Skateboard File II: Lesque Skateboards
For Koji Asada and the Lesque (les-ke) team, skateboarding isn’t particularly the answer to all the endless questions we face in life, but rather an essential way of dealing with the tribulations and occasional emotional turbulence of life. This ethos of acknowledging skateboarding as a positive force and its indispensability remains at the center of the Lesque team and their march towards progress. In 2007, the Lesque team formally blasted onto the Japanese skate scene and raised eye brows with an introductory collection of five models and the timely premier of their then new video, “Endless Question.” While 2007 proved to be a tremendously busy and active year for the young skater-run company, the road there was not necessarily the stuff of pipe dreams. This is the story of Lesque Skateboards. …»
Skateboard File I: Photographer Taro Hirano
Taro Hirano is better known as the photo editor of skateboard journal Sb, though its likely many have come across one of his more popular photo books which focused on abandoned skate pools in California. When Taro isn’t taking photographs, skateboarding or working in his darkroom, he’s probably downstairs in his own quaint gallery space, Gallery No. 12. The story goes back to the early 2000s when Taro was searching for a suitable darkroom however the inspiration for opening the gallery comes from the time which Taro spent in the United States, in particular a visit to New York. …»
Lone Expression: Tommy Guerrero
Living legends are an endangered species. While new prodigies come out of the woodwork to surprise and inspire, the heroes of yesterday begin slowing down, gradually assuming their enshrined places history. One legend that continues to make history and inspire us all in the process is Tommy Guerrero.
We’ve recently seen Tommy tour the world as a guitar-toting musician but if you remember far back enough, Guerrero was a key member of the most prominent professional skateboarding team ever. …»
