Welcome to the skate creative podcast

This weeks episode is slightly different as its just a casual conversation with two of my best friends , my brother Seth Curtis, who works at supremes London store and Alan Glass who is head of marketing at shiner distribution. 

We all picked two videos that we found interesting from the last 12 months and discussed them.

This is a bit of a random and new episode which I thought would be fun for a Christmas special.

Hope you all had a good Christmas and have happy new year !

Here are the links……..

Seth on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/seth_curtis/

Alan on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/elglasso/

My Picks

Chima Ferguson 

https://youtu.be/3ZL2poJZXE0

Andrew Allen Quartersnacks part

https://youtu.be/2nxZbXXqa0g

Seths picks

Mark Humiaicac in bronze the Ruben ( part starts at 28.24 mins/sec)

https://youtu.be/_JN0qKzcfvU

Andrew Allen Vans part

https://youtu.be/S_V72u-dzEg

Alans picks

Bear myles Grey part

https://youtu.be/0DBoEdR3cYs

Tanner Van Vark Real part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oxZrqXIsJc

More links

Alans indy Europe video featuring DIV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NmIWuEMoA

Radlands 1999

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8DeCpDvTjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-5mKplaf8

 No war for Heavy Metal tour video by Alan Glass 2000 shown at about 3 am on channel 4 (part 1 of 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShOZOyhV4U

Part 3 with Jon Rattray’s blacktail at 5.38 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EbLW3awfyQ

Jon Allie dying to live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9uVbn6fH8

Guy Mariano in Girl skateboards “Mouse”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6T6SNMgcK4

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder.

This weeks guest is Danny Wainwright.

Danny works for vans shoes in their grass roots marketing division. Born in Coventry ,He started skateboarding after moving to Stroud Gloucestershire at the age of nine. Dannys talent was evident from an early age and he and his friends were featured in Uk magazines from the early nineties onwards. During these formative years, he became a fixture in the British scene befriending other notable skaters like Tom Penny and Alex Mole, who’s progressive passion for skateboarding had a massive influence on Danny.

After being asked to ride for Powell skateboards in

1993 he got to travel all round America and Canada, doing demos and competitions.

He and fellow Bristol based skater Justin Sydenham started 5050 skate shop in 1997. Danny has had numerous video parts in seminal British tiles like, playing fields, Raggy clothings Juice, as well as 411 and many for 5050 and Powell.

Dannys renowned for his high ollie lead to him reluctantly being asked to enter the competition for the worlds highest in the year 2000.

Clearing a hight of 44.5 inches Dannys recored stood for well over 15 years.

I caught up with Danny to talk all things art, living in Barcelona, his early skate memories, being on the road and riding for Powell, the importance of graffiti, the worlds highest ollie comp and starting his new company Ahead.

Links!

Danny in instagram

https://www.instagram.com/dannywainwright/

Ahead on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/aheadworldwide/

5050 skate store on instagram and website

https://www.instagram.com/fiftyfiftystore/

https://5050store.com

Danny 20 years at Vans video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEw2T7yqy0

Worlds highest ollie comp 2000 411 issue 39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hTnZiQcfg

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder.

This weeks guest is Danny Wainwright.

Danny works for vans shoes in their grass roots marketing division. Born in Coventry ,He started skateboarding after moving to Stroud Gloucestershire at the age of nine. Dannys talent was evident from an early age and he and his friends were featured in Uk magazines from the early nineties onwards. During these formative years, he became a fixture in the British scene befriending other notable skaters like Tom Penny and Alex Mole, who’s progressive passion for skateboarding had a massive influence on Danny.

After being asked to ride for Powell skateboards in

1993 he got to travel all round America and Canada, doing demos and competitions.

He and fellow Bristol based skater Justin Sydenham started 5050 skate shop in 1997. Danny has had numerous video parts in seminal British tiles like, playing fields, Raggy clothings Juice, as well as 411 and many for 5050 and Powell.

Dannys renowned for his high ollie lead to him reluctantly being asked to enter the competition for the worlds highest in the year 2000.

Clearing a hight of 44.5 inches Dannys recored stood for well over 15 years.

I caught up with Danny to talk all things art, living in Barcelona, his early skate memories, being on the road and riding for Powell, the importance of graffiti, the worlds highest ollie comp and starting his new company Ahead.

Links!

Danny in instagram

https://www.instagram.com/dannywainwright/

Ahead on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/aheadworldwide/

5050 skate store on instagram and website

https://www.instagram.com/fiftyfiftystore/

https://5050store.com

Danny 20 years at Vans video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEw2T7yqy0

Worlds highest ollie comp 2000 411 issue 39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hTnZiQcfg

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder.

