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Dolan Stearns tre flip, Lake Henshaw Dam Collected Thoughts 055

Dolan Stearns what youth skateboarding
10.24.13 – TAGS: ,
Photo: Chase Cruz

“I was nervous for sure — but more nervous-excited just to skate the spot.”
Dolan Stearns recently stomped this tre flip at the Lake Henshaw dam. It’s an ad in Thrasher. It’s a famous spot (Geoff Rowley backside 3’s into it in Extremely Sorry), and you’re definitely not supposed to be there — let alone skate it. It’s a lonely and pretty fucking gnarly place. But Dolan is a quiet guy, who does really gnarly shit.
Tomorrow Dolan will star in a new Fairly Normal. Dolan is a published, talented artist and tattooer — using the organic stick and poke method for tattoos — as well as one of the most creative skaters we’ve met. Very raw but with a very polished style. A skater’s skater.
Check back tomorrow to see what we mean — including the photo above in motion.

Dane Reynolds photographed by Kai Neville In Japan What Youth

Dane Reynolds on Public Transportation Collected Thoughts 003

This is Dane on the train to Osaka, in Japan. Osaka is about an hour from its airport and our exit flight left the next day, and as none of us had been to Osaka we decided to ride in and see the sights. The city turns out to be rad, like a smaller Tokyo,…

Craig Anderson photographed in New York by Kai Neville What Youth

Craig Anderson between the bars Collected Thoughts 002

Photo by Kai Neville Kai took this photo of Craig a little before 1 a.m. in Brooklyn, New York. They’re leaving the strange party they wandered into after a Dirty Beaches show at Williamsburg’s Glasslands Gallery — truly they did, they sauntered all Australian through some odd open side door and into someone’s loft, where…

John John Florence in Barbados

John John in Barbados Collected Thoughts 001

This is John John Florence by the ghost of an Olympic pool at an abandoned resort in the parish of St. Lucy near the northern tip of Barbados, and what a useless cavity in the ground has he got here. The walls are too vertical to skate, there’s no water to ease the heat, there’s…

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