{"id":59817,"date":"2016-08-30T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=59817"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:55:16","slug":"skateboardings-most-notorious-enforcer-jesse-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/skateboardings-most-notorious-enforcer-jesse-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding&#8217;s Most Notorious Enforcer: Jesse Martinez interview by Chris Nieratko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesse Martinez <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview by Chris Nieratko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Photos by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juicedan\/\">Dan Levy (@Juicedan)<\/a>\u00a0and Ted Terrebonne<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOlCMHAI4r4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Dogtown\/Zephyr skate teams of the \u201870s may have sparked the Venice Beach, California skate scene, but it was the unruly \u201880s Venice locals, headed by Jesse Martinez, that doused it in gasoline to see how high the flames would go.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1965 and raised in Venice, in a gang-infested neighborhood, 50-year-old, Jesse Martinez, found salvation on his skateboard, but not without bringing some of his home-life with him. While most pros of his day were rocking day-glo spandex and surf trunks, Jesse sported full cholo gear in advertisements. He needed no marketing gimmick and his background set him apart as one of skateboarding\u2019s most notorious enforcers. His brawls are the stuff of legend. While riding for the wholesome Bones Brigade, he knocked a guy out at a demo for slapping Lance Mountain. Another time, in self-defense, he threw a guy down a set of stairs at Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when skateboarding was making a shift from backyard ramps to street skating and searching for an identity, Jesse became the poster boy for the code of the streets. His documented defense of both himself and his local scene empowered an entire generation of skaters.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59846 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3.jpg\" alt=\"dm3\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dm3-614x409.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Jesse Martinez Photo by Ted Terrebonne<\/pre>\n<p>The new documentary, <em>Made In Venice<\/em>, (Directed by Jonathan Penson. In select theaters now) focusing on the 20-year battle to get the most expensive skatepark in the world built could have just as easily been a documentary about Jesse Martinez with the skatepark as the back drop. Jesse is infinitely more interesting and charismatic than any 16,000 sq. ft cement plot and the truth is for more than three decades Jesse has been the lifeblood of the humble Venice community. By the same token, the Venice scene is what keeps Jesse alive and I think he\u2019d truly die without his role as steward to the old neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>I caught up with Jesse in a back alley in Venice on the two-year anniversary of the passing of original Z-Boy and our dear friend, Jay Adams, to discuss his love for his city and the many opportunities to get off the streets of Venice that he\u2019s passed up on over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE.jpg\" alt=\"BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE\" width=\"1008\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE-600x407.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-GRIND-TERREBONNE-614x416.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Mess grinds Bel-Air backyarder. Photo by Ted Terrebonne<\/pre>\n<p><strong>What is your earliest memory of Venice Beach, Jesse?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was living with my mom, and my grandmother lived across the alley over on Sunset. I was like 5 and I remember my Uncle Wes waking me up like, \u201cGet up! Get up!\u201d He runs to the window with me and said, \u201cRun to your Grandma\u2019s!\u201d Then drops me out the window. Right when he did, a bunch of narcs passed me with shotguns, and then a bunch of those stun grenades went off. I remember running across the alley and my grandma came running and grabbed me. I think it\u2019s a memory stuck in my mind because of the flash of the concussion grenades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened with your uncle?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They went on a vacation for a little while. They got out eventually; everything was cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At what point does Venice change from just where you live and become home?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still there in a weird way but, in our day, to be from Venice, you stood up for the neighborhood. You stood up for all your buddies in the neighborhood. Sometimes whether right or wrong it doesn\u2019t matter, you stand up for them. We weren\u2019t a gang. There was more than one hundred of us\u2026 it was more of a tight brotherhood. Even with the local gangs, whether they were Mexican or black, we had mutual respect. The skaters and surfers actually intertwined with the local gangs; we were actually family, friends, and brothers with them. My actual family were all gang members, yet here I am skating and surfing, and a lot of us were like that in Venice. There were just offshoots, cousins, brothers of gang members, so it was like this camaraderie. I miss it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59847 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY.jpg\" alt=\"DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/DTA-DAN-IMG_5568-11-16-10-DAN-LEVY-614x409.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Mess and the next generation at Venice Skatepark. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p>It\u2019s a new type of Venice. The way the new kids have that pride, \u201cThis is Venice. This is Dogtown.