'Maybe that’s why certain people are attracted to skaters. If you’re a cool skater you basically have to be into cool art and understand fashion. But I’m not a very good skater.'
This may reek of nostalgia, or worse, “back in my day!”-ism, but in the hey-day of Alien Workshop–the indie skateboarding brand that dominated our world—the only way to find out about new things was through direct communication. And often, those communications happened on the school bus, or at the skate park, or at the parking lot of the Taco Bell next to the skate park while scrounging for quarters so you could secure a soft shell taco as a canvas for your six packets of Fire sauce.
COLLINS: In my version he’s like, “Let me get you a drink.” But, in his version he’s like, “I didn’t get you a drink.” So, he probably didn’t.I grew up being obsessed with Alien Workshop Photosynthesis, and I just thought Danny was a fuckin’ superhero.No, at first I was like, “Oh, whoa, who’s this?” Because Danny—and you’ve gotta put this in the interview—he is strikingly fuckable. He’s like this Samoan porn star. You’re handsome, Danny. You know you’re handsome.
A skate park is really like a psychedelic, or rather, a metaphysical art studio. It’s like, “Hey, I’m going to meet up with my friend,” and then he starts flipping the board over this thing that’s like angled in two different ways and going down backwards and you’re just like, “Oh, damn. I like this guy.
COLLINS: Who in the skate industry, if you had to choose one person, was really integral in having like great music supervision taste for skate videos?this FTC video. I don’t know if that was ’94, or maybe ’95. I’d heard Sly and the Family Stone before, but not really like that. There’s a Love song in there, “Always See Your Face.” I’d never heard of them.video, the opening song was “Riders on the Storm.
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