Cris Jerue, Josh Beagle and Bobby Ferry – 1992 “Bobby Ferry rode for Foundation and was one of the first street guys after I exited all the vert guys. Bobby brought Josh Beagle to me and we went and shot some video the day I met him. Josh was just killin’ it immediately – he’s probably 16 here. These three were from Orange County and skated together all the time. Cris and Bobby had a really heavy rock band back then called ‘16’ [myspace.com/16], which was resurrected 15 years later. After Josh’s Pro career, he was doing TM and Brand Management type stuff with us until about three years ago. He’s always been into cooking and now he’s part of this company that makes high-end sausages.”
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think Tentacles of Destruction was one of the first more epic Foundation videos. It did well for its time, and featured Frank Hirata, Steve Berra, Leigh Peterson, Heath Kirchart, Josh Beagle and Steve Olson. That was our pretty epic squad shown in this ad from 1994.”
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his sketch is a woman riding on the back of a dude and they’re naked in front of fruit. I used to draw all these naked people and it’s another example of when I started using thicker lines. This drawing might’ve been about how women basically rule over men [laughs]. We made it into a colour graphic and put it on a slick-bottom board.”
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put this ad together as the very first one after I left Rocco to do Foundation on my own in 1992. It represents the state of humility that I felt I was in at this time. It was pretty bad, so it could only get better. And it did. You have to look forward to the future.”