\u201d The difference between then and now is you don\u2019t have to live in Venice anymore to be apart of that group now. I remember when I would walk out to that beach and I would know every single person down there skating the ramp, but the crew I grew up with are now gone. Some of them are in jail, maybe a couple are dead, but the majority of them no longer live in Venice. That\u2019s what made Venice, Venice: everybody knew each other, block by block. I\u2019m talking generations; after brothers, after cousins, marriages&#8230; It literally took 70 years to create this tight brotherhood. You could walk anywhere in that neighborhood and not fear anything really and everybody had your back, but now it\u2019s a different type of vibe in Venice. It\u2019s this mixed with the new and the old. The one thing I\u2019ve noticed, we\u2019ve got a lot of these, \u201cnew people,\u201d who have moved in the last 17 years or so. Well, they have kids, and their kids were small then. Now I see them, they\u2019re like 17, 18, hanging out at the park. Some of those kids are actually born here in Venice. You can\u2019t get anymore Venice than that. Those kids are going to be completely sucked into this Dogtown\/Venice way of life. There\u2019s no stopping that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think that\u2019s true forever? Venice has been gentrified with the influx of techies washing up on Silicone Beach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, the Beverly\/Venice crowd, they\u2019re cool people. You can\u2019t help if they happened to choose the right thing to be into. We were into skateboarding while this guy was into some computer things. That was his gig. That\u2019s what he likes. What he liked happened to make $450,000 a year. I just happened to like skateboarding, which made $37,000 a year. It\u2019s just the way it is. You\u2019re either into something that makes a lot of money and you\u2019re in there, or not. Who doesn\u2019t want to live by the beach? Come on, man, you can\u2019t blame them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59855 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT.jpg\" alt=\"VENICE-jesse ollie venice-TERRI-CRAFT\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-ollie-venice-TERRI-CRAFT-614x409.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Venice Old \"Skatepark\" Ollie. Photo by Terri Craft<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Speaking of lucrative ventures, I wanted to ask how you and Steve Rocco started World?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a strange one. At the same time Rocco had gotten fired from Vision, Powell gave me the boot, so me and Rocco are both floating out there. I rode for Santa Cruz for a minute. It just didn\u2019t work out; love Santa Cruz though, great guys, it just didn\u2019t work out. From there I went to a meeting with G&amp;S with Neil Blender, one of the baddest dudes on the earth. It just so happens I was heading home and driving through Hermosa Beach and I think I ran into Sal, Rocco\u2019s brother. He\u2019s like, \u201cHey, Jesse, my brother wanted to talk to you about something.\u201d So I connected with Rocco, and I went over to his condo in Redondo Beach. He\u2019s like, \u201cI want to talk to you about starting a company. I\u2019ve already talked to Skip [Engblom] and Natas [Kaupas] about starting Santa Monica Airlines.\u201d I\u2019m all, \u201cYeah, man, sounds good. Right now I\u2019m right in between teams. I don\u2019t have anybody. What\u2019s in it for me?\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ll make you so-so percentage of the company, blah blah blah\u2026\u201d Long story short, I wound up living in a room in his condo and he\u00a0is all like, \u201cOkay listen. I haven\u2019t paid the rent in a couple of months. We\u2019re going to be evicted.\u201d He just made the deal that I could live with him and start S.M.A. with him. So this landlord goes crazy and comes down to the basement and starts shooting a gun off. He brings all kinds of heat on the apartment. Rocco bails and leaves me in the apartment all alone. Anyway, we\u2019re still moving forward on S.M.A. Rocco\/Natas division. Short history of S.M.A., Rocco, Jesse, Natas, Skip, we all had our own divisions. Our boards snapped on impact. It totally sucked. Our graphics were cool. It was real weird what happened. One day I walked into the storage locker and Rocco goes, \u201cSkip and Natas left us!\u201d and I go, \u201cWhat do you mean \u2018us\u2019?\u201d We\u2019d always been the three musketeers, me, Skip and Natas, who came up from nothing. He goes, \u201cYup. Cease and Desist S.M.A. We\u2019re going to just use a new name.\u201d Rocco was pissed and really in revenge mode. I guess that\u2019s how World Industries came into play. That\u2019s what really ignited Rocco, that separation of Rocco and Natas and Skip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy.jpg\" alt=\"group__IMG_2263-levy\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/group__IMG_2263-levy-614x409.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Desmond Shepherd, Christian Hosoi, Leandre Sanders, Steve Olson,\nJoe Shmoe, Haden McKenna, Jesse Martinez, Peck, Victor Blue. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p>We went off and started World Industries after that. I was out there hustling to make ends meet and I wasn\u2019t getting paid for my destructible model that broke on impact. Then things started picking up all of a sudden. I came out with my Commit model and that board sold great. All of a sudden, I blink my eyes one day or I think I went to jail, I get out and the next thing you know Jason Jessee is riding on the team; Jeremy Klein, Ron Chatman, Jeff Hartsel, Mike V\u2026 Marc McKee became the artist back then. It seemed to just take off. People told us we were dead because we didn\u2019t have any vert riders. I remember guys commenting, \u201cJesse, you should just leave it now. Come and ride for us.\u201d I made a deal with Rocco, so I was going to stick with it and see what happens. Rodney Mullen came out of nowhere and that was a big deal. That started a three or four year battle between Powell Peralta and World Industries. If those two just would have had half a brain and known that it wasn\u2019t a big deal to argue over what had happened with Rodney and Mike V coming over, shit they both just should\u2019ve given me that money they spent on lawyers and they would\u2019ve felt good at the end. They spent an astronomical amount on bitching at each other in court. But anyway, everything seemed to be going good back then. Rocco had a Porsche\u2026 Mike V was punching holes in the walls\u2026 everything was killer. Money was flowing. The boys were ripping. We had the baddest team in the world. What was being created in the moment we were living was the new era of skating \u2013 the new street skating. That\u2019s one thing I\u2019ll give World Industries and Rocco, they started, \u2018One company is not enough. You don\u2019t have to win a contest to sell models.\u2019 They were the first guys to actually concentrate on just the skater. The video pro was born. Rocco showed everybody how to have not just one company but a monopoly of companies together. Why not be your own competition? It made skating crazier than it was already. <em>Big Brother<\/em>, all that, and there was the madness that came along with World&#8230; <em>Rubbish Heap<\/em> was the first video where there was just clowning instead of being so serious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59825 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy.jpg\" alt=\"JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JULIANJESSEJAMIE-levy-614x461.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Julien Martinez, Mess and Jamie Quaintance. