Archive for October 2009

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Morgan Campbell for his Shred Plank blog last week. We talked about The Zine, being trapped in lifts and how Amnesia was born.

Morgan has been involved in pushing Australian skateboarding for as long as I can remember. Whether that be as a professional skateboarder,  film maker, magazine editor, blogger, nomad, Australian ambassador and the countless other titles you could give him. He truly is a dedicated plank shredder in every sense.

Here is a recent clip of Morgan from The 4 Skateboard Company.

Back on the 1st of August this year Michael “Davo” Davidson held a game of skate at Moore Park netball courts. What was originally planned as a mellow catchup with a few friends while Davo was visiting from Japan turned into a 90′s skate renuion of epic proportions. More from Teagues over at The Zine here.

Back in the early days of Amnesia (1994) we had a team consisting of one rider (Ben Cox), when the time came to add a second rider we asked Darren Kaehne to join the team. Darren had some footage in the video “Plebs” which had just come out and we were stoked with what we saw. Ben said that Darren was the guy we needed on the team. Darren filmed a part for the first Amnesia video “Loves Ugly Children” but was travelling in the US leading up to the release of the video so he didn’t have the part he could have had.

During Amnesia’s hiatus Darren rode for Criminal Skateboards, SMP and a few other companies. When Amnesia rose from the grave Darren was the first person I called to be involved. It’s great to have one of the OG riders still on the team.

Recently we’ve been filming for the new Amnesia video and although years have passed and we’re all a bit older Darren is still throwing down. Darren recently told me that this video part will be his last and that he wants to put everything into it that he can. I don’t want to hype it up too much but I’m really looking forward to this.