Originally Posted by
hamfoh
yeah people change. I enjoy his pictures for the most part now. still don't care for all the FGFS stuff
Yeah, it's more about how he does things than what he does.
He's a nice guy one-on-one. It's the internet personna that's a bit much.
I mean, he was in NYC for like a year and somehow considered himself the voice of FG culture and "from NYC". Granted, Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian only get what we as consumers give them. So, it's not really their fault.
What killed me is how he was so "metal", anarchistic, anti-corporations...until Levis and Toyota threw him a few shekels to buy some of his "street cred" to sell their stuff,
Originally Posted by
Scrodzilla
FWIW - Before John Watson moved to Brooklyn and became "Prolly", he lived in Wilmington, NC where he was a psuedo-"thugged out" ****** who pretended to skate.
I don't know his full story, but I do know guys like that.
Remember Shop Gentei in Baltimore? All-in with FG culture and sneakers...while they were hot. Now it's a gnarly chopper shop.
The owner still has a sweet fixie tattoo of the Loony Toons Tasmanian Devil riding a sweet fixie on his leg.