This weeks guest is Matt Pritchard

Matt is a vegan chef, ironman and marathon athlete and an entrepreneur.

Matt started skateboarding in Cardiff with his friends and later turned pro for panic skateboards. Along with Lee Dainton, Mike “Pancho” Locke and Dan Joyce he stared in the hit MTV show Dirty Sanchez. After having found success being on shows like Balls of steel and Dirty Sanchez Matt found himself at a crossroads in his life and decided leave some of the wilder aspects of his life behind after discovering marathon running and participating in ironman competitions. His decision to go Vegan in 2015 lead him to starting his own youtube channel which ultimately took him to having his own vegan cooking show for BBC wales.

i caught up with Pritch to talk about his recent voyage, rowing across the Atlantic, making his cooking show, starting skateboarding in Cardiff,

his thoughts on veganism, and what it feels like to be one of only four humans in middle of the Atlantic ocean.

to find out more about Matt and all his projects and programs follow the links in this podcast description

I hope you enjoy this episode…

Matt on instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/pritchardswyd/

S.W.Y.D Tattoo shop instagram

https://www.instagram.com/swydtattoo/

and shop site

https://www.swydtattoo.com

More links and recipes !

https://msha.ke/swyd/

This weeks guest is Tidy mike

Mike is a film maker, editor and owner of simple print studios.

Hailing from Ferryside in west wales Mike started skateboarding in the late 1980’s.

His love of skateboard videos pushed him to borrowing his dads video camera to film his friends. This led Mike to filming all around wales ,making his own videos and filming seminal British videos for Danny wainwright and Justin Sydenham’s 5050 skate shop in Bristol.

I talk to tidy about growing up in rural wales, starting skateboarding and filming, his close working relationship with danny, syd and the 5050 team, filming jus foolin and his own projects, still in progress and forecast.

To find out more about Mike and the projects he’s worked on follow the links in this podcast description

I hope you enjoy this episode…

Links!

Mike in instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/tidymike/

Forecast on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/forecast_intl/

Simple print on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/simpleprintstudio/

5050 Jus Foolin in Vimeo (sign in needed)

https://vimeo.com/7206241#

Tidy on YouTube 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tidy+mike

Danny Wainwright 20 years on Vans edit 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEw2T7yqy0

Cheers 

This weeks guest is Leo Sharp.

Leo is the photo editor for the skateboarders companion, a quarterly British skateboard magazine.

Before starting the magazine Leo has contributed work to just about all of the magazines that have come out in Britain since the early nineties, earning him a staff photographer post for the long running institution, sidewalk.

I talk to Leo about starting skateboarding and photography, the early days of the Milton Keynes scene, running the length of the country with Matt Pritchard, almost emigrating to Australia, some of his favourite skate photos, living in Cornwall, and starting the skateboarders companion over lockdown.

To find out more about Leo and the projects he’s worked on follow the links in this podcast description

I hope you enjoy this episode…

Leo on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/sharphoto/

The skateboarders companion website 

https://www.theskateboarderscompanion.com

and instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/theskateboarderscompanion/

The skate creative podcast instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/

My website 

http://www.joelcurtismusic.com

cheers 

Welcome to the Skate Creative Podcast,

This weeks guest is Alan Glass.

Alan is head of marking for Shiner distribution and has worked filming and editing skateboard videos for over twenty years. He started making his own videos and went from there to collaboration on the fledgling viewfinder video magazine with John cattle and Tom Moore. After editing the first Heroin video with Fos, he was then employed full time and went on to film and edit all of Heroins releases as well as the last landscape video, horizons.

I talked to Alan about skateboarding in Brighton, starting filming his friends, working with Fos on all the heroin projects, filming Horizons, being a good TM, making No war for heavy metal for channel 4 and how he found himself editing some quite specific non-skate videos.

To find out more about Alan and the projects he’s worked on follow the links below.....

Alan on instagram!

https://www.instagram.com/elglasso/

Heroin skateboards video back catalog!

http://www.heroinskateboarding.com/videos

The Skate Creative podcast instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/

My website

http://www.joelcurtismusic.com

I hope you enjoy this episode….

Hi and welcome to the skate creative podcast my names Joel Curtis and I’m a musician and skateboarder.

This weeks guest is Mark Foster. Fos is an artist ,designer and founder of Heroin and Landscape skateboards.

He started Herion as joke between friends and over twenty years later the company’s still going strong.

Its use of humour and loose punk rock aesthetic made Herion stand out from its inception. In late 90’s a lot of skateboarding had become quite conservative in its video making and graphic output.

