The dream lives on! A replacement G9 has been found and the sequel to the G9 Summit is back on track! G9 2020 - coming this spring!
Thursday, August 15, 2019
BREAKING NEWS! - THE G9 RETURNS!
The dream lives on! A replacement G9 has been found and the sequel to the G9 Summit is back on track! G9 2020 - coming this spring!
Friday, July 26, 2019
RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART SEVEN / ANDMOREWESTAGAIN
Stuck In The Past 2000's roots are in Vancouver, so it's no surprise Adam's tapes have an endless supply of Vancouver based clips featuring skaters from all over who have made the west coast city their home.
Part seven of the series dips heavily into the footage used for 2002's "VIDEO" video, with Craig Williams, Aaron Sheare, Kris Foley and a slew of other locs killing a wide variety of terrain, from the parks to the streets.
"I was skating a lot with Craig in the late 90's/early 2000's, and I even went along as the filmer on a Natural Koncepts tour to San Diego with the team, which was an insane journey filled with memorable stories, including waking up one morning in Lincoln City, OR, after sleeping all night in Craig's tiny car to turn on the radio and learn that two planes had just flown into the World Trade Center towers in NYC. We high-tailed it back to the border, which was a ghost town. Crazy times.
During my time filming Craig, we met Kris Foley and it was clear the dude was on a mission to make it or break himself off trying. The most mild mannered and polite person off the board, Kris was an aggressive beast once he got the skate juices flowing. I'm not sure he was scared of anything - or at least, he was confident and willing to try anything. He was incredibly skilled, and his willingness to tackle some of the gnarliest spots Vancouver has to offer was amazing to see, even if you were scared for his well being half the time. That 26 stair with the kink at the bottom had a crazy jagged and sharp metal post sticking out of the ground where the rail used to connect, and he just put some dirt and grass over it so he couldn't see it. Nuts. The other angle got sent in and used as a 411 opener - guess I missed the boat on that one. Haha!"
- Adam Cassidy
We also included some rare footage of a few fallen soldiers who are dearly missed by the Canadian skate community in this episode - RIP Josh Evin, Jamie Collins and Mike Evans. Three unbelievable rippers who had so much love to give and left a lasting legacy.
This one's a party on four wheels, so enjoy the trip down foggy memories lane, and stay tuned for a real banger in the next installment of Stuck In The Past 2000!
Filmed between 2000 - 2005
Saturday, July 6, 2019
RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART SIX / NEW FRIENDS
Keeping the momentum going, Stuck In The Past 2000 is back for part six, New Friends - a spotlight on two underground rippers who moved to Vancouver from elsewhere in Canada around Y2K.
Dylan Costello (from Kingston, ON) and Graham Landin (from Winnipeg, MB) both made the move from their respective homes to the milder climate of the west coast around 2000, and it wasn't long before they met Adam Cassidy, beginning a long friendship and setting out to discover all the crusty street spots they could in an era heavily impacted by skate stoppers.
"I always appreciated Dylan's eye for overlooked spots, and his willingness to give them a go despite any obstacles such as horrible ground or an awkward approach. When we met Graham, it seemed like he had a mutual appreciation for less-than-perfect spots, and he had an awesome unique style that brought a fresh perspective to any session. Both of them are criminally under-rated, but also happy to keep the skating fun while pursuing full time careers, and it's no surprise that they each found their way to more creative occupations (and still rip today).
It takes a lot to stay motivated when the powers that be try to do everything they can to skate-proof your city, but these two innovative skaters had no problem finding a path in the back alleys and passed over spots of Vancouver during the early 2000's. I was glad to have a couple new skate friends, and even happier to give a bit of exposure to some under-appreciated talents. Enjoy this collection of many never before seen clips, and don't be afraid to check out that crusty parking lot bank next time you pass by on your way home."
- Adam Cassidy
Friday, July 5, 2019
EASTERN SHORES EXTRAS
Some leftover footage and teasers from Stuck In The Past 2000, Part Five, Eastern Shores...
Saturday, June 29, 2019
RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART FIVE / EASTERN SHORES
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
Friday, May 10, 2019
RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART FOUR / JAMMIN' AGAIN
Part four of Stuck In the Past 2000 is another look back at one of the most classic skate events that took place in Vancouver, and gained world wide acclaim in skateboarding - Slam City Jam - this time with the lens focussed on the 2000 and 2001 incarnations of the contest.
The more I dig into these old tapes, the more I'm realizing some are missing, but luckily I still had enough footage saved to make an edit for anyone who is nostalgic for days gone by when the whole skate world would converge on Vancouver for a weekend of shedding and partying in early May each year.
I think it's time to bring Slam back - anyone?
Enjoy the edit!
*for the sake of keeping things a reasonable length, I didn't include full runs (aside from a treat at the end), but I'll be letting a few clips make their way to instagram over the next bit to keep the nostalgia going...
See you in a few weeks for part five!
- Adam Cassidy
Thursday, April 4, 2019
RED TELEPHONE PRESENTS - STUCK IN THE PAST 2000 / PART THREE / AJ
For Part Three of Stuck In The Past 2000, I'm going back in time to (hopefully) do right by my old friend Arron Johnson, who joined me in falling victim to one of my biggest personal pet peeves when it comes to skate videos - the soundtrack ABD.
When I collaborated with George Faulkner to produce my first full length video, "VIDEO" in 2001/2002, I had a great soul song picked out for AJ's footage, and it fit well once we laid it into the timeline. So, that was that and "Cramp your style" by All The People would serve as the soundtrack to AJ's part, without a single person ever mentioning a word to me about that song being a HUGE ABD that I definitely should have known about.
Some background...
I'm from a small town in Nova Scotia, and skate media was incredibly limited. I didn't see many crucial videos and magazines until years after they came out in many instances. One key video that I missed was "Las Nueve Vidas De Paco", by Chocolate Skateboards, though I do remember watching it around 1996. The thing is, I must have only seen part of it, because Gabriel Rodriguez ENDS the video with a part I would have loved (I'm a California picnic table fan), skating to that very song. The most shocking part about this whole mix up (aside from no one ever saying anything about the faux pas) is that I didn't even see the full video until around 2016 - all those years being under the impression I had seen the whole thing in 1996. I was crushed when I heard the song come on. I try do do my best to never reuse a song from another skate video, so to have such a classic part as the victim of my faux pas stings just a little bit more.
I haven't found any evidence of the song I used for this new version of AJ's part being used in any previous edits, so lets all just sit back and enjoy some quintessential Arron Johnson on the come up footy, with an extra big thanks to Jeremy Pettit for chipping in a good chunk of footage while also filming AJ for "North".
Part 4 of Stuck In The Past 2000 coming late April... see you then!
- Adam Cassidy
AJ being filmed by Adam, Westbeach ad circa 2001. Check the part for the clip!
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