Dave Mayhew/ Constructive Rukus Video

I shot this video part with Dave Mayhew in 2000. Dave wanted to come to the east coast to skate for a few. A change of scenery and new spots are always good. I was living in Long Beach at the time but happened to be out east shooting for 2 months. I picked him up from NYC and just went were we felt from there. We had no tour schedule. So over the next 14 days, we went to Boston, NYC, Harford, and DC; just skating and having a good time. After the trip, Dave had enough footage for a video part. We would have to get a few more clips but he had 90% percent of the footage needed. At the time, I was Director of Skateboarding over at Progression Video Magazine and we were looking for a line up for the second video. After our small trip, Dave became the first confirmed part. When we went to the edit, we had no idea how to tie the piece together. Dave is a huge fan of music, including hip hop. We were watching B.E.T and MTV in the mornings before we would go skate and saw some of the most ridiculous video ever on there. Videos with people throwing money, burning $100 bills, and others pouring $3000- bottles of champagne out just because they can. I joked we should do a rap video sometime just for the hell of it and think of the most outragous things to be in. I remembering our talk and gave him a call. It was an idea no one had done before so why not give it a shot. We were going to use a song from some friend's of his, 'Constructive Rukus', and it would be a perfect way to help them out on the music side too. It became the group's first music video. The part came out in Progression Skate Video Magazine issue #2. The reaction to it was awesome. People reacted in one of two ways, they loved it or hated it. The people who hated it took Dave serious in the video. That was actually funnier to me than the video itself. It was just a fun way to tie the video part all together, nothing more, nothing less. I guess people have too much time on their hands and read into it too much. So overall, the part got people talking. Isn't that was a video part is suppose to do? Good skating, an entertaining presentation, and something different at the time. Special thanks to Dave Mayhew, Rodney Torres, Sugar Bear, and Construtive Rukus for making this an entertaining time.. Credits: Camera: Mark Nickels Additional Camera: Jay Maldando Edit : Patrick Nagy