The Nine Club #227 · Show notes.
Dave Swift
About this episode
Dave Swift discusses growing up in Southern California, skating in CASL contests in the early 80’s, getting sponsored by Schmidt Stix, shot first photo in 1983 at Great Desert Ramp Battle, started working at Transworld in 1989 as a writer, asking Grant Brittain to borrow an old camera to start shooting photo’s again, getting his first photo printed in Transworld, shooting with Tom Penny when he first came to the states, the stories behind some of Heath Kirchart’s iconic photo’s & covers, switching from film to digital, Transworld magazine being over 400 pages, leaving Transworld to start The Skateboard Mag, how selling The Skateboard Mag to The Berrics came about and much more!
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The guest
Dave Swift
Dave Swift is a skateboarding photographer and editor. He discusses his years at TransWorld, starting The Skateboard Mag and documenting generations of skaters.
Chapters
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- Dave Swift joins The Nine Club
- Freestyle contests and skating while sick
- The early skateboard-shoe business
- Work, school and time to skate
- Ankle surgery and health insurance
- Skating, sponsorship and getting into magazine work
- Transcribing interviews
- Getting his first photos printed
- Shooting and writing a first article
- Learning from photographic mistakes
- Behind the photos and interviews
- How magazines were produced
- Putting together a TransWorld issue
- Early skate-video production
- Magazine cover lines and selling an issue
- Naming TransWorld videos
- Heath Kirchart’s American flag cover
- Photographing Tom Penny
- Shooting sequences on film
- Trips and shooting with skaters
- The Skateboarding Hall of Fame
- The TransWorld awards
- Advertising budgets in print magazines
- The Skateboard Mag and the internet
- The changing media landscape
- From film separations to modern publishing
- Selling photography prints
- Collecting and selling old boards
- Stickers and skateboarding memorabilia
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People mentioned
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Skin Phillips
Tommy Guerrero
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