Wooden Filters
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ack in the caveman era, survival was the name of the game-kill other
animals to eat or become a beast's feast. The basic physiological needs
were dealt with, no beating around the bush with foolish things. These
days it is much easier to survive, which postpones our reward for liv-
ng: death. Maintaining sanity has replaced survival in a way, due to the illu-
ions projected by society's pressure to conform and the one-upping rat race
hat helps define this ever so plastic world. Having fun, being yourself, and let-
ng your essence ooze out of you with a natural flow seems to intimidate and
rustrate a lot of deadweight people, making individualism and independence
most feel like a crime. We feel the bad vibes daily as we get dirty looks from
he conformist pylons (not the orange ones but the human ones we carve
round in the streets) who are simply jealous that we're one step closer to spir-
ual upliftment. MOTHER FUCK THEM-we stay protected by our tools
hile they blindly chase manmade emotions like greed, power, control, pride...
ust to name a few. It is common to feel some of these illusions, and it's easy to
Maintaining sanity has
replaced survival in a way...
uccumb to the frustrating temptations, which is why we must intercept them
efore we act them out, before they destroy us. Our planet has felt the effects
gross overpopulation and ignorance; polluted water is put through a device
or decontamination, and we must do the same with the psychological impu-
ties that invade our conscience. By figuratively pouring our mental and phys-
cal "filth-containing energies" into our wooden devices, we can purify the ele-
ents that we run on, that make our hearts beat. So if you must eat that pre-
editated murdered meat, or you become disillusioned by the system, or even
Words by Marc Tisson you wrap yourself in the scum that bleeds out of this urban toilet, just make
are you don't become what you despise. Pour your soul into your wooden fil-
Photos by Dan Mathier: your skateboard. FTW.
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Left to right: Non-conformists like
Alex Gavin are free to bluntside rails
and wear elbow-wrap pads on top of
their windbreakers. Alex DeGrace
purges the day's woes with a nollie
noseslide. Pif switch 50-50s above yet
another conspicuous sticker placement.