skateboarding

Hugh Holland: Silver. Skate. Seventies.



Hugh Holland Silver Skate Seventies The Concrete Swell - VIper Bowl Hollywood CA 1976

If you love Hugh Holland’s cult Locals Only book, here’s a new Hugh Holland book (and exhibition) of never-before-seen black and white skater-in-action photos to help you beat the autumn blues.

Documenting the early Southern California skateboard scene of the 70s, ‘Silver. Skate. Seventies‘ really encapsulates the wild spirit of the early youth tribe – and for me sums up why it’s still such a seductive culture today. (more…)



Girls On Wheels #9 (plus that time Hugh Hefner turned his tennis court into a roller rink)



I haven’t done one of these for ages and it’s the closest I’ll come to doing anything Tour De France related (hmm tenuous much?), so here goes. See if you can spot Grace Kelly on rollerskates and don’t miss the Playboy vid at the end…

1 a Wheels Of Change By Sue Macy
1 Amelia Earhart on skates (more…)



Street style old and new: Coggles and The Skartorialist



At the Coggles press day I discovered the brand has a two year old archive of on-the-street portraits taken by Nick Scaife. These images are very much about the person as much as their clothes, and Coggles has gone on to develop this idea by making short films about a few of its favourite subjects. (more…)