After a handful of GIF- and text-based posts, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I simply prefer to make videos. Sure, I enjoy making the endlessly-looping animations and getting a little wild with words, but I miss being on board myself. To make a GIF I set up the tripod, hit record, and […]
My first skate-related encounter with the streets of New York City took place a little over two years ago, in mid-October of 2011. The MuirSkate crew and I ventured out here to take part in the unofficially annual “skateboard pride parade”. It was late-morning and just as soon as we touched down at JFK we […]
Growing up in a relatively rural Northern California town I wasn’t exposed to very many large and/or well-paved riding surfaces. The biggest places for us to skate were cul-de-sacs and long sidewalks—though most were covered with enough cracks, potholes and dirt to persuade even the most dedicated skateboarder to swap their board for a bicycle. […]
New York City thrives on the balance of opposites. A blazingly hot and sticky summer is balanced with a bone-chilling WTF-and-windy winter. At a hot dog cart, a middle-aged TriBeCan business-man converses with a painfully hip twenty-something from Green Point. In the evenings, the Lower East Side laundromats and leather shops swap spots with the storm doored store fronts […]
New York City is huge. Vertically, horizontally, culturally, every which way you look at it. The greater NYC area covers 468 square miles and is home to nearly 8.5 million people. The five boroughs (read: “large neighborhoods”) within NYC are as follows: Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten; from the Battery to the top of Manhattan. […]