![]() ![]() Sadly, that vision was sabotaged due to embezzlement from the Vice President (John Trimpin), Scheers dream of a new studio evaporated, and Ulysses Pictures went bankrupt. I had been producing ‘Outlaws Quarterly: the Skaters Rock Video’ and working with some Dog Town guys and bands and expanding rapidly.” The plan was to complete Volume One and then Volume Two was going to include girl skaters in the mix. ![]() In 1991 he was “working for CEO Frederick Scheers at Ulysses Pictures in Santa Monica. With Lynn Kramer’s efforts to produce the zine Equal Time and cultivate the Women’s Skateboard Network, Ethan saw some similarities in the 1970s empowerment movement but the difference being that those involved in skateboarding were geared up in helmets and knee pads! He also noted that the crew had “surrounded themselves with a seemingly supportive groups of guy sk8ers, which I greatly admired as something that was noticeably absent in the 1980s.”Įthan became part of this supportive crew. The first girl skater I met was probably working on ‘Skate Sessions,’ Stephanie Massey, she was like 8.” I got to know some skaters and some others folks in the sk8 community in OC mostly.”Īs an avid reader of Skateboarder, Ethan was impressed with 1970s legends, Ellen Berryman, Laura Thornhill, and Robin Logan, explaining that, “Even back then, I knew that they were as talented as their male counterparts and infinitely more graceful, but due to chauvinism, they were likely under promoted. Ethan was brought on as an editor, but then grabbed a camera, “shooting a good piece of ‘Skate Sessions’ and of course all the editing. This role led him to a unique opportunity with a producer who was working on a project with Jerry Madrid. He graduated in 1986 and took on work as an on-line videotape editor in Burbank. We drove thousands of miles to skate in the parks after 1977.”Įthan ended up moving out west to live with his mom in Southern California and attended CalArts in Valencia, CA in 1982. “We skated on natural sites, embankments, loading docks, The Spillway was legendary. Ethan himself had grown up in the Midwest in Iowa and his skateboarding inspiration came from Skateboarder magazines and local skaters. ![]() In 1992, Ethan Fox directed the first female-focused skateboard video called Sk8Hers and thanks to the encouragement of JoAnn Gillespie, I reached out and picked his brain to learn about how the project evolved. ![]()
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