Jun 23, 2009
Author: Frank Daniello, Photos: Andrew Norton
Scott has so many photos we didn't have room for all of them in his feature interview in our latest summer issue. Here are some leftovers with the full, un-edited text from his interview.
So you’re doing Skate & Create with the C1RCA team? Who’s a part of that?
Me, Tony Tave, Sierra Fellers, Walker Ryan, and Peter Ramondetta. Lee Dupont is filming and David Broach and Seu Trinh are shooting photos. We’re in a warehouse, and we’ve got a certain amount of obstacles that we’ve gotta set up and try to make some cool stuff. It’s kinda like a movie set—we’ve got a whole crew of people setting it up and stuff.
What’s your set up in Huntington and what’s an average scenario at the house?
I’m staying with Magnus Hanson, my brother Ryan, and Adam Dyet. That’s the house. We’ve got Canadians free-flowing in and out all the time, including myself [laughs]. I wake up late, around lunch, and we go skate this little park called Murdy. We might hit up some street spots and meet up with Hoops, who’s a sick filmer. We’ll come home later to some Mario Kart and some beers. I’m not really of age to go out to the bars and there’s not too much nightlife in Huntington, so we just get ‘er done at the house.
Being from the Vancouver area, what are the biggest skate-differences you’ve noticed?
You don’t want to fuck with the cops down here—they’re too gnarly. I haven’t got a ticket yet and I hope I never do. We were skating in Long Beach once, and both Magnus and Paul Trep got tickets just for skating flat by the water, along the pier, and it was Trep’s first day in. It’s so confusing down here too. They don’t give you a ticket, they give you a piece of paper with a later trial—I don’t even know how it works. Magnus and Trep are in the dark about that one, too. All of the skateparks down here are always packed—even the worst skateparks are packed 24/7. It’s crazy. The parks close at a certain time, the cops come, and you’ve gotta wear a helmet and shit. The parks in Canada are way better. Street spot-wise, down here there’s just gems everywhere compared to Vancouver, but Vancouver’s got a different scene that I like a lot.
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Do you prefer Vancouver Southern California?
Sometimes. There’s pros and cons to both of them. I definitely like Vancouver in the summer way more than Cali.
Do you have a work Visa now since you’ve been spending so much time in the States?
I didn’t have a working Visa for a while, and the first time I went down I stayed for four months—I stayed too long, tried to go back too soon and they wouldn’t let me in to the States. I didn’t buy a return flight home and that fucked me over. I stayed in Van and it took quite a while to get my Visa so I could go back down. It was a bit of a hassle, but Circe Wallace and C1RCA helped me out a lot, so now I can come and go freely.
Is Circe Wallace your agent?
Yeah, sorta. She’s helped me a lot with my sponsors and got me good deals and stuff. I see her a bunch, and she helps me out because I don’t understand the contract lingo and shit—Circe breaks it down for me and watches my back.
Did you ever think you’d have a skate agent?
No, never. I didn’t even know what it was until about a year ago.
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Does your brother Ryan have one?
No. He’s just chillin’. He’s pretty smart and knows how it goes. I’m kinda just out of it [laughs].
What stand out trip comes to mind from being on the road with Plan B?
We went to Phoenix AM this year for a week or so. It was so much fun and so much sicker of a vibe because we had a house and stuff. People were crashing everywhere [laughs], and practically the whole team made it out. Hella beer-pong and horseshoes.
What’s beer-pong?
You have seven or eight cups full of beer on the table, and you have a team of two or you can play singles. You try and get the ping-pong ball in the cup, then you drink it. The first person with no cups wins. It’s entertaining. In Arizona, Sheckler and P-Rod were killing it and had the table the whole time pretty much because the winner stays on. Gettin’ plastered [laughs]. We didn’t have a ping-pong table there so we were just using the dining table and tossing the ping-pong balls. Me, Magnus and Dyet got a game going at the Huntington house because we’ve got a table. It’s the same deal, but you play ping-pong and if you miss a shot you’ve gotta take a drink. We keep the cans on the table and whoever runs out of beer first loses. If you hit the other guy’s can you’ve gotta take two drinks. It gets intense.
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You used to make baseball bats and joke-weapons in high school shop class when the teacher wasn’t looking. You mentioned a possible future in woodworking. Does that still stand?
Woodworking is always still in the back of my mind. It’s a hell of a time. That’ll always be there for me, I think.
Do you actually play baseball?
No, but I enjoy making baseball bats and anything with wood, like furniture.
What’s the best thing you’ve ever made?
Probably one of my first projects—a jewelry box [laughs]. I put so much time into it, and wanted to make it super good. It’s at my parents’ place and I still use it to hold my money, passport and important stuff.
You mentioned being into making stencils lately.
My friend Cam Taylor from back in the day was super into making stencils. It’s a good thing to pass time at the Huntington house. It’s self-rewarding when you make something and it turns out sick. You never think it’s going to turn out as good as it does until you spray paint it and see how it looks. I’ve been making a lot of spray painting stencils with Dyet. Making little Monopoly character stencils and stuff. I paint them out back on old decks or on my grip tape. Dyet puts them all on his grip and saves them. I made Hobbes, that tiger from Calvin and Hobbes. That was pretty hard to draw and it took a long time to cut out, but that was definitely the biggest project and Dyet helped me cut it out.
It seems like things are coming fast and furious for you. Do you feel any pressure?
Sometimes, but you just gotta look past that, have fun, and things will turn out. I handle it the same as always and never try to change my outlook on skateboarding. It’ll always be the same to me. I started skating and still skate for the same reason that I always have—it’s fun.
Who’s given you the best advice that still circulates in your memory bank?
Definitely Sean Hayes. He’s given me so many pointers on life, like how to focus, and that fear is only there if you think it is. Pretty much words of wisdom like that. He’s a good guy that’s always on point.
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What’s a key purchase you’ve made in Huntington?
There’s a flea market every weekend right by our house. They’ve got tents and booths set up, and you can buy old, used junk off people. Me, Magnus, Sascha Daley and Ryan Oughton go out there every weekend to check out what they got. I came up on this sick dirt board with huge monster truck wheels. It took so long to get it because I went to the flea market once and didn’t have enough money, so I went back the next week and got it for 40 bucks—the guy didn’t budge on his price at all. I’ve always wanted a dirt board. Now we go around and find sick dirt hills and trails to bomb. It’s pretty scary, but you’ve just gotta ride it out [laughs]. Mag and Oughton get pretty gnarly on some hills.
You have the ability to log a lot of quality footage. What video projects are the clips going towards?
The Plan B video that’s coming out next year, and I’m stockin’ up footy for Infestation [laughs].
Oh, man. That’s still going? You’ve been dropping that one on me for years! Can you explain it for the readers who don’t know?
Probably about four years ago, me, Ryan, and Magnus wanted to make a video of us skating. Before that, me and my brother made a little video called Ryan and Scott’s Infestation. We want to make this sequel, but we’ve kinda been lazy on the job. It’ll come out sometime [laughs]. It’s been awhile, so it’ll be like a life-long timeline for everyone in it [laughs]. It just got too big to make, but I got this little HD video camera so it’ll be easier to stack clips for it.
Has the Infestation motto changed over the years?
No [laughs]. “Infest and destroy for life.” It’s the code we live by.
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