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Closing up shop, riding new stuff and skating to celebrate. Original moved to Portland, Oregon in 2017 for some very obvious reasons and a few that were less obvious. I’m closing up in Portland and moving it to NJ for a lot of those same reasons, but mainly because I tried so hard to re-do the things I did poorly my first time around in 2002-2016. For all these years I completely missed that I didn’t want to run things that way to begin with. It just took me a bit too long to figure that out.
This is the first time in years I’m doing work I’m really proud of that feels like I’m putting a little bit of myself into the things I’m making… and selling (harder than it seems). I’m also having fun making videos again.
That is thanks in huge part to the efforts of the guys you see here riding;
Steve Hoppe, Josh Sullivan, Sam Radtke and Ryan Janowitz, not to mention Ryan Wilkerson who came in at no notice to save my bacon with multiple 12+ hour days.
Steve in particular has made my life a lot easier, and my work a lot more fun. He needs a job, deserves one in skate (if that can be said for anyone) and is talented enough to make serious shit happen.
Likewise for the rest of the crew.
The guys killed themselves for insanely long days for a week straight while knowing their jobs were going to be gone at the end of the day, and the project they have worked on every day was moving away… and only maybe surviving.
I don’t think there is any way I could create a video that really encompasses how thankful I am for these guys (each in different ways), and I certainly haven’t been able to create that video here…. I couldn’t even get the truck and warehouse locked up fast enough to make it to this session on time to get a proper ride footage to begin with.
So this is the video I am putting out instead. It’s a glimpse into our last session, on the last day, of the Original Portland Warehouse with five guys who made the last 5 years of my life so much better. Thanks for everything boys.
-Scott
Hopefully I’ll cut more of the entire shop closing experience and maybe even stitch those into a playlist “series” of sorts that’s actually in chronological order. When I do that will go here: