![]() What’s your personal favorite era of skateboarding and the media surrounding it?Īs I mentioned, the 90’s, are still very special to me. – Talking about news that you’ve read 3 months ago on Instagram. The third one is the future of print media.Īs a documentarian and skate fan, what are the most common mistakes you think skateboard mags and media are making today? The 90’s, because I grew up at this period. It was something that I will never forget. For this documentary, I filmed 42 people during 10 months. I felt the need to pay a tribute to people who spent their life documenting skateboarding. 20 years later in 2016, I realized how much print has influenced my life. ![]() I had a subscription to Sugar Magazine, and it was so important to me. Why did now seem like the right time to produce this documentary? Q & A WITH “DEVOTED” FILMMAKER LUCAS BEAUFORT We picked his brain to find out what he learned from the making of this doc, and how he thinks print can survive alongside the digital skate media world we inhabit today. He hopes to prove that print is not dying, as many have argued, and that instead it just needs some shaking up and restructuring. Lucas Beaufort has spent the last year putting together a documentary focusing on the importance of print media in skateboarding, and has gotten a chance to talk to some of the OG industry heads, pro skaters, and photographers who have made these mags so iconic. digital is a whole different beast, and that’s a fact that often goes overlooked. Working in skateboarding media, I’ve learned how much time and effort goes into putting together a story that feels strong enough to publish online, and can only imagine having to consider the added pressure of that story being published in thousands of issues of glossy pages to be shipped out and seen all across the world. I wouldn’t really buy many skate magazines as a kid, but I would flip through them at the supermarket while my mom was doing her grocery shopping (and steal the sticker sheets).Įven though I haven’t held onto a mid 2000s issue of Thrasher that I can call my “first skate mag”, that doesn’t mean I don’t have any sort of appreciation for print. ![]() I got put onto skateboarding via MTV, THPS video games, and the Internet. Full disclosure here: I’m not of the “print generation”. ![]()
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