NO SHITTY ADS: In this Zine – 16 Gallery, Shibuya Tokyo

As the second wave of skateboarding was taking a deep dive in the early 80s, skate park after skate park was bulldozed into oblivion. Skateboarding shifted from concrete pools into wooden backyard half-pipes. The music turned from Disco to Punk and New Wave and the glossy skateboard magazines went out of print.

Around the same time Thrasher skateboard magazine started up as a newsprint zine type of thing inspiring and even encouraging the readers to start a zine of their own as they saw a “new energetic spirit with radical ideas to further expand previous established barriers.

Photos by Sergej Vutuc

ClientSkateboarding MuseumServicesart direction and exhibition design