Projecting a stereo mood.
Ocean was one of the finest technical skaters of the early to mid 1990s before moving on to an academic life of studying architecture. He was still ripping and would pop up in Slap or get a mention from Patrick O'Dell from time to time. Occasionally his writings on how skateboarders interact with the concrete environment would be published in the mags. Ocean is currently a professor at the University of Oregon. I think the university should make commercial of him skateboarding around campus for a minute. It would really stand out in the sea of college adverts that dot the television landscape. Ocean is riding a Flip board, which isn't as shocking as it sounds since they shared an office space with Birdhouse way back when.
The weather has been rainy, windy, and cold so skateboarding hasn't been happening a lot lately for me. I think I'm in a slump and not stoked on things either. I put on some new wheels the other day and that seemed nice. It might even dry out and warm up for the weekend.
Vert Is Dead is taking a break and will be back in a week or two.
It's going to be at least a week off and maybe two or even three. I'm just burned out on computers and I want some time off. I'll post a comment once I have a schedule plan in place.
The photographs are by Rob Brown.
Transworld - March 1995 Volume 13 Number 3
3 comments:
Loved his part in H-Street Next - in fact that whole video is brilliant. Helluva 360 flip!
I think I'm firing this thing up again on Monday, June 9th. I've been browsing around stuff from 2012 so I'll probably go with that.
I just read about him on IG yesterday talking about his academics.
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