This should be shown in school. Brilliant lesson. You learn by just trying. You get better by just trying. You find new interests and understanding by just trying. You live a fuller life by just trying.
"When you keep yourself in that kook phase, you expose yourself, you make yourself vulnerable, and you open yourself up so life has a chance to get in you, and work its magic on you." So good Stacy Peralta.
Stop. Your autism isn't important. Neither is this self centered boomer brain. Normal people learn a science, invent a technology, cure a disease. This dude literally spends his time on himself, it will never benefit anyone else.
"Every kid needs to feel beautiful. Because when you feel beautiful, you're connected to yourself - and to the ground." Oh my gosh, how true and how beautiful. Because the truth is we are so individually very beautiful, and each person needs to know this about their self by feeling it. I always walk around reflecting a kid's beauty back to them - because I see it and I want them to always be reminded of that truth so that one day, when maybe they've been a bit too beat down by life or nobody let them hold on to that knowledge-through-feeling, my little confirmation will have added up within them as a resilience that protects them from the lies the world tells them about their self. I love turning into a crone of a woman. I love the rewards of being old(er)! I love this wisdom. But yeah, one has to fight against the gravity of life pressing down against you. ;) Love love love this message/story! LOVE YOUR ARTWORK! Thank you for sharing yourself! :D
This is awesome Stacy!!! Although I would think it would be impossible for you to be a kook ,your style is absolute perfection. You inspire and influence me heavily and positively. Those paintings are great
Love it,we catamaran the street we lived on,our clay wheels exploded, clay and bb's (bearings)went everywhere, it taught me alot about mechanical things,im always goin upstream ..😊
So well done, Dana.👍 You've so brilliantly captured the essence of one of the most cherished and inspirational people who have ever stepped on a skateboard.
hey Peralta - thanks for this, thanks for being rad in Dogtown & thanks for giving us skate dudes the Brigade. ‘Chin’ was for us. I know y’all hate it, but it was your Powell & Peralta Snobs’ SNL of that era. it’s badass that you’re creating art, still. thanks for that & please charge on…many of us are still all-in.
Love it. Great guy! I am a 1976 (Paris) skateboarder and I which I would still have kept all me skateboards. Especially the last one for that period for me. A 7 layers laminated Hobie board, ACS trucks and 65 red Kryptonics wheels. I never had a better combination after that. Not sure what happened to it. I moved so many times. I lost it all. No big deal.
This is so inspiring; I've dedicated part of my life to painting and writing, and I always denied myself the fact I love skateboarding since high school... now is the time. Thank you, really.
Stacey. You and Gregg Weaver were two of my favorite skaters in the 70s i just turned 64 .i unfortunately can't skate anymore but. I still follow the sport and still consider myself a skater. Love your paintings. I still have several of my old boards including one with Chicago trucks and Roller Sports Mk iv wheels . Keep the stoke alive
This was really fantastic. 59 year old skateboarder here. I remember the iconic photos of Stacy from Skateboarder Magazine. Who didn't want to look that cool on your deck?
Love it! It reminds me also of a phrase with which I live by, which is to allow yourself to be a beginner and to have a beginner's mindset. This opens up the wonder and creativity, as well as the excitement of the new. Keep on rolling!
Stacy, I'm not sure if you're going to read this, but you've been the brightest light of inspiration in my life since I could remember being alive. Probably 3 or 4 years old. You've always represented the magic in the world, and the possible magic that is available to me, in the creative ways I've lived. If there is such a thing as magic in our world, your mind, body and spirit contain an astonishingly generous amount of it. Maybe because you've always been looking for things no one else notices? Maybe because you're tuned in with a level of awareness that many of us aren't open enough to realize is there? All I can say is thank you for being such a great mentor from afar, providing inspiration and unveiling radical colors, expansive shapes and far out vistas the rest of us could never have imagined! You've shown us so many glimpses of the passageway to a secret and magical world, that gives us all a deeper awareness of what boundaries might exist out there for us to make our own discoveries and push beyond the limits of what we know. I understand what you're saying here about getting your cues from the creative subconscious, rather than the loud noise of the mind. I think when you're able to connect with that space, anything is possible, and perhaps this is where the most innovative ideas and art are possible? Dana... this is the best. Thank you. I've never seen Stacy on camera being so open and honest before about his inner world and thoughts. It's truly inspiring to hear him speak after years of experiencing his spirit in the outer world.
Bones Brigade Audio Show said on their IG story to watch this immediately… so glad I did. Such a great perspective, gotta appreciate the kook phases. 🙌 Amazing storytelling here, just wow!!!
