"Take a step back and ask yourself if you ARE really good at what you do.... OR do you just have a huge EGO that blinds you"
Top Five Favorite Things about living in NYC
1. The HUSTLE.... 2. Leaving Birmingham even though I love it. Time to expand my HORIZONS.... 3. If you can MAKE IT here, you can MAKE IT anywhere. Actually, I don't really think that statement is necessarily true. I think if you can make it here you shouldn't LEAVE. 4. Good times. Good Friends. Good Opportunities 5. 18.9 Million people distributed over 6,720 sq. miles of Urban Playground.... which equals unparalleled debauchery and more skate spots than in one city than MOST other states have as a whole. Something FUN is always bound to happen unless you just completely SUCK @ LIFE.
Top Five+1= 6 Elements to shoot a skate photo
1. LIGHTING 2. Focus 3. Composing the FRAME 4. Timing 5. Style 6. GUTS to ask the BLADER to do it again when & if you F*CK IT UP! OWN THAT SH*T.
Top Five Motivations for Skatelife.tv
1. Josh Diaz @ PSYKO CLOTHING 2. BLADING 3. I'm tired of seeing SH*TTY Photos Online 4. LOVING to do what I DO! 5. HATERS!!!
1. Don't Start no sh*t won't be no sh*t 2. Immense camera collection 3. SKILLS! 4. Being straight to the point 5. The party that will be thrown @ my FUNERAL 6. NOT sucking @ LIFE :) 7. I HATE the font known as "Papyrus" with all of my HEART. It should die a horrible DEATH. I will admit though it would be funny if someone used this font on my headstone. So FUNNY! I will HAUNT you!
Top Five+1= 6 Things Rolleblading Needs
1. BLADERS TO TAKE OVER! Blader OWNED... Blader OPERATED.... 2. Speak up and say whats GENUINELY wrong with other companies that take too much of the PIE and didn't bring any PIE to the party. 3. Shops that CARE about their industry 4. Companies that GIVE back to the BLADING community 5. A Gun & some BULLETS to shoot the LEECHES! Don't act on that you PSYKO! It's a figure of SPEECH.
6. BALLS to own our own industry and the MOTIVATION to achieve such a task.
Top Five+1= 6 Standards for Rollerblading Media
1. ONE SHOT ONE KILL... Get it right ASAP when you are shooting a BLADER 2. Quality Control. If it looks like SH*T & smells like SH*T, then flush it DOWN the toilet. 3. Take a step back and ask yourself if you ARE really good at what you do OR do you just have a huge EGO that blinds you to the fact that you suck @ what you do. Just sayin'.... 4. ONLY Give to those that GIVE BACK. Sucking companies DRY by charging for product placement doesn't help anyone but the LEECHES. 5. Skatelife.tv... Sounds cocky, but we will honestly critique your materials. You might not like what we have to say, and I'm not trying to piss anyone off, but I'm also not here to play KISS ASS. We are here to make us all LOOK good the best we can. Then again, we all know what they say about OPINIONS & A$$HOLES :) 6. Aspiration! If you do not honestly critique yourself & do not have the desire to do better than you are stagnant and need MORE motivation.
Shawn Engler - a/o Unity in Brooklyn, NY - photo: Shawn Engler (hand remote)