Patrick O'Dell
A look at the rise and fall of the subversive skateboarding magazine Big Brother, which rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and had a profound effect on the skating subculture with its unfiltered approach.
Harmony Korine has spent his life disrupting traditional cinema with his provocative films. What most people don't know is that first and foremost he's a skater.
Influential filmmaker, Spike Jonze, looks back on his career and discusses how skateboarding influenced his work from groundbreaking music videos to Jackass to an Academy Award.
When Epicly Later'd first started, one of the first things I wanted to do was an Ali Boulala episode. I imagined doing a whole season just on him. He was the perfect subject of the show - hilarious, amazing at skateboarding, infectious to be around, yet also a bit of a mystery. Where and how did he become how he is? There couldn’t be anyone else on Earth quite like him.
What began as a one 15-min segment of O'Dell's popular skateboarding Web TV show grew into a documentary series when the subject, skating great John Cardiel, proved to have far more to say than could fit in the short format. O'Dell gets Cardiel to share his life history; from his Grass Valley, CA roots to his ascension to the top of his sport and the tour van accident that nearly left him paralyze