❤ 😮😢😂😅❤ LOST MANY YEARS OF MY ADULT LIFE TO A HORRIBLE ILLNESS, BEEN HOMELESS IN SANTA CRUZ QUITE A WHILE, RICH GUY CALLED ME A "KOOK" SAID GET AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE WHEN I WAS OUT THERE BEGGING GOD TO KILL ME, TURNED IT INTO A COMEDY ROUTINE, STARTED DOING MUSIC INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING... SO THANK YOU STACY PERALTA FOR PUTTING THE WORD "KOOK" IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT, I HAD ONE OF YOUR BOARDS BACK IN THE DAY BUT NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS DID I THINK YOU WOULD BE NARRATING THIS TALE OF CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL PURSUIT, GOD BLESS YOU STACEY YOU'RE AWESOME!❤😢😮😅❤ It takes a real man to say "Kids need to feel beautiful" - they should put that on a plaque somewhere!❤(?!)!
Saw Stacey and Tony Hollits probably pull the first 360 airs , they were landing on the bottom . Skatetopia half pipe in ca. The end of the pipe. Ray bones was always ripping that park too. Worth mentioning also.
"Kooking" it daily....heard your interview on the foil pod & it helped me understand my repetitious pathway putting myself through the acquiring agony just like skating in '76! Keep going...
Mine was a downhill fiberglass deck made in San Diego called a Runyon Roller Module. Stacy I hung at Your shop in SB with my musician/surfer/skater friends that worked for You. “Live In Beauty”
i met you, shogo and russ howell in a parking lot of a st louis shopping mall in 1977, i believe. i think you were doing a demo for bahne or some such brand board. for a kook, you were a class act then, and 47 yrs later, you continue the tradition. thanx, man.
Stacy, your abstract drawings are so cool. I would love to see some of your original artwork like the ones in your book of drawings on a new Stacy Peralta signature model deck from Powell Peralta. I would buy that and ride it instantly. Thanks for showing us your skateboards. The progression is amazing, especially the last 4 yellow Powell boards, which show a finer granularity of evolution, as you perfected and invented your ideal skateboard with George Powell; the skateboard you would become a famous visual iconic superhero for, forever.
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This is the most beautiful thing ive witnessed in a long time. Thank you to Stacy Peralta for leading me back to seeing the beauty in the world again
This should be shown in school. Brilliant lesson. You learn by just trying. You get better by just trying. You find new interests and understanding by just trying. You live a fuller life by just trying.
"When you keep yourself in that kook phase, you expose yourself, you make yourself vulnerable, and you open yourself up so life has a chance to get in you, and work its magic on you." So good Stacy Peralta.
Stop. Your autism isn't important. Neither is this self centered boomer brain. Normal people learn a science, invent a technology, cure a disease. This dude literally spends his time on himself, it will never benefit anyone else.
Scary what you can see in your dreams
At the end of the day Life's gonna finish on your face..
That's what I got from it..
“Be a kook”…timeless advice from a legend.
Exactly
Love this brah, stellar journey, rawk on... \m/
"Every kid needs to feel beautiful. Because when you feel beautiful, you're connected to yourself - and to the ground." Oh my gosh, how true and how beautiful. Because the truth is we are so individually very beautiful, and each person needs to know this about their self by feeling it. I always walk around reflecting a kid's beauty back to them - because I see it and I want them to always be reminded of that truth so that one day, when maybe they've been a bit too beat down by life or nobody let them hold on to that knowledge-through-feeling, my little confirmation will have added up within them as a resilience that protects them from the lies the world tells them about their self. I love turning into a crone of a woman. I love the rewards of being old(er)! I love this wisdom. But yeah, one has to fight against the gravity of life pressing down against you. ;) Love love love this message/story! LOVE YOUR ARTWORK! Thank you for sharing yourself! :D
THAT was beautiful.
This is awesome Stacy!!!
Although I would think it would be impossible for you to be a kook ,your style is absolute perfection.
You inspire and influence me heavily and positively.
Those paintings are great
what an incredible short film! I wish it was a longer documentary~ so inspiring!!!
Kook for life.
Thanks for building a culture Stacey.
We love you.
I always stop to see anything about Stacy. Inspires me to do my own art.
Lol, Sims pure juice wheels, tracker trucks and a Santana board was all of our favorites back in the day. Great memories of a simpler time.
i ve livedd for skateboards and painting since i'm 16 and i'm 34. this document is an epiphanie
Wow this is awesome, loved the hotel room paintings!
@DanaShaw That was a awesome documentary ✌️😇 Keep them coming ✌️😇
This man is a great source of inspiration
Stacy is a video game legend. 👍🏻
Love it,we catamaran the street we lived on,our clay wheels exploded, clay and bb's (bearings)went everywhere, it taught me alot about mechanical things,im always goin upstream
..😊
What a prince of a man!
