Whilst trying to film the Rack A Few contest, I fell victim to what's commonly known as "web editor sabatoge." In this case, fellow web editor, Rob Meronek, of Skatepark of Tampa, casually barges my shot of Chris Cole attempting a front blunt to bigspin. Lucky for me, Rob's plan was foiled when Cole didn't land it. Later this week, Rob will have home court advantage at S.P.o.T. But with his recent head injury, that advantage may be futile. I'll keep ya posted.
How often do you get to see Karma Tsocheff skate in person? Well he was at ASR this weekend ripping on the mini. Check out the drunk lurker towards the end of the clip. Not only does he block a lovely blunt to fakie by Karma, but dude went right up to Muska on the deck of the mini and slapped him in the face for no reason. Surprisingly, Muska didn't do too much about it...giving peace a chance I think. I pretty much stopped filming after this 'cuz I was scared was gonna...
Here's an article on the No Comply book that I contributed to. The book is in skate shops now and scheduled for release in major book stores in early February.
Beetlejuice's manager, 36-year-old Sean Rooney, suffered a severe stroke on Sunday. Beetle was the one who actually found Sean after he suffered the stroke. Currently Sean's heart is only operating at 15% and is too weak to endure any more operations. The doctors give Sean a 50% chance of making it through this stroke and a 0% chance if another one should occur. The hospital bills are rising at a tremendous rate and unfortunately Sean is left with no insurance. Sean has a wife and son to take care of, not to mention Beetlejuice with his special needs. If you would like to donate, please do so here. You can email Sean at jollydwarf@webtv.net
Normally I wouldn't post the same skateboarding news you can find regurgitated on every skateboard magazine and skate news / gossip website out there. But this is something, like my Gasbag from TransWorld in December of '05, that means a lot to me personally and makes me proud to be a skateboarder. Thanks Real. Much respect.
This is the last raw interview I've got for y'all from the failed old school ads TWS Biz story. Once again,Sean Cliver.
Sean Cliver interview
What makes a successful and memorable ad campaign?
Well, from my experience at Big Brother, mud-slinging, boobs, guns, cuss words and piles of crap all work fine and dandy, but you know what doesn't? Big rubber vaginas.
For the failed TWS Business old school skateboard ads article, Birdo from Consolidated preferred not to answer my questions traditionally, but rather to just write some of his thoughts. The result is an email that I think is pretty rad.
Hi Rob,
I can't really answer the questions you sent me just because Consolidated has never really followed any "marketing strategies or ideas." Though Consolidated is a "business" and we seem to have stuck around for the last ten years, it has never really been thought as one...at least not by the people involved. See, I never saw myself as a businessman. I was just a skateboarder who worked for NHS, who wanted to get away from the politics of business. Early on, we made a decision to focus on what we wanted to do and not just what would sell, to ensure
we would never dread coming to work, but in turn enjoy it.
This Andy Jenkins interview was intended for a January 2003 TransWorld Skateboarding Business article I attempted on early '90s skateboard ads. The same one in which Steve Rocco ripped me a new asshole. The questions aren't that phenominal because I was simply doing quick email interviews to obtain one or two quotes from everyone, so don't expect to read the most profound Q & A ever here.
The actual article never saw the light of day due to space issues in the mag, but in addition to this Jenkins stuff, I got some cool stuff from Consolidated's Birdo and Sean Cliver that I'll be posting the here shortly.
Andy Jenkins Interview
What makes a successful and memorable ad campaign?
Something that stands out and has some sort of worthwhile content to back it up. Not just image for the sake of beauty.
So today I went skating at the etnies skatepark. Alone 'cuz I'm stranded in Lake Forest. All of a sudden, I see this little munchkin rolling up to the set of 11 like he's seriously gonna do something down it. I was like, "No way! This dude is like five years old and like three feet tall!" Sure enough, right as I grabbed my camera, three tries later, the deal was sealed. Check out how he bounces off the ground. I wish I was that small again.
