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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.
00:14Excuse us.
00:16What's up?
00:16Good to see you, man.
00:17Me too. What's going on?
00:18Thank you so much for hosting us.
00:20You're welcome. How was the flight for Lindo?
00:22It was about 33 hours.
00:25Well, 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.
01:28There'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. We're going right.
01:49Is it much different from Hawaii?
01:51It's pretty much everything opposite of Hawaii,
01:54besides the fact that you can walk around town
01:56and run into people that you know without, you know,
01:59trying 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. Good to see you.
02:08Good to see you.
02:09So we're just riding our bikes to 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
02:24when I was around 10 years old,
02:27and then the skate park that was built across the street
02:30from my house, basically,
02:31just ended up going there and falling in love with skating
02:34and just did not stop since then,
02:36and ever since I found skating,
02:38it became kind of like a video game to me.
02:41That's what kind of kept me going back,
02:43because, you know, the waves,
02:44you're dealing with Mother Nature,
02:46and it's like sometimes it's flat,
02:48so sometimes you can't go surfing whenever you want.
02:50The skate park was always there for me,
02:52so it was such an opportunity for me
02:54to just, like, get my energy out,
02:57because I can't sit still.
02:58Like, even sitting here, like,
02:59I want to, like, walk around the room,
03:02but skating was just, like,
03:03that instant gratification for me
03:05to, like, have something to do every day.
03:09I spent more time at that skate park
03:11than I spent at my own house.
03:13It's a very special thing, you know?
03:15We all know it.
03:16Like, it's, it's one of one experience.
03:21Is Chelsea the park you skate the most?
03:23Uh, it'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,
03:37like, a public skate park or something like that.
03:39It has to be, all the ramps have to be, like,
03:41three feet and under.
03:42Did you nose ground this thing?
03:44Uh, I nose ground...
03:46Nose ground and tail ground?
03:47Nose ground and 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.
04:06I don't really get that often.
04:08I mean it.
04:09He's making me blush.
04:38We got a photographer here, shooting for Thrasher.
04:41Cover, 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 of
05:10maybe two t-shirts, a hat, and, like, some free shoes from,
05:14like, 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 flex foot 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, I don't know if you would be, like, OCD about it,
05:41but it was just, like, I cared that it needed to be flat for some reason.
05:44So, like, that's just, like, an example of me caring about what I put on.
05:49So, leading into the fashion thing, I 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.
06:10Oh, sketchy.
06:18Yeah.
06:18I'm gonna say, man, I have to wait around all year.
06:22Is that the homie?
06:25Conj?
06:25Can we eat some beans?
06:26Can we cut some parts?
06:28Okay, Mox?
06:29Damn, now that I have his number, he's gonna send me shit all the time.
06:33Are we gonna see an Evan Muck video part any time soon?
06:38I don't know. Ask him. He's my filmer.
06:40Oh, really?
06:40Yeah, I'm his, uh, skate guru, you know?
06:44He's the one that saws his shoulders.
06:46I'm like, Evan, you can do it. You can do it.
06:48Cause he got a stack of clips.
06:50Yeah, I have, like, probably around, like, nine hours full 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, I remember you're like, I wanna be on Haithi.
07:00Did I say that?
07:02Fuck yeah.
07:03And, uh, so yeah, you kinda surpassed all of that.
07:07Then I remember you got your first billboard with Aldo, and...
07:11Everyone just believed in you, man. You believed in yourself.
07:14I swear to God, you 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 everyone on your Instagram Explore page is invited.
07:40It's the people you've never met.
07:42Exactly.
07:44The Met.
07:44Never met at The Met.
07:46It takes place in the Met Museum uptown.
07:50I've gone a couple times, and I'm not going this year, but 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, waiting to be in Men in Black.
08:10I'm just doing it all at the same time.
08:11I mean, it's hard sometimes to balance it all, but it's what keeps me sane, is having a bunch of
08:15different things to do.
08:18My mouth is on fire.
08:19My mouth is on fire.
08:22Dab you up a little bit, baby.
08:23Come on.
08:25You're looking for the camera.
08:27When I had pink hair, for sure, I wasn't really able to go outside too much, but now that I
08:33have longer hair, a little bit more of a disguise.
08:36I call it a wig, but it's my real hair.
08:39I don't get stopped as much as I did, and I love that because, you know, obviously the pink hair
08:44is 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 he's got a
08:52skateboard in his hand.
08:53But other than that, this is the full disguise.
08:57It's awesome.
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...
09:11In Times Square?
09:11Yeah.
09:12And then...
09:13You got one there right now?
09:15I think so.
09:16Yeah.
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...
09:28I didn't have auditions.
09:29I wasn't going to auditions.
09:30I wasn't reading.
09:31I wasn't doing self-tapes.
09:33This 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 headfirst into trying to figure out how the...
09:46Fuck, I'm going to be in this, you know, whole world and what I can do to be the best
09:52I can at 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, uh, The Gons.
11:05I think of Arto.
11:06I think of Matters Absi.
11:11Um...
11:12I just can't stop thinking about Dylan Reader, though.
11:15It'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.
11:23And I met him, and he exceeded my expectations of how sick he was.
11:29He was obviously a great skateboarder, but a better friend.
11:32And, like, uh, my inspiration, uh, at the time when I was trying to do, you know, the skateboarding and
11:40the modeling and the acting stuff,
11:43that, like, multifaceted kind of lots of commas in his title was exactly what I was trying to do.
11:51Um, but he, you know, blazed the trail.
11:55We're walking over to Tompkins from my place.
11:59Kind of, uh, become like a local of mine.
12:03And that's, like, the main meet-up spot?
12:06Pretty much, yeah.
12:07It's a great meet-up spot.
12:08It's a great warm-up spot that, uh, you just go hang out, you know, set plans to go somewhere
12:15else after we all meet up and just end up getting stuck at Tompkins.
12:18Yeah, that'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.
12:28Like, 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,
12:37where you have to be a little bit more reserved in a way and just, like, kind of watch what
12:40you 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, so what am I gonna do in order for it to
12:55not be like that?
12:57Um, I'm constantly learning.
12:59I'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.
13:26And get paid for it, I guess.
13:40Got it!
14:02What does skateboarding mean to you?
14:06Skateboarding is life. Skateboarding is, uh, the lifestyle. Um, skateboarding is everything. Skateboarding is exactly everything I wanted it to
14:17be.
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've, I've felt something. I, I, I feel something.
14:34And it's like, it's honestly amazing to feel sore.
14:41Did we do okay?
14:42Yeah.
14:43Okay.
14:45Yeah, G.
14:46Let's go to Tompkins and have the best day ever.
14:53To do.
14:53with the god wearers. To do.
14:53your favorite. To do.
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