Stacey Peralta is one of my favorite documentary filmmakers. full stop.
And in these 10 minutes I feel you captured some of that magic. thank you.
This was FREAKIN rad. So inspiring. Words of wisdom to the talents and creative minds
So well done, Dana.👍
You've so brilliantly captured the essence of one of the most
cherished and inspirational people who have ever stepped on a skateboard.
Awesome perspective of art, surf and skate all rolled into one great guy! Thanks for keeping the STOKE alive!
Absolutely awesome brother!!! Being an artist and surf/skater from the 70s I totally understand where you head is 🤙
Thanks for being a legend. You for all you're work in developing the future in sk8 boarding
This was much more inspirational than endless reminiscent gab over the good old days re: the z-boys.
Love those old boards!!! Takes me back to my childhood, only I was never very good at skateboarding. We mostly sat on ours are raced down the hill!!
hey Peralta - thanks for this, thanks for being rad in Dogtown & thanks for giving us skate dudes the Brigade. ‘Chin’ was for us. I know y’all hate it, but it was your Powell & Peralta Snobs’ SNL of that era. it’s badass that you’re creating art, still. thanks for that & please charge on…many of us are still all-in.
Love it. Great guy! I am a 1976 (Paris) skateboarder and I which I would still have kept all me skateboards. Especially the last one for that period for me. A 7 layers laminated Hobie board, ACS trucks and 65 red Kryptonics wheels. I never had a better combination after that. Not sure what happened to it. I moved so many times. I lost it all. No big deal.
Fantastic video , and what a cool view of life.
This stuff is so pure, inspirational and motivating at the same time. And to conclude with the message to be a Kook is the just nailing it!
This is so inspiring; I've dedicated part of my life to painting and writing, and I always denied myself the fact I love skateboarding since high school... now is the time. Thank you, really.
Stacey. You and Gregg Weaver were two of my favorite skaters in the 70s i just turned 64 .i unfortunately can't skate anymore but. I still follow the sport and still consider myself a skater. Love your paintings. I still have several of my old boards including one with Chicago trucks and Roller Sports Mk iv wheels . Keep the stoke alive
I hope I’m as cool as you in 33 years fr. I’m 31 and have been skating sine I was 9.
This was really fantastic. 59 year old skateboarder here. I remember the iconic photos of Stacy from Skateboarder Magazine. Who didn't want to look that cool on your deck?
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we love you - thank you again for everything yu bring to the world through your love and passion for creativity
So cool! I lived those days.
We want a full length documentary!!! Beautiful shots and directing, really helped the story take form
Beautiful and dripping w/ truth....
Love it! It reminds me also of a phrase with which I live by, which is to allow yourself to be a beginner and to have a beginner's mindset. This opens up the wonder and creativity, as well as the excitement of the new. Keep on rolling!
Feel beautiful. Thank you.
Legend and amazing painting
Thanks for the video! I used to watch stuff like this all the time back in 03
Keep up the great docs brother. Once again you have motivated me!
Thank you Stacy P ,you are a true "legend "!
What a treat…an inspiration…a legend…thanks Stacy!
BE A KOOK!! ✨
Thank you this is beautiful!!!
Kook 4 Lyfe 🤙
This was refreshing. Very enjoyable.
...its so old its composting! I love it!!
Stacy, I'm not sure if you're going to read this, but you've been the brightest light of inspiration in my life since I could remember being alive. Probably 3 or 4 years old. You've always represented the magic in the world, and the possible magic that is available to me, in the creative ways I've lived.
If there is such a thing as magic in our world, your mind, body and spirit contain an astonishingly generous amount of it. Maybe because you've always been looking for things no one else notices? Maybe because you're tuned in with a level of awareness that many of us aren't open enough to realize is there? All I can say is thank you for being such a great mentor from afar, providing inspiration and unveiling radical colors, expansive shapes and far out vistas the rest of us could never have imagined! You've shown us so many glimpses of the passageway to a secret and magical world, that gives us all a deeper awareness of what boundaries might exist out there for us to make our own discoveries and push beyond the limits of what we know. I understand what you're saying here about getting your cues from the creative subconscious, rather than the loud noise of the mind. I think when you're able to connect with that space, anything is possible, and perhaps this is where the most innovative ideas and art are possible?
Dana... this is the best. Thank you. I've never seen Stacy on camera being so open and honest before about his inner world and thoughts. It's truly inspiring to hear him speak after years of experiencing his spirit in the outer world.
i love this so much
Very good video, thanks
Thank You !!!!!!!64 year old skater / old man
I never knew Stacy was such a talented painter-would love to buy one of his pieces, if he’s selling any.
