Part memoir part document of the DIY punkinfused subculture of skateboarding as it came of age in the 1990s and early 2000s Ed Templetons Wires Crossed pulses with the raw combustive energy of Templetonamp8217s imagemaking from the last twentyplus years.amp10Illustrated by photographs collages texts maps and other ephemera from Templetonamp8217s journals Wires Crossed offers an insideramp8217s look at a subculture in the making and reflects the unique aesthetic stamp that sprang from the skate world he helped create. Templeton occupies the rare position of having been a professional skateboarder a twotime World Skateboarding champion as well as a photographer and artist working within the skateboard community as it gained increasing cultural currency in the 1990s and beyond. His work first gained recognition as part of the Beautiful Losers collective loosely gathered around Aaron Roseamp8217s Alleged Gallery on Manhattanamp8217s Lower East Side.amp10This work much of it previously unpublished and unseen explores Templetonamp8217s own journey as an image maker as well as the lives of professional skateboarders as they spent long hours crisscrossing the world on tour reveling in their newfound status as rock starlike figures and the eternal search for new terrain to skate. Interviews between Templeton and fellow proskaters and friends add compelling detail about the pressures and pleasures of life on the road and what itamp8217s like to obsessively pursue an art formwhether on their decks or behind the camera.