Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92109 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 237 pages

Customer Reviews

Delivers the Goods
This book is excellent in that it has both awesome shots of over 1,000 skateboard decks and then the first hand stories of both the artists and skaters who created and rode them. It takes hours to absorb all the outrageous graphics and even longer to read all the accounts. The thing I really appreciated about this book is with all the different authors contributing and no story was repeated. So many times in similar books the same story is just retold in slightly different words and in this book that never happens. When finished I am left with huge admiration for Sean Cliver's labor of love effort and still can't believe how good the book is.

Disposable=Perfection
Quite simply, this is a book that MUST be seen. The artwork, photographs and story are just perfect. Greatin authoring by Sean Cliver who gives a terribly detailed, painful, humorous and honest look at the behind-the-scenes of the skateboard industry. As a kid growing up and skating in the 80's (I started skating in 1984 when I was 9, this book took me down memory lane and, I must say, enjoyed every step. This book is a no-lose buy and I strongly encourage you purchase.

A Walk Down Memory Lane
Cliver has lived it and refined his tome in the latest edition. As a skaterat growing up in the suburbs of Denver, skate art was a portal to another world. Hearing the backstories behind some of the most popular, most influential, most gratuitous, etc. deck graphics was utterly captivating.