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00:01What's cracking, Skate Tales?
00:03We're in New York City to meet the beautiful Evan Marker,
00:07a skater, a model, photographer, artist.
00:10Who is he?
00:12Oh, hello.
00:14Excuses.
00:16What's up?
00:16Good to see you, man.
00:17You too. What's going on?
00:18Thank you so much for hosting us.
00:20You're welcome. How's the flight for Lindo?
00:22It's about 33 hours.
00:24Well, 33 more hours than you got with me, so let's go.
00:27Oh, let's go.
00:32Evan Marker lives a charmed life,
00:34seamlessly bridging the gap between skateboarding
00:36and the high society of fashion and modeling.
00:39As a Hawaiian-born skater who embodies the downtown cool
00:42of New York City, he's managed to forge a career
00:45as a professional extrovert, splitting time between skating
00:48in the streets with the homies, walking the biggest runways
00:51in the fashion world, and running multiple businesses.
00:54A true Renaissance man who has come to represent skateboarding's
00:57intersection with fashionable society.
01:00Come with me as we explore the life of New York City's
01:03ripping catwalk king, Evan Mark.
01:09What made you move to New York?
01:12I feel like New York's a really great central place for going to
01:17Europe, and then L.A. is five hours away.
01:19The only thing is it's, like, double as far to Hawaii.
01:23I've never lived in a city or been to a city that I thought, like,
01:26matches my personality so much.
01:29There's always something going on.
01:30I can't sit still.
01:32I don't sleep, and this is the city that never sleeps.
01:35We're going left, trying not to get in a car crash.
01:37Watch out!
01:40Oh, my God!
01:42I just love New York.
01:45I think it's just a one-of-one type of place.
01:48We're going right.
01:49We're going right.
01:49Is it much different from Hawaii?
01:51It's pretty much everything opposite of Hawaii,
01:53besides the fact that you can walk around town and run into
01:57people that you know without, you know, trying to meet up with them.
02:00It doesn't really happen like that in L.A.
02:04Hey, watch out of the car, man!
02:06Let's try.
02:07Yeah, I'm at peace.
02:08Good to see you.
02:08Good to see you.
02:09So we're just riding our bikes through the skate park,
02:11and we see John Shanahan doing a trick over the trash bin
02:17just every day, New York City streets.
02:21My cousin actually gave me a Tony Hawk Complete when I was around
02:2610 years old, and then the skate park that was built across the
02:30street from my house, basically, just ended up going there
02:32and falling in love with skating and just did not stop since then.
02:36And ever since I found skating, it became kind of like a video game to me.
02:41That's what kind of kept me going back, because, you know,
02:44the waves, you're dealing with Mother Nature, and it's like
02:47sometimes it's flat, so sometimes you can't go surfing whenever you want.
02:50The skate park was always there for me, so it was such an opportunity for me
02:54to just, like, get my energy out because I can't sit still.
02:58Like, even sitting here, like, I want to, like, walk around the room.
03:02But skating was just, like, that instant gratification for me
03:05to, like, have something to do every day.
03:09I spent more time at that skate park than I spent at my own house.
03:13It's a very special thing, you know?
03:15We all know it.
03:16Like, it's one of one experience.
03:21Is Chelsea the park you skate the most?
03:23It's definitely one of my favorites in New York, for sure.
03:28This is, like, the only park that has ramps over three feet.
03:32I think New York has a weird rule that in order for it to be, like,
03:37a public skate park or something like that,
03:39it has to be, all the ramps have to be, like, three feet and under.
03:42Did you nose-ground this thing?
03:44Uh, I nose-ground...
03:46Nose-ground, tail-ground?
03:47Nose-ground, tail-ground it, yeah.
03:49This thing is big.
03:56I definitely don't want to ever do that again.
03:59Yeah, the thing is huge.
04:00That's why you're one of my favorite skaters.
04:02That's a lie.
04:03Just for that.
04:04No, for real.
04:05Thanks, man.
04:05I don't really get that often.
04:08I mean...
04:09He's making me blush.
04:37We got a photographer here shooting for Thrasher.
04:40Cover, maybe a website article, maybe Instagram.
04:43You never know.
