Jerry Hsu #7.

Sci-Fi Fantasy.

A young Jerry throws down in the Osiris days. Jerry recently left Chocolate to start his own company called Sci-Fi Fantasy, which appears to only be a clothing company at this moment. He also might be off of Emerica and on Vans for shoes now.

Did anybody see the Trouble Shooters video they are advertising in this? I don't ever remember hearing of such a video.

The photo is by Brian Reid.

Big Brother - April 1998 Issue 35

Andrew Reynolds #9.

The Boss spins a full cab over the rail. This was one of his tricks in The End, Birdhouse's 1998 video. It doesn't seem like some of the things that are turning twenty this year happened two decades ago. Time is flying. Maybe it means I should put together a feature on The End at some point this summer.

Atiba Jefferson snapped the sequence.

Big Brother - April 1998 Issue 35

Fred Gall #5.

22 oz. bottle of Heineken.

Fred was the subject of a recent Bobshirt interview where he talked about Recs. He had happened upon some troubles and needed cash. At the time he was in the process of getting on DC Shoes and would have been fully on after six months. Recs team manager Bill Weiss offered him a nice monthly guarantee. Fred took the money and missed a chance to ride for DC. Recs went under after about a year.

It was cool to hear Fred talk about his part in Timecode, the Alien Workshop video from 1996. I always liked how raw it looked, which turns out was the result of whoever had a camera and was able to film at the moment doing the taping. When paired with the Black Sabbath song, it gives the part a good layer of East Coast grime.

The photo is by Atiba Jefferson.

Big Brother - July 1998 Issue 38

Bill Weiss.

Fully clothed and above the coping.

Recs was a late 1990s shoe company that featured a team with Pat Duffy, Fred Gall, Mike Crum, Adam McNatt, Justin Bokma, and a couple others.

Bill is from Toronto, Canada and has ridden for a lot of different companies over the years. He's been on Dogtown, Fishlips, Balance, Premier, and a few more I'm not even going to attempt to list. Bill is currently the team manager at Blind. He's a big basketball fan, too.

The photo is by Chris Ortiz.

Big Brother - April 1998 Issue 35

Gideon Choi #4.

Stylish tech ripper Gideon Choi takes a 360 flip over a 55 gallon drum for Natas' old shoe company. Gideon rode for Blind for most of the 1990s and early 2000s. He had parts in Trilogy, Rodney Mullen vs. Daewon Song, and Listen.

Happy decade of scanning pages of old magazines and interviewing skateboarders to the Chrome Ball Incident.

Big Brother - August 1998 Issue 39

Mark Appleyard #3.

We the North.

Before winning Skater of the Year in 2003, Mark Appleyard got his start on True Skateboards. True was based out of the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. Mark would go on to ride for Birdhouse, Element, Flip, and Habitat. That graphic is a little unsettling.

I scanned a bunch of stuff from the 1998 issues of Big Brother that I have. I had intended to include some of the funny articles, but none of them seemed all that appealing. The humor hasn't aged great and Big Brother appreciation has been overdone anyway. The stories are all still really funny, it simply didn't seem worth the effort. So I picked out a bunch of skateboarding stuff that has probably been on the internet already.

I forgot how to skate my local park. Nothing felt right on Saturday, but I think I remembered yesterday. It's not cold out now.

Ryan Allan was the photographer.

Big Brother - October 1998 Issue 41

enjoi #5.

Silly business with the old enjoi crew.

There was a request for the ad with the team listed in brackets. It's a rather plain bit of design and I didn't think it would be enough by itself so I threw in a couple of the panda squad's other adverts. They all fit the time frame I had been posting stuff from so it works out. Cheers.

Spring might be here now. Maybe.

While You Were Filming: Big Brother - April 2002 Number 83

Bobby: Big Brother - February 2002 Number 81

Bracket: Big Brother - July 2002 Number 86