Josh Perkins.

Born Dead.

I'm going with a week of Creature for Halloween this year. I figure it is a smart move to stick with a classic for spooky season. Creature was resurrected around about 2005 or 2006 after roughly eight years in the graveyard. They released a video called Born Dead in 2006 to showcase the new team. The OGs of Darren Navarrette, Al Partanen, and Sam Hitz were on the squad, along with new faces like David Gravette, John Ponts, Cody Boat, and a few others.

Josh is from Cape Neddick, Maine. His other sponsors were Sessions, Independent, Dekline, and Accel Wheels. For his part in Born Dead, Josh skated a lot of handrails. He slammed a bunch on those same handrails, too. His skating reminded me a little of Jon Allie. In addition to the 50-50s, feeble grinds, Smith grinds, lipslides, and 5-0s, Josh did a pop shove-it down a big four block, cruised a bowl, and did a nice ollie shifty off a bump on the sidewalk. This backside 180 ollie is in his section. He skated to the haunting punk sounds of The Rakes.

It was super tough to find Creature ads, especially ones I hadn't posted. I don't think they do an ad every month and they always rotate where they are in the mags. At the same time, I flipped by so many Ricta ads. I suppose one product sells itself and the other needs all the promotion it can get.

The photograph is by Chris "Rhino" Rooney.

Thrasher - August 2006 Volume 26 Number 8