Heroin’s 1999 debut video, Good shit, was under twenty minutes of Fos and his friends skating spots most people wouldn’t have even looked at.

Herion’s first pro was Taiichiro Nakamura also none as Chopper. He and his friends from Osaka Japan ,added a new flavour to Herion’s growing team through out the early 2000’s which included British pros’ Chris Pullman and Howard Cook along with host of amateur riders with Alan Glass helming its video output.

I talk to Fos about the birth of Herion, living in London in the nineties, growing up in Rawtenstall Lancashire, making videos “Everything’s going to be alright”and “Live from Antarctica”, starting Organic and Landscape skateboards , and moving his life and Herion skateboards to America.

To find out more about Fos and Herion skateboards follow these links 

Herion skateboards instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/heroinskateboards/

Herion web site 

http://www.heroinskate.com

Fos art work instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/fosgraphics/

Herion video back catalog !

http://www.heroinskateboarding.com/videos

The Skate creative podcast instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/

My website 

http://www.joelcurtismusic.com

Thanks!

Part 1 

This weeks guest on the skate creative podcast is Dan Magee.

Dan is a film maker, editor and designer.

Blueprint skateboards was established by Dan and Faze sevens Joe Burlo in 1996 as an addition to Panic skateboards. Dan rode for Panic and then Blueprint before taking over filming and design duties for both companies.

Dan went on to make seven full length videos as well as countless ad’s and promo videos for Blueprint which raised the standard of what could be achieved by a British skateboard company in terms of quality and originality.

Dan’s eye for talent and the high goals set by its team members made Blueprint a world class company and a voice which was uniquely British, show casing spots and riders unknown to most of the skateboarding world.

In 2008 Blueprint was sold to a Canadian company after Faze 7’s owner Joe Burlo was hit by the financial crash.

Dan and all its pervious riders left shortly after this and he became a full time film maker producing content for a wide range of clients in and outside of skateboarding.

In this conversation with Dan we talk about starting Blueprint, filming the seminal videos though out his career,

Working on his last full length project “Cover Version”, transitioning to working outside of skateboarding

and why video premieres are one of the most important parts of skateboarding culture.

It could be argued that Dan is one of the most influential people in British skateboarding of the last 25 years but undeniably in terms of video production.

His meticulous eye for detail and dedication for showcasing every aspect of skateboarding in Britain made his work influence a generation of skateboarders to want to be part of a home grown company and not just dream of American recognition. While other British companies and riders flew the flag from America , Dan and the Blueprint team became a beacon of what was possible from home and your local scene, rising the bar of what it meant to be a British skateboarder.

This episode is in two parts both released today.

Dan on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/chopchopmate/

Dan's website

http://danmagee.co.uk

The Skate Creative podcast on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/

My website

http://www.joelcurtismusic.com

This weeks guest on the skate creative podcast is Dan Magee.

Dan is a film maker, editor and designer.

Blueprint skateboards was established by Dan and Faze sevens Joe Burlo in 1996 as an addition to Panic skateboards. Dan rode for Panic and then Blueprint before taking over filming and design duties for both companies.

Dan went on to make seven full length videos as well as countless ad’s and promo videos for Blueprint which raised the standard of what could be achieved by a British skateboard company in terms of quality and originality.

Dan’s eye for talent and the high goals set by its team members made Blueprint a world class company and a voice which was uniquely British, show casing spots and riders unknown to most of the skateboarding world.

In 2008 Blueprint was sold to a Canadian company after Faze 7’s owner Joe Burlo was hit by the financial crash.

Dan and all its pervious riders left shortly after this and he became a full time film maker producing content for a wide range of clients in and outside of skateboarding.

In this conversation with Dan we talk about starting Blueprint, filming the seminal videos though out his career,

Working on his last full length project “Cover Version”, transitioning to working outside of skateboarding

and why video premieres are one of the most important parts of skateboarding culture.

It could be argued that Dan is one of the most influential people in British skateboarding of the last 25 years but undeniably in terms of video production.

His meticulous eye for detail and dedication for showcasing every aspect of skateboarding in Britain made his work influence a generation of skateboarders to want to be part of a home grown company and not just dream of American recognition. While other British companies and riders flew the flag from America , Dan and the Blueprint team became a beacon of what was possible from home and your local scene, rising the bar of what it meant to be a British skateboarder.

This episode is in two parts both released today.

Dan on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/chopchopmate/

Dan's website 

http://danmagee.co.uk

The Skate Creative podcast on instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/theskatecreativepodcast/

My website 

http://www.joelcurtismusic.com