FARRAN GOLDING — FREELANCE JOURNALIST BASED IN LEEDS AND MANCHESTER, UK
CORRESPONDENT, QUARTERSNACKS; ASSOCIATE EDITOR, CLOSER SKATEBOARDING; COPYBOY, SKATE BYLINES
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Writing
Quartersnacks: New Futures and Distortions in Time — The Mechanics of Skate Magazine Covers
The significance of getting a magazine cover is perhaps the last spectacle that spans generations in skateboarding. I took a deep dive into the editorial dynamics and creative decisions behind the front page.
GQ Sports: Three Years Ago, Alexis Sablone Skated in the Olympics. Next Up? Designing Team USA’s Uniforms
A conversation with trailblazing professional skateboarder, architect and designer Alexis Sablone about creating Team USA’s skate kit and the growth of the women’s global skate scene.
Quartersnacks: ‘It Feels Like You’re Both Getting The Clip’ — A Reappraisal of Fisheye Cinematography
I spoke to handful of skateboarding’s best videographers about the craft of filming with a fisheye lens and occupational hazards of chasing skateboarders with expensive camera gear.
Video
Quartersnacks: CURRENAISSANCE: A Frank Chat with Curren Caples
Skateboarding is in a constant state of reinvention. Especially in skateboarding’s professional class, where reinvention is part of the job description. This biographic interview with Curren Caples traces his journey from a child star to a contemporary talent, visible on everyone’s radar.
Quartersnacks: ‘Utah, Get Me Two! — Andrew Allen’s Movie Matinee
A conversation with Andrew Allen about the intertextuality of movies and his skateboarding career, from recreating mob shirts seen in GoodFellas, graphics which pay homage to Michael Mann’s Heat, skating to David Lynch soundtracks, cult 1980s flicks, and many more cinematic easter eggs
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 and popular culture over the past decade or so.
Podcasts
Skate Bylines: A Puzzle of Andrew Reynolds
An interview with the author Kyle Beachy about the career of Andrew Reynolds, what ‘The Boss’ means for skateboarding today, and how writing about Reynolds provided a foundation for his book The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches From A Skateboard Life.
Skate Bylines: The Civic Center of New York City Skateboarding
An exploration of parks space in New York City told through the lens of the Lower East Side Skatepark and 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 produce ‘Ranked & Filed’ which presents the headline story from Simple Magic in audio and video 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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