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s talk about the situation with the Venice Skatepark. I know it\u2019s difficult for you to take money in general, even when you\u2019re doing work that deserves payment. You\u2019re promoting this <em>Made In Venice <\/em>documentary on the fight for the Venice Skatepark, but somehow you\u2019ve become the guy out there every morning cleaning the skatepark free of charge. How does that happen? Why aren\u2019t you being paid for your service?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The movie is one thing, but the shit that has gone on throughout time with the city and the park, that\u2019s a whole other movie in itself. That\u2019s not a good movie. As in life, nothing\u2019s easy, whether you\u2019re doing it with your friends or not. With the skate park and the city and me\u2026 you\u2019ve got to understand my background; there was a time on that beach when we were always there, we were in the mix, always problems and cops. So when the time came that I decided to start cleaning the park, I already had this slight reputation with the police and the city. They knew about me, they knew about my brothers, they knew about my family. We started off on the wrong foot. I admit I had built a bad relationship with the civic division all my life. There was a lot of friction between me and them and my family throughout my whole entire life. Now it\u2019s different. There are new cops. They\u2019re young dudes. The old ones were more hardcore. They\u2019d beat the shit out of you, strip you down and take you to the cemetery in Santa Monica. That was the old days when crazy shit went down like that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59856 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY.jpg\" alt=\"VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE-jesse-grab-goood-DAN-LEVY-614x819.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Mess Jump Ramp Venice. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p>We had finally gotten the park and we started cleaning it and the city at first was like, \u201cWhoa, what the hell?\u201d One day the city guy tells me to keep cleaning, and I told him we were going to sleep there tonight. For a month, we slept in that park with tents. We had power, TV, heaters\u2026 it was insane. We grew up here, born and raised, skating, terrorizing, now we\u2019re sleeping in our own park. Nathan Pratt was giving me money each month to clean the park and immediately reached out to some of his buddies and got money brought into the bank account. What do you need? Supplies? Pressure washer broke down? Go take care of it. Nathan is like that. I did what I was supposed to do and Nathan did what he was supposed to do. It was the best year and half that park had ever seen\u2026 sparkling clean every day. Here was the real problem. When Nathan Pratt came in, we had handed the City of Los Angeles a contract stating we wanted a 5-year agreement. They said no. We came back with another contract for a 1-year agreement saying, at the end of this year, we\u2019re going to get a 5-year agreement. This was just for us to hold off so they could make it all straight. Then Nathan would come back with the 5-year deal. At the end of all that, they said, \u201cNo deal, you\u2019re out.\u201d It was out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59850 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan.jpg\" alt=\"jay adams-jesse3-dan\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jay-adams-jesse3-dan-614x921.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Jesse and J-Boy. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p>So that was that, but I guess they don\u2019t know me very well. I guess they thought I was just going to go away. Nathan sat me down that day and told me by law, we\u2019re a legal nonprofit that pays you for what you do up there, but now you\u2019re not doing it, and we don\u2019t have a contract anymore to justify paying. He\u2019s right. That\u2019s how shit goes in the real world. So he told me for now he can\u2019t pay me, but if I want to keep cleaning that park it\u2019s on me. I have no insurance, no right of entry, no driver permit\u2026 They took all my shit, my keys, my power, everything. I let it go for about three or four days. I was bewildered, and Nathan was figuring out his angle. I walked to the park after three or four days, and it was destroyed. I looked at everybody asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s the deal? Isn\u2019t the city coming? We just had a meeting where they booted me!\u201d They said no one was coming, for four days. So I went home and got all my equipment working, got my blower and everything I needed for the next morning. I called one of my friends up who is down for the action. I don\u2019t mean violent action. He\u2019s like a political guy. He\u2019s got my back. He said if they get me and throw me into jail, he\u2019d film everything. I decided to drive on to that beach and clean that whole park and see what happens, because I have no insurance. I have no right to drive on the beach anymore. My friend was out there with his camera, infrared binoculars, waiting for the action to go down. I drove on out there and nobody said nothing. I cleaned the whole park. For 18 months now, that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ve been doing with no insurance, no drive-up permit and no right of entry. For years, they rode my ass for all of that stuff. What the hell am I doing there with no insurance?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59852 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy.jpg\" alt=\"jesse-dan-stony copy\" width=\"1008\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy-600x412.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jesse-dan-stony-copy-614x422.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Eric \"Tuma\" Britton, Dan Levy, Jesse Martinez, Jereme \"Stony\" Schadler. Photo by Terri Craft<\/pre>\n<p><strong>What time do you get out there?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I get out there between 5-5:30AM every day. It takes about 2 and a half to 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 days a week?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, of course not. Are you crazy? Anywhere between five and six days a week I go.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59851 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE.jpg\" alt=\"JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE-600x910.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JESSE-DAM-covertt-TERREBONNE-614x931.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Sepulveda Dam. Photo by Ted Terrebonne<\/pre>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s on them to keep the park clean. Why aren\u2019t they paying you? What\u2019s their reason?