News: Book of Broken Dreams: Part 3
Some photos get printed but slip through the cracks, some disappear while at the magazine and some just get flat out denied. It's time for another gander into my book of ancient skate photos that have been long forgotten, the book of broken dreams. Let's see who we stumble onto today:
1. A fixture in the DC skate scene for well over a decade, this photo of Paul Macelroy from 1998 never made it onto the pages of a magazine, but I believe the footage was in Static.
2. Allen Russell was holding the Tampa scene down back in the day and managed to get a crack at this dope spot at a federal building in early 2001, just before the Sept 11th terrorist nonsense made skating it impossible.
3. And by special request during the last Book of Broken Dreams comes this photo of Nate Jones in Miami which ran in a 1999 issue of the now-deceased "Warp" magazine. They actually never sent me back the best slide from this shoot, so we're left with this see-through image 10 years later.
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Not me.
I like how nate jones scratched “real” over the expedition board , and i think i remember that allen russell photo being in a old transworld mag as a check out , Pretty sick
Paul Mac killing it! Seabreeze you don’t like Nate Jones part in real to reel? are you part tard?
Get a clue buddy. In that part he backside flipped a gap that Sean Young (in the Spitfire video) did several years earlier and his ender was a kickflip over a street gap that Liversedge did (in the Ride On video) several years earlier (and both of those original tricks were done at a time when it was seriously sick to flip your board over a street gap; Nate Jones did it when it was no big deal). Oh, and Kalis had already tre flipped the gap that he kickflipped for his ender, and at some point Cairo did a clean heelflip over it too, so basically Nate Jones can get the fuck out of here with his kickflip. Also, he had something like three tricks that he only did at spots where Morford or others took him to, i.e. he completely ignored the possibility of actually going out skating and finding something sick to film on every once in a while (and nothing makes for lamer skating, as far as I’m concerned). If you skated at the time this video came out and you had a slightly critical eye, you would have been unable to not notice all of this. I actually saw him in action for a few days, shooting for an interview. It basically went like this: the photographer spent the whole time trying to find spots where Nate Jones could either do a back tail, a backside flip, or a kickflip, but the spots couldn’t be too gnarly or anything because Nate Jones didn’t do that kind of thing. So basically Nate Jones had to shoot something on a ‘cool’ looking spot, which means that he had to end up spot raping someone who actually skated around with their time and found cool shit to skate. I’m not really militant about spot rape or whatever, I don’t really care, but it seemed like Nate Jones was barely even into skating, i.e. it was all about shooting some bullshit interview for his shit career, just so that the Deluxe gravy train wouldn’t leave the station without him (which, of course, it eventually did, which corroborates my argument I think). Fuck that, just go on welfare or something, but don’t put out a bullshit part like his Real to Reel one and expect to not get called out. Me and my buddy took our copy of Reel to Real and we threw it out of our window onto the street below and waited until it got ran over. And we took all the video tape out first and taped that shit up all over our apartment so that it was actually hard to walk around with running into it. I always considered all of this a much better use of that video than the intended one.
Now you can say what you want about his style or whatever, that’s fine. But there are plenty of skaters with good style, and plenty of them that actually do interesting shit, and like I said, I had to witness this dude’s shit in person, so I’m over it. And I think I’m not being unreasonable. Now go on liking that part despite everything I said here doggy.
Damn, definitely makes me want to dislike the dude a bit. The song and the style definitely make that part for me though. Don’t think I can not enjoy watching it.
Damn Seabreeze, did Nate Jones fuck your girlfriend?
no matter what 0:34 is unfuckwitable
Dear Lakebreeze,
I understand what you are saying. I doubt he ever went out and found his own spots, and for a long time it seemed like he was just waiting out the rest of his carer, and other people had done much harder trick on the same shit. But the truth is I don’t care about that stuff. There are some other people with great style, But I would say that Nate Jones has one of th all time best! And I would rather watch him KF on flat then most shit out there. Not always but atleast with him thats all that matters for me, is how cool it looks:)
So put that in you’re pipe and smoke it.Wino
Actually, on his very first try at this front blunt his board went into the ocean. So he had to do it on my Expedition board. The funniest part is the tiny little Thunder Trucks stickers we put on the board cuz that was the only sponsor he rode for that I had stickers in my car for. The drawn on ¨Real¨ takes the cake though.
Remember when Nate Jones had dreadlocks?
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