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Month: July 2004

magazines

For about two years I hardly bought any magazines, after I realised that they are usually 90% adverts and very little in them. Then I started skating again, and since then i’ve bought quite a few skate magazines. I’m trying to think why – enthusiasm mainly, trying to absorb stuff, get a feel for what people are doing. I also like the photography – I can sit and get lost in a full page photo in a magazine in a way that doesn’t translate to the internet.

While my wrist was in plaster and I couldn’t skate I bought a whole stack of magazines and soon filtered out the ones with too many adverts, and those that seemed to be too insular in content. I also got pissed off with one magazine after I emailed them suggesting they do an article on the revived old school/old git skate scene and I didn’t recieve a reply, not even a "thanks but no thanks" That’s pretty immature of me to take offense really, they might not have even recieved the email… anyway i’m getting sidetracked.

Today I opened a skate magazine on the shelf and read an overindulgent article about something that happenned back in may. I was there and I blogged it the next day. For that type of thing a magazine is always out of date, but then again magazines aren’t newspapers, and newspapers aren’t the internet.

I’m sure I had more to say on this…

hypothecate will eat itself

I think hypothecate is getting neglected in favour of my too old to skate blog. I’ve never managed to nail the categorisation on this site – the whole point of skate blog is that it supposed to be just about skating, or more specifically me and skating. Hypothecate is about anything, but with skating generally removed because it all goes in the skate blog. As I result, hypothecate isn’t getting updated regularly.

Also I want people to read the skate stuff (whether they want to or not!! ha aha ha hahahahaha ha!!) so from now on I will list the titles and link 3 most recent skate posts wheneverthree new posts have been added. starting now:-

Recently on too old to skate:-

it lives!
kaldera 002 (hurst disciple of sketch model)
The wedge