this was so good. what a thoughtful guy.
he made his fucking mark, too. i went back and watched the neckface and jason dill epicly later'ds and i think i took it for granted at the time what gift those were... like a logical replacement for a magazine, like a skateboarding tour video without the skating, or something like that. did not seem revolutionary at the time but i think in my world it really was a huge shift in the way that I wanted to learn about cultural things.
it also seemed to raise the bar for how much context you could pack into a profile of someone (shots of their apartment, interviews with their friends, shots of the cities they lived in, the stores they visited, etc) compared to a print interview.
it also seemed make it obvious to me that selling a sponsored skater as someone you should care (and buy products from) about had way less to do with actual skating than i previously thought. the skating grounds it, but alot of it is image.
all this from a dude that was just a skate photographer. inspiring