The Nine Club #192 · Show notes.
Eli Morgan Gesner
About this episode
Eli Morgan Gesner discusses growing up in New York, getting into art at a young age, how he got into skating, promoting the club Mars and bringing hip hop to the club scene, Russell Simmons asking him to help start Phat Farm, starting Zoo York, why he would put “gutter text” in all the Zoo York ads, watching Mike Tyson snatch a pigeon from mid air, his new documentary film “All The Streets are Silent” and much more!
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The guest
Eli Morgan Gesner
Eli Morgan Gesner is a skater, artist and designer associated with SHUT and Zoo York. He discusses New York skateboarding and All the Streets Are Silent.
Chapters
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- Introduction and All the Streets Are Silent
- Saving tapes and the archive behind the documentary
- New York graffiti, trains and hip-hop culture
- Finding ramps in early New York skateboarding
- Venice connections and Santa Monica Airlines
- School, transition skating and returning to New York
- Promoting Club Mars
- Building a welcoming hip-hop party
- Music, sound systems and club memories
- The beginning of Phat Farm
- SHUT’s business model and the changing skate industry
- Street-skating conflicts in New York
- Rodney Smith and the formation of Zoo York
- Design equipment and doing the work in-house
- Creating early Zoo York advertising
- Illuminati graphics and their influences
- Zoo York wheels and experimenting with brands
- Scaling clothing production and meeting deadlines
- Leaving Zoo York and pursuing other work
- Designing ads and catalogs under pressure
- The documentary’s interviews and remembering Beasley
- Handing over the archive and letting the filmmaker work
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