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say about 2-3 weeks went by when I was routinely cleaning the park and a few of the people from Venice, I told them my situation, that I was pretty much solo now. People started coming down to the park and giving me money for cleaning, like $50 or $100. Out of nowhere this one lady, Stephanie, she was head of Parks &amp; Rec of Rancho Park. She came up to me with two or three officials while I\u2019m cleaning and asks if I\u2019m Jesse Martinez. She said she wanted to talk to me. I was shocked when they asked what I did out there. I\u2019d been out there for probably four and half years, five years, when all of this happened. So I told them real quick what I did; sweep and broom crap. They said they wanted to hire me. I filled out an application and we had an agreement. They ran my background and came back with a misdemeanor from \u201983 and from \u201989, which was nothing, but they denied me the job. Once again I kept on coming. The head of LA County maintenance came up to me, Wilfredo. He\u2019s out of the Venice office on Sunset. He came up to me on the beach and tells me to get my record expunged and they\u2019ll hire me. I could work for Parks &amp; Rec, their division, LA County maintenance. It\u2019s a different division that has to take care of the park now. So I get my record expunged and hand him the paperwork a month or two ago, and nothing. That was a waste of $1,000. I can\u2019t tell you how many cupcakes and Diet Cokes that was. I was pissed. So I\u2019m online pounding videos out there, showing everybody what I do and how dirty, and what a shitty job their people do. They have three separate divisions to do what I do: Parks &amp; Rec, LA County maintenance, and LA County graffiti. They still can\u2019t keep it as clean as I do by myself. So they\u2019re wasting $150,000 a year to do nothing. That\u2019s usual. It\u2019s LA County. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re all bad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59848 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON.jpg\" alt=\"ENNIS,COOKSIE,JESSE,AARON\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ENNISCOOKSIEJESSEAARON-614x461.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Ennis Miller, Chris \"Cooksie\" Cook, Jesse Martinez, Aaron \"Fingers\" Murray. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<p>Out of the blue, through Scott Oster, I get this phone call from a guy named Sean, who skated for Z Flex as an amateur for a little while back in the day. He said he had some influence in the city with a lot of friends and connections. He said he\u2019d try to do something for me. Through the years, I\u2019ve had some pretty heavy guys that have supported me and have tried to work this out between me and the city. They\u2019ve all tried their best and they\u2019ve all backed me, and still back me. This guy, I don\u2019t know how he does it, but he somehow gets Councilman Mike Bonin to respond, so he set up a meeting last week. We walk into his office and there\u2019s Mike Bonin, super cool dude. Sean starts talking to Mike about the situation between me and the city. Sean is really knowledgeable about how the city really works. Maybe that\u2019s why he said he\u2019d do the talking. He proposed a deal to Mike Bonin for the Venice Skatepark Foundation to get me and Nathan right of entry along with a few other pluses. We\u2019re throwing around the idea of a certain amount of money for pay for me every month. Bonin\u2019s reaction, I\u2019d give it a 50\/50. Bonin said he\u2019s going to reach out to Parks &amp; Rec and the higher ups with the deal and try to work something out. That was a week ago, so we\u2019re going to see how it goes. Bonin is supposed to get back to me. That\u2019s where I stand right now as far as with the city.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59849 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4144\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4144-614x819.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Jesse Martinez grabs coping from Gonzales pool destruction. Photo by Jonathan Penson<\/pre>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s that park mean to you? What keeps you going back every single day to clean this place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons why I keep going back there. One I don\u2019t want to admit, but I will, because it happens all the time to me. I\u2019ll be there cleaning the park, frustrated as hell about the whole situation. I\u2019ve scraped up barely enough money for gas just to get there. I\u2019m all pissed, I can\u2019t even buy cigarettes, and I\u2019m cleaning. Then some small kid will show up, just a regular Joe kid with a parent, and they\u2019ll say, \u201cThank you so much for cleaning up the park!\u201d That\u2019s why I continue to clean this park.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it\u2019s my Dogtown, Venice, Santa Monica Airlines, Zephyr pride that says this is our neighborhood, and I don\u2019t need your job. I don\u2019t need your money. I\u2019m going to take care of the neighborhood whether you guys pay me or not or give me your blessing or not, it doesn\u2019t matter. Yeah, those are the two reasons I keep going back. That pride in the neighborhood and knowing what I\u2019m doing has set up the next generation. I said this seven years ago before the park opened\u2026 we were short pros\u2026 all the pros we had were running their course\u2026 all legends&#8230; Venice was short of pros. I could see it. If we don\u2019t do something now, the future of Dogtown, Venice, Venice Originals and all that pride, it\u2019d be gone. So I took it upon myself to stay at that park all day making sure it was clean, stopping the fighting and drinking, talking to all the kids, helping them get better. At that time, I was skating vert a lot, so I was showing guys how to do things and to set up, and also building that pride of Dogtown. We were running short on the crew. We had a few dudes popping in, but I knew it was my sole responsibility that these kids knew where they were and knew what they would become. One year went by\u2026 two years went by&#8230; three, four\u2026 I told people I\u2019d give it five years before two or three of these kids, all of a sudden, bust out Dogtown style and Dogtown way, Venice way. Sure enough, five years later, here came Haden, my son Julian and his crew, and they were all ripping. I remember one day I walked in there and a couple of the dudes were just <em>ripping<\/em>. I\u2019ve seen a lot of rippers. I know when people are ripping. That\u2019s the first time I went back and watched Blake. I remember thinking to myself, \u201cMy job is done. It\u2019s over. They\u2019re here.\u201d The next Dogtown crew is here. They <em>act<\/em> like Dogtown boys. They <em>rip<\/em> like Dogtown boys. They have <em>style<\/em> like Dogtown boys. Who cares if half of them don\u2019t become pros? They\u2019re acting and skating like Dogtown boys. I almost quit then and there, but then I started thinking, \u201cAh, I\u2019ve got to start cleaning.