Ted Barrow: Ride and Chat in Tempe, AZ

Take a ride with me and Ted Barrow through Tempe, Arizona, from Mitchell Park to the Wedge Skatepark, where we chat about old times and new times. Topics we talk about: Slow Impact AZ, getting his doctorate in art history, growing up and skating in Austin, visiting and eventually living in San Francisco, changes in music taste from hip-hop to Tom Waits, art influences, insecurities in high school, living in New York, graduate school, his old Feedback account, subjectivity in skateboarding, skating and improving after high school, working with Thrasher Mag, published skate photos and video parts, riding bikes, fixed gear culture in SF and NY, mid-life crisis, moving closer to family, old friends, stolen bikes, skating in Europe, the Victoria Memorial Fountain at Buckingham Palace, skating at the Eiffel Tower, being stranded in Boston and getting help from a random skateboarder, and much more. Thank you for watching!!
Ted's Instagram: @tedbarrow
Ted's "This Old Ledge" work on Thrasher Magazine:
www.thrasherma...
Watch more ride and chat videos:
• Ride and Chat: Interviews
Tech info:
Filmed on Sony ZV-E1
Sony 20mm F1.8 G lens
Camera Mic: Rode VideoMicro
Ted's Mic: DJI Mic (1st gen) with wind cat
Light: VIJIM VL120
Edited with DaVinci Resolve Studio v.18
Filmed in 1080 and upscaled to 4k
Filmed in 30p 10-bit HLG3, no color correction
My Instagram:
/ tuesdaysturn
And some KZbin bike channels:
/ @kingsrideshop
/ @cruisinginthe808
/ @thenostalgicneighborhood
/ @deezybikelife
/ @whynotchristopher
/ @chakarra
Local homies:
/ @bigbikebmx
/ @evrgold
/ @dreblockz
/ @lowmeinisi

[@antonmyhrvold]

Grate interview :) 🔥❤

[@TuesdaysTurn]

Thanks much!

[@TimothyWard1984]

Radical

[@TuesdaysTurn]

Preach!!

[@humanpart2]

beautiful, excellent job

[@TuesdaysTurn]

Appreciate that!!

[@wolfgangbrardt]

solid gold

[@TuesdaysTurn]

Thanks much!!

[@shotbythewitness]

Nice. I’m right down the street on priest and 5th

[@TuesdaysTurn]

I love riding in Tempe!

[@mercjohnson9125]

Really great interview. What I’d give for that amount of dry smooth ground rn!

[@TuesdaysTurn]

Come on down! You better hurry though, it's getting hot already here in Phoenix...

[@SidewaysIsDead]

is ted from hyde park?!

[@TuesdaysTurn]

I was thinking further north, but I'm not sure. I grew up in south Austin and rarely went north.

[@SidewaysIsDead]

@@TuesdaysTurn i feel that. i'm currently in hyde park, but south austin has the best ditches/spots. cool to hear you guys talk about it and getting filled in on the history more. great upload!

[@TuesdaysTurn]

@@SidewaysIsDead I went to Crockett. Just north (?) is 5 hips ditch (?) which I still see in videos all the time. Just south on those tracks less than a mile there was a fun ditch we called Mountains Mountain. It's mostly just a bank wall and you need a roll in, like some plywood. I never see it in videos, so it's probably overgrown or gone. We used to skate there all the time in the late 80s though. There was actually a demo there once, and Hosoi was there.

[@SidewaysIsDead]

@@TuesdaysTurn its funny you mention that because i spent an afternoon last summer walking along the tracks trying to find Mountain's Mountain. i think you're right, it must be gone now! love 5 hips though! and lizard ditch.

[@TuesdaysTurn]

@@SidewaysIsDead Dang that sucks. If you're going south on the tracks from Stassney, you pass Garrison and it was on the right side way before William Cannon. I just checked Google Maps satellite view, and I can still see it, but it looks run down and it could be an old image / it could be gone. If you find Stanley Ave, it's just south of there. There is a small useless ditch before it, between Stanley and Mountains.