Came up with this idea last week when all these videos were circulating.
Chris filmed it, I edited it and wrote most of it with help from the homies.
Enjoy.
I woke up this morning like I do every Friday morning; ready to go to a job I love, have some breakfast, meet with clients, design some things, grab a bite to eat, talk shit at Endless and go home to start the weekend.
I heard that this part was going to be online at midnight as I perused Thrashermagazine.com as I do every evening the night before. I ended up just watching American Dad and falling asleep.
After maneuvering through some Illustrator work I checked Facebook and remembered they had posted the clip; I tuned in.
What The Fuck.
I remember meeting Mark at Endless a few months ago. Rodent was trying to get him to tell us the tricks that he had filmed and shot photos of while he had been in town. A bit taken back and almost under his breath, he let us know that he kickflip backnoseblunted chrome dip, as well as fakie ollie switch crooked the courthouse rail. He also backside 5-0′d a local gem that, to this day, hasn’t been blown out due to a few choice mouths most likely not knowing its location, and the fact that the landing between the yellow pole and the dumpsters is about 2 and a half feet wide.
Between those tricks and a handful of others, namely: backtail pop-out at Pulaski, back 270 nosepick, backside noseblunt front 270, a big spin onto a ROCK, and back to back opposing 360s in a line that was reminiscent of Carroll’s in Modus, along with a collected style, a GOOD Elliot Smith song (blow me), and a company appropriate earth-tone wardrobe, it’s going to be tough to beat this one.
Not to mention an actual ender. A good, solid trick at a notable spot with two angles. That may have made me most happy.
I don’t know why I was driven to write about this part. Maybe because it has a certain nostalgic quality to it, tastefully using the ever classic combination of Super-8 and SD. There also wasn’t months of build up to something that would never have met anyone’s expectations. Either way, this needs to be on a DVD somewhere. In the hay day of the super-am, tech-bafoonery, overused slow-motion and filtering, this was a great way to start 2012 and the weekend.
I met CJ years ago, we were both trying to get with the same girl one night. We skated a few times and he showed me his tattoos. I haven’t seen him since. He’s saved in my phone as CJ Floor, because Ross told me he slept on floors constantly.
Lately Aaron Green’s red-headed ass has been coming to Raleigh with the rest of the DTBLOT dudes, drinking forties and fucking shit up.
Charleston has always held a special place in my heart so Im going to try my damndest to get down to this thing, and I hope you do to.