05:02I do remember really wanting free clothes.
05:06And so, in my mind, I made it when I first got my box
05:09of maybe two T-shirts, a hat, and, like, some free shoes
05:14from, like, the Vans rep back in the day.
05:16I always, like, cared about what I wore as a kid.
05:19Like, there's, like, this vague memory of me, like,
05:23getting a FlexFit hat, but the brim was, like, super, like, bent.
05:29And so I would put it under a stack of books to make it flat.
05:33And I had, like, an hour period of it being flat,
05:35and then I'd have to put it back under the books again.
05:37I just cared, like, very...
05:39I don't know if you would be, like, OCD about it,
05:41but it was just, like,
05:41I cared that it needed to be flat for some reason.
05:44So, like, that's just, like,
05:45an example of me caring about what I put on.
05:49So, leading into the fashion thing,
05:51I just kind of flourished
05:54because I always wanted to put things on that I liked.
05:58Is that the Gans?
05:59It's the Gans.
06:00That's the Gans.
06:01You can tell right away.
06:02Best hands in the game.
06:05He lives in New York, too.
06:09Oh!
06:10That was sketchy.
06:17Okay, that's what I'm saying.
06:19Man, I had to wait around all year.
06:22Is that the homie?
06:23Can you eat some beans and cut some parts?
06:28Okay, whoops?
06:29Damn, now that I have his number,
06:31he's gonna send me shit all the time.
06:33Are we gonna see an Evan Muck video part anytime soon?
06:38I don't know. Ask him. He's my filmer.
06:40Oh, really?
06:40Yeah.
06:41I'm his, uh, skate crew, you know?
06:43He's the one that saws his shoulders.
06:45I'm like, Evan, you can do it, you can do it.
06:48Cuz he got a stack of clips.
06:50Yeah, I have, like,
06:50probably around, like, nine hours
06:52full of footage.
06:52On my phone, for sure.
06:54So you're from Hawaii as well?
06:55Yeah.
06:56Cool.
06:56I remember one thing.
06:57I remember you're like,
06:58I wanna be on Haithi.
07:00Did I say that?
07:02Fuck yeah.
07:03And, uh, so yeah,
07:05you kind of surpassed all of that.
07:06And I remember you got your first billboard
07:08with Aldo and...
07:11Everyone just believed in you, man.
07:12You believed in yourself.
07:13I swear to God.
07:15You really did it.
07:16No.
07:23So is there a special party tonight?
07:27Met after parties?
07:28What is the Met?
07:30Honestly, the Met is like a party where
07:34everyone on your Instagram Explore page
07:37is invited.
07:40It's the people you've never met.
07:42Exactly.
07:43The Met.
07:44Never met after Met.
07:46Takes place in the Met Museum uptown.
07:49I've gone a couple times,
07:51and I'm not going this year,
07:52but I'm gonna act like I went this year.
07:56It's what counts.
07:58The thought that counts.
08:00And what's next?
08:02Doing self-tapes, doing auditions,
08:04doing fingers.
08:06Waiting to be in Men in Black.
08:10Just doing it all at the same time.
08:11I mean, it's hard sometimes to balance it all,
08:13but it's what keeps me sane,
08:14is having a bunch of different things to do.
08:18My mouth is on fire.
08:22Yeah, dab you up a little bit baby, come on, you look good for the camera.
08:27When I had pink hair, for sure, I wasn't really able to go outside too much, but now that
08:33I have like longer hair, a little bit more of a disguise, I call it a wig, but it's my
08:37real hair, I don't get stopped as much as I did and I love that because, you know, obviously
08:43the pink hair is a dead giveaway.
08:45So I blend in a lot better.
08:47Like, if I carry my skateboard, I feel like it's more like, oh, that's probably him because
08:52he's got a skateboard in his hand, but other than that, this is the full disguise, it's
08:57awesome.
08:58So do you have some billboards up of yourself in town?
09:03I have before.
09:05I think there's one in Times Square now and then one...
09:10In Times Square?
09:11Yeah.
09:12And then...
09:13You got one there right now?
09:15I think so.
09:15Yeah.
09:21No, with the acting thing, it also kind of just fell in my lap.
