Stroll down Memory Lame

Wow, while scanning through youtube, I landed upon this super old video of Don Nguyen and Rob that I edited way back when. It was for there crew TDS (the Death Squad). I got super nostalgic, this was after Amateur? Video but before Don was "The Nuge". Actually what brought back soo many memories was the intro was filmed in my office where we edited the video. Hahah, really makes me feel old. That was back in 2002! Ha.

Read another post about my past video called Amateur?



Wow the deeper I dig, the more I see. This was Rob Base, Nuges best friend. Him, Nuge and I, plus soo many of the other Oklahomies / Hollywood / Hellrose guys traveled probably a good portion of North America, and even did a lenthy trip to Sweden for a month. This one I also edited and realized that I filmed some too. I wondered how, but realizing I was filming Don, Rob came out too and got tricks. Again, nostalgic, but those were fun days. Nothing else in our life but skateboarding.

Matt Costa + Amateur? video

So randomly I get a call from Matt Costa who is currently on his tour in Kansas at the time of the call. Looks like Fueltv is doing a episode on him regarding his skateboarding thing, then his music career.



For those who don't know, Matt Costa had a part in my first video (2001) called Amateur?. It had amateur and first time parts of Don "Nuge" Nguyen, Ricardo Carvallo, Steve Kindle, Robert Lim and Aaron Babila.

Ok, back to Matt... after he got hurt, he was bedridden for a while, started playing guitar and recording on a small 4 or 8 track... now is on his third album currently touring the United States and Europe.




Its funny, because I haven't broken into this box of tapes in about 8 years, which makes me realize, I've been doing this skateboard industry career many many years, and still love it like it was the first day.