Episode 50 - Jaime Owens

Episode 50 with Jaime Owens, skateboarder, journalist, photographer, founder of Closer Skateboarding Magazine. Together we discussed him growing up skating in Florence, South Carolina, studying art and photography in college, moving to California in 1999, connecting with Aaron Meza and Mike Ballard at Skateboarder Magazine, filming for Jackass for a little bit, climbing up the ladder at Skateboarder until it closed down in 2013, moving over to Transworld to become the editor-in-chief, leaving in 2021 with no set plans, deciding to launch a new print skate mag in 2022 and calling it Closer, releasing issue number 4 in the Spring of 2023, his vision of the future of skateboarding media, skating better than ever in his late 40's...  Intro (00:13)  Getting started (01:13)  First video/magazine (03:01) Studying art and photography (06:01)  Moving to California in 1999 (10:08)  Connecting with the Jackass crew (13:43)  Working at Skateboarder (24:05) Moving towards more digital content (34:35)  Leaving Transworld, developing the idea for a new print mag (38:04)  Secret to skating a lot in his late 40’s (45:18)  The beginning of Closer (48:59)  Connecting with Farran Golding (56:47)  Dealing with print quantities (57:40)  Decision to do a quarterly magazine (01:01:37)  Printing the mag locally (01:04:49)  Scheduling (01:08:23)  Doing more digital stuff in the near future (01:10:33) The future of skateboarding media (01:13:07)  Most valuable lesson learned from skateboarding (01:15:13)  Friends questions (01:16:30) Conclusion (01:53:23)   For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboards