The Setup: Ice Village Demo
Did you read the article about building a vert ramp for the SLC Olympics? Come on, did you wade through all 17 pages? Probably not. I mean what is so interesting about building the damn thing if you don't actually get to skate it? Somebody got to skate it. I went back to SLC to check out the pro demo and take pictures. It was cold and gray for the most part, and I was freaking out about the flash sync on my camera being broken, but I got some good pics anyway. There is only one bail shot! A couple of them may look sketchy, but aside from picture 43 on page 3, the rest were landed. I included it beacause it's cool.
Thanks to the locals who picked up the slack and skated hard. Story and captions forthcoming. These pics are pretty much thrown up there in the order that I took them. Most of the better ones are later on. At the end of page 4 I threw in some recent pics of Grover skating in Oregon, since he was unable make the return trip. Page 5 is assorted non-skateboard shots I took at the ice Village. Lots of event dorks and other stuff.
This just in! Remember that I had hoped to get photos and a story published by someone. Big Brother was the only mag that feigned interest. I posted this page and then sent off a link to Dave. His reply:
yeah, i looked quickly and they're not the greatest photos but i can see using one or two of them with a short story. maybe run it a half page. it doesn't look like it was that big of a deal and warrants much more, but yeah, it was at the olympics. so, just to cover my ass and get all the legal nonsense out of the way since i don't know you and i've had problems with strangers sending shit in before...i need to be up front...although i've said i might run a couple photos and a short story, that does not amount to a gaurantee that i'm going to run anything. because i can't make a decision until i see the whole thing. and i don't pay kill fees. and anything you send us is at your own risk. if you want it returned, include a SASE and i'll be happy to.
I wrote the story and tried and failed to cram it into the 600 word allotment. Eventually, I sent it to him. Since I had delayed in writing it, I sent an email off to Dave asking why he didn't like the story - BEFORE I sent it to him. His quite honest reply was:
yeah, sorry that was awhile ago and i don't even remember it actually, so i probably wasn't that into it. not quite silly enough and not quite skateboard worthy. but thanks for sending it. -dave
I forked over the story and confessed that I had never actually sent it to him. He never got back to me, so it's safe to say that It was indeed not very silly or memorable. I got to caught up in trying to actually provide information about an event that virtually nobody attended - like I was a reporter or something instead of an entertainer. Well, I can't blame him. It was pretty late, after all. I harbor no ill-will towards Big Brother Magazine other than for the crappy t-shirt I got with my subscription. It's still the funniest skate mag out there, and the only ones that were polite enought to return my emails. Thrasher even sent banners and stickers to the event for fuck's sake. You would think they would have at least been curious.
That hasn't stopped me from trying to peddle it to Juice Magazine. I didn't send them a blind email in the first place because Neil sent them several emails about purchasing some Juice merchandise. I figured that since they didn't reply to him and he wanted to give them money, the chances were slim that they'd reply to my email asking them to give me money. Through an incredibly boring tale marginally involving the only actually cute flight attendant that I've ever seen, I have in my posession an actual email address at Juice that gets a response. No way. I'm not going to divulge it. I'll let you know what happens, if anything does, but in the mean time you can read the story or look at the pictures. I might go into more detail of the event if nothing pans out.
- read it - The Story
- view it - demo 1
- view it - demo 2
- view it - demo 3
- view it - demo 4
- view it - demo 5
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