People going mental about that taxi slam
I was getting hit by cabs like five times a week at that point
The cabbie was livid because he saw that I landed straight on my feet
So him and the general public around me on the crossing just skipped sympathy
and it was just straight to anger, they called me an asshole
and I was just like, wait wow I've got a lot of adrenaline in me right now
just waiting for just to sort of realized that I've broken a rib or something
but it was totally fine, I went to see Mathilda at the theater like two hours later
Loads of things about my life I've found that I've had to change or
stressed out because I've been skating and I've been trying a trick for six
hours and not done it or it started raining and I've got all of this pent up
aggression or anxiety and I've over sort of my teenage years found lots of other
ways of suppressing that
In creating artworks and clothing skateboard videos or whatever it is but
creating itself is the only thing that's provided some immediate sort of relief
for me I always just think of that Keith Haring quote that art is for everyone
because all of my favorite art is not pretentious and pretty easy to
understand and easy and free to enjoy so to have been given the opportunity to
create the three murals in New York well it's amazing obviously and I hope people
like them as much as I do because they're pretty fucking hard to miss
I never at any point decided I want to be a designer I want to be a model or I want
to be a skateboarder or an artist it's just all falling into place very naturally
What did she say?
Oh that's kind
I started skating for Palace when I was probably 14 or 15 in the last couple of
months of filming for Palasonic the big video you know there was a lot on
I had Thames main line the Fred Perry project the jewelry project Us and Chem
which meant a huge amount to me squeezed in an Arena HOMME story and the Burberry
campaign and all the Burberry stuff the only time I could really possibly find
to skate was between the hours of about midnight and 5:00 in the morning which
is why a lot of my parts filmed in Piccadilly Circus in Trafalgar Square
and Leicester Square areas that would otherwise would be flooded with tourists during the day
As time's gone on it used to be total relief for me from
everything else and now the standards are so hard particularly with like when
you go on trips like the best skateboarders in the world are there you
have to perform some sort of certain standard and it's like kind of not so
much fun as it it's like work a little bit I've what I really like to do is go
skating on my own for like six hours with no one filming me
I don't really think of myself as a 20 year old I don't think a lot of people
do which is quite to make things easier because people definitely taking it seriously seriously
I banged on it before a gypsy started talking to me it's such a high
concentration of fun in a low surface area it's not even open should go home
I'd like to be arrogant enough to say do as I do and yeah don't bother with
school and do whatever you want it will work out probably but I think it's
probably safer to say just don't do anything you don't want to do or feel
pressured or forced to be anyone but yourself
No I don't really feel like I've got time to be overwhelmed by anything I do get stressed out obviously
quite often I have like sort of five or six things on the boil at the same
time but I've no one to blame for that but myself