'93 til: A Photographic Journey Through Skateboarding in the 1990s

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The video was every bit as inspired, too. Director Michael Lucero - a friend who the band got to know through his work with Del - did something that almost no-one in the pantheon of rap promo clips appears to have thought of: rather than delivering the sort of video that would have been expected for the first single by a new band looking to break through, initially, to the hardcore rap fan base, he upended convention and subverted the cliches with an approach that still delights with its euphoria-inducing embrace of the joy of doing something different. Indeed, the clip still seems almost giddy with the sense of how easy this was to accomplish.

Yeah the whole attitude of those guys and that brand of skating can be summed up with: just keep moving. Also included in the book alongside Pete’s imagery are quotes and anecdotes from legends like Tony Hawk, Arto Saari, Jamie Thomas, Guy Mariano, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams and others. Although still a working photographer, Pete moved on from his career in skate photography in 2004 and is currently living in Brooklyn. The fact that it all fit with the sound of the record was of immeasurable help, too. The key samples used in 93 'Til Infinity are from two sections in the middle of a lengthy, slow, curious piece of instrumental music by a band led by the drummer Billy Cobham. After a brief stint as a member of Miles Davis's never-ending mission to locate a new music in the

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So it was like, ‘ok if we’re not going to shoot a skate photo then I got this cool wall over here, or there’s this cool lighting thing happening and let’s see if we can do something…’ I just wanted to continue creating and skateboard photography can be somewhat limiting in that, although I will say that there are skateboard photographers today who I think have really taken the limitations of trying to be out there and getting a good skate photo and turned them into really, really good exercises of understanding the craft and expanding on what notes you want to play with the people that you’re with. I also think people today realise how important it is to shoot everything. your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)

Totally. I think Stevie’s crew was much more in line with what I knew and the culture of street skating that I was familiar with. its creation. Souls were the focus and the named artist, but the Hiero ecology was working as one. It's a remarkable achievement.

One anecdote from that trip that I can remember was that (Andrew) Reynolds was with us, and he may have been maybe 18 or 19, and to this day Reynolds just loves Penny. But at the time, being in the van with both of them, Reynolds was just sort of, like, you could just tell how much in awe he was of Tom. I mean we all were, but Tom would do something just random, maybe someone filmed it or maybe no one filmed it, but he would land stuff and Andrew would just stand there looking completely baffled going, ‘he… He’s the best! He’s the best!’ I can visualise and hear him saying that still because he was just so excited to be able to see Tom skate and be around him. And on that same note, some of the skaters that were the biggest guys of 1992, someone like Chris Fissel, by the time ’94 or ’95 came along they were gone. Yeah well the Philly guys connected spots across the street from each other, around a corner and then down another street… Yeah I remember there was a thing where everyone would meet up at Sub-Zero (old Philly skate shop) off South Street and there was a line to take all the way to Love Park and they knew all these things to hit on the way. So it was one continuous line from Sub-Zero to Love. With this year's 2021 Summer Olympics hosted in Tokyo, Japan, skateboarding will make its Olympic debut; augmenting both park and street competitions for men and women. As this book is a culmination and photographic collection of the past three decade's growth of skateboarding throughout the US focusing in on the pivotal decade of the 1990s, the addition of this sport in the summer's upcoming games is of considerable relevance to the skateboarding pioneers featured in this work.

Yeah it was almost compulsory. It was like, ‘here’s how we start the day. You can either try to hang with us and try and push yourself or you can do your own brand of skating.’ But at the same time that’s what gives photos from then that special look because there wasn’t that technology. Ha ha! I seem to remember someone strapping a kneepad on top of their hat and calling it ‘a helmet’! Also included in the book alongside Pete’s imagery are quotes and anecdotes from legends like Tony Hawk, Arto Saari, Jamie Thomas, Guy Mariano, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams and others.The group weren't just propping themselves up on a diet of recently absorbed east-coast lyricism, either. While the sound that Souls essayed came as something of a surprise in 1993 to a rap fan conditioned to think of New York being about the wordplay and California as the home of the smoothed-out gangsta flow, there was a long-seated tradition of west-coast lyricism. In LA, Freestyle Fellowship and the Pharcyde had made their own waves, while Ices Cube and T were hardly an advert for the sing-song approach. And Cypress Hill's deliberately enigmatic 1991 debut had people wondering if they were from the New York enclave of that name. So the run would be from Sub-Zero to Love, and when you finally got to Love it must have been nice to finally stop pushing and take your heavy bag off for a bit. size_guide_content": "\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/6461\/9930\/files\/BOLTS-16_480x480.jpg?v=1609373847\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"439\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 24px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"text-align: center; width: 245px; height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBOLT SIZE (IN)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"text-align: center; width: 290px; height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRISER SIZE (IN)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"text-align: center; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 245px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7\/8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 290px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eNOT NECESSARY\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"text-align: center; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 245px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 - 1 1\/8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 290px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e1\/8\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"text-align: center; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 245px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 1\/8 - 1 1\/4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 290px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1\/8 - 1\/4\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"text-align: center; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 245px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 1\/4 - 1 1\/2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 290px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1\/4 - 1\/2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"text-align: center; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 245px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1 1\/2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 290px; height: 23px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e1\/2\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e" that will be familiar to the initiated. In addition to his stunning action shots are plenty of portraits and unguarded, candid moments that span from the late ’80s up through 2004. The book reveals a raw, unapologetic perspective of a world that no longer exists.

That this wasn't anywhere near as vast or all-encompassing or ambitious or limitless in scope as the sounds on the records they made was hardly their fault - but it's the one piece of the puzzle that doesn't quite fit. You had to. You know a lot of people would just take an elbow pad and wrap it around their ankle like, ‘alright I’m wearing pads!’He had a little part in the first Spitfire video sometime around then. I dunno if this was after this comp, but anyways he was skating around a contest in that part and you could immediately tell his skating stood out. Indeed! Ok so obviously the title of your book ’93 til, is a nod to Souls of Mischief and that era of skateboarding in the nineties… My last question is: why do you think ‘90s skateboarding is so significant? With this year’s 2021 Summer Olympics hosted in Tokyo, Japan, skateboarding will make its Olympic debut; augmenting both park and street competitions for men and women. As this book is a culmination and photographic collection of the past three decade’s growth of skateboarding throughout the US focusing in on the pivotal decade of the 1990s, the addition of this sport in the summer’s upcoming games is of considerable relevance to the skateboarding pioneers featured in this work.