Atlanta Hates Us
Name:
Atlanta Hates Us
Where can we see the project?
www.atlantahatesus.com
How did the project come about?
I started the site a couple years ago because I started to shoot skating more again and wanted an outlet to show my friends doing bitchen stunts. Just this year I set up an account for my buddy Scott Wagoneer, who is a filmer, so he can showcase 30fps wickedness. There might be more folks coming on board soon too.
Who is this site for? Just skaters?
Basically. Who else wants to see this crap?
Do you really feel like ATL hates you?
Somewhat, yeah.
Are Marta cops still assholes?
For the most part they have graduated to full on shit bags.
Goals behind the project?
To get paid, son! No, for real, there was never any real objective other than to hopefully get my name out a bit and get my friends some recognition. The site receives an average of 3500 unique visitors a day, and probably 99% of that ARE skateboarders including folks in the industry, so if someone in town is killing it, and we shoot a ton of photos, then word gets out for sure. Then maybe they get sponsored which generally means there is a need for photos, which means that I get work out of it too.
When did this site start?
November 2005
What’s the difference between 90’s skating and today’ skating?
Aside from the obvious like clothing and what not, the main difference to me would be the style, flow, consistency, and well roundedness of the dudes today. The tricks are just nuts and most kids can kill the streets and transition. Creativity is abound on the board these days.
Any crazy stories that didn’t make the site?
Probably, but I don’t think anything too nuts because we put pretty much everything up. Well, I did put one photo up but never told the story behind it. We were goofing off about to shoot a photo and some girls came up and got in the shot. They were walking around wasted with wine glasses and their boy friends were all “Hey, ya’ll want some boobies in your photo?”. Pretty obvious answer if you ask me. One of the girls had her cell phone and cash in her bra. The outtakes are odd too. Funny thing too, I had a show at Youngblood last year and had the print of that shot 24” and framed all big and one of the girls showed up. And even weirder is that one of my good friends has now been dating her for a while now, and I have photos of her ex in the background laughing and stuff. Skateboarders will take your girls. There might be a few more that we just don’t publish so we aren’t incriminating ourselves, because we are dangerous villains and are pretty much wanted in most states..
Who would you like to thank for helping with the project?
Everybody skateboarder in town.
Do you think your project helped ATL? If so, how:
Helped ATL itself, no, and that was never the goal. This site never was supposed to be a skateboard advocacy site.
Do you have any projects in the works?
Personally I am working on a project of 4×5 Polaroid positive headshots of skateboarders. I’d like to have a couple thousand to hang. It’s pretty expensive though so it’s going to take another couple years because I can only afford to buy so much Polaroid at a time.
Project Contact info:
If it’s major, hit me on my pager.
info@atlantahatesus.com
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