Monday, June 30, 2008

163: ONE FACTORY

a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...



the Brevoort brothers and I decided to make a small skateboard/freestyle BMX t-shirt company.



We made T-shirts.



Okay we made 12 T-shirts, and rode a lot.

Pretending we were a company gave us excuses to make videos.

We made videos and had huge video premire parties while my parents were away.

2ft high 1/2 pipe in the basement.



living room packed with dirty skaters for the video show. Here Mike, Joe and I try to not kill ourselves in our 1991 opus "let it ride" . Here's my run from 1990's "useless footage".

Thanks to Mike for putting these up. I feel really old now.

as a side note, I fell off my skateboard trying to go to the mailbox today.

btw did you see Super Chunk's boo boo.




poor kid. in for a world of hurt. Just like Uncle Faticus.


respect
faticus

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

coolest post ever. you think you feel old? the smiths? echo and the bunny men? cool, real cool.
rmm

fxdwhl said...

i remember the camcorder and parking sessions oh so well.

last time on a board i hairline fractured my heal bailing off a 4ft spine. so much for the cool uncle taking his nephew to the park. old man indeed.

Anonymous said...

I second the "coolest post ever" comment, I've not seen skating like that for 20 years! brilliant!

megA said...

you and diane are SO CUTE!

and. . .

you look taller in those videos. . .

xoxo

m

Anonymous said...

nice ollie, you had some skilz.

Scott T. said...

Mad skilz. The kids around here seem to specialize in not actually landing anything.

But just how old were you then? Looked a little older than High School.

Anonymous said...

........so! You were skinny at one point!

What happened?

Anonymous said...

i forgot how smooth you were. took me back a few years. the well sessioned spots. thanks to mike for taking the time to post those. - semper ubi sub ubi

Judi said...

my b/f competed on a national level in flatland, was sponsored by some big names. he was awesome. i'll show him your videos. very cool.