Amongst all the contest mayhem going on in the columns section over the
last couple months, a feature interview with East Vancouver’s Joey Williams was
in the mix. I was recently doing some rainy-day mouse-click rummaging
through a few folders and came across some extras from our interview session:
Joey at the welcome
gates of The Palace – a sizeable and interesting home he shares with the likes
of Spencer Hamilton, Wade Desarmo, Bryan Wherry, Cain Cripps and Ian Twa.
Click the pop-shuv image
for some 2010 Barcelona footy featuring Joey Williams and Travis Stenger as
seen on Global Skateboarding.
Joey on the roof filming
The Palace’s house cat, Penny. Perhaps the footy is for another Penny Lover
video installment?
What’s this, you ask?
I’ll let Joey explain it:
“Ian Twa’s cat Penny is an icon around here. The mural I
painted in my room is based on a photo I shot of her doing this crazy roof gap
on the last day we lived at our place downtown, like 3 years ago. Penny jumped
off this rotten tree onto the top of a garage, and the tree branch broke right
as she jumped. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen, so I just tried to
recreate a cityscape with her jumping over it [laughs]. We had it as a griptape stencil as well. Penny’s a big
deal around here.”
Joey, along with Mike
McDermott, Russ Milligan, Cameo Wilson, Dane Collison and Jay Brown went to
BC’s Interior in late August for DVS Canada's “In Tents 2” tour. Click the
image to watch Joey’s sick ollie into an
all-vert pool in the Part 1 video.