Mark Appleyard Interview
February 02, 2009 @ 12:32 PM
Do you often go back to Canada?
My parents are both from England originally, they moved to Canada, had me and my brother and then my family split up when I was young. Eventually, my mom moved to the Carribean, my brother moved to the west part of Canada and my dad staid back at the town where I grew up. So I don’t really feel like I have a home back there anymore. I still have really good friends there that I grew up with, but I feel like California’s my home now. I’m going to move back to British Columbia at some point, I definitely will never forget my Canadian roots. [British Columbia] is a really visual place, lot of green, lot of mountains, next to the ocean. I’m on a mission to make that my home in the next five years or something.
So the video then. Can’t let you not talk about the video, I’m afraid. I think everybody’s pretty anxious to see it.
Everybody’s really anxious, I’m really anxious, everybody just wants it to come out already. I think it’s a little bit out of my control, though. I think they’re perfectionists when it comes to putting their stuff out, they want it to be quality, they want it to be a timeless, epic film. It’s not so much the skateboard footage they’re waiting on, they’re doing some animation and stuff like that. They’re going to make it like a film with a little story line to it. I know people are sick of waiting and it’s making us all sick. But I think that doing it this way is hyping it up and when it does come out everyone will want to see it. The trailer got really good response, people are like you need to drop this now, I don’t have that much time to be waiting around!
Back when you guys were filming for Sorry, Arto was saying how he’d hear rumours about some stuff that he’s supposedly done when he hadn’t even been to the spot, ever.
Yeah, people just start making up things, but that’s all part of the hype though, it’s how it goes. It just means that they want to see that shit!
It’s almost five years now since Really Sorry. Did you keep on filming right after and saving footage for the new one ever since then?
Nah…those two, Sorry and Really Sorry kind of bought me some time to do what I want to do. They got me hooked up with some good deals and I have been skating ever since, I just haven’t really had anywhere to put the footage. I’ve been filming ever since, but I think it’s better to make quality than quantity. If it takes a long time, it just means it’ll be quality. I’m going to pick and choose and just use the smoothest stuff, cause that’s what I’m all about now. I feel I’ve matured a lot since my last video part.
You’ve been skating a lot of tranny recently. Is your Extremely Sorry part going to have a lot of that in there?
Yeah, it’s more flowy and what I feel is more original. I’ve just concentrated more on the actual cruise and the ride of the skateboard, more so than the trick itself. Just enjoying the cruise, keeping a line going.
What about Globe, they do those United by Faith things, you have one coming up?
Yeah, they do like a quarterly video and they highlight a different rider each time and I’m going to be working on one of those, which will be released in I’d say February or January even. It’s hard to say with these things, but the footage is there. I don’t own my own companies, but if I did, I’d be putting it all out tomorrow! Which is why I’ve been thinking of putting something on Youtube, just a little something you know, cause I do get tired of dealing with companies’ schedules and things like that sometimes.
A Youtube part?
Sure! If I go out skating with friends for three weeks, if there’s good sessions and the motivation’s there, that’s cool, why not? I’m not planning on jumping down 20 stairs for it, I just want to cruise, maybe back smith a quarter pipe, just to show people it’s all about fun!
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