"Haven't we seen you someplace before? Tony Ferguson lipslides backside over painted smoothness. Ottawa gas station."
This was from a Transworld tour of Canada. It was probably Tony's first major bit of coverage. He went on to ride for Plan B and turned pro for Girl.
I figured I needed to end the week with some street skating since next week is going to be Alien Workshop stuff from Photosynthesis. I made a list of the guys to find pictures of and I'm doing the scanning this weekend. It would be tempting to do a week of Rob Pluhowski, but I'm going to mix it up. I forgot about him until I saw the Epicly Later'd and I'm not sure how that happened either since I like Habitat's Mosaic video a lot.
Thanks to Police Informer for including Vert Is Dead in the links.
The photo is by Spike Jonze.
Transworld - January 1991 Volume 9 Number 1
3 comments:
this reminds me of tom knox.
right on! I'm originally from Ottawa and 2 of my friends went to school with Tony, one of which is also featured in that article (Justin). I missed that Spike Jonze session. So bummed. Tony was H-Street flow in those days before Real, pre-Plan B, prior to Girl.
a couple of things:
tony is wearing a medicamento t-shirt. i remember he made those in high school. i don't remember anyone buying them even though we thought they were cool.
and i remember the "Haven't we seen you someplace before?" caption. we all thought that was a slight against him. like he was biting matt hensley (then again who wasn't back then). i don't know if that's the case or not but that's what we thought.
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