Monday, April 15, 2019

Tyler Bledsoe #3.



Painting on glass.

Tyler's skateboarding seems very mellow to me. He's doing hard tricks, but there's a relaxed atmosphere to how he does them so it looks easy. For his part in Mind Field, Tyler throws down a number of bigspins, either as a stand alone trick or into/out of another trick. He locks into a long backside Smith grind, a long frontside feeble, and a long switch backside nose grind. Those three stood out to me. The guy takes on the inside of ledges as well as a couple of big gaps. The Thom Yorke voiced Modeselektor track adds to the mellow atmosphere of his skateboarding. It also references Jason Dill using Radiohead in Photosynthesis.

The switch heelflip photo is by Sam McGuire and the portrait is by Chad Bowers.

Transworld - May 2009 Volume 27 Number 5

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