What’s going on man?
Not much.
How old are you and where are you from?
21, from Bangor, Pennsylvania.
What’s it like out there man?
What’s it like? Small it’s like hick town kind of, not much going on.
Close to Bethlehem?
Yeah like thirty minutes away.
Sick, so where do you normally skate?
Stroudsburg, its like 15 minutes from my house, Blue Park.
You skate with Shanahan a lot?
Yeah, he’s my man haha.
How long have you known him?
Probably like ten years.
Yeah we were skating this spot in East Stroudsburg a little bank to ledge and I tried to do a wall ride and I didn’t even come close, we’ve been skating together ever since pretty much.
What would you rather do, drop in on a 15 foot vert ramp, or ollie a 20 set?
What the hell haha uh, let’s go with the vert ramp.
Whats the worst haircut you’ve ever had?
I got a pretty bad bowl cut a few years ago accidentally. I’d like to go to a barber but its like a crew cut or nothing, they can’t like give you a hair cut.
What’d you do today?
Just hung out pretty much, not that eventful.
You work?
Nah, currently unemployed.
What’s the shittest job you’ve ever had?
That’s an easy one. I worked at a medical waste plant for a little bit.
What’s the skate scene like in your area? Tell me a little bit about it.
Well I guess it depends. Bethlehem is like 30 minutes away and that has a lot going on down there, Po had the skatepark built and stuff, there’s a lot of kids who skate down there, but we usually skate in Stroudsburg, so its like not as many kids and the kids who do skate are like, I don’t even know how to describe it. It’s small there, but in Bethlehem there’s a lot of kids who skate.
What’s the skate scene like in Bethlehem?
There’s different crews of kids, there’s a skate park and a lot of kids go to it. There’s older people, younger people, I don’t know how to describe it really.
Have you ever made a spot? or a box, something to skate?
Yeah we concreted this bank last winter, but just on the bottom so I don’t know if that’s really making it.
That’s improving it, that’s something. How often do you eat fast food?
Holy shit uh, quite a bit now, I don’t have money to buy good food all the time so I cave in.
You got any sponsors?
Nah, unsponsored.
You got no one backing you?
Andy Po, shout out to Andy Po.
Hell yeah. You go on many skate trips? What was the last one you went on?
Me John and fuzzy went on a trip to Tennessee recently, it was pretty tight.
That sounds sick, what was going on down there?
Not that much, we went to, my mom lives down there, she lives in the middle of nowhere pretty much, but theres just this road and theres nothing but fields pretty much but there’s churches everywhere, so every once and a while you’ll see some shit at a church, a rail or something crazy that no one would ever find, out in the middle of nowhere.
Was that your first time in the south?
Yeah, pretty much. I’ve been there before but never really by myself, or like, me and my friends you know?
If you could go to any country where would you go?
That’s a hard one, I guess Japan maybe.
Can you describe your dream skatepark?
Built by skateboarders. You ever been to Washington Heights?
I can’t remember it by name what’s it like?
Its got a lot of brick, It was built by city workers cuz its not all like perfect, really, There’s a brick volcano and brick quarterpipes all around, I like skating on bricks.
What’s your best trick?
Hahaha that’s great. We’ll go with pressure flip.
What’s your worst habit?
[From the background, probably Mitchell]
When was the last time you jerked off?
Uhhhhh…which question am I answering?
Whichever one you want man.
Road rage.
What’s the last spot you got kicked out of?
It’s in New York, in midtown, its like a gap to bench, Or a gap to bench to rail, Willy Akers lipslid it.
How long you been taking photos?
Probably like two years or something.
What kind of photos do you usually take? What do you usually shoot with?
I have a Nikkormat, a 35mm camera from the 70’s, I have a dark room in the attic, I develop all my own black and white.
