Nigel.

Not this yeah unfortunately 😔 Finances are tied up in the production company I'm trying to get off the ground. Next year though!

I'm still alive

Hibernation season is almost over

I'd do nasty stuff for a 40 degree day right now

Nobody is entitled to your peace. Disagreement is a normal, healthy part of any friendship, but disrespect isn't.

Feeling I have to cut a friend off is super rare, but the relief is immediate and I don't regret what I've left in the past.

I had a good year. My show reel is actually a little memory buffer.

Still a lot of work to do, but we're on the way!

Colors

Omg they've got your hair ❤️

The nightmare for me is missing the grind and landing wheels on wax.

Vert is having a moment, I appreciate Tom Schaar and am happy for my transition loving homies.

But I'm not watching

It would be great if the government forced studios and streaming services to separate the way they did with studios and theater chains back in the day.

Oh hell yeah

Sometimes my lack of progression on my skateboard over the last year bums me out, but lately I've come to appreciate the fact that my progression was simply redirected.

A Jacob Rosenberg/Ted Barrow hosted podcast about EMB? I thought Christmas was in December?

I helped design this fun little guy for our plaza today. Disregard the colors.

Oh. Oh dear.

Aimu's favorite style being Wade Desarmo checks out

Still alive

I struggle with Asics because I like the shoes and like what they're doing but I remember metaphorically trading in my Asics wrestling shoes for Emerica skate shoes and the whole thing feels like a fever dream born of my fear of disappointing my coach for quitting the team for skateboarding.

What we used to call a half flip kids now refer to as a cancel, which is a term borrowed from the fighting game community. Its like chocolate and cheese for me. Love them both, don't want them in combination lol.

As a lifelong fan of fighting games, I should be excited that "cancel" has entered the skate lexicon, but I'm not.

It's been a long time since they put somebody established with relevant skill on Girl, but you know Lil Dre should be on Chocolate

The way you can't see Zion or Ishod's faces honestly felt disrespectful. You get 1 or 2 clips like that, somebody should be having a hard convo with the filmer. Hopefully they learn from it, because this is some of the worst work I've seen in a modern full length video.

Everything the new Huf video did right, the Real video did wrong. Lots of under exposed, jittery 120p footage thrown onto a 30p in a video so trapped in the early 2000s that its musical choices are matched only be the number of clips left in mono with fucked up white balance. A Real slog.

The new Huf video is the best piece of filmmaking I've seen in a skate video in some time.

Really happy with my progress as a filmmaker over the past year. Still plenty of room to improve, but I'm getting there.

I have such a soft spot for student filmmakers when I sell old gear. Fellow professional wants $5 off? Sorry, item is already heavily discounted. Bright eyed 20 year old can only afford to offer 60% of the asking price? Sure kid, go live your dream.

Has anybody done more to muddle their legacy while remaining industry adjacent than Koston? Seems like people just want him to go away.

Rob is at least slightly palatable in the sense that he seems way more self aware in interviews than the other guys in the pro skate-to-hustle grifter pipeline. I'll always appreciate what he did to keep AWS and Habitat alive, even if I don't fuck with the modern versions. Mikey and Prod would never

Being self aware has helped with self esteem in the sense that I understand the things I didn't like about myself weren't as naturally under my control as they are for neurotypical people. It still feels incremental because the line between "I hate myself" and "I hate this burden" is very fine. 3/3