Sunday, May 11, 2008

Deathbowl to Downtown, May 08, 2008


'Deathbowl to Downtown' is a film about skateboarding in nyc. If you grew up in new york city and you wanted to skate, you would travel and see a whole new world where the architecture of everyday streets become obstacles and challenges to personal skateboarding accomplishments and defeats. Skateboarding is amazing. I was lucky to see some of this happening growing up here. After the movie, we were shuttled off to 'the tunnel'. Very Plush Set Up and almost Red Carpet! Big Money Backing!

Does that mean that everything outside of new york city is irrelevant? Of course not. Guys in new york was going outside of new york to skate because skaters love skateboarding and want to see how green the grass grows everywhere else. Is this film relevant like the ones with stories from different cities or states or countries? Of course. Every where 'we' gots our own locals and stories and characters. Big Up to Coan 'Buddy' Nichols and Rick Charnoski and crew for scouring the stories and all that directing stuff. Super Big Up to all those involved, both outside and inside the screens and all the cats who made it and all the cats who did not make it. This is one story and one angle and it s almost not really a story but bits and pieces of a whole bunch of stories. I can imagine a whole genre of film making dedicating to trying to uncover some of the other new york skate stories. Hell, anywhere skate stories. My story would look like all the people who influenced me in skateboarding in my new york city...

SHUT Skates! Steve Rodriguez! 5Boro! Homage! SkateNYC! Supreme! Odi's! Benji's! Rockstar! Cream! UXA! Harold Hunter! Andy Kessler! ABC Skateshop! Scotty Schwartz! Nevit! Steve Schwartz! John Agawa! Global Ghetto! CBGBS! Dan Zim**r! Steve! Danny Supa! Todd Jordan! Vinny Ponte! Adam! Frank Natiello! Eli G!

Bodega! Mike Wright! Jeremey Henderson! NYHC! LushLife! Rodney Smith! Autumn! KCDC! Coda! Mark Gonzalez! Sean Sheffey! Base Brooklyn! St.James! HEWSKIN! Allyasha!DQM! Bruno Musso! Dave Meat!

Infamous! Vehicle! Gino! Alex Corporan! A-ron! Max Fish! z00York! Brooklyn Boards! Soho Skates! Keenan Milton! Q-lon! Cosmo and Wiley! Obed Rios! Ryan Hickey! Dred Davy! Sammy the Jew! Lamont! Joser! Patrick! Chris from Homage! Wayel! Elijah! David 50 cents! Emmet! Harry the filmer! Michael! Little Foot! Rob! Nat! Justin Christian Pierce! SSUR! Clientele! IZZY!
Joe Humeres! John Reeves!

EarthWing! FunHouse! In4Mation! Acapulco Gold! Official! Substance! Harry Jimunji! ION POSSE! UFO! Kevin! Taji! Neil Brown! Dom Amatore! Manny Skateboards! Chu! Ricky! Herbie's Skateworks! Mike Connely! Nice Shoes! Nimbus! Brooklyn Banks! Huf! Mike Chan! Richie Arbitel! Serf! NYParks&Rec! Jamie Story! Washington Square Park! Triple8! Juan Writer! Maze! Recon! Project Dragon! Futura! Issac HardCore skinKid I met at CBGBs! Jay from Stillmotion! Juan! Keith Hufnagel! SkateboardingSchool.com! Louis Luiz!

Rodney Torres! Beasley! BMW! Boards Shop Far Rockaway! Mike Hernandez! Chris and Jones Keefe! Louis Quinones! Hector Batista! Steven Calles! Ducky! John Carter! Awia! Ewok! Cycle! Zephyr! Charles Lamb! Steve Lavergne! Mike Henderson! Charlie Simmons! Rob Rodriguez! Shane! Curtis Young! Hamilton Harris! Peter Bici! Akira! Luis Torrentino!

Vin Seno! Tompkins Square Park! Michael Curley! Mike Lorraine! Eric Murero! Bones! Jay! Sheepshead Posse! Xert! Koji Toiyama! Morita Brother who gave me my first G&S with Gullwings and Kryptos! Soen from uptown! the two buddies ollieing in Stuyvesant Town 14 street Horseshoe Drive in 1985 with Uncle Wiggly Boards! Loki! One Buddy who had rail slid boards with no mess anywhere else in stuy town! all the skaters in manhattan, brooklyn, bronx, queens and staten island! Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey! Massachusettes, Penssylvania and Beyond! The Grinch! Barker Barrett! Mike Kepper! Felix Argueliez! Ariel! Jade! Jay of Jade! Astor Place! Jeff Pang! Peter Hyunh! Ray Abary! Gael Abary! Ray Base! JT from VT! 12&A! Owls Head! Malloly! Riverside! HeliPort! Midtown! Downtown! Uptown! Tenzin Gomez Che-Miyahira! Henry! Junior! Jonathan! RB Umali! Neck Face! Arron Suski! Tino and Mark Razo! Bobby Puleo! Sean Kelling! Spencer Fujimoto! Jamal'LivingRoom Johnston' Simmons! Avery Daily! Kreg Holt! Milton! Tony! Jamal Williams! Hopps! Dan Pensyl! Gnar Gnar Nardelli! Gio Estevez!

and MANY MANY MANY MANY others who skate/skated and either grew up in the city or transplanted to the city and call New York City Home. I know I missed a whole bunch of people! A whole whole too many people. This story is too big for two hours, what a monster mission! Even just to recognize people for a list! There is a whole squadron of upstarts to keep the streets, parks and landscape on fire! God Bless!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

super nice shoutout mike....steve sas schwartz

Anonymous said...

whats up mike ming!!! its luis from skate nyc...found this via a search...catch up with me!
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take care!