\u201d I kept on cleaning because I know there\u2019s a bunch of new kids coming up. That park needs to be clean. Those are the reasons I love Venice. My mother was born there, my brother was born there, I was born there. My two sons, thank God, were born there. But it is the end of a generation of my family, my bloodline being born in Venice because unfortunately the odds are crazy slim that I\u2019ll ever be able to afford a house in Venice ever again. That cycle is broken probably four, five generations. In my family it goes even deeper, it\u2019s done. That was one of the things I had to really fight at the beginning with new people coming in as the financial genocide took over the neighborhood. One by one people were moving out. They couldn\u2019t afford it anymore. Stores got more expensive, tickets got more expensive. More things in the neighborhood were wrong now. What was right in the old days, maybe when the police looked away in the old days, they didn\u2019t look away anymore. The petty shit now meant something. Flicking somebody off meant nothing now. In the old days ,if you flicked someone off in their car, both cars stopped and shit was handled. Now people argue for hours on the beach and pull their phones out. They have arguments that go for weeks and months online. In the old days, there was none of that. If you had a problem it was dealt with immediately right there in Venice. No problem in Venice ever went on for weeks. That shit was handled immediately, and I miss that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE.jpg\" alt=\"POOL-jesse air 1tt-1 2-TERREBONNE\" width=\"1008\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/POOL-jesse-air-1tt-1-2-TERREBONNE-614x407.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Tuma, Stony and Mess fs air. Photo by Ted Terrebonne<\/pre>\n<p><strong>That park is your lifeline to Venice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is one of the last holdouts for the old way of Venice. For all the kids and all the old guys. We\u2019re still there. We still come to the park, and we still meet at the park. I want that park to say &#8216;Welcome To Venice.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Click to find a theatre near you showing Made In Venice<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.com\">http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY.jpg\" alt=\"VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY\" width=\"1008\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VENICE_2286-DAN-1-4-10-DAN-LEVY-614x409.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>Mess bs method at the Venice Skatepark. Photo by Dan Levy<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>MORE ABOUT MADE IN VENICE THE MOVIE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><i>Made In Venice<\/i>, a documentary featuring the inside story of the skateboarders of Venice, California, and their struggle to make the dream of a skatepark come true, is now\u00a0being released in select theaters across the nation,\u00a0via Abramorama.\u00a0The feature-length documentary carries the viewer through the history of Venice to present day, as it tells the story of the decades it took a relentless crew of skateboarders, surfers and civic activists to convince the City of Los Angeles to build a skatepark in the area that gave birth to modern skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> is not just a skate movie. It\u2019s a tale of audacity, guts and hope filled with counterculture characters that overcame all obstacles to claim victory for the masses. Anyone that has fought for what they want can identify with this film. This is the story of visionaries that refused to give up the goal to build concrete terrain for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>The film captures the firsthand stories and recollections of 40-plus years of skateboarding in Venice that started with the Z-Boys, and continued with its legendary street skaters and the iconic Venice Skatepark. Never-before-seen Super-8 and early video footage, along with rare black and white stills, take you back to innovative demos on the Boardwalk and skating the walls of the Pavilion, as the Venice skaters pushed the boundaries of street skating and put it on the global map.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> features appearances by skateboarding legends, professionals, heroes, skatepark activists\u00a0and skate icons:\u00a0 <b>Jesse Martinez, Geri Lewis, Christian Hosoi, C.R. Stecyk III, Skip Engblom, Jay Adams, Jeff Ho, Aaron Murray, Scott Oster, Cesario \u201cBlock\u201d Montano, Jim Muir, Tim Jackson, Ray Flores, Eddie Reategui, Eric Britton, Dave Duncan, David Hackett, Joey Tran, Pat Ngoho, Wally Hollyday, Jimbo Quaintance, Joff Drinkwater, Nathan Pratt, Solo Scott, Jamie Quaintance, Asher Bradshaw, Kiko Francisco,<\/b>\u00a0<b>Bart Saric, Heidi Lemmon, Anthony \u201cTonan\u201d Ruiz, Lance Lemond, Susanne Melanie Berry, Jereme Schadler, Dennis Ogden, Steve Mayorga, Julien Martinez, Victor Blue, Steve \u201cPrimo\u201d Primeau, Mary Prideaux, Lauren Seagrave, Katie Sullivan, Adam Hamilton, Karington Smith, Mike Sherrod, Pauline Bronon, Mario Narango,<\/b><b>\u00a0Zack Wormhoudt <\/b>and many more.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> will be showing Aug 25-Sept 1 at the Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica, California. Following its Los Angeles openings, the film will roll out in theaters across the country, including skateboarding hotspots such as Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver, New York City and more.<\/p>\n<p>Opening night, Thursday, Aug 25th, sold out in less than 24 hours, so opening nights with the cast have been extended to the Pasadena (8\/30)\u00a0and Hollywood (8\/31)\u00a0shows too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MADE IN VENICE MOVIE: \u00a0Screening Dates and Locations<\/strong><br \/>8\/25 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/26 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/27 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 10:00AM<br \/>8\/27 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/28 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 10:00AM<br \/>8\/28 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/29 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/30 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/30 \u2013 Laemmle Playhouse 7 \u2013 Pasadena, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Laemmle NoHo 7 \u2013 North Hollywood, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Megaplex Gateway Theatre \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT &#8211; 7:00PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 The Maple Theater &amp; Kitchen, Detroit, MI &#8211; 7:00PM<br \/>9\/1 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>9\/1 \u2013 NorthWest Film Forum \u2013 Seattle, WA &#8211; 8:00PM<br \/>9\/5 \u2013 Gateway Film Center \u2013 Columbus, OH &#8211; 9:00PM<br \/>9\/7 \u2013 SIE Film Center \u2013 Denver, CO &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Buena Park, Buena