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Outspoken skater turned writer Scott Bourne on living by your own rules

No Authority But Yourself — He rejected America for Paris and gave up skateboarding to write. Scott Bourne refuses to follow the pack.

Written by: Benjamin Deberdt

Skate

Skate artist Jacob Ovgren talks about… cocks

We need to talk about sex — Hilariously explicit Polar Skateboards artist Jacob Ovgren invites the LB Project into his studio in Malmö.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Photographer Gabe Morford captures skateboarding’s perfect moments

Ready for Anything — Documenting those that are inherently unpredictable is a skill that SF-based Gabe Morford has honed over a lifetime shooting from the hip.

Written by: Anthony Pappalardo

Skate

Nothing can keep nomadic skater Pat Moran still for long as he shreds across the USA

In The Zen Zone — Oregon-born Pat Moran follows his skateboard around the West Coast on a one-man mission of discovery.

Written by: Maxwell Klinger

Art

Five things we learnt from Mark Gonzales' revealing Monster Children interview

Video: Longform — The most interesting man in skateboarding talks about eating cats at night, skating his son through Soho on a makeshift throne, and a period of excessive spending in Japan.

Written by: Shelley Jones

Skate

Why heavily state-controlled Shanghai is one of the world's most liberating places to skate

Charging Through China — Meet Tommy Zhao and the skate family nurturing an exciting DIY scene in the midst of Shanghai’s retro-futuristic skyscrapers.

Written by: Charlotte Middlehurst

Print

The constant reinvention of skateboarding’s dark genius Scott Bourne

New book: Orgy Porgy: Short Stories and True Tales — Former pro-skateboarder Scott Bourne on his new chapter as a poet, novelist and father based in Paris.

Written by: Alex King

Skate

Michelle Pezel shows us how a skateshop can build community in Vancouver

Leader of the Gang — In the latest story from Levi’s® Skateboarding Special II: Stories of Independence — our annual Skateboarding collab with Levi’s® — skater, motorbiker and owner of Antisocial Michelle Pezel shares how independence is something you can only achieve as part of a community.

Written by: Rhianon Bader

Photography

In Pictures: The story of a London skate gang that launched a new wave of British style

PWBC: A retrospective — To celebrate the launch of Lucien Clarke's new pro Supra shoe, photographers James Edson and Daniel 'Snowy' Kinloch curate an exhibition of the mythical PWBC.

Written by: HUCK HQ

Film

How Michelle Pezel turned her Vancouver store into a skate mecca

Huck x Levi's Skateboarding: Antisocial — The unstoppable Michelle Pezel shows us how a skateshop can bring a community together, in one of the stories we found creating our annual Skateboarding Special, in collaboration with Levi's Skateboarding.

Written by: HUCK HQ

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