Category: Documentary Film

Back from Bowl Bash XIII. We were a little surprised to find ourselves down on the farm with a camera crew & our trusty pop-up camper yet again, especially after blitzing the 2006 Bowl Bash with an army of cameras, but there we were ‚Äì sweating in the Meigs county heat, peeing in the woods […]

We have escaped the Skatopia vortex, at least physically, and have landed in a cold wintry place that seems like the opposite of Meigs County. Colin is working at PBS while Laurie is holed up in the edit bay, sorting through gazillion tapes and starting to edit. We are psyched to be getting tons of […]

As Brewce’s new T-shirts proclaim, “CAMERAS INVADE APPALACHIA”. (Order one through www.skatopia.org) For the 11th annual Bowl Bash, we had 17 camera people, serious audio guys recording the bands, production assistants and so on… and food catered by Millies. Most people were nice to the crew, a few weren’t, but they probably weren’t being nice […]

We’re in the last week of Brewce’s incarceration. He’s been giving everybody at the farm big lists of stuff to do before the spring party. The lists go on and on… there are 37 bands already booked, PA equipment to be secured, ramps to be fixed, a bonfire to build, etc, etc. Most important: there […]

This story began long before we started filming. Brewce was arrested in early 2005 after getting in a Thanksgiving brawl in Parkersburg, WV. It was over a girl‚Ķ He was essentially jumped by three guys (and a mom) who came to the fight with nun-chucks and a baseball bat. He grabbed the bat (from the […]

[Note: Thanks to general crazyness, we are posting this blog wayyy late.] We’ve moved to Meigs County, OH… 2 miles from the dreaded Skatopia. We’ve rented a 185 year old house on a giant hilltop farm covered in junk cars, school buses and other broken metal stuff. Our first week we hit a deer on […]

Check out “Skate Na Veia” on Fuel TV Monday night (3/13) at 8:30 and 11:30pm. Jon Humphries travelled the globe shooting underground skating. One of his last stops was last fall’s Backwoods Bash. If you were there, they were the guys with the serious camera and serious lights (thanks Jon, Greg, & Ike) that made […]

We just got back from shooting the Skatopia/CIA skate team at the Evolution Skatepark Bowl Jam in Canton, OH. It‚Äôs got a killer wooden bowl built by Team Pain, two hips, 10 foot deep end, lots of speed lines. The CIA guys dominated ‚Äì a skatopia jihad as their shirts say ‚Äì Brandon, Busta, Morgan, […]

The epic June party was coming up, so we committed ourselves to shooting the party without ever visiting Skatopia. We were paying for this ourselves, so our crew consisted of one camera guy and ourselves (Laurie & Colin). We also brought our son Liam (15 months old) and his babysitter. Yes, we did have second […]

Colin Powers writes: In ’94 I moved to Oregon and had to check out the infamous Burnside. A concrete vert park built by skaters on abandoned city land, how cool. Went with my old skate buddy, Peter. (We built a whole bunch of driveway ramps in ’76 and ’77 and then a halfpipe in ’78 […]