RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART FIVE / EASTERN SHORES from adam cassidy on Vimeo.
Stuck In The Past 2000 is back for Part Five, this time following Adam Cassidy out to the east coast for some ripping with the Homegrown Skateboards family, and stopping off for a quick visit in Ottawa along the way.
"From 2002 - 2005 I was riding/working for Homegrown Skateboards in Nova Scotia - my home province - and making a couple trips out to the east coast each year to help film their first ever full length video, The Burning Whale Project. The Maritimes is a pretty hard place to come up in skateboarding due to the lack of spots and skateparks (at the time, more have popped up since the late 2000's), but the skaters out there work with what they have and we were still able to get lots of great clips for the video.
Many of the evenings were filled with jamming away on the various instruments at the LaHave Bakery or a local's back yard, and lots of the jams were recorded on the fly using my camera, so we included them in The Burning Whale Project as part of the soundtrack. For this episode of Stuck In The Past 2000 I've included one of those tracks in the credits that was somewhat of a staple for the crew at Homegrown.
Once I started working with Homegrown, I knew I had to visit Ottawa on my way back east to finally check out the city that so many of my Vancouver friends call home. I made sure to book my stop over during the 2003 Canada Day celebrations, and I couldn't have picked a better time. Summer was in full swing, and Ottawa is nuts on July 1st. I had great tour guides during my stay, and the locals threw down as much as they could in the sweltering heat. Keep your eye out in the edit for a young Wade DesArmo sneaking some of his signature smoothness in the mix, before he was a household name.
A huge thanks goes out to everyone out east for the down home hospitality, and to Homegrown Skateboards for helping to keep the Nova Scotia skate scene thriving. Enjoy the edit and if you haven't made it out to the Maritimes for a visit, grab yer boots and git on to er' by's!"
- Adam Cassidy
