FARRAN GOLDING — FREELANCE JOURNALIST BASED IN LEEDS AND MANCHESTER, UK.
CORRESPONDENT, QUARTERSNACKS; CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, CLOSER SKATEBOARDING; COPYBOY, SKATE BYLINES.
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Writing
GQ Sports: Three Years Ago, Alexis Sablone Skated in the Olympics. Next Up? Designing Team USA’s Uniforms
Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics, I spoke to trailblazing professional skateboarder, architect and designer Alexis Sablone about creating the USA’s skate kit and the global women’s skate scene.
Quartersnacks: ‘It Feels Like You’re Both Getting The Clip’ — A Reappraisal of Fisheye Cinematography
This is probably my favourite story that I’ve ever written. I spoke to handful of videographers about the craft of filming with a fisheye lens, its history and the inherent dangers of chasing skateboarders with expensive camera gear.
Quartersnacks: ‘Is It Obvious How Much We Love Each Other?’ — An Interview with Aaron Loreth
I spoke to the brains behind Limosine Skateboards about the business operations of skateboarding’s most beloved brand and the joy of turning your friends pro.
Video
Quartersnacks: CURRENAISSANCE — A Frank Chat with Curren Caples
The most successful career reinventions are the ones where the skater leans into who they are, and grows into their talents. This biographic interview traces Curren Caples’ journey from a skater shaking associations with his child prodigy years to a permanent presence on pretty much everyone’s radar.
Quartersnacks: ‘Favorite Spot’ series (creator, editor and producer)
Combining archival footage with firsthand narration, ‘Favorite Spot’ captures earnest portraits of skateboarding’s most influential figures and depicts the nuanced, obsessive and humorous relationships they have with architecture.
Skate Bylines: The Eleven O’Clock Number — Kate Bush with Geoff Campbell
“They’d get a record player and crank [“Wuthering Heights] … dance about, get really theatrical and I remember that vividly.” Videographer Geoff Campbell discusses the storied use of Kate Bush’s music in skateboarding videos.
Podcasts
Skate Bylines: A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds
In the wake of Emerica’s Stay Gold, the author Kyle Beachy saw Andrew Reynolds as as perfect a model of adulthood a skateboarder could achieve. Inspired, he wrote an essay on Reynolds which later became a foundational text for his book The Most Fun Thing. I spoke to Beachy about his book and who The Boss is to skateboarding today.
Skate Bylines: The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding
An exploration of parks and municipal space in New York City through the lens of the Lower East Side Skatepark in conversation with Ian Browning, author the Quarternacks story ‘Civic Center: A Profile of the LES Skatepark at Ten Years’.
‘Ranked & Filed’ — A Simple Magic and Skate Bylines Experimental Co-Production
Cole Nowicki’s Simple Magic is a weekly newsletter about “skateboarding, the internet and other forms of escape.” (He also has a voice made for radio.) Together, we created ‘Ranked & Filed’, a joint effort which presents the headline story from his newsletter in podcast form,
Publications
Vans: ‘AVE, photo: O’Meally’
I produced a zine for Vans celebrating the career of Anthony Van Engelen. Told from the perspective of photographer and friend, Mike O’Meally, through an interview and his archives, the limited edition zine focused on O’Meally’s time with AVE during the making of Alien Workshop’s Mind Field.
‘Safety Net’
A zine of photographs taken throughout the making of Safety Net, a skate video by Joe Allen.
Division 24: ‘Now and Then’
Division 24 Skate Store in Wakefield, West Yorkshire reached its 20th anniversary in 2025. To celebrate the occasion, I worked with Ben Powell to create a publication chronicling the story Division 24 and history of skateboarding in the Wakefield area.
You can find more of my work for specific publications below
(or head here for an archive of just about everything I’ve worked on).
Quartersnacks
GQ
Closer Skateboarding Magazine
Skate Bylines
Vans
Slam City Skates
Free Skate Mag
The Scribe by Northern Monk Brewing Company
Greg Hunt for Speedway Mag
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