Steve Olson on Surf Devotion, Sidewalk Intimacy, the Theatrics of Style, Punk Music, and Dogtown
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Steve Olson honed his skateboarding expertise sneaking into swimming pools across Southern California while growing up in the 1970s. His skating was wedded to a surf-centric childhood at a time when the crossover between the two was at its height. Olson earned a sponsorship by Santa Cruz Skateboards in 1979 and quickly became notorious for introducing a punk rock aesthetic and cool defiance to the skate scene. He’s also lived outside of surf-skate norms as an actor, artist, musician, and father, blending all those interests into a singular personality. In this episode, Olson sits down with Jamie Brisick to talk about their first encounters, his contemporary art practice, the art of trespassing, the surf-skate connection, cat-and-mouse thrills, his greatest moments on a skateboard, extreme individualism, and the memories that have stuck with him.
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Produced by Jonathan Shifflett.
Music by PazKa (Aska Matsumiya & Paz Lenchantin).
Feature image by Arto Saari.
Olson's subscribe card in Thrasher was one of his best pictures in a magazine that mattered...low rail grab Bertlemann at Brooklyn Banks.
Steve sounds like he enjoys the process. There’s a select few real ones who still do it justice. Thank you Steve
That's our guy!
The best
Where would we be without him? Absolute Legend - I was one of those skater kids who read Skateboarder Magazine & was SO stoked to see - as a 10 year old kid - that T.A. threw his 2nd place trophy in the trash & Olson blew up the spot with his antics! That influenced us to no end.
Godhead
booze starts catching up to him an hour in
storied history. excellent