Still even more old guys who skateboard.
June 25th, 2008 by Kilwag
Even though he’s “all old and rickety,” Fox 12 spotlighted Mark Conahan in the Oregon Sports Final segment. Did you know he invented skateboarding in Portland? And then he went on to fund, design and build all the skateparks in Portland. All this was done in his spare time away from his job drawing skateboard comics. You can watch him being interviewed by a barn owl on the FOX 12 web site. Keep your eyes peeled for other notable figures in the Portland skate scene media. I wonder why he’s not promoting this…
June 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I am so over that Conahan guy.
I enjoyed the piece although I felt I was given too much credit. Rocco was hilarious.
My fellow Skaters for Portland Skateparks board members and volunteers (Sarah Burgess, Tom Miller and Sonny Robertson and others) contributed as much if not more than I. The creative northwest skatepark designers and builders are responsible for the world skatepark resurgence and sponsors including the City of Portland, Nike, The Tony Hawk Foundation and many other citizens and businesses contributed financial support to the skatepark effort. I am happy to have been able to help with a little fundraising, design and building along the way.
Additionally, while I like to think I was an early carrier of vert skating to the Portland area, many friends and acquaintances were skating and building ramps when I moved here from Southern California in 1977.
I’m sure you were as surprised and shocked as I was to hear exaggeration and sensationalism from the local Fox affiliate.
If anyone from TV asks for an interview it means, would you like to hype yourself way out of proportion? Because no one wants to hear about your modest accomplishments or motivations. What they really want is to see you catch one in the nuts.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:48 am
That MC guy is soooo OLD. Good coverage.
Side note; I think every local news segment/news paper article I’ve ever seen that covers skateboarding is always either blown out/over exaggerated or has some goofy caption like “Crazy kids on home-made U go above and beyond the saftey bump”
June 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
SLEESTAK SHIRT SIGHTING!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Lots of background Grover. Lots of cheesy reporter jokes. Skateboarders are gorgeous people.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
imagine, you know over 75 people over the age of 40 who STILL SKATE…
faux news…
still, any publicity is good publicity as long as they get your website correct
i for one am proud of you. well done.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
exaggeration and sensationalism from Fox? Never…
June 25th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Hey I think I saw that guy at Jacksonville recently!
June 25th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Yeah PH! How was the rest of your trip? I’m doing a travelogue should be done soon.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
It is a barn owl! Hoot!
June 25th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
it was rad!
http://www.dlxsf.com/dlxsfmb/read.php?1,338401,page=1
June 25th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
How many times have you been an eye witness to an event and then seen it reported TOTALLY wrong in the media? Makes you wonder if the EVER get anything right!
They actually got some decent footage of Mark ripping! Mad props old man!
Keep killing it!
June 26th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Inspiring. I was 43 yesterday… (grumble, moan I don’t feel so bad about it now!!) but I’m still ripping and trying to nail something new every session.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Excellent. “Old and rickety…”
June 28th, 2008 at 12:34 am
40 is the new 30…….