the predatory bird

Tag: Tom Remillard

  • Following Tom

    At some point during the summer of 2012 Div called me up.
    “John!” He said.
    “Yeah?”
    “Will you film me and Tom [Remillard] fur AntiHero?”
    “I can try.” I told him.
    We met down at Washington Street to get a couple of clips and see where that led us but Div couldn’t make it. He’d thrown his back out troweling concrete for too many days straight. Ideally we’d have filmed a shitload of random skate clips and sent them to Deluxe where they’d have stirred them into something unmistakeably AntiHero but I get these ideas where I’m psyched on old Powell videos and…
    Well, this is the first thing Tom and I did while we were waiting for Div to heal up. It was originally the techno bonus of a short called HITAROCK. Obviously it’s not all one line but if you’ve ever seen Tom skating WSVT you may be like me in thinking that this dream line is not that farfetched. We feel it does a decent job of showcasing the ferocious concrete contours of one of the best renegade park projects in the world.

  • This is NOT the new Anti-Hero Video

    This is NOT the new Anti-Hero video! This is a Friends-of-The-Predatory-Bird video called HITAROCK. Although HITAROCK stars Div and Tom, who both rep Anti-Hero, they are also deeply connected to the inner workings of The Predatory Bird.
    The title of this post is inspired by This is Not the New H-Street Video and HITAROCK is inspired by the following romantic factors and notions:-

    • Hitting rocks
    • Ginger Beards
    • WSVT
    • Bombing Hills
    • Zingers
    • Mike Frazier’s part  in Celebrity Tropical Fish.
    • Zaggers
    • The psychic space travel of legendary Detroit techno producers Underground Resistance.
    • Riser pads
    • The idea that the rocks we hit in life are unavoidable. They are our destiny and after every humiliation we must pick ourselves up and get back to the business of living and helping each other to laugh it all off.
    • Evil Dead 2
    • Many ghosts of skating past.
    • Understanding that much of the appeal of techno music lies in the troubling idea that it echoes all the disfiguring industrial horror we have wrought on the planet.
    • Enjoying life despite all the industrial horror.
    • Lance Mountain in general