Boston/Providence
In the wee days of August Coots wrangled us up for a 5 day east coast colonial mission. Coots, Hendy, Max, Nik, and myself took off in a rental van headed for the finest red brick ground that the east coast has to offer. Over the last year we all started filming with Coots for his video, at first it was just to get a couple homie clips and now it’s turned into a project we have all worked pretty hard on. I thought I would shoot a lot of photos and also film on the trip but I ended up mostly skating. We were moving super slick the whole time, spot after spot, clips after clips. Max almost skated himself to death one day in the heat, which isn’t super uncommon… but this day he almost faded for real. He was totally flush with blue lips and fingers after going dome to dome with a devastator in disguise for nearly 4 hours. Somehow the projected hurricane rains missed us and we skated everyday, there were too many spots for us to get to in only a few days, it was overwhelming even. We spent the nights with cold beers, combing through old Coakley and Ladd footage to get hyped on spots. We were able to get pins for most of them, or find them ourselves. (props to all MA homies who helped us out). One night Hendy drank 7 Guini and woke up with an icepack on his face. We lurked the cutties, explored the ben franklin, and everyday was highly productive. When I’m home there are a million things goin on in my head, its a constant jumble of skating, surfing, shooting photos, editing photos, filming, painting, drawing, tattooing, buying records, linking homies, biking, carrying heavy bags, finding time to sleep… To get to leave the city and focus on one thing feels really good. Everything else drops away and I can focus and relax. Since covid this was the first time I got to do anything like this. It felt fuckin cool I don’t even know what else to say about it. Like we all working on something together, not because of money or anything but just because thats how we want to spend our time. I think when the video comes out it’s going to melt minds… I know its going to because i’ve seen the shits as they’ve happened, not to mention all on vx.
Oh yeah we also discovered the Subway really hits. Don’t write it off ! Eat Fresh!!
For now here’s a photo recap of the trip:
Labeesh Labeesh
