"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.
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!
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.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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?
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.
❤ 😮😢😂😅❤ 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!❤(?!)!
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!!!
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.
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”
"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...
My first board circa 1966 had clay wheels, which sucked. When urethane wheels came out, it was like suddenly waking up on a better planet. "Be a kook." Goddam right.
@ericjorgensen8028 I loved Bennett's EXCEPT for those baseplate the loca shop was selling just the A.C.S baseplate got those. End of problem still have them. Along with Tracker half tracks
Excellent film. Interestingly, I’ve used a similar analogy about gravity and what Stacy called calcification. I said that gravity is compressing us to stone, but the same idea. BTW. If you’re reading this Stacy, please paint some shoes from the day. You may need to dig into memory for the images.
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i love this so much
"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.
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!
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.
This was much more inspirational than endless reminiscent gab over the good old days re: the z-boys.
what an incredible short film! I wish it was a longer documentary~ so inspiring!!!
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!!
"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.
what a legend
Absolutely awesome brother!!! Being an artist and surf/skater from the 70s I totally understand where you head is 🤙
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.
Kook for life.
Thanks for building a culture Stacey.
We love you.
Wow this is awesome, loved the hotel room paintings!
This man is a great source of inspiration
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.
This was great! BRAVO!
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.
Those fiberglass Zephyr skateboards were freakin heavy.
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!
This was FREAKIN rad. So inspiring. Words of wisdom to the talents and creative minds
@DanaShaw That was a awesome documentary ✌️😇 Keep them coming ✌️😇
Fantastic video , and what a cool view of life.
thanks for this, a childhood hero is still an inspiration for me pushing 50
Thanks for the video! I used to watch stuff like this all the time back in 03
So cool! I lived those days.
Thank you Stacy P ,you are a true "legend "!
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.
Beautiful. Thank you both. Life is amazing. Skate is pure being. Peace and love to all.
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.
Keep up the great docs brother. Once again you have motivated me!
This was refreshing. Very enjoyable.
What a treat…an inspiration…a legend…thanks Stacy!
Thanks for being a legend. You for all you're work in developing the future in sk8 boarding
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?
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!
We want a full length documentary!!! Beautiful shots and directing, really helped the story take form
...its so old its composting! I love it!!
Beautiful!
Beautiful and dripping w/ truth....
Thank You !!!!!!!64 year old skater / old man
stacy is great. the hotel story is a hoot! very fine work dana.
Awesome!
Very good video, thanks
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.”
BE A KOOK!! ✨
Thank you this is beautiful!!!
Kook 4 Lyfe 🤙
BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO we love you - thank you again for everything yu bring to the world through your love and passion for creativity
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.
❤ 😮😢😂😅❤ 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.
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!!!
BleSsUP! Respect!!!
Respect! So well crafted thank you. Such an inspiring impact this dude has had on my life.
This is amazing, thank you, Stacey.
'BE A KOOK!' - Hell yes!! Full length Doc plz. Absolutley awesome.
Solid video thank you❤
Still an incredible inspiration!!! Thanks Stacy
Wonderful movie.
Stacy fuggin Peralta! A true legend.
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.
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”
As a kid ,I was obsessed with those translucent red urethane wheels,I could almost taste them😆
This was a great watch! Fantastic job 👍
Just gotta be a kook!! Good work Charlie!
I just learned how to skateboard at 54 so yes what this guy says, do that!
"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...
My first board circa 1966 had clay wheels, which sucked. When urethane wheels came out, it was like suddenly waking up on a better planet.
"Be a kook." Goddam right.
My first board Black Night. My mom bought it for me from Big 5 Sporting goods. Clay Wheels
Clay wheels! I remember those. Goofyfoot
Dude that is an awesome idea about leaving a painting in a random hotel room.
So true. .. ✌🏼❤️🍩.
Wow thank you I needed this right now
Hey Kook-Aid!
OH, YEAH!
I had Roller Sport Urethane wheels as a kid. They were really good.
How can Stacey Peralta not have an Indy truck!? Lance send the perfect one though. I had several just like it. Good piece.
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.
That Bennett truck should have a broken baseplate (!)
@ericjorgensen8028 I loved Bennett's EXCEPT for those baseplate the loca shop was selling just the A.C.S baseplate got those. End of problem still have them. Along with Tracker half tracks
Beautiful watch.. Thank you. "Be a kook" - I'll remember that forever
Beautiful film! Always love seeing Stacy talk about life :-)
Inspiring yourself and keeping it fresh reignites are own spark…thanks for the stoke Stacy!
Its touching. Thanks for making a great video.
I'm pushing 70. I remember when Cadillac wheels came out. It changed skateboarding.
What a killer fusion of multi arts across time & space ~~~ stoke is stoke! 🔥
Love it. Really interesting doco
Really beautiful film ❤
Sick video!
Word up. Most. Excellent my friend.
Cadillac kid and Stacey!
Love this! 👏
Beautiful film. Truly inspiring ❤️
Great vid, Folks!! Still pushing since Christmas morning of '78!
Inspired to enter that kook phase!
Love the older footage on this 🙌
Stacy Peralta is to skating what Derek Hynd is to surfing.
Wow what an incredible person this actually made me tear up 💚
Love this-so helpful
Well done Stacy!!🤙🏻
great video, thank you
Excellent film. Interestingly, I’ve used a similar analogy about gravity and what Stacy called calcification. I said that gravity is compressing us to stone, but the same idea.
BTW. If you’re reading this Stacy, please paint some shoes from the day. You may need to dig into memory for the images.
👍👍
Kook for life 🤙🏼