ARTICLES BY PATRICK O
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 EPICLY LATER’D
October 9:
Right now I’m working on the third most exciting thing I have ever worked on (after shooting pictures of Morrissey getting peed on by an infant and the John Cardiel docu...
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  SCENE REPORT
Hey everyone reading Vice. I’m excited I get to do a column this issue. I still think Vice is kind of a Big Brother rip-off but beggars can’t be choosers. I make a zine in Columbus, Ohio, called Rye Zine (a hilarious pun, I know—maybe I should change the name to something even more hilarious, like Epicly Lame or something). I try my best to cover the scene around these...
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 EPICLY LATER'D
I seriously have nothing to say anymore. I’m getting older and less self-involved, I guess. Amy Kellner said I should just send some pictures in for my column, so here we go...
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 EPICLY LATER'D
These are pictures from Skatopia, a skate park/farm/anarchy commune in Rutland, Ohio. I went there a few weeks ago to film some stuff for a weird TV show unrelated to my own weird TV show. I've been there before, maybe three times, but that was in the 90s and I was younger and drunker. I actually vo...
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 EPICLY LATER'D
I called Ty Evans to ask if he had any unused Guy Mariano footage and he said, "You know what I have? Twenty raw tapes that Spike filmed for Video Days.” Holy shit... I raced over there while making frantic phone calls to Spike to see if it was cool to dub them. To me, these are the Dead Sea ...
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Hey everyone, here's my page again. A few months ago, I wrote about how I hate dumb skate kids. I read the comments online and people were pretty bummed at what I said, but I have a feeling that the people who were bummed haven't been to a skate park lately. Anyway, I now need all your expert ethica...
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 EPICLY LATER'D
First I tried to leave the skateboard world by leaving Thrasher, only to get sucked back in by VBS.TV. Now I have completed the regression by moving from a luxurious one-bedroom apartment in the East Village to a skate house in West Hollywood. Spanky had an extra room on Ogden Drive and the r...
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 EPICLY LATER’D
I hate kids. I mean, not kids in general, but little clueless turds at the skatepark who wear helmets and ask dumb questions like, "How high can you ollie?" and "Can I have your board?" I hate air babies, the kids who do fatty to flatties out of the bowl, or try to ollie off the quarter pipe to flat...
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
Vice: What did you think of the episode I did about you?
Heath Kirchart: I liked the first one. I don't really remember the next two. They kind of got into stuff that I don't think too many people cared about...
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
Today I am swamped filming the Epicly Later'd show. I was at Guy Mariano's house this morning and Marc Johnson's house in the mountains yesterday. My life is filled with this stuff-questions, schedules, phone calls-and yet it doesn't even feel like work. I am trying to get ahold of Lance Moun...
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
When I first started the Epicly Later'd skate show, Ali Boulala was one of the first people I wanted to do an episode with. In fact, before the show even existed I had dreamed of one day making a documentary about him. He is one of the most charismatic and quotable people of all time. After s...
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 ANTIHEROES AND GIRLS
Photos and Words by Patrick O'DellPatrick is a photographer and director and the guy who does Epicly Later'd. We don't even know where he lives anymore. New York? Los Angeles? It's either one of those or somewhere in between.
"This spring I went on probably the heaviest skateboarding tour I will ever go on, as far as the pre...
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 THE EPICLY LATER'D PAGE
I remember Jerry Hsu coming to New York in 2001 and 2002, back before he knew anyone here. He was probably 17 but I thought he was 24. We were at my house on Graham Avenue in Brooklyn and he turned to me and said, "Do you wanna go to Supreme and...
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 WANNA CYBER?
Along with hovercars, hoverboards, and robot slaves, video-chatting is one of the four harbingers of the Future, as foretold in basically every sci-fi book or movie ever made. So far it's the only one we've figured out, and, honestly, it's kind of a bust. No one wants to sit there politely staring a...
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 SWELL O'DELLS
Lambsbread Is My SisterI’ve known my little sister Kathy her whole life, and as far I can remember she never expressed any interest in playing music or being in a band. Then suddenly she’s all, “I’m in a noise band called Lambsbread and I’m dropping out of college to tour! We play all these gigs and people go fuckin’ nuts...
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 FAMILY TRADITION
Martin County, Kentucky is dry. That means unless you can make moonshine, you ain't getting drunk. If you want to crank it up, you need to head over the bridge into Fort Gay (yeah, yeah), West Virginia. That's where the Wildcat bar is....
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 MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER
Make Me a MatchWe set up a blind date between Zata and Sidney, two 13-year-olds that live in New York City. Zata is a skater I know from skating at Tompkins Square Park and Sidney is originally from London. I chaperoned and paid the tab....
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 SUCKING HER LOVE
Riffing with Angela BoatwrightAngela Boatwright and I went to the same high school in Columbus, Ohio. Actually it was this half-day career center downtown where we learned photography, and we went there different years. So we never met. But when I did finally meet her, she would rant on and on about heavy metal controversies wit...
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 REZ IDOL
Photos by Patrick O'Dell
Styling by Kelsy Running Wolf...
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 MAZEL TOV!
Infiltrating a Hasidic WeddingBerel is a Hasidic Jew who I always see hanging around at parties and stuff. I asked him what it's like to be "of the people" and he invited me to go to a real-life Hasidic wedding with him. So we hopped in a car with a couple other Hasids and headed upstate. The other people in the car asked me tri...
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