Can you imagine, you could hear magee’s eye rolls through the mic
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Pretty mad piece, with Eli rocking some pretty eye catching outfits (dungarees and a bandana?!). It was cool to see him so enthusiastic about Dancehall but it felt like there was some faint neo-colonialism going on with a white dude being the piece’s guide into a Jamaican music scene. Still, a really interesting little video.
With you on the neo-colonialism ting but it wasn’t that bad, he seems genuinely into that whole vibe.
Those Out There vids are always interesting.
He’s a confident chap, I’ll give him that.
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well that was quite unexpected, but really enjoyed that! he got proper stuck in in kingston . i guess there is always the undercurrent of the colonial thing if the focus is whitey on tour but if they sniffed that vibe on him he would not have got a pass. skating in JA is going to blow up in the next year or so - i think there is a couple of big parks in the works which is really going to build up the recognition of it as a valid local thing and not just an import. not sure how far their olympic team will get but really would offer alternative option for kids in the ghetto .
Sorry.
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haha - ouch
Lots more of this to come, I’m sure.
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That was a good piece. Got the whole sport/culture dichotomy pretty spot on.
Over the last few years, the NY Times has been leading the way in terms of non-skate media reporting on skating.
I agree. Makes sense, since they’ve still got some work to do to recover from this absolute honker of a photo.
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Damn, nollie 360 flips aren’t the most photogenic trick.
What are those rumours about Tyshawn leaving FA, apparently saying Strobeck’s filming is rubbish and all that?
That sounds like such a chinese whisper and I’m calling bollocks.
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I’d be pissed off he missed that switch hard heel the way did.
There was a Slap thread about it with screenshots of Insta captions in which TJ basically said he was over that zoom in shit trash or something.
A bad photo in an otherwise good piece.
Also, seems like TJ’s beef was mainly at Strobeck and maybe Supreme. Anything to do with this?
