08/31/2015
"magazines offer permanence… it’s no secret that a photo on Instagram may as well not even exist after 24h. Even the best online video parts are pretty much forgotten after a week – it’s really sad but it’s true. If you’re a skateboarder, a photographer or a brand, why wouldn’t you want your work/project in print first? It then becomes a tactile object that potentially hangs around forever"
This past March, Factory Media in Europe dropped a press release, mentioning that they’d be deading all of their publications in order to focus solely on online media. In one electronic mail, British titles Kingpin and Sidewalk, along with Germany’s Monster Skateboard Magazine, were a wrap.