Art pictures by sean Mc cabe

Skate
Jawn
mag jawn
Issue 2
August 2010
p: Rob Collins
I love skateboarding so much
I made this jawn about it.
Mike Gustafson interview
AAron Brown
Sean Mccabe art pictures
EAst Coast lovE
Cover: Christian Hernandez rolls down the garbage
chute and comes out clean. p: Darin Pa
Above: Dill ollie in Trenton p: Scott
Aaron Brown
Some of you may have heard of Aaron
Brown…some of you may have not.
Aaron skates for PUSHER WHEELS
here in Philly. He’s been our Southern
team rider since the company started.
I’ve known Aaron for 7 years now. I
used to pick him up down in Athens,
GA everyday after school to go skate.
From early on I could tell his ledge
skating was on point. He killed it then
and he damn sure kills it now. You
may not see too much coverage of
the guy, but if you ever get to skate
with him you’ll notice real quick that
he’s the real deal. Aaron has lived in
the Atlanta area for a long time. He
recently moved to Tampa, FL for a
change of pace. Keep an eye out for
this dude. If you’re in Florida stop into
the Skate Park of Tampa and say hi to
old Brown Stain. Then go skate with
him and see what good style looks like.
Keep rippin’Aaron.
-Rob @ the real PUSHER WHEELS
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Art pictures
by sean Mc cabe
all pictures drawn in
Massachusettes 2010
from jerzy with love
5-0, no lube
John Santaniello p: Rob Collins
Nate Plumb p: Rob Collins
Brendan O’connor
p: Rob Collins
Nosegrind while riding down the
sidewalk at night
p: Blair Kemp
Abe gets tricky on a Boston Ledge, p: Zander
bs 180 in philly
DOAN
p:Sussingham
East Coast Love
Wallies.
Maybe the funest thing to do on a skateboard once you
learn how. It’s not like they can’t do them on the west
coast, just not like this. No matter where you at, you can
always find something to wallie.
Mike Gustafson
interview: Travis Storer
photos: Sam Mckenna
Travis Storer: Hey, how’s it going
Mike? Let’s start off by asking how
old you are and how long you have
been skateboarding?
Mike Gustafson: I’m 28 and I’ve been
skateboarding for 15 years.
Travis: How did you get into skating?
What caught your attention to it and
made you think it was for you?
Mike G: Back in ‘94, when I was in
Eighth Grade there was one skater in
my entire school named Dave Brawn.
He was this little gremlin with spiked
hair, huge pants and Airwalk Ones
and I learned about skating from him.
I wasn’t down with all the jocks and
rednecks in my school and skating
appealed to me because it was an
outsider activity.
Travis: You’re from Bowdoinham, Maine. What was it like learning how to skate
in such a rural town? Where would you go and skate?
Mike G: Bowdoinham was actually a sick place to start skating. I would skate a
mile everyday down these country roads to the local school and skate curbs. But
because of that I learned to actually ride a board before learning any tricks. Skating that mile was gnarly because there we’re big hills and lots of people driving
by super fast in rusted out cars and 4x4 trucks and those people definitely didn’t
care much for skateboarders.
Travis: What motivates you to keep skating
after all these years when most of the people
you grew up skating with stopped and moved
onto other things?
switch K
Mike G: It’s the best thing ever! Learning new
tricks, skating new spots and meeting new
people is just as fun now as it was when I first
started. Nothing beats being outside, skating
with friends and not knowing what’s going to
happen next.
Travis: Growing up around southern Maine
who would you say you looked up too?
Mike G: The older guys for sure. Ben Mugford was a huge influence. Johne Lawrence,
Ammon, Dan Foster, Steve Dolan. Those guys are the raddest dudes. Shawn Connolly
and Dan Drehobl we’re legends to us. They had moved out West when I really started
getting involved with skating but tales of what they had done around town we’re
passed on to us. Brassil Savage was another name we always heard about. I remember
hearing Brassil once ollied a full sized Picnic Table in winter boots!
Travis: Recently you filmed a video part in
Jay Brown’s video “Mixed Effect”. What are
your plans now that the video is done. Are you
working on anything else?
Mike G: I’ve been skating around Portland a
lot more rather than traveling to Boston every
weekend. I head down to Lawrence, MA every
other week or so and meet up with Jon Wolf,
Manny Aldana and the Lawrence guys, which
is always super fun. I’ve been getting clips here
and there with Jon and my friend Jimmy Collins which I send to Justin Hogan to try and
get a few clips in “Thanks Camera 4: Jump the
Shark”.
nollie back tail
nollie inward heel
Travis: Want to give some thanks to anyone that’s helped you out along the way?
Shout outs?
Mike G: Thank You Travis, Marcus at
“Skate Jawn” mag, Sam McKenna, Mike
Laybold, Jay Brown, Kevin “Leeroy”
Madden, Jess Turcotte, Jimmy Collins,
Jon Wolf, Justin Hogan, Walter Lohr at
Underground Wheel Company, Brian
Fiske and Earl Verrier at Eastern Boarder
and AJ and Greg at the BSC. Thank you
Yo this is the acapella with a hurt patella...
To those obnoxious on some constant speaking nonsense
My self-fact is opposite the lack of conscious
Publicly preposterous that makes me prosperous
Hip Hop put a stop to gossip-ness
No one is toppin’ this
So yo check it
Tonight’s the night I’m dropping bombs like a commie
Next to flip the text, complex like an origami
You can’t kill me I’m a zombie
This masterpiece is at least to free my peeps if I were
Ghandi
Wild styles like dondi
I’m way out in the yonder
I watch my words wander as I ponder out on the edge
Proper grammar
is propaganda we must Spread
You better use your head before you use your thirds leg
I see your hungry ass beg
I should let your greedy ass starve
The culture’s like a sculpture for the artist to carve
Hip Hop’s the crop to harvest energy to reach your farthest
The lion from mount Zion is the hardest is this forest
Now that god is
On my side or within
I be the Joe Quim to begin
Protect your neck watch for the javelin
I’m extravagant
Chillin’ in Hoboken
My five man, six man crew
We just chill back and smoke ‘em
Yea it’s like that for the nine shot
Peace
p:Kemp
long ago and
far away
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