Park, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Kirkorian Downey Cinema 10, Downey, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Monrovia Cinema 12 &#8211; Monrovia, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Redlands Cinema &#8211; Redlands, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian San Clemente Cinema &#8211; San Clemente, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/11 \u2013 Hollywood Theatre \u2013 Portland, OR &#8211; 7:30PM<\/p>\n<p><b><i>MADE IN VENICE<\/i> SOCIAL MEDIA:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MadeinVeniceMovie\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0@Made In Venice &#8211; The Movie<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madeinvenicemovie\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Instagram<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicemovie<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadeinVeniceDoc\"><span class=\"s2\">Twitter<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicedoc<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.tumblr.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Tumblr<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicemovie<br \/>Tag #madeinvenicemovie for all social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">For more information and upcoming screening dates\u00a0go to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinvenicemovie.com\/\">www.madeinvenicemovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Made In Venice\u00a0Trailer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/177438573\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><b>What people are saying about <i>Made In Venice<\/i>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIf the 2001 documentary \u201cDog Town and Z-Boys\u201d engagingly gave Southern California\u2019s skateboard culture its influential due, then \u201cMade in Venice\u201d comes across as its scrappy, but no less lovable, kid brother.\u201d<b> \u2013<i> L.A. Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Jesse Martinez has been in the game for a long time. Peep the vid of the Venice scene and the influence they had on the skateboard world. When Jesse talks, you listen and he has a\u00a0<i>Thrasher<\/i>\u00a0tatt. A true lifer gets it on wax for all to see. Check it.\u00a0<b><i>\u2013 Thrasher<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;The saga of Venice Beach Skatepark, one of skateboarding&#8217;s most remarkable David-and-Goliath stories, gets the documentary treatment this week with the release of\u00a0<i>Made In Venice.<\/i>\u00a0The path to completing the Jesse Martinez-designed park was twenty years in the making, but many of the young skaters who travel from far and wide to skate there may be unaware of the harrowing journey involved: the acres of bureaucratic red tape; misinformed or just plain antagonistic opponents gumming up the works; the continually evolving environment and realities of fighting for a piece of real estate at the second-most visited tourist attraction in So Cal. The whole experience wasn&#8217;t exactly a day at the beach&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<b><i>\u2013\u00a0The Skateboard Mag<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>They fought for a skatepark to keep DogTown alive<\/i>, is the mantra of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Made In Venice<\/span><\/a>, a film documenting the history of Venice Skatepark. With footage shot over 40-years ago, some seen for the first time, Made In Venice takes you through the history of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, to the current skatepark on the sand. Essentially, the film is a window into skateboarding&#8217;s history, paying tribute to those who fought to keep a skatepark in Venice to forever keep skateboarding rooted where it was born. \u2013\u00a0<b><i>The Berrics<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<i>Made in Venice<\/i> &#8211; The Movie is a story about skatepark advocacy in one of the most colorful places on the planet. Check it out!\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Tony Hawk Foundation<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<i>Made in Venice<\/i>\u00a0&#8211; the movie &#8211; a must see! This film is an essential piece of history, acknowledging and paying tribute to the ground soldiers whose tireless efforts brought to fruition a skatepark on the sand that millions now enjoy.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Alex Stowell &#8211;\u00a0<i>Venice Paparazzi<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cVenice Beach has some of the deepest skate history, but not always had a skate park. There are 40-plus years of skateboarding history in Venice, going all the way back to the Z-Boys. What many don\u2019t know and often most [especially tourists] take for granted is that the park wasn\u2019t built without a 20-year battle culminating in 2009 after a 10-month build. The\u00a0dream was to give Dogtown the iconic park we all see today.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0\u00a0Skate Slate Magazine<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i>\u00a0celebrates the hard work and countless hours that it takes to not just build a skatepark but to build a skate community.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/skatedaily.net\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>SkateDaily.net<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i>\u00a0will help others prepare for all the bs surrounding government projects. Thanks for making this.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/nyskateboarding.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>NYSkateboarding.com<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>&#8220;Made In Venice<\/i>\u00a0is a step by step manifesto for skate\/civic activism. It is a remarkable documentation of hard working visionary individuals transforming society.&#8221;<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>C.R. Stecyk III \u2013<\/b>\u00a0<b><i>Dogtown and Z-Boys<\/i>\u00a0author<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGo and see the <i>Made In Venice<\/i> movie. It\u2019s got a great story and you\u2019ll learn a lot about skateboarding. Support skateboarding worldwide.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Jesse Martinez &#8211; skateboarding legend and street skating pioneer<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cVenice is a place where respect is earned! Jesse Martinez epitomizes that statement. <i>Made in Venice<\/i> documents the lives of those who fight for their community and the cause to make a way for future generations of skateboarders. Fight for your dreams and they will become a reality!!!