Wally Hollyday: Skate Park Designer

Here is the transcript of our interview with Wally Hollyday, designer of Columbia’s skate park plan.
How did you get into designing skate parks?
Wally: I was a skater, and I came out to California to tour the parks and was really disappointed with what I saw and I ran into someone that was doing a demo [...]

Interview Summaries With Ray and JD

Ray Kussro :: DFCC elder, Irmo area
kids :: Caleb, 12
Emily, 7
Ryan, 5
How are skate kids perceived by adults/parents?
the kids are ‘fringy,’ they have a different look but they are the same kids.
How do you think it compares to other sports?
it’s not an organized sport, ‘parents don’t understand it because they never experienced it’
they tend to [...]

Michelle: Skateboarder’s Mom

On our video, Haley and I interviewed a skateboarder’s mom at the Plex. Below is the transcript.
What does your kid like to do?
Michelle: Anything on wheels is his thing. It started with go-karts, dirt bikes, but it’s hard to find a place to do that. Skateboarding and the razor scooter, anything on wheels is for [...]

Interview with Ryan Cockrell

Here is the transcript of Ryan’s interview with us.
How did Pour It Now begin?
Ryan: Pour It Now started because the city was looking to move the skate park in order for a track to be built by Richland County schools. So, a group of skaters, myself included, got together, made a petition to try to [...]

Engineer’s View

I asked my cousin, who is an engineer, about her field of work and urban planning, and I think I have hit something pretty cool. If only I could have known this earlier. Here’s her response to my questions…The first part is explaining about different fields within engineering, and at the end she explains she [...]

Pour it now in Free Times this week too

The good thing about finding stuff online is you don’t have to scan it in.
Here’s an interesting article about PIN. Turns out an ex city council woman’s child is a skater… they are everywhere.
Free Times Article: City, Pour It Now Skating Toward New Park
Construction of Facility at Owens Field Could Start This Summer
BY NICK MCCORMAC
Ever [...]

Interview Tips

I wanted to wish you luck on your interviews so I have a link with some interview tips for you to review.
http://tinyurl.com/kof2zn
Please type your interviews after you complete them asap. Trust me on this one, because the writing will look legible while conducing the interview but after 24 hours you will say “WTF did I [...]

Interview with neighborhood planner

Hey folks,
My friend Tiaa B. Rutherford has agreed to talk to you concerning skateboard parks. Her contact information is below. I’ll let you decide who does what, blah blah.  Of course, review questions with Morgan and  me first.
Tiaa_Booker@hotmail.com    Cell :  803-730-1230

A Good Question

I ran across this today and thought :: yes – an interview is only as good as the question. (sometimes) one simple question answered by several different people can give great insight into a person and a project. before you start interviewing people make sure you come with a few good questions.
here is a [...]

Interview at Blue Tile

Here are the interviews with dave… watch thoroughly.

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