Big cities are places to be feared and avoided. This is especially true if you are wealthy and white, and you’re a skier, so you are. Freeskiing’s number one journalist, Mike Rogge, shed light on the horrors of the American underclass. Even the Asians at RPI aren’t what they used to be.
Nonetheless, gentrification creeps into cities as incredibly hairy white people move into the slums and are then followed by decreasingly hairy waves of newcomers. It’s really messing up the ‘hood, and forcing skiers to rethink the validation and authentication they get from going to the Bronx or Roxbury.
We spoke with a filmer at Stept Productions and he told a story of serious ghetto decline. He explained, “Yeah we were really amped to shake some black people’s hands like Steele Spence in Focused, but all we could find was a sorta brown dude and a white person with poor hygiene. It was a huge disappointment.” The filmer went on, “We even tried to get them to talk about slangin drugs, but they were too worried that if a college administrator saw the footage they might be forced to go to a safety school like Brown.”
When I asked if it was worth it for skiers to go to inner-cities anymore, he replied, “I have to say no…we spent so much time in post-production editing out all of the Starbucks signs and car radios blasting NPR. That’s time and money, do you know how hard it is to dub over Marty Moss Coane? Damn near impossible.”
holy shit that was amazing.
That’s some next level “State of Skiing” commentary right there.
I would be concerned that this years movies would lack sufficient ghetto urban trips, but I know your definition of ‘gentrified’ differs every so slightly from that of the average person. FYI Nolibs and fishtown are still sketchy, Kesington is practically 3rd world.
Sickbird yo! Ghetto jibbing is probably over, but the playground jib session is still alive. Next level sesh is beach jib. Grab a truckload of snow from the ice rink and head over the Blacks Beach.
kensington isn’t a bad area, it’s pretty clearly headed in the right direction and although i’ve never been there after the sun goes down, i’ve never felt unsafe or anything there
well there certainly are real ghettos in Albany and Troy, so break out yo baggy pants kids and show everyone how gangstah you are.
talk shit and get murked in Rox real quick
My “keepin’ it real” includes Starbucks and Whole Foods. Gentrification FTW. Besides, having to drive 10 minutes for a post-urban-session Espresso Macchiato is annoying.
10 points to Simon.