Arto Saari – Shooting Film & Talking Photography – Pocket Skate Mag

Pocket Skate Mag met up with Arto during CPH Open to shoot on some super rare 8×10 Polaroid film and talk about photography in between. He shares how his experience of shooting the event is different this year and of course we explore some of the photos he shot – from very recent to when he started his photography journey. Arto is the best. Enjoy.

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Brandon Turner Talks Japan, Shorty’s & Switch Hammers | Dealers Choice – Bronsons

Brandon Turner pulls up for the latest Dealers Choice and brings the heat—warming up at Poods Park with Alex Willms and Sota Tomikawa, then cooking up stories from his early days growing up in Japan to riding for Shorty’s Skateboards. He breaks down his legendary switch hardflip ride-on at Clipper and his switch drop-in at Encinitas. Decades deep and still hitting harder than ever.

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Primitive Skate | THE KOMBI

Carlão wasn’t just Carlos Ribeiros’ father, or someone who supported every step of his skate career—he was a father figure to skaters all across Novo Hamburgo, the south of Brazil, and even the entire continent. He selflessly did everything in his power to help his son and his friends turn their skate dreams into reality.

Learn more about Carlão, the Kombi, and the impact they had on skaters throughout Brazil in our new mini doc, “THE KOMBI”

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The Skate Nomad | The Nine Club #377

The Skate Nomad discusses what inspired him to travel to every country, starting his YouTube channel after a trip to Barcelona, was a heavy partier until he found a Shaman on Facebook, being in India for 3 months and only spent $200, how he connects with the skaters in the countries he visits, growing up in a bad environment, getting sick while traveling and much more!

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World Skate SIT DOWN: Vincent Milou

Vincent Milou has walked skateboarding’s current highwire act better than most. Mainstream skateboarding media is currently preaching to ever-smaller congregations about what constitutes legitimacy in this tastemaking sphere of youth culture; meanwhile, contests flourish in a post-Covid era.

Sponsors want their skateboarders to do the impossible- to broadcast and narrowcast them at the same time. As something clearly has to give there- and with the tide going against cool-guy culture in this day and age of inclusion- Vincent has just recently resolved a longstanding board sponsor limbo.

He returned to Rome for WST World Cup 2025 in order to reclaim his position as the crowd’s darling everywhere he goes.

Marc Churchill sat down to get a sense of where France’s highest-ranked Street skateboarder (30th) on the WST is at in his life and skating right at this moment in time.

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INTRUDERS Ep. 8 Featuring Eric Dressen – CREATURE Skateboards

Hitz tracks down skateboard royalty for a very special guest INTRUDERS, none other than Eric Dressen! Your average “wall board” show THIS IS NOT – but rather a “what the f@ck is that?” ”what dimensions are that shape?” “What went down on that deck?” And “who did those graphics?”… monocle-worthy items if you will? Let’s just say there will be some heavy lifting! With Creature’s Sam Hitz spearheading the show, INTRUDERS promises to have notes of obnoxiousness and left-field questioning that will make board collectors of the world cringe. Yet unable to look away, like a wreck on the highway.

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