Theories of Atlantis

“I am afraid there will never be another Jason Lee, just all-over prints and reality shows….Jumping off buildings is just a band-aid for lack of skill and/or style.”

Jack Sabback has been serious bad luck for me lately. Tonight he called my cell phone (which I’ve learned to never answer when driving a car in New York) but it slipped my mind and just as our conversation came to a close there sat the fuzz behind me with lights flashing. $90 ticket later I’m cursing Jack’s name. As if that isn’t bad enough, I rolled my ankle a few weeks ago playing him in a game of S.K.A.T.E., although I had insisted I needed some more warm-up time that day. And to throw icing on an already cursed cake, a week later, just as my ankle is starting to feel like it was healing he somehow ends up sealing the deal with an aerial assault and fully Blitzkreiged the bajesus outta my ankle…….I haven’t been able to skate since.

Just found some random 16mm footage lurking in my hard drive from a trip to Thailand a couple years ago.

It’s supposed to be Debbie Downer outside today…so you might as well head out to the Brooklyn Public Library and come see me lecture fools today at 4pm.
Somehow the Brooklyn Public Library invited me to do a sort of filmmakers-forum presentation. I’ll give a short presentation introducing myself and discussing independent guerilla filmmaking. We’ll then screen Static III in it’s entirety and I’ll follow it up with a question and answer period. I’ll also show some never-before-seen alternate edits to a select few parts to demonstrate the process of editing and picking music that fits a skater’s personality, etc. It should be pretty interesting to come see me make a fool of myself and who knows….maybe The Towel will show up to heckle me. Click here for details.

Olly Todd interview is on it’s way out in an upcoming issue of The Skateboard Mag. Definitely looking forward to that. Thanks to Rodent for making that happen.
Here’s an alternate version of a line of his from Static Trois. I also have a new idea in the works that I think could be pretty cool. I am proposing a new challenge to our readers. I’ll soon be posting all of the raw footage from a certain skater’s Static III part and making it fully available for download. You can download the raw footage and try to construct your own re-edit of that part and post it online. I’ll host everybody’s remixes on the site and people will get to vote on their favorite.
Should be interesting…..aside from the douche-bags who’ll inevitably post their edits on their Youtube accounts pretending like they filmed all the footage on their own. Oh well.

While I continue to fend off attack after attack by The Baby Bib, I figured I might as well post his true identity…..turns out he’s just a pussy after all. And as we ponder the legitimacy of flatground blog posts, I’ll direct you to my good friend Joe Perrin’s site for an example of just how entertaining it can be.
“Last of The Mohicans” coming soon!….better BUY it, a-holes.

3 Strikes is back, mofuckers! People still don’t seem to know what this feature is, so I’ll explain again. A skater is given 3 tries, just 3 attempts to do a flatground line of their choosing. You bail your first trick and you’re done and that counts as strike one. Skaters don’t seem to like to have to film their 3 strikes…but it’s the cost of my friendship.

This time around the heat is on Steve Brandi…..good luck my old friend.
Strike 1
Strike 2
Strike 3

…this is random as hell, but pretty sick.

This doesn’t even really qualify as a post, but I think it’s pretty interesting. I was searching around online for inspiration for some new Theories shirts, and came across this image of the DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) area of Brooklyn in the early ’70s.
But what’s amazing is that I just shot this exact same photo, but 30 years later. It’s insane to show how an area has gone from urban eye-sore to choice top-tier real estate…..I think I like the eye-sore version better.

Dudes….this book is frizzling the nerves and receptors of my brain at a comet’s pace!

I can’t even BEGIN to explain the insanity I’m discovering with the turn of each page.
Apparently, NASA has from it’s very beginnings been controlled and manipulated for occult and esoteric purposes. As insane as a claim as it might seem, the evidence is overwhelming. Countless missions to the moon and Mars have been planned to the most intricate detail to occur during key celestial alignments of important constellations that fall immediately over the landing sites and launch points of each vehicle. I’ll fill you in more in the comments section later.