&#8221;<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Christian Hosoi &#8211; professional skateboarder, legend<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i>\u00a0is a must-see documentary. Skateparks are a vital part of the evolution of skateboarding culture, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Jeff Ho \u2013 founder of the Z-Boys &amp; Zephyr Shop (<i>Dogtown and Z-Boys)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cMade In Venice<\/i>\u00a0tells you the history of Venice skating. I dug the movie. It had a lot of really cool history that I didn\u2019t know before. I knew Jesse, but I didn\u2019t know all the history that went down in the \u201880s in Venice. I used to watch those guys skate at the Pavilion. There was a lot more going on that was in the movie that I didn\u2019t know that was cool. I was stoked to see all that.\u201d<b><i>\u00a0\u2013<\/i>\u00a0Wes Humpston &#8211; Dogtown skate art icon<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou should go see this movie if you\u2019re trying to get a skatepark built in your town because it shows what a community can do when they really get together and work towards something they want that would also benefit the community as a whole, especially the kids. Isn\u2019t that what it\u2019s about?\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Eric \u201cTuma\u201d Britton &#8211; skateboarding legend<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGoing to see <i>Made in Venice<\/i> brings my generation of skaters full circle from the days when the Dogtown scene influenced us in the &#8217;70\u2019s!<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Jim Murphy &#8211; Stronghold Society, Wounded Knee Skateboards<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<i>Made in Venice <\/i>is an inspirational story for any skateboarder to never give up. People don\u2019t understand what it takes to get a skatepark built and <i>Made In Venice<\/i> tells that story.<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Dave Duncan \u2013 skate legend<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBeing a ramp builder, I know the struggles of cutting through red tape to get a skatepark built. The\u00a0<i>Made in Venice<\/i>\u00a0movie was an amazing journey and I loved It.\u201d<b>\u00a0\u2013<i>\u00a0<\/i>Eddie Reategui &#8211; skate legend and park builder<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAn epic tale of what people will do for the love of skateboarding.\u201d \u2014<b> \u00a0Lou Metal &#8211; Metal Skateboards<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis wonderful film tells the story of how the dream of a Venice Skatepark came to be a fantastic reality, and the struggle that went into it\u2026 It&#8217;s incredibly lump in the throat touching at times, and laugh out loud funny at others.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<b>\u00a0CJ Gronner &#8211; Blogtown<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\">Learn more about the &#8220;Made In Venice&#8221; movie at <a href=\"http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.com\/\">www.madeinvenicemovie.com<\/a>. A portion of the\u00a0proceeds\u00a0from the sales of movie merchandise including hats, posters and t-shirts, will go to benefit the ongoing maintenance of the Venice Skatepark.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p2\">PRESS RELEASE:<\/p>\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td2\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Made In Venice<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Documentary Tells True Story Of Skate Community\u2019s 20-Year Battle<br \/>Through Voices of Its Visionaries<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/><\/span><b>Los Angeles, CA (August 17, 2016)<\/b> <b>\u2013 <\/b><i>Made In Venice<\/i>, a documentary, directed and produced by Jonathan Penson, featuring the inside story of the skateboarders of Venice, California, and their struggle to make the dream of a skatepark come true, will be released nationwide on August 25, 2016, via Abramorama.<\/p>\n<p>The feature-length documentary carries the viewer through the history of Venice to present day, as it tells the story of the decades it took a relentless crew of skateboarders, surfers and civic activists to convince the City of Los Angeles to build a skatepark in the area that gave birth to modern skateboarding.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> is not just a skate movie. It\u2019s a tale of audacity, guts and hope filled with counterculture characters that overcame all obstacles to claim victory for the masses. Anyone that has fought for what they want can identify with this film. This is the story of visionaries that refused to give up the goal to build concrete terrain for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>The film captures the firsthand stories and recollections of 40-plus years of skateboarding in Venice that started with the Z-Boys, and continued with its legendary street skaters and the iconic Venice Skatepark. Never-before-seen Super-8 and early video footage, along with rare black and white stills, take you back to innovative demos on the Boardwalk and skating the walls of the Pavilion, as the Venice skaters pushed the boundaries of street skating and put it on the global map.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> features appearances by skateboarding legends, professionals, heroes, skatepark activists\u00a0and skate icons:\u00a0 <b>Jesse Martinez, Geri Lewis, Christian Hosoi, C.R. Stecyk III, Skip Engblom, Jay Adams, Jeff Ho, Aaron Murray, Scott Oster, Cesario \u201cBlock\u201d Montano, Jim Muir, Tim Jackson, Ray Flores, Eddie Reategui, Eric Britton, Dave Duncan, David Hackett, Joey Tran, Pat Ngoho, Wally Hollyday, Jimbo Quaintance, Joff Drinkwater, Nathan Pratt, Solo Scott, Jamie Quaintance, Asher Bradshaw, Kiko Francisco,<\/b>\u00a0<b>Bart Saric, Heidi Lemmon, Anthony \u201cTonan\u201d Ruiz, Lance Lemond, Susanne Melanie Berry, Jereme Schadler, Dennis Ogden, Steve Mayorga, Julien Martinez, Victor Blue, Steve \u201cPrimo\u201d Primeau, Mary Prideaux, Lauren Seagrave, Katie Sullivan, Adam Hamilton, Karington Smith, Mike Sherrod, Pauline Bronon, Mario Narango <\/b>and<b> Zack Wormhoudt<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Made In Venice<\/i> will be showing Aug 25-Sept 1 at the Laemmle Monica in Santa Monica, California. Following its Los Angeles openings, the film will roll out in theaters across the country, including skateboarding hotspots such as Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, New York City and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MADE IN VENICE MOVIE: \u00a0Screening Dates and Locations<\/strong><br \/>8\/25 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/26 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/27 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 10:00AM<br \/>8\/27 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/28 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 10:00AM<br \/>8\/28 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/29 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/30 