Do It Yourself

This is the trailer for the art documentary Beautiful Losers, which came out in 2008.  The starting sequence is skateboarder/artist Ed Templeton walking backwards on a typical sidewalk in Huntington Beach, California.  Ed was just one of the local skaters I used to see on a regular basis in H.B. in the late 80's and 90's.  I never even knew what his name was until he got on the cover of Thrasher in 1990.

"The crossover between skateboarding, graffiti, surfing... maybe punk...they were all do-it-yourself people."  -Margaret Kilgallen