Fletcher Eidum: THE INTERVIEW Skate House: BETA KAPPA KAPPA Diekman Updated!
3
Fletcher Eidum Interview Chicks don’t like CCS catalogs
11
Skate House: Beta Kappa Kappa
19
Pixelated Gold
23
Loyal and Beautiful Guard-Cat
Jumping down shit with a helmet on
Green Room Diekman!
Contents - Sometimes you spend part of your day laying on cold, hard concrete. Andrew Loaiza got served but got back up for the make (see page 15). Cover - On the final day of filming for Kream Up. Volume 2, Logan Triplett set out to get an ender on the stair set. Instead he walked away with a trick on the brick ledge which, as far as I know, has never been skated. Pop out past the rail to quick frontboard. Amazing. 1
Kream Magazine - Issue #2 - Photographs and layout by Nick Weber
2
The Fletcher Eidum Interview By Nick Weber
How did you get into skating? How old were you? My brother used to do it. I had to do it, I just wanted a skateboard because my brother had one. My dad paved the driveway, then it was on. We had a ledge in our driveway. My brother had a friend, Ross Moranti. I asked him how to ollie. I would grab on to the back of a car or fence and practice like that. I was just a kid, like twelve or thirteen. Did you look at magazines and videos right as you started? I just looked through CCS, I would get those in the mail. I thought those were the coolest damn things. You had the JNCOs or the pipes, but the pipes weren’t as good, no offense if you had those… I did not have those. I had the JNCOS and they had the big pockets, and a CCS fit right in the back there. I would walk around school with a CCS in my back pocket. I would just take it out and flip through it here and there, like it was fucking cool you know? I think the girls think this is cool, flipping through a skate mag… but they didn’t. When you first started, did you have any favorite skaters? I used to watch Jump Off a Building. That was really sick. Looking back, I don’t know if I could differentiate between styles. I also had The Storm. I think I was psyched on all of it. The four-skin videos before I was part of it. I bought Bumboy Jigglers from Brandon one day at the skatepark. I watched it a few times, I thought whoa, these guys are out here in Helena, tearing it up, and there was this new five stair, kind of a long five. I got so juiced from watching these other Helena guys skate that I went and ollied the set. I would always take a local video over a pro video, they are just more fun to watch.
5
Five-O Fakie How did you become a member of four-skin? It’s just hanging out with those guys, it wasn’t even skill level necessarily. I wasn’t an O.G. member. They all had different skill levels, this one dude wasn’t that good but he was still in the crew or whatever. The thing is, most of them were a little bit older than me. They were into it already, into skating. I was just getting back into it, I took a hiatus. I was getting back into it. I couldn’t really do anything and I wasn’t in the same skill level. I just hung out at the park when it was built. You go there enough, you hang out with people enough, you start talking to em, you know, then you skate with them more and more. There was no initiation. I always loved the four-skin videos because they remind me of being young and skateboarding all day with your friends. What was it like filming for these videos? It was the most fun, the most fun ever because everyone would film everyone else, it didn’t matter, you would just go to the spot or skate the park all the time, just start dialing things. And then want to film it? Want to get this real quick? Was there ever a plan to make a video? No, we didn’t really stop shooting. Were starting to get all this footage… what are we going to call this? I dunno, this and that, then something sticks. Talk about Lurk Fest. How did it start? It was for my final thesis project in graphic design. You could do whatever you wanted. I was thinking… what do I want to ultimately do when I get out of school? Work for a skate company, design boards, do some separate products, do some stickers and whatever else comes with that.
6
7
l o o h c s d n u o r a t e k l k a c o w p d k c a b I woul y m n i S C C with a 8
How about the name Lurk Fest? What inspired that? I wanted it to be a cool name, for one. I dunno, I tried to think of anything that goes along with skateboarding. All my friends in Helena had nicknames for kids at the park. We would just rag on anyone at the skatepark we didn’t agree with or whatever. We would come up with nicknames. The whole crew itself, we called D.C., or Dirt Crew. I didn’t want boards that said dirt crew on them, and I was thinking, what else are they… a lurk fest. That’s just a phrase I thought was really cool, it’s those kids you’ve always grown up with, they have always been there. It doesn’t matter where your from, if you have a skatepark, and your always hanging out, there will always be those lurking kids who throw their garbage on the ground and who don’t skate. What do you want Lurk Fest to ultimately become? A deck company? Yes, I was centered more on deck design. Since we actually started the company, we haven’t focused on decks at all, it’s a big step, something to work towards. .
