The Week on Hangup 12/07/20
We continued to publish our Hangup Zine 13 previews this week, have a read of the published previews so far below, then pick up a copy of the zine from our store or subscribing to our paid newsletter below!
Joxa Interview Preview
Frequent contributor Ade Cottrell got in contact with a couple of interview ideas and when he raised Joxa as one of them we jumped at the chance! One of the most hectic skaters we’ve had the pleasure of seeing in person, regular attendee at The Ripped and rock fakie master - Here’s our preview!
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I met Joxa in 2006 when he first moved to Coventry. I knew of him through Cov OG Mark “Frocker” Hewitt, and had only really spoken to him on the Sidewalk forum. Shortly after meeting Joxa, we ended up living in a student house during uni - he had a never ending supply of tea and always cooked square sausages for breakfast, and we spent a lot of that time watching skate videos and awful kung fu films. Our paths have coincided on many occasions, not only through skateboarding and as housemates, but also as co-workers at the Odeon cinema, the place all Cov skateboarders seemed to end up working. He’s an amazing skateboarder, and one of the nicest people you could meet - I sat down with him to discuss how a boy from isolated Barrow In Furness ended up skateboarding in Japan.
Over the last 15 years you’ve moved from Barrow to Coventry, then to Bristol, back to Coventry, then to King’s Lynn, and back to Coventry again. What is it about Coventry that keeps pulling you back?
Necessity. And maybe my partner has something to do with it...
I think when we were housemates in uni, I got a really good idea of what your deal was. But, explain for me again, why did we have a dead pig’s head in our freezer?
Haha! Originally for a photo shoot that was deemed too offensive. Then I think I made stock or something out of it.
How did so many skateboarders in Coventry end up working at the same Odeon cinema, and why did we never skate the wallrides they have at the front of every screen?
Because you got everyone jobs there! I think we tried to skate them. I’m sure at one point I tried to drop in on one but carpet does not make a great skate surface.
Jake Hearney Filmer Profile Preview
We’d seen bits from Jake before, and knew he was documenting one of the lesser-seen areas of the UK being a Norfolk local, so when he got in contact about his latest full-length, Gnarfolk, we asked him to write a piece on his filming career so far, leading up to it!
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I dabbled with the classic chunky video camera that most families have in their households as a child in the 90s. This led me to filming myself and friends on my street, waxing curbs, skating flatground and simply having a laugh then watching it back. I remember playing music through a speaker that I had plugged into my garage which was essentially backing music for the footage. I didn’t even know about post production editing or how videos worked at this stage. I was purely having fun.
Skipping forward a couple of years to the end of the 90s, the first THPS game came out which changed everything for me regarding both my skateboarding and love of video production. In the games introduction it showed real footage of pro skaters and segments from older videos plus 411 parts.
In the early 2000s, the skate scene in my home town had risen so I always had skaters around me. A few small, shitty skate parks started popping up in my surrounding towns and villages too. I no longer had the childhood camera but started using various digital cameras to film little clips of the locals when on day trips. After a couple of years of using these I grew tired of the poor picture quality, difficulty with capturing footage and having to endlessly swap batteries. During this era I somehow knocked together two videos of my friends that were edited on my family computer with the most basic software imaginable - ‘BW1’ (2005) and ‘BW2’ (2007.)
I then progressed to Sony handycams which was a game changer for me. I had two during this era. I began to travel around the country filming more around this time, trips to Milton Keynes, Ipswich and other new places. I became interested in equipment and ways of improving my filming as it was at this point that I was hooked on watching skateboard videos and wanting to better my own. I purchased a handle and was passed down a scratched clip-on fisheye lens.
New one from Chris Gregson’s Masher series, featuring Grayson Fletcher, Kevin Kowalski, Tom Schaar, Collin Provost and a load more.
Great edit from the venerable Irvine Sucks, featuring Brandon Perelson, Chris Cope, Patrick Ryan, Kevin Kowalski, Frank Shaw and a load more!
Santa Cruz continue their excellent Til the End series, with full parts from Henry Gartland, Justin Sommer and Jesse Noonan, alongside the rest of the team incl. a great section at a particularly fun look Buenos Aires spot!
Martino Cattaneo and friends - amazing wallride section starts at 3:30ish…
Erick Winkowski and Chris Gregson skate a fun looking bowl in their latest one for Independent - There’s even some new Kyle Berard footage in there too!