but these derelict holiday homes and gutted out pools tell more than the usual Californian backyard stories. You'll find yourself getting lost in an almost euphoric suburbia that only seems real to Gleaming the Cube. Razo takes what could just be a usual skate session and finds something a little more deeper and somewhat depressing around the coping. There's also a banging grubby Chet Childress photo.
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Skateism - (Founded 2012)
"Skateism is a magazine about platforming diversity in skateboarding. Founded in Athens in 2012 as an online platform, it is now an internationally-distributed print publication a dedicated network of contributing skateboarders who believe that it is our celebrated differences and dedications that bring us together."
Skateism has taken what skateboarders needed to answer for and deliberately curated some of the best skateboard journalism you'll get to read. Their ability to put together a simple stylish skate mag without adverts deserves a triumphant clap, tail smack and cheers from the skate community. They've found a distinct voice over the past 12 issues and we hope to see more from them in the future.
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HopeHope - Sam Hutchinson - 2021
"HopeHope by Sam Hutchinson is a publication of photographs taken in Asira Al Shamaliya, Palestine, over October/November 2017, whist working with SkatePal."
Local skateboarder, Village worker and team rider Sam Hutchinson has dedicated a lot time to his craft which led him down photography, sculpture and more recently opening Screw Gallery. HopeHope shines a light on his time in Asira Al Shamaliya, Palestine by showing the true forces of SkatePal; skateboarding, community, allyship.
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POLAROIDS 92-95 (CA) - Ari Marcopoulos - 2020
"The artist Ari Marcopoulos came upon the Polaroids reproduced in this volume and its’ companion, Polaroids 92- 95 (NY), while moving studios in 2018. Only a few have ever been published before, and the decorated box that housed them, long forgotten.
They depict an iconic period of skating from the early nineties with the same ease, grace and affection for his subjects that Marcopoulos is known for. Shot mainly in San Francisco as well as Santa Rosa and at Max Schaaf’s Ramp in Oakland it features some of the best known skaters of their generation including Julien Stranger, Ethan Fowler and Bob Burnquist amongst others."
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The Edge Of Hell / $T4YL1T - Sean Pablo - 2018 / 2021
"The Edge Of Hell and $T4YL1T are zines of diary photographs by American skateboarder, designer, model, musician, and photographer Sean Pablo."
Having trawled the early 2000's New York party blogs Sean Pablo's zines seem like the next step in whatever O'Dell and others were achieving at the time. Photos of your friends, some artistic direction and some not. Its rad to see a young professional skateboarder who runs his own clothing company continue to push their art into different directions, even if that's 35mm point-and-shoot zines.
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Egg Strike On Orchard - Jocko Weyland - 2021
"On a mild, breezy fall night in 1991, Jeff Pang, Ivan Perez, Harold Hunter, and Peter Huynh graciously allowed a slightly older fellow traveler to tag along with a Pentax K-1000 loaded with a single roll of Kodak EPL 5075 color slide film...Egg Strike on Orchard brings together contemporary drawings based on these thirty year-old pictures, a long-form essay viscerally and contemplatively evoking that era, and the photographs at the core of this alternately vibrant and ruminative account of an instant in time whose participants were blithely unaware and unconcerned with the future."
Jocko Weyland's essay and imagery will heal your nostalgia itch but also get you thinking on what a session is and how far skateboarding has come. It's inspiring to see that as New York changes with time street skateboarding at it's core hasn't.
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Quoted blurbs taken from Village & Publishers
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