Summer of Death: Pajama Jam Recap

Summer of Death: Pajama Jam Recap
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On July 16, SLUG Magazine’s Summer of Death skateboard contest series celebrated its twelfth anniversary with the Pajama Jam, presented by Quiksilver and Natty Light.  This year, the tradition continued at the Skate 4 Homies warehouse and we couldn’t have been more excited with the park that Todd Ingersoll and friends built. … read more

Summer of Death: Pajama Jam Recap

Summer of Death: Pajama Jam Recap
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On July 16, SLUG Magazine’s Summer of Death skateboard contest series celebrated its twelfth anniversary with the Pajama Jam, presented by Quiksilver and Natty Light.  This year, the tradition continued at the Skate 4 Homies warehouse and we couldn’t have been more excited with the park that Todd Ingersoll and friends built. … read more

Go Skate Day

Go Skate Day

In case you needed a reason to go skate, the International Association of Skateboard Companies has deemed June 21 International Go Skateboarding Day. Skateboarders from all over the world will be using this day as an excuse to tell their bosses to fuck off, jump on a board and do what they do best: skate. SLUG’s making it easy for you with this list of GSD events. … read more

Go Skate Day

Go Skate Day

In case you needed a reason to go skate, the International Association of Skateboard Companies has deemed June 21 International Go Skateboarding Day. Skateboarders from all over the world will be using this day as an excuse to tell their bosses to fuck off, jump on a board and do what they do best: skate. SLUG’s making it easy for you with this list of GSD events. … read more

America’s Next Top Wizard

America’s Next Top Wizard
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It was a rainy Saturday when we met at a local warehouse. There were six contestants present, each going through a series of elimination rounds in hopes of becoming America’s Next Top Wizard. Each contestant was responsible for not only completing every task presented to them by complete egomaniac Tyra (aka Chris Swainston), but also producing the best photos in each round in an attempt to avoid elimination. … read more

America’s Next Top Wizard

America’s Next Top Wizard
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It was a rainy Saturday when we met at a local warehouse. There were six contestants present, each going through a series of elimination rounds in hopes of becoming America’s Next Top Wizard. Each contestant was responsible for not only completing every task presented to them by complete egomaniac Tyra (aka Chris Swainston), but also producing the best photos in each round in an attempt to avoid elimination. … read more

Trickonometry Film Premiere

Trickonometry Film Premiere
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon on the north side of Salt Lake, I pulled up to the Skate 4 Homies warehouse to the sight of more than 30 kids playing games of S-K-A-T-E and waiting for the doors to open for the premier of Technique skate shop’s 2011 skate film, Trickonometry. … read more

Skate Sensei: Suggestions of a Sage

Skate Sensei: Suggestions of a Sage
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It is my true will to guide you, my dear student, on a journey—a quest into the realm unbeknownst to the many—a path less tread. In realization of certain mystery, I must be careful to speak in clear, concise language free from elicit jargon and fancy-free phantasmagoria. The concepts I allege apply to mystical acts, known by the blind as skateboard tricks. Once we clear the cobwebs of confusion, the simplicity of skate mastery can be seen clearly. … read more

Evryday: Saving the planet one pair of slacks at a time

Evryday: Saving the planet one pair of slacks at a...
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Salt Lake has a thriving local community of motivated shakers and movers creating real change on the local level, and I’m proud to introduce a new crew to the fold—Ben Gustafson and Jared Smith, creators of Evryday. Evryday (ED for short) was spinning in the A.D.D.-riddled heads of Smith and Gustafson for years. On one fateful evening, a bell rang in one head as a light bulb went off in the other and it’s been a beautiful thing ever since. … read more

Conserving A Culture, Framing The Future: Skate 4 Homies

Conserving A Culture, Framing The Future: Skate 4 Homies
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“I wanted to do something that was a collective good, to show kids that they can be good and do good things together and have good things happen,” says Todd Ingersoll, founder of Skate 4 Homies. It was a little over a year ago when Ingersoll had the idea to create a non-profit organization focused around the preservation of skateboarding through youth mentoring programs. “Really, what [Skate 4 Homies] is all about is giving back, doing the community a service.” … read more