I
am going to hand out a copy of Full Blade to Quinn, who's been a friend of mine for a long time, so I'm very excited to get a copy of the movie.
What's the book all about?
The book is about 30 years in the year of skateboarding and showing people what New York skateboarding is about, and I'm showing you the New York skate park.
It's all the city. We never really had the nice ramps and everything that they had to call us when.
There was a thing trying to explain to people that didn't know about skateboarding in New York.
So when you skate, I'm like, skate everywhere. They're winning me out everywhere. Everywhere. Like, you're right there. That's something that we can skate.
It's true. Like, kids got skate parks in the Bronx, in Manhattan. They got Chelsea Piers now. It's amazing to see.
I haven't even got the chance to visit those places. When I have a chance to talk to the kids, that's what I tell them.
I'm like, you guys got parks, and we grew up with abandoned gas stations.
We have to rob stuff in construction sites.
You know what I mean? To build up our props.
Some kind of ramp.
So that's what the book is about.
Yeah, it's all about that. Make sure I try to cook as much of the homies I can in the book. It took me four years to put it together.
My partner, Ivy Sarah and Audrey Rathaus, I taught them in the ball, and they helped me out to finish the cooking. Now, here we are.
308 pages of New York Fun Book.
Where do you find the book?
Find the book. It's a cream, it's a shot, farms and all those. All around the world.
The bookstores that we carry is like the vice. In New York, we had three of them.
In LA, we had one in Miami, and then this year, we're working on doing openings in Europe.
How cool. Everybody's Mike Jones.
It's like almost two. I'm honest. He's one of the photographers. Nice man.
It's beautiful.
Skating with Alex, pulling the bags, the times, all through supreme, just appears how a hunter, a whole crew, you know, too many to name.
Skateboarding is no strong, you know. It's definitely a passion.
That's forever, you know.
Damn. I got my own copy. Finally. Yeah.
That was the first black skater on the cover of Trans World Magazine.
Is that him?
No.
Johnston.
Johnston.
Oh my gosh, and this is Streetwear.
The world.
Damn.
It's okay.
We never had, we never had anything like that from magazine before the cover in New York.
It's all along with our texts.
Yeah, I saw this ad. It's like right up the street here, and I'm just like looking for the photographer's name, and I text well, and I was like, oh, did you shoot that?
Are you taking it to my spot?
Yeah.
I was like, yeah, did you see that?
I'm like, did you see that?
So you contact the Yuri, and you're like, this is the first photo I shot with Yuri at Astor Place.
It was crazy. That was like 17 years old, man.
I gotta show this to fans.
What?
Oh my God.
Wow, man, Ryan Jake.
Shot that photo.
I remember this day, because you set up right here.
There was a bump in the street.
It was a natural bump that the cars made because it was like hot, and black top in the summer, and I guess like a natural bump.
And a real old Chinese lady that was like watching me, and then she said, is this what you love to do?
Is this what you love?
Like, yeah, she's like, oh, continue. Have fun.
Two months.
Tearing it down, man.
This is kind of the truth.
Oh, really?
I mean, the car.
They made Skateboard.
Yeah.
