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back to my future part 2 in the works

the seguel to back to my future is in the works .. get ready people ..

BART SIMPSON

REST IN PEACE ANDY KESSLER

NYC skateboarding pioneer Andy Kessler dies at 48
AP

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In this photo provided by tcolla, Andy Kessler skateboards in Greenpoint AP – In this photo provided by tcolla, Andy Kessler skateboards in Greenpoint Brooklyn's Autumn Bowl on May …
By ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press Writer Ula Ilnytzky, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 13, 5:11 pm ET

NEW YORK – Andy Kessler, a trailblazer during New York City's nascent 1970s skateboarding scene and a designer of skate parks who was admired by boarders on both coasts, has died. He was 48.

Kessler died Monday after suffering a heart attack following an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, said Moose Huerta, a close friend and fellow skateboarder.

He was dismantling old wood on a shack in Montauk, Long Island, when he was stung, said Tony Farmer, a skateboarding friend and West Coast native who now lives in Brooklyn.

Kessler got his start in the 1970s with a loose-knit group of skateboarders and graffiti artists known as the Soul Artists of Zoo York. They skated all over Manhattan's Upper West Side, where Kessler lived. Central Park's Bandshell was a favorite spot.

In the 1990s, Kessler persuaded the city's Parks Department to build a skateboard facility in Riverside Park. He went on to design other skate parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Montauk.

Huerta said Kessler also developed a zeal for surfing in the past decade.

"The two groups are completely different from each other," he said. "But the level of friends, and how he transcended age and demographics with the people he touched, was amazing."

Kessler had no health insurance in 2005 when he took a spill on his board and dislocated his femur. When he was unable to pay a $51,000 medical bill, several dozen surfers, skaters and artists — Julian Schnabel, Mickey Eskimo, Zephyr and Wes Humpston reportedly among them — helped raise the money with a benefit party, Farmer said.

When he healed from the injury, he hopped back on his board, Farmer said.

"Flowing through traffic, timing lights, shooting reds, dodging pedestrians ... dude just had the streets so wired," Farmer said. "Suffice to say, he was an amazing cat."

Huerta, who was too young to have skated with Kessler during the early days, said the sport started as "a counterculture activity" but never carried the cache that California skateboarding did. But Kessler didn't care.

"He did it out of love," he said. "He didn't receive anything out of it. It spoke to him."

In 2008, Kessler was featured in a documentary, "From Deathbowl to Downtown: The Evolution of Skateboarding in New York." The producers, NCP Films, described it as "an anthropological overview of skating's epochal shift from the parks and pools of the 70's, to ramp skating in the 80's, to the street ascendancy of the 1990's as seen from a New York-centric perspective.

It is scheduled for international release on DVD on Sept. 15.

In addition to his love for the sport, Huerta said Kessler's first big success was orchestrating the building of the city's first skate park, near the Hudson River. At the time of his death, he was trying to update the Montauk skate park he had designed about a decade earlier, Huerta said.

On Friday evening, surfers planned to paddle out together and circle around Ditch Plains Beach in Montauk in remembrance of Kessler, Huerta said. Friends also planned a get-together Saturday at the Autumn Bowl, a semiprivate warehouse facility in Brooklyn that was one of Kessler's favorite hangouts.

Kessler's burial is scheduled for Sunday at Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, N.J.

SKATING NINJA'S and PANTHER's at the museum !

HERES YOUR CHANCE TO BE PART OF ART IN A MUSEUM!!! come out to the WHITNEY and skateboard get rad and afterwards get wasted with me !!! becuze its my bday !!!!!

heres the adress!!!

Where

Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Avenue ) Directions: Subway: 6 Train to 77th Street; Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to 74th Street

212-570-3600


okay now my anual what do i want for my bday

BEER.
skating
girlfriend time
sex
beer
more beer
friends

TIGHT PANTS SKATING ASS NIGAHS !

MALL GRAB from Daniel Evans on Vimeo.

big shout outs LOW CARD MALL GRAB for using NINJASONIK in there VIDEO ~ !! hell yeah .. start watching at 10:14 if ya wanna see omies skate to the ninjas~ ~!!!!

and also big shouts to matt for finding this video ~ ~!!!

thanks !

5 minutes and 35 seconds of a ragdoll

well worth my time

lizard king kills the berrics

kills it .. hands down

MEET BILLY

Day in the life with Billy Rohan from Jesse Fritsch

heres my homie billy rohan .. originally from fl. ( if im not mistaken .. ) i met billy years ago through our friend harold hunter ( R.I.P ) billy has been a great dude and always real to the nyc skate community and over all nyc community in general .

billy teaching skateboarding at the 12 and A t.f
go figure have skateboarding for gym class.. dont get any better than that


thanks billy

MEET LARRY

one of the illest skaters out of hunter point in the bay area !

good dude man watch out for him in 09

miss u homie

MEET JAMAL

heres a clip f the homie jamal smith one of the funniest dudes ever ..

see you son u pop tart eatin muthafucka!

van wastell rest in peace

be greatfull of every day u wake up cuz tomarrow isnt promised

back the thebanks or back to the dranks??!

saturday was a roit ! i went to the back to the backs jam at the bk banks .. hella people from all over were there . ran into some old friends as well as new jams ! matt k and the gang premiered there video ..
LAST OF THE MOhecians at santos party house HELLA ill.. by then we were faded and wrecked ! the rest of the evening is a blur but i do remeber being at enits till about 430 am and finally skating my drunk ass home .. goodtimes matt

JUST SKATE IT

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every once in a while i come across something on the internet that gives me something to look forward to in my own . life

this picture doesnt . i just think it looks fuckin sweet so im gonna post it !
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