Yeah I didn’t think I was able to do what Dan Wolfe did for that particular group of guys. Stills just didn’t show the energy and the rawness, the speed, etc.… Not to say that people didn’t do that type of skating before, you know you look at Julien Stranger… Another feted rhymesmith stood behind Souls in the Hiero queue - an emcee known as Casual - and all the crew benefitted from producer/manager Domino's input; so there was something for the band to build on, and a story to tell that showed they were part of a movement, not just Del's mates latching on to his coat-tails, and therefore likely to fall by the wayside if his career faltered. So the run would be from Sub-Zero to Love, and when you finally got to Love it must have been nice to finally stop pushing and take your heavy bag off for a bit. But at the same time that’s what gives photos from then that special look because there wasn’t that technology. Yeah the whole attitude of those guys and that brand of skating can be summed up with: just keep moving.

its creation. Souls were the focus and the named artist, but the Hiero ecology was working as one. It's a remarkable achievement. Yeah we’re going to upload the semi-raw edit from your old Hi-8 tape from that trip to coincide with this.So it was like, ‘ok if we’re not going to shoot a skate photo then I got this cool wall over here, or there’s this cool lighting thing happening and let’s see if we can do something…’ I just wanted to continue creating and skateboard photography can be somewhat limiting in that, although I will say that there are skateboard photographers today who I think have really taken the limitations of trying to be out there and getting a good skate photo and turned them into really, really good exercises of understanding the craft and expanding on what notes you want to play with the people that you’re with. I also think people today realise how important it is to shoot everything. Estimated delivery time is 1-4 business days for VIC, 2-5 business days NSW, ACT, TAS, QLD and 2-7 business days for SA,NT & WA. Some remote WA and NT locations can take up to 14 business days. Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. Yeah it was almost compulsory. It was like, ‘here’s how we start the day. You can either try to hang with us and try and push yourself or you can do your own brand of skating.’

Except for in (Washington) DC though, ha ha! Remember how stoked they were to shoot ‘chill photos’? Yeah well the Philly guys connected spots across the street from each other, around a corner and then down another street… Yeah I remember there was a thing where everyone would meet up at Sub-Zero (old Philly skate shop) off South Street and there was a line to take all the way to Love Park and they knew all these things to hit on the way. So it was one continuous line from Sub-Zero to Love. You had to. You know a lot of people would just take an elbow pad and wrap it around their ankle like, ‘alright I’m wearing pads!’ Also included in the book alongside Pete’s imagery are quotes and anecdotes from legends like Tony Hawk, Arto Saari, Jamie Thomas, Guy Mariano, Nyjah Huston, Geoff Rowley, Stevie Williams and others.Emcees should know their limitations," they rapped here - and over the years there's been so many artists who've given so much cause for you to wish that those words had been taken to heart across the genre that you kind of forget that Souls were the first to ignore that very piece of advice. Their limitation here was life experience: they were kids, and hadn't had very much of it yet. So they wrote, as one is always advised to do, about what they knew - girls, hanging out, how great they were at rapping: all the same stuff everyone else in hip hop was writing about. It was like these bonds and these friendships that you formed were based in this thing that was sort of a secret to just you and your friends. People didn’t get it, and there’s downsides to that, I mean everyone hated you if you were a skateboarder in the nineties…

The video was every bit as inspired, too. Director Michael Lucero - a friend who the band got to know through his work with Del - did something that almost no-one in the pantheon of rap promo clips appears to have thought of: rather than delivering the sort of video that would have been expected for the first single by a new band looking to break through, initially, to the hardcore rap fan base, he upended convention and subverted the cliches with an approach that still delights with its euphoria-inducing embrace of the joy of doing something different. Indeed, the clip still seems almost giddy with the sense of how easy this was to accomplish. And I remember once you told me you’d shoot a whole skate sequence and then you would have one or two shots left on the roll and then that’s when you’d take a lifestyle type photo. Kind of not really thinking about it… Ha ha! I seem to remember someone strapping a kneepad on top of their hat and calling it ‘a helmet’! I mean I may be wrong and this is terrible, but I honestly can’t remember there being a filmer there. But I was fortunate to be able to film Tom and Andrew because those guys landed shit all the time. Also I’d hand the camera to someone and have them film it while I shot the photo, which kind of had a cool look in itself if someone doesn’t exactly film it perfectly. It sort of lends itself to that kind of voyeuristic, amateur, secret footage kind of feel you know?your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)