The Nine Club #220 · Show notes.
Jaime Owens
About this episode
Jaime Owens discusses growing up in South Carolina, coming out to California to shoot photos, becoming associate producer of Jackass, leaving Jackass to become the photo editor of Skateboarder Magazine, his first cover of Andrew Reynolds frontside flipping Wilshire 15, shooting the Videos Days 20 year anniversary photo, leaving Skateboarder Magazine to be editor In Chief of Transworld Magazine, seeing the decline of magazines, creating his own magazine “Closer” blending new and old skateboarding and much more!
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The guest
Jaime Owens
Jaime Owens is a skateboarding photographer and editor. He worked with Jackass, Skateboarder and TransWorld before creating Closer magazine.
Chapters
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- Jaime Owens joins The Nine Club
- Interning at Skateboarder
- Meeting photographers and the Girl crew
- Growing up in South Carolina
- Seeing California spots in videos
- Boards, graphics and early skate memories
- Music and guest vocals
- Street skating and architecture
- Connecting different generations of skaters
- Shooting skating on white walls
- The Video Days anniversary shoot
- Getting involved with Jackass
- Learning how footage becomes a television segment
- Taking on more responsibility at Skateboarder
- The magazine years
- Digital publishing experiments
- What made Skateboarder different
- Starting a smaller independent magazine
- Blending new and old skateboarding in Closer
- Getting a magazine into shops
- Preserving photos when TransWorld stopped printing
- Brands becoming media companies
- Making Closer a reality
- Balancing content and selling products
- The reach of skateboarding
- Supporting independent creators
- Why skateboarding history matters
Links
Videos / Articles
Jaime Owens — the story behind Closer Skateboardingcloserskateboarding.com
CORE — Jaime Owens: Founder of Closer Skateboard Magazinetheplatfrm.com
People mentioned
Selected names and timestamped moments checked against the episode’s English auto-generated captions.
Rick McCrank
Andrew Cannon
Jeff Tremaine
Johnny Knoxville
Steve Caballero
Brian Schaefer
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