Disclaimer: No one seems to know where or when this photo came from, what its deal is, or whether it’s actually nothing more than an excellently executed Photoshop prank. But considering that Katharine Hepburn lived until 2003 and was an all-around awesome lady, we want to believe it’s for real. Let us know what you think in the comments.

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Due out early next month, Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography, a book assembled by Alex Corporan, Andre Razo and Ivory Serra, spans over 30 years of skate culture in NYC, with contributions from over 40 photographers. Part retrospective, part homage, it features such noted skateboarders such as Steve Olson, Eric Koston, Keith Hufnagel, Harold Hunter, Jerry Hsu, Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales, Rick Howard, and Jason Dill. We’ve pulled ten of our favorite images from the photo survey for you to check out; click through to view them all.

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Before the X-Games, energy drinks, and the rise of “dude culture,” skateboarding was cool. Effortlessly cool. This collection of skateboarding footage from mid-’70s gives insight into a culture that we’ve always been totally envious of. The clip, a mix of home videos with footage from skate films of the era, is backed by a song that sounds like Neon Indian’s next single. Click through and find some inspiration for your next chillwave music video. Or just because you love cool, old footage of girls in tracksuits doing handstands on skateboards.

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Documenting artists, snowboarders, musicians, and skateboarders, photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos takes a lively, anthropological approach to art.

Starting out in NYC’s downtown art and music scene, Marcopoulos got insider shots of Warhol, Haring, and Basquiat, as well as LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. Discovering skateboard culture, he captured the dynamism of that world, before heading west to turn his lens on the developing snowboard scene and his own growing family.

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Michael Cline’s folksy drawings, paintings, and sculptures of offbeat urban dwellers mash up cartoon styles of illustration with serious modes of painting.

A skateboarder-turned-artist, Cline creates visual tales about everyday people that look battered, lost, and out of luck. Instilled with psychological and sexual tension, Cline’s disconcerted characters drift in an imaginary realm that hovers surreally between the present and the past.

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Skateboarding god and artist Mark Gonzales created a “Circle Board” out of nine skateboards for his current exhibit, Round n’ Round, at New York’s Franklin Parrasch Gallery (up through 11/28). Our friends at Animal NY pointed us to William Strobeck’s jazzy footage of skater Anthony Pappalardo trying the contraption out. Gonzales appears at the end of the video to smoke a ciggy and show us how it’s really done.

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