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Human Tar: Local Skate Video Review
This thirty-two minute skate video from Logan is exactly how a skate video should be: raw, creative and fun while displaying a grip of talent coming up in the skate community. … read more
Killjoy Premiere @ Tower Theater 11.28
Back in August, I got the chance to tag along with the Killjoy film crew for an article I wrote for the Sept. issue of SLUG. Killjoy finally premiered on Nov. 28 and confirmed what I’ve been thinking since August: BMX is way fucking cooler than skateboarding. … read more
Beautiful Godzilla: My Invisible Bubble Burst
It was a beautiful day in early October. I flew down 200 South with a grin on my face and my legs pumping just fast enough to get me to work with a few minutes to spare. Turning left onto 300 West, I was taking in the aroma of Café Trang’s lunch special when the door of a parked car opened up to my right. My brain processed this almost at the same time as some part of me or my bicycle hit the open door. … read more
Secret Snow Flying Machines: The Story Behind WuBanger Skis
Somewhere, a huge factory is spitting out thousands of skis. The materials are obtained for rock bottom prices, the designs are flawed, and Laverne and Shirley carelessly inspect the product before flaking off in song and dance. After one day on your new setup, you realize the skis suck, but now you’re screwed—the skis are used and can’t be returned. There goes a thousand bucks—FUCK! Enter WuBanger Skis. … read more
Falling Forward: Clayton Butler
We’ve all had that dream as we are drifting off to sleep where we are falling. Suddenly, you kick awake and you are sitting there in your room, alone and afraid. Clayton Butler loves that dream. He embraces it so much that he has spent the better part of the past five years trying to recreate that sensation in real life. A reserved young man who works hard for a living, you’d never know that Butler spends his weekends hurling himself off tall objects and massive cliffs. … read more
Photo Feature: Will Tuddenham
Can you imagine seeing someone rocking a Jazz t-shirt outside of Utah? Do they even exist? I’d seriously love to see the sales numbers for Jazz merch beyond Mormon borders. What the hell does a kid think when he sees Will Tuddenham flying a bright green and yellow logo on his chest when he’s snowboarding? If I was a kid in this day and age, the first thing I’d think was that this was just another ironic t-shirt. But there’s no irony here. … read more
Skate Date
A few years back, I had the opportunity to interview legendary skateboarder Duane Peters. We discussed the finer things in life and how, even as you age, if you’re a “lifer,” skateboarding is always there. I was thinking about this particular conversation the other day and realized that my longest committed relationship has been with skateboarding. I’ve made “friends” with other things along the way, but skateboarding has always been my number-one crush. … read more
Rejected
Two summers ago, I made a contact at Thrasher Magazine. It was just an email to one of their long-time staff photographers, but it was an in, and I felt like I had found a secret passage to the holy grail. Being the ambitious photo geek that I am, I started shooting as much as I could, sending him all the best sequences I shot, but nothing ever seemed to make the cut. … read more
Salty Peaks’ Eighty Seven Movie Premiere @ Tower Theatre 11.02
On November 2, hundreds of snowboarders and snowboarding fans gathered at the Tower Theatre in Salt Lake City for the long awaited premiere of Salty Peaks’ first, full-length snowboard film titled Eighty Seven. … read more
Shred Film: The Movement
The sheer freedom that sliding down mountainsides covered in a thick blanket of snow provides is unparalleled. However, for those athletes born with disabilities or severely injured later in life, finding that release requires a lot more focus and determination. In The Movement, Directors Greg I. Hamilton and Kurt Miller take the viewer along an emotional road to recovery for several individuals that are overcoming their disabilities to achieve great things. Utah screenings: Nov. 3 @ The Depot and Nov. 5 @ Egyptian Theatre … read more
Shred Flicks
This year’s snow films have started to roll out, and we have reviews of All.I.Can, The Art of Flight, Defenders of Awesome/Ammo, Loyalty, The Ordinary Skier, Solitaire, Standing Sideways and Vacation. … read more
Beautiful Godzilla
Instead of listening to my slow ass whine about boys and bicycles this month, you have the pleasure of reading my interview with one of Salt Lake’s most badass babes on a bicycle—scratch that—most badass HUMAN pedaling in the Rocky Mountain West: Jessica Gilmore. ’Nuf said. … read more