09:24Like I wasn't losing sleep over not like getting a role or I didn't have auditions.
09:29I wasn't going to auditions.
09:30I wasn't reading.
09:31I wasn't doing self tapes.
09:32This whole TV show thing came along and it was an amazing experience.
09:38I fell in love with acting and I like want to...
09:41Just like skateboarding and just like surfing, I like dove head first into trying to figure
09:45out how the fuck I'm going to be in this whole world and what I can do to be the
09:52best I can
09:53at this.
09:53So, it's honestly a new obsession.
10:02Yeah, obviously you have down days and you're stressed out and your palms are sweaty like they are now.
10:08And you just kind of figure out how to also navigate that.
10:13Like you have to go through those experiences for you to learn what you're going to do differently or do
10:18the same next time.
10:19And yeah, sometimes you're tired but like at the end of the day like so thankful and stoked that you're
10:27working and you have a, you know, a job.
10:36Style is something you can't teach.
10:38When you can see someone really trying hard is when it's just like it's not authentic.
10:45You either have it or you don't.
10:47Like I love some skaters' styles that they would probably not think they have style.
10:55I think just like the timeless thing.
11:01I don't know.
11:02I think of the Gons.
11:05I think of Arto.
11:06I think of Matters.
11:07I see.
11:12I just can't stop thinking about Dylan Reader though.
11:14It's like my end all be all.
11:17You know, they say to not ever meet your heroes but we ended up hanging out in the last kind
11:22of year of his life and I met him and he exceeded my expectations of how sick he was.
11:29He was obviously a great skateboarder but a better friend and like my inspiration at the time when I was
11:37trying to do, you know, the skateboarding and the modeling and the acting stuff.
11:42That like multifaceted kind of lots of commas in his title was exactly what I was trying to do.
11:52But he, you know, blazed the trail.
11:55We're walking over to Tompkins from my place.
11:59Kind of a, it's become like a local of mine.
12:03And that's like the main meetup spot?
12:06Pretty much, yeah.
12:07It's a great meetup spot.
12:08It's a great warmup spot that, uh, you just go hang out.
12:12You know, set plans to go somewhere else after we all meet up and just end up getting stuck at
12:17Tompkins.
12:18Yep.
12:18That's kind of how it goes.
12:20But very, very fun.
12:23It's good for me because it brings me back down to earth.
12:26You're like, okay, you are a real person.
12:27Like you can just come out, skate on the street, hang with the homies, have a beer with the bros
12:32and then go into like professional business mode where you have to be a little bit more reserved in a
12:39way and just like kind of watch what you say.
12:41And it's nice to be able to like have both of those worlds come together.
12:48That's a shaky ramp.
12:51I feel like it could be all gone tomorrow.
12:53So what am I going to do in order for it to not be like that?
12:56Um, I'm constantly learning.
12:58I'm still growing as a person and, um, constantly working on myself, but also constantly working in general.
13:04But I'm super, super lucky and blessed to say that the things that I enjoy doing is my work and
13:11what I think about all the time.
13:13And it's, it's, I know a lot of people who go to work every day that hate their job and
13:17they hate their life.
13:18And I'm very, very lucky and blessed to say that I love my life and I'm super lucky to be
13:24able to do the things that I love doing and get paid for it, I guess.
13:38Got it!
13:41Got it!
13:43Got it!
13:53Got it!
13:54Got it!
13:54Got it!
13:56Got it!
14:00Got it!
14:02What does skateboarding mean to you?
14:05Skateboarding is life.
14:08Skateboarding is the lifestyle.
14:10Um, skateboarding is everything.
14:12Skateboarding is exactly everything I wanted it to be.
14:18Very, very challenging, but also so much more rewarding.
14:23I like, you know, coming back home and taking a shower and being sore and waking up the next day
14:29sore.
14:30Cause it makes me feel like I, you know, I felt something.
14:32I, I feel something and it's like, it's honestly amazing to feel sore.
14:40Do we do okay?
14:43Okay.
14:44Yeah, gee.
14:45Let's go to Tompkins and have the best day ever.
14:49Yeah.
14:50After.
14:50It.
14:50Yeah.
14:50I.
14:51I.
14:52I.
14:53I.
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