The Outlaw Collective as a concept is the foundation for two different academics papers. One, The Outlaw Collective: Skateboarding and Societal Interaction, was written in the spring of 2001 as an undergraduate research assignment. It is 25 pages long and deals with skateboarding's implicit and various challenges to the present society and the manner in which it is functioning. The other, The Outlaw Collective: Skateboarding and Rhizomatic Countermapping, was written in the spring of 2004 as a Graduate Seminar final paper. It is also 25 pages and deals with the rhizomatic manner in which skateboarding maps urbanity and the ways that this type of mapping counters the types of movement that are encouraged by our present culture and capitalist economy. Both of these works have their roots in the ideas that were originally part of The Outlaw Collective. The may expand, mutate, or change some of the ideas and they may not. However, that does not matter because The Outlaw Collective is a malleable entity. It has no core, it has not structure, it has no...you get it.

The Outlaw Collective and our work producing DIY street spots spawned a collaborative sponsorship from Plank Eye Board Shop. As part of this sponsorship, we produced this text interview. We conducted this interview with ourselves as the first portion of a 2 part interview for Plank Eye Board shop. The second portion will be video-based and will be coming out soon. This interview deals with some of the foundational ideological beliefs as well as practical realities of The Outlaw Collective presently (interview completed & published Dec. 2010). Producing this interview took a lot of thought and work because we wanted it to manifest, comment on, and live out some of the concepts that are important to us: Collectivity; Creative-production; Post-capitalism; Anti-dialecticism.