Thomas Dupere – artist spotlight

Once I started skating in 1984 and started figuring out how things worked with graphics and skaters doing artwork it was like an explosion in my mind. You could do whatever you wanted.

Takeshi Kageyama – Interview

A skate park with a crazy bowl called FUZENNA was completed three minutes by bike from my house, and I started skating there. I had so much fun that I skated all day

Alex – Individual Equality

In death, everyone is equal, and yet every death is individual. “Individual Equality” was the title Dleks (Alex Hasert) had planned for his exhibition before he met death on October 11, 2024. Artist, poet, skateboarder, friend, lover. Struggling with the world and full of love for his loved ones. Laughing into the abyss. These words can also be used to describe his works, often gloomy at first glance, but usually conceal another hidden side.

Confusion magazine – issue 35 – out now!

DIY spots check-outs at Honeoye Falls DIY (New York), Pumpa DIY (Slovenia), P-Side DIY (California), Zrza’s Pool (Czech Republic), + Capuchin’s DIY (Breast, France)

SPRING FLING 2021: FDR’s First Women’s Contest

Looking around FDR and seeing nothing but queens — and I mean only Queens — fired up, ripping in every direction, nearly running into each other, stoking each other up, and just straight going for it, reassures the female presence at DIYs (especially FDR) is well worth paying attention to. The energy is there. It’s authentic. It’s intense.