Max Murphy and Timmy Johnson, for Strangelove Skateboards. The streets of Chicago and Milwaukee, brutalized. Decimated crust. I had no photos of tricks from the video. In lieu of a photograph, I present this especially skillful sketch of Max grinding up the stoplight, as seen in the video above.

Rewind! If you’re just joining us, years ago I started a project to try to reupload the older videos in the best quality that they’ve even been presented. I also tried to supplement the videos with contemporaneous images. It’s been a couple of years and the project has been delayed a bit. Anyway, number 44…

Recently Mike Munzenrider asked me what the first video clip posted to the website was. I wasn’t sure. After an admittedly low amount of research I came the conclusion that it was a 2.43 second clip of Pat Gaynor doing a noseslide on a rail in Nashville, TN. File created 6-16-99. This clip was from…

Hi! I just wanted a vehicle to post these few 20 year old skate jam videos that I recently uploaded to the ‘ol wis-kate youtubes channel. The first two are from 2003, and the third is from 2004. These may have been completely missing from the internet for some time, I am not sure. Either…

Skating by Gabe Chan, Max Murphy, Nick Mistele, David Gackstetter, Payne Counihan, Nick Matthews, Taylor Lalk, Vince Stranc, Drew Rickaby and Cory Stubing

Skating by Payne Counihan, Nick Mistele, Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Taylor Lalk, David Gackstetter, Pat Murphy, Sean Hanley, Carter Oeflein, Drew Rickaby and Nick Matthews

003: Disintegration from Gabe Chan on Vimeo. Episode 003, Agent Juke must find an impostor who has been executing Pawl Corporation agents… Starring: Sean Hanley, Vince Stranc, Max Murphy, Josh Ellis, Pat Forster, Nick Mistele, Payne Counihan, Alex Keck, Jacob Mumford, Drew Rickaby, Harald Reynolds, Rory, and Russ Clark.

Precisely 20 years ago I premiered my first full length skate vid “Hurry Up and Die”. The premiere was at Bar 3 in downtown Milwaukee, a bar which no longer exists. It premiered alongside “This Is Skateboarding”, and there was a huge snow storm. No photos exist of this event. Hurry Up and Die (2003)…

Skating by Pat Murphy, Max Murphy, Sean Hanley, Vince Stranc and Drew Rickaby