HBO created a little guerilla film (mock documentary) delving into one of the subplots of How To Make It In America. If you’ve been watching the show, you’ll remember the skate decks that Cam (Victor Rasuk) invests in, which he can’t sell. Cam’s debt and overstock of useless skateboards launch the two main characters into the TV shows main plotline — starting another business venture, a denim line.
What can we say about the mysterious Wilfredo Gomez? The fictional character is part delinquent, part joker, part freak, part amazing athlete, part derelict — but all legend. Wilfredo is a composite of that brilliant talent we all know in the skater world that slipped into the dark path of obscurity with his personal demons.
The short film ends with the phrase, “Legends Never Die”, which was the mantra for our dear friend Harold Hunter, whose knucklehead spirit is still around the streets of New York City today. We still miss him. Sniff. Sniff.
(RIP Harold Hunter)
Special shout-outs go out to Eli Gessner, Atiba Jefferson, Jumonji, Alex Corporan, Dave Ortiz, Todd Jordan, and Mark Gonzalez — who spoke for all the skaters that stormed through this world but left their deep mark on us.
Legends Never Die.
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