“That’s the magic-be a kook.”
thanks for this, a childhood hero is still an inspiration for me pushing 50
Awesome!
what a legend
Beautiful!
Truly inspiring stuff.
Bones Brigade Audio Show said on their IG story to watch this immediately… so glad I did. Such a great perspective, gotta appreciate the kook phases. 🙌 Amazing storytelling here, just wow!!!
❤ 😮😢😂😅❤ LOST MANY YEARS OF MY ADULT LIFE TO A HORRIBLE ILLNESS, BEEN HOMELESS IN SANTA CRUZ QUITE A WHILE, RICH GUY CALLED ME A "KOOK" SAID GET AWAY FROM HIS HOUSE WHEN I WAS OUT THERE BEGGING GOD TO KILL ME, TURNED IT INTO A COMEDY ROUTINE, STARTED DOING MUSIC INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING... SO THANK YOU STACY PERALTA FOR PUTTING THE WORD "KOOK" IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT, I HAD ONE OF YOUR BOARDS BACK IN THE DAY BUT NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS DID I THINK YOU WOULD BE NARRATING THIS TALE OF CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL PURSUIT, GOD BLESS YOU STACEY YOU'RE AWESOME!❤😢😮😅❤
It takes a real man to say "Kids need to feel beautiful" - they should put that on a plaque somewhere!❤(?!)!
Excellent. Thank you Stacy.
This was great! BRAVO!
this is realtalk !
Respect! So well crafted thank you. Such an inspiring impact this dude has had on my life.
I had Roller Sport Urethane wheels as a kid. They were really good.
I just learned how to skateboard at 54 so yes what this guy says, do that!
Those fiberglass Zephyr skateboards were freakin heavy.
stacy is great. the hotel story is a hoot! very fine work dana.
Stacy fuggin Peralta! A true legend.
Still an incredible inspiration!!! Thanks Stacy
BleSsUP! Respect!!!
Saw Stacey and Tony Hollits probably pull the first 360 airs , they were landing on the bottom . Skatetopia half pipe in ca. The end of the pipe. Ray bones was always ripping that park too. Worth mentioning also.
Solid video thank you❤
"Kooking" it daily....heard your interview on the foil pod & it helped me understand my repetitious pathway putting myself through the acquiring agony just like skating in '76! Keep going...
This is amazing, thank you, Stacey.
This lit the fire under my butt i needed to hear words of wisdom from Sensei Paralta thank you Dana for making this shoft film 🙏
Yeah get out there and be obsessed with your own dumb self. Whatever you do, make sure you're entire life only serves your self.
'BE A KOOK!' - Hell yes!! Full length Doc plz. Absolutley awesome.
Mine was a downhill fiberglass deck made in San Diego called a Runyon Roller Module. Stacy I hung at Your shop in SB with my musician/surfer/skater friends that worked for You. “Live In Beauty”
i met you, shogo and russ howell in a parking lot of a st louis shopping mall in 1977, i believe. i think you were doing a demo for bahne or some such brand board. for a kook, you were a class act then, and 47 yrs later, you continue the tradition. thanx, man.
Wonderful movie.
This was a great watch! Fantastic job 👍
Stacy, your abstract drawings are so cool. I would love to see some of your original artwork like the ones in your book of drawings on a new Stacy Peralta signature model deck from Powell Peralta. I would buy that and ride it instantly. Thanks for showing us your skateboards. The progression is amazing, especially the last 4 yellow Powell boards, which show a finer granularity of evolution, as you perfected and invented your ideal skateboard with George Powell; the skateboard you would become a famous visual iconic superhero for, forever.
How can Stacey Peralta not have an Indy truck!? Lance send the perfect one though. I had several just like it. Good piece.
Wow thank you I needed this right now
Beautiful film! Always love seeing Stacy talk about life :-)
So true. .. ✌🏼❤️🍩.
Just gotta be a kook!! Good work Charlie!
Inspiring yourself and keeping it fresh reignites are own spark…thanks for the stoke Stacy!
What a killer fusion of multi arts across time & space ~~~ stoke is stoke! 🔥
Its touching. Thanks for making a great video.
Beautiful watch.. Thank you. "Be a kook" - I'll remember that forever
Inspired to enter that kook phase!
Great vid, Folks!! Still pushing since Christmas morning of '78!
I'm pushing 70. I remember when Cadillac wheels came out. It changed skateboarding.
Cadillac kid and Stacey!
Beautiful film. Truly inspiring ❤️
Hey Kook-Aid!
OH, YEAH!
Word up. Most. Excellent my friend.
Stacy Peralta is to skating what Derek Hynd is to surfing.
Really beautiful film ❤
Wow what an incredible person this actually made me tear up 💚