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Two years ago Ken Block hit me up about it. At that point I’d been at DC for eight years and I’d been involved in so much stuff, whether it was Danny jumping the Great Wall or the Mega Ramp stuff, plus there is a lot of photos of people who are really important in the history of skateboarding—people like Anthony, Stevie, Smith and Colin. It’s an honor for me to be part of skateboarding and to do this book. ( Interview cont’d below. I started skating in the mid 80s and I was interested in photography and always intrigued by cameras as a kid. I’d shoot a whole roll of film trying to get one perfect photo. It didn’t really click with me until I started looking at skate mags—that was ’86/87. I had this uncle who knew about photography, so I’d dog-eared some pages and asked him, “How they did this and how they did that? Why was this so bright?” He explained to me what fill flash was and what a fisheye did. So then I was really intrigued, because not only do these guys get to see the best skateboarding, but they also get a chance to make all these awesome images. That’s the most important thing to me. If I get too old to hop a fence and end up doing commercial work… but that stuff doesn’t mean anything to me—when you’re looking through a Wired mag and you see a Sony ad, you don’t give a shit about it, but as a skater, when your flicking through a skateboarding magazine you do. Being able to shoot guys like Danny and for people to be stoked, then that means more to me than anything. I think that’s why we all do it.