Ryan Lay #7.

Magic Trick.

I'm sentimental for the days when Welcome was the company featuring unique art paired with obscure synth pop and post-punk music from the 1980s and 1990s. I guess they are still that, but they tapped into something special when they made Fetish, one of the better videos of the last 10 years. Ryan Lay is an all time great and it's good that people like him are involved in skateboarding.

Vert Is Dead will be back on Monday, January 13th. It will be a review of selected highlights from 2024.

I feel like I should write a few words to wrap things up, but I don't really have much to say this go round. Skateboarding went pretty well for much of the year until we got served with some actual winter in December. The times I did skate this month were all solid, except for today's quick lunch break session. The breeze picked up right when I got to the park so I'm going to be haunted by a sloppy boardslide on a curb until the next time I get to skateboard.

Happy New Year, everybody!

The photograph is by Kyle Seidler.

Thrasher - May 2015 Volume 36 Number 5