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April 12, 2016 2:05 AM Subscribe
Skaters call it “the bible,” but we’re prone to hyperbole. Maybe it’s Vogue, but for degenerates, and Phelps is skateboarding’s Anna Wintour.A profile of skateboarder & Thrasher editor Jake Phelps, by Willy Staley.
Worth it for this line alone:
Skateboarding probably has more in common with pornography: Talented people are paid to be filmed doing something they’re good at, or at least insane enough to try.
posted by chavenet at 6:24 AM on April 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
Skateboarding probably has more in common with pornography: Talented people are paid to be filmed doing something they’re good at, or at least insane enough to try.
posted by chavenet at 6:24 AM on April 12, 2016 [2 favorites]
Read this a few weeks back and was so impressed by how great a piece it was I hunted down Willy Staley on Facebook and sent him a note saying as much.
posted by eggman at 8:09 AM on April 12, 2016
posted by eggman at 8:09 AM on April 12, 2016
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