News: Ryan Gee is a G

Ryan Gee is one of those people who’s video contributions to east coast history has been forgotten by far too many. His ill photography has been integral in promoting the careers of some of our favorite east coast skaters through the years. But how many of you even knew he filmed? Ryan Gee has been keeping skateboarding highlighted on this coast for almost 2 decades in multiple formats and mediums. And thanks to the work of Chris Mulhern people are finally being taught the history of one of the people that helped shape the classic 1990’s scene of east coast skateboarding.

If you haven’t caught this yet, you’re going to thank me for this post. I remember my first trip to Philly in 1996. It was a cold fall afternoon and the city would’ve looked dreary and depressing to any average pedestrian. But we were so excited to be in the city which was fast becoming the epicenter for skateboarding on the east coast at the time. Mike Bouchard was showing us around the streets and he brought us over to Ryan Gee’s apartment to hang out for a bit. Ryan’s apartment was cluttered with camera equipment, computers, video cameras and film. Everywhere you looked there was a batch of slides or negatives with an east coast favorite skating some interesting spot I’d never seen before. But he invited us all to sit down at his own personal Media 100 editing station and watch some footage. I had no idea that he even filmed, but when he pressed play we were treated to easily 20 minutes of raw northeastern ripping by the likes of Pluhowski, Kalis, Gall, Oyola, Puleo, Reasons, Trudnowski and an endless list of east coast legends. It was an amazing welcome to the city I had been wanting to visit for years. Ryan was truly in the middle of the explosion that was starting to erupt in Philadelphia. And we owe both him and Dan Wolfe a mountain of gratitude for bringing this amazing scene to print and video for us all to appreciate.
So stoked to see that Chris Mulhern got one of the Berrics’ “Shoot All Skaters” put together on Ryan Gee. Check it out.

from January 10