frontside sf magazine #4 one year edition
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Aside from featuring the usual bay area skating and photography you love, this issue also features original illustrations, articles, and more.TRANSCRIPT
Frontside San FranciscoIs:
Ryan AbrahamEditor in Chief
Contributing EditorsEvan Collisson
Hank Hansen
Daniel BeckStaff Photographer
Shivizle SiwajekEmotional Support
Featuring the Photography and Art Of:Tim Aguilar
Evan CollissonChristian Ericksen
Brandon GettyPatrick Sean Gibson:
(Responsible for the illustrated logo below)Terry Worona
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Issue #43. Selected Photographs30. Skateboarding and pyschogeography32. The Art of Patrick Sean Gibson
Cover:Steven TranHippie HopOakland, CAPhoto: Christian Ericksen
Back Cover:Jesse VieiraHurricaneSan Francisco, CAPhoto: Brandon Getty
Inner Cover:Gold NuggetsPhoto: Ryan Abraham
Steven TranHippie HopOakland, CA
This Cover Photo Was too Gnarly to Crop.There’s Nothin’ Hippie Dippie about this Hippie Hop.
Either Christian Doesn’t Change His Clothes or he somehow ac-complished this hardflip and 180 the same day. Either way
it’s super gnarly.
Check Out Jeremy Leabres’s (Right) Toy Machine Ads; This guy always skates with a fiendish grin. Here, for whatever reason, not so much.
Skateboarding and PyschoGeography
Photo By Terry WoronaWords By Hank Hansen
Congratulations: even though you probably didn’t know, you are a practicing psychogeog-
rapher. No, not you vert guys. Not you either, park chargers. Y’all rule, but I’m talking to the street
dudes on this one. Sorry. No idea what I’m talking about? That’s OK. I’ll explain.
It’s your day off. You’ve just spent all morning hungover, drinking coffee and watching A Visu-
al Sound. Now it’s almost noon and you’re ready to stop being a pile, so you hit up your buddies to
skate, but they all have work or class. Unfazed, you head out the door with nothing but your board
and some stoke, and start pushing towards whatever random spots you can find. When you’re out
drifting down alleys and hunting down some untapped urban gems, this is unconscious psychogeog-
raphy in action.
The concept of psychogeography came out of the Situationist movement of the 50s and 60s.
The Situationists sought to break out of a cyclical, unfulfilling way of life that they believed was
the result of Capitalism’s emphasis on objects rather than experiences. One of the best ways to
invigorate one’s experiences and therefore, they reasoned, improve one’s quality of life, was to find
new ways of interacting with the built environment that gets taken for granted on a daily basis.
The movement may have faded into the fringes since those days, but the ideas still live on via
groups like the Bay Area Rapid Transit Psychogeographical Association, among others. But listen
up, dudes. Maybe it’s time for us to more knowingly carry that torch a bit, too. Think about it: we
slam our bodies into curbs and handrails and walls. We get familiar with sidewalk fissures and
stagnant puddles. We know better than any other urban observer how the built environment feels.
Skateboarders take Walter Benjamin’s concept of the flâneur and drag him through gutters and
ditches, feeding him a psychedelic urethane cocktail until he sees in the environment around him an
endless concrete cityscape of
unfathomable possibility.
The great thing is, it’s not like
you have to do anything differently. Be-
sides, we’re all here because we don’t like
being told what to do, right? But just
consider: the drunken godfather himself,
Dubord, claimed that the only way to re-
ally fathom the ‘beautiful language’ of
Situationist urbanism was to put it into
practice. And that practice is, well, it’s
exactly what we’ve all been doing for
so long that most of us can’t remember
things being any other way. You’ve got
the membership card now, dudes. In fact,
it’s been in your wallet this whole time.
If you ask me, that’s enough to make me
crack at least a hint of a smile and keep
pushing for a few more blocks. The spots
are out there, waiting to be brought to
life.
Evan CollissonOllie
Berkeley, CA
31.
Scott FossHandplantMalibu, CA
Photo: Lorrie Palmos
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