Frontside Noseslide 9
there wi ll always be those lurking kids
10
a t Be a p p a K a p p a Skate House: k 11
What does it mean to live in a house full of skateboarders?
Some would shutter to think of such horrors; a house not fit for the most feral of animals, inhabited by a group of ten or more twenty-something-year-olds living off of instant noodles and beer. Seeing their “home” as nothing more than a place to keep their skateboards and three T-shirts out of the rain. This may be the stereotype for many people when they think of a “skate-house” though there is some that have broken that mold. The House of Kream is a relatively new establishment here in Bozeman, Montana but has been years in the making. Since the summer of 2008 this rag-tag group of friends, known as the “Budda Kreamerz”, united under the majesty of skateboarding and the beautiful blue sky of central Montana, hand in hand have been making the most of their time here on earth. It wasn’t until the summer 2010, however, that the call to gather under one house came crying across the Gallatin Valley. The answer was a quick and resounding, “YES”—and so The House of Kream came into fruition. Alex Strandell, Adam Kirschhoffer, Logan Triplett, Hamilton Lynn, Andrew Loaiza, and Nick Weber now make up the residents of a somewhat untraditional skate-house. Simply put, this is not a house filled with self-destructive, uncaring deadbeats. Nay, the inhabitants are far less “cool” and in all honesty could be summed up in one colloquial phrase that spans generations: nerds. At times you may find these fellows lurking around the house fully engrossed in a game of Settlers of Catan or Halo. When the video games have lost their charm, the inevitable hypothetical situational stories of their dearest friend, Zach Diekman arise to provide hours of entertainment. Other times the house is deserted save for their trusty, most loyal and beautiful guard-cat, Spike. Where could have all of these seemingly maladjusted and socially awkward shut-ins gone off to? Well, we mustn’t forget, these are skateboarders; when the itch comes the need to scratch it sweeps through the house in a heartbeat. In a blur of beaten skate-shoes and boards they’re off—skating the streets of Bozeman or the quirky little city skatepark. Doing what they love the most and what has brought them together: skateboarding. So now it’s time to take a look inside The House of Kream, discover it’s beauty and get a chance to meet shining faces of the boys that reside here.
Spike
12
a t e B a p p a K a p p a K
Adam Kirschhoffer - Crooked Grind
13
Logan Triplett - Smith Grind
14
Bet Kap kap p
Andrew Loaiza - Boardslide
15
eta ppa ppa
Alex Strandell - Backside Disaster
16
Nick Weber - Nollie Heelflip. Photo: Brian Bee
17
Bet Kap kap p
eta ppa pp
Hamilton Lynn - Noseslide
18
There were about twenty people that showed up to watch Jostin Forsyth ollie this set. He had hyped it up all week, and when the time finally came, he strapped on a helmet and landed it first try, moments before the cops showed up and nicely asked everyone to leave.
19
pixelated gold
20
pix
ela
21
ted
.go
ld
What’s better... getting to see Brett Michaels and the Backstreet Boys for free, or frontside feeble grinds? Evan Estrada did both in Boise.
“A teacher inside a school on West Babcock Street felt unsafe leaving the building because of skateboarders in the parking lot� I found this in the Police Reports the day after shooting this photo. Nate Witbrod, schoolyard frontside 180.
d.gold
pixelate
22
Even today, Hamilton still tells me, “I can’t believe we saw Bret Michaels and the fucking Backstreet Boys!” Crooked grind on the funnest skate trip of the summer.
23
d l o g . d e pixelat 24
G R E E N R O O M
Rock Pop
Don’t Just Lay There... S ubscribe! To order an issue, go to M agcloud.com and search “Kream” heap, go c r e p u s e Or, if you’r ot.com p s g lo b . g a to kream-m r free! o f it d a e r and
@gmail.com
ne ts? kream.magazi in la p m co , ts n e Questions, comm
G R E E N R O O M
G R E E N R O O M Kream Magazine would like to thank Fletcher Eidum, Andrew Loaiza, Lucas Erlebach in Boise, and anyone else who let me shoot photos with them.