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Taji's Mahal

The Serra Brothers

For this week's Mahal, I got to chat New York City skate history with the Serra brothers. I first met Ivory and Shelter when I was 10 at Riverside skatepark. Soon, I discovered Ivory's photographs of just about every New York Legend from A to Z and Shelter's unique outlook on reality through sculpture. Full story

Taji’s Mahal – Stockton’s Bums

For this week's Mahal, FDR shredder Matt Gilbert invited me to an art show by Sean Stockton, his ex-Woodward skate counselor. I have seen Sean skating around in the past but never imagined that he was also creating some of the coolest art known to the mankind. Full story

Taji's Mahal - After Hours at Skate Brooklyn

For this week's Mahal, I was lucky enough to drop in on an after hours sesh at Skate Brooklyn. After the demise of the infamous KCDC Ramp, Skate Brooklyn has the only indoor mini-ramp left in town. Late into the night, Aaron Warner, Ariel Perl, Eby Ghafarian, Leo Gutman, and a fe… Full story

Taji's Mahal - After Hours with Nelson "Loui_D" Darden

For this week's Mahal, I'm introducing a new series of videos that finds me cruising the streets with New York City's finest shredders. I will be dropping these from time to time as the weather permits. Full story

Taji's Mahal - Hanging Out with the Stale Bagel

For this week's Mahal, I got to catch up with artist Jayme Lemperle. We have been skating together for years, and he even drew me a really cool Ryan Sheckler portrait for VICE's Full Bleed column a while back. Since then, he has continued to update his site, Stale Bagel, on the d… Full story

Teenage Evangelical Skaters in California's Desolate Exurbs Shred with Jesus

Lanky, lovable goofs Garrison and Kevin love Crass, skateboarding, changing their haircut and color, and Jesus. 'Only the Young,' a new documentary, follows the sweetest kids you'll ever meet. Full story

Taji's Mahal - Spencer Fujimoto, El Senor

This week, Lower East Side legend, Clayton Patterson, put us on to Spencer Fujimoto's new skateboard jewelry brand, El Señor. Spencer has been shredding since his Love Child days, and now he’s making jewelry based on his skating history. Full story

Real-life Stories

Vacations Are Better Than Reality

If you're lucky enough to be jetting off abroad any time soon, fuck you. We'll be stuck here trying to drink ourselves through the winter. For now, though, we thought we'd gather some vacation stories together in an attempt to live out some kind of interesting overseas experience… Full story

Kill the Engine

Guided Tours of the Skate Spots in My Neighborhood

As a freelancer, I spend a great deal of time scheming on ways to bring in more money to my household. One idea I had recently was to start giving guided tours of the skate spots in my neighborhood. Kids are always looking for new skate spots, right? Full story

Kill the Engine

Trash Can Omelette

A lot of times this column is easy to write. I go someplace, take a bunch of pictures, come home, make fun of the pictures, and then I'm done. But sometimes I go places, take pictures, come home, and realize that I don't have enough pictures to make fun of (to fulfill my minimum Full story