I just went to a Zumiez contest in Nebraska and there were like 30 people there. People think skateboarding is bigger and there’s more money to be made off of it than there actually is. With everybody in the world wearing the Janoski shoe and how it took off… it made people say, “Wow, a pro skater’s shoe can sell like that!!?” because it had a pro skaters name on it. But his shoe just happened to be like a Chuck Taylor or something. Stefan killed it and made a good, timeless design, but it was a once in a lifetime type thing. That and some of the fashion stuff kind of led people to believe skateboarding is something that it’s not.

Desillusion magazine and Nixon proudly present their latest video instalment “This is Andrew”, a video portrait paying tribute to US street skateboarder Andrew Reynolds. Growing up in a small town in Florida, Andrew started skateboarding at a very young age. Due to his exceptional talent – Reynolds won the first contest he ever entered – he drew the attention of the skate industry and landed on some of the top sponsored teams as a teenager. Following Tony Hawk and others to the Californian epicentre of skateboarding at the age of 18, he met fellow skateboarders like Jim Greco, Ali Boulala and Knox Godoy, later on known as the “Piss Drunx”, ruling the streets of LA.

Interview with Erik Ellington in Copenhagen while on tour with Supra where he talks about coming up, starting companies, his role in the industry with Baker and Deathwish, people getting Piss Drunx tattoos and how deadlines bum him out.

Damn we got alot of unused footy from our last 2 summer tours. So we threw a bunch of them together. Heres the first of many to come.

The homies Erik Ellington, Shane Heyl, Jon Dickson and photographer Bart Jones rolled out to Zaks Boardroom for a benefit for a fallen brother Zak Kaercher R.I.P. Filmed by The homie Ted Kim out in Alaska.