“I was pretty unreliable, which I regret so much now as I should have put all my effort into the video for the whole time, not just the last nine months you know? That stuff happens when you’re nineteen/twenty; you just go through a phase of having your head elsewhere…”
Category Archives: Interviews
Rian Pozzebon talks Ten Years of Vans Syndicate
“The handcuffs were off with Syndicate, we didn’t have to compromise due to selling five more pairs if we made the outsole white or the upper material cheaper.”
Dylan Rieder – HUF Stoops Euro Tour 2013
“Heath always looks good in photos: all white, all black, whatever. He’s Heath Kirchart.”
Korahn Gayle Interview – Sidewalk Magazine Issue 223
Basically my whole problem is I always change what I think looks good clothes wise… I’m like ‘ah man what was I wearing there?’ and then months later I’ll be wearing something else and be like ‘yeah this is the shit’ and then months later think ‘I look like a dick.’ I might try and do a part in all joggers. I’ve never looked back at joggers and thought they looked whack. I might try film a part in joggers, that’s a plan…
James Rewolinski talks Labor Skate Shop & New York City
“There was a connection between what you’d see on the East Coast videos and for us in the Midwest; we had winter, shitty ground, bad spots. You’d see Eastern Exposure, Dan Wolfe, Sub Zero and these guys are killing it and doing amazing stuff and it’s not perfect ground, it’s not schoolyards and stuff like that.”
The Kyle Walker Interview
“But it was one of those bottles – I forget what they make it with but there’s sugar in it, they’re super fragile and supposed to break. But that one he actually broke over my head was not as soft I’ll fucking tell you that.”
Australia, Breaking his Face & Turning Pro with Josh Pall
” We just kept filming for the part and eventually Midsy says ‘how about we do a shoe with it?’ and I was like ‘fucking hell!’ Turned into a board and a shoe from a part. Putting the pressure on. Then at the last minute ‘yeah we’re gonna make this book.’ A one minute welcome clip to all this…”
The Brandon Westgate Interview
Powerhouse by definition, workhorse by nature.
In Good Company with Chris Johnson
“The first photos I shot were of my mates skating in Worcester on an Olympus point and shoot that I had been using for a few years whilst out on the piss to kind of get a few photos that would be similar to what’s found on Instagram on a Sunday morning. The camera was fully automatic and I had no concept of film sensitivity, shutter speed or focus; I just pressed the button and sometimes the photos looked plausible.”
A Quasi Interview with Chad Bowers
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