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Brooks, Profiles
SKATE PARKS: MAKING 11 MILLION AMERICANS HAPPY ONE HALF-PIPE AT A TIME
Brooks’ hometown is known as the “Horse Capital of the World” and is heralded on wikipedia (without citation) as home to the largest peanut butter factory in the world. But neither of these things matter much to Brooks. His life revolves around the city’s public skate park, located right across the street from where […]
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Brooks, Profiles
WHAT RULES AT BROOKS’ FAVORITE SKATE PARK?
As long as cities create parks, they will create rules. The following are the rules posted at Brooks’ skate park:
Know your abilities and skate at your own risk.
Children, 17 and under, should have parental supervision.
This is a skate […] -
Brooks, Profiles
BROOKS QUESTIONS THE MOTIVES OF THE JACKASS CREW
ON BIG CITIES: “I don’t understand how LA is so big. I can walk across downtown [in his hometown] and be anywhere I want to be in less than an hour.”
ON HIS PARENTS’ DIVORCE: “I didn’t think it was possible. Like the world trade center, you didn’t think it was possible.”
ON […]
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One Hundred Young Americans is the first book to paint the full picture of youth culture in America today. Gorgeously photographed and meticulously researched, this year-long project represents photographer Michael Franzini's 30,000-mile journey in search of what it truly means to be a teenager in this hyper-connected, media-driven society.POST A REVIEW OF THE BOOK
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