In the mid nineties, skateboarding exploded, the decompression of a bored generation, propelling each of its best practitioners to the rank icon, rock star. Alcohol, drugs, partying and world tours were the norm. Erik Ellington was one of them, one of the best, the embodiment of relentless charisma & style.
Destroying By Example – Erik Ellington
In the mid nineties, skateboarding exploded, the decompression of a bored generation, propelling each of its best practitioners to the rank icon, rock star. Alcohol, drugs, partying and world tours were the norm. Erik Ellington was one of them, one of the best, the embodiment of relentless charisma & style.
Lost In Crookslation – Chet Childress
Skateboarder, artist, unpredictable traveller, pioneer. There are many words to describe Chet Childress.
Having discovered skateboarding in 1984, Chet’s led a three-decade strong career from living on the run, in constant search of the stoke. Desillusion Magazine editor Robin Pailler spent five days with Chet in his childhood town of Wilmington, North Carolina, to gain an insight into the mind of one of skateboarding’s greatest living legends.
THIS IS ERIC KOSTON
Desillusion Magazine and Nike pay tribute to one of the greatest street skateboarders who ever lived with a portrait of Eric Koston.