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/30 \u2013 Laemmle Playhouse 7 \u2013 Pasadena, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Laemmle NoHo 7 \u2013 North Hollywood, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 Megaplex Gateway Theatre \u2013 Salt Lake City, UT &#8211; 7:00PM<br \/>8\/31 \u2013 The Maple Theater &amp; Kitchen, Detroit, MI &#8211; 7:00PM<br \/>9\/1 \u2013 Laemmle Monica \u2013 Santa Monica, CA &#8211; 9:55PM<br \/>9\/1 \u2013 NorthWest Film Forum \u2013 Seattle, WA &#8211; 8:00PM<br \/>9\/5 \u2013 Gateway Film Center \u2013 Columbus, OH &#8211; 9:00PM<br \/>9\/7 \u2013 SIE Film Center \u2013 Denver, CO &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Buena Park, Buena Park, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Kirkorian Downey Cinema 10, Downey, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Monrovia Cinema 12 &#8211; Monrovia, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian Redlands Cinema &#8211; Redlands, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/8 \u2013 Krikorian San Clemente Cinema &#8211; San Clemente, CA &#8211; 7:30PM<br \/>9\/11 \u2013 Hollywood Theatre \u2013 Portland, OR &#8211; 7:30PM<\/p>\n<p><b><i>MADE IN VENICE<\/i> SOCIAL MEDIA:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MadeinVeniceMovie\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u00a0@Made In Venice &#8211; The Movie<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madeinvenicemovie\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Instagram<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicemovie<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MadeinVeniceDoc\"><span class=\"s2\">Twitter<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicedoc<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/madeinvenicemovie.tumblr.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Tumblr<\/span><\/a> @madeinvenicemovie<br \/>Tag #madeinvenicemovie for all social media.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td3\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"t2\" width=\"564.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td4\" valign=\"top\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td5\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"p5\">For more information and upcoming screening dates\u00a0go to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinvenicemovie.com\/\">www.madeinvenicemovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td2\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"p7\"><b>What people are saying about <i>Made In Venice<\/i>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>&#8220;Made In Venice<\/i> is a step by step manifesto for skate\/civic activism. It is a remarkable documentation of hard working visionary individuals transforming society.&#8221; &#8211; <b>C.R. Stecyk III \u2013<\/b>\u00a0<b><i>Dogtown Chronicles<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cGo and see the <i>Made In Venice<\/i> movie. It\u2019s got a great story and you\u2019ll learn a lot about skateboarding. Support skateboarding worldwide.\u201d\u00a0&#8211;<b> Jesse Martinez &#8211; street skating pioneer<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cVenice is a place where respect is earned! Jesse Martinez epitomizes that statement. <i>Made in Venice <\/i>documents the lives of those who fight for their community and the cause to make a way for future generations of skateboarders. Fight for your dreams and they will become a reality!!! <b>&#8211; Christian Hosoi &#8211; skate legend<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cThrough sheer perseverance, anything is possible.\u201d &#8211;<b> Jake Phelps \u2013 <i>Thrasher Magazine<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i> is a must-see documentary. Skateparks are a vital part of the evolution of skateboarding culture, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.\u201d <b>&#8211; Jeff Ho \u2013 founder of Zephyr, Z-Boys<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cYou should go see this movie if you\u2019re trying to get a skatepark built in your town because it shows what a community can do when they really get together and work towards something they want that would also benefit the community as a whole, especially the kids. Isn\u2019t that what it\u2019s about?\u201d <b>&#8211; Eric \u201cTuma\u201d Britton<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cGoing to see <i>Made in Venice<\/i> brings my generation of skaters full circle from the days when the Dogtown scene influenced us in the &#8217;70\u2019s! <b>&#8211; Jim Murphy &#8211; Stronghold Society, Wounded Knee Skateboards<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201c<i>Made in Venice <\/i>is an inspirational story for any skateboarder to never give up. People don\u2019t understand what it takes to get a skatepark built and <i>Made In Venice<\/i> tells that story.<b> &#8211; Dave Duncan \u2013 skate legend<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>\u201cMade In Venice<\/i> tells you the history of Venice skating. I dug the movie. It had a lot of really cool history that I didn\u2019t know before. I knew Jesse, but I didn\u2019t know all the history that went down in the \u201880s in Venice. I used to watch those guys skate at the Pavilion. There was a lot more going on that was in the movie that I didn\u2019t know that was cool. I was stoked to see all that.\u201d<b><i> \u2013<\/i> Wes Humpston &#8211; Dogtown skate art icon<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201cBeing a ramp builder, I know the struggles of cutting through red tape to get a skatepark built. The\u00a0<i>Made in Venice<\/i>\u00a0movie was an amazing journey and I loved it.\u201d<b>\u00a0&#8211; Eddie Reategui &#8211; skate legend, park builder<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">\u201c<i>Made in Venice<\/i> &#8211; the movie &#8211; a must see! This film is an essential piece of history, acknowledging and paying tribute to the ground soldiers whose tireless efforts brought to fruition a skatepark on the sand that millions now enjoy.\u201d <b>&#8211;\u00a0Alex Stowell &#8211; <i>Venice Paparazzi<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>\u201c<\/i>An epic tale of what people will do for the love of skateboarding.\u201d<b> &#8211;\u00a0Lou Metal &#8211; Metal Skateboards<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i> celebrates the hard work and countless hours that it takes to not just build a skatepark but to build a skate community.\u201d<b> &#8211; Derek Rinaldi &#8211; <i>SkateDaily.net<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\"><i>\u201cMade in Venice<\/i> will help others prepare for all the bs surrounding government projects. Thanks for making this.\u201d<b> &#8211; <i>NYSkateboarding.com<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"t1\" width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"p13\">For more information and upcoming screening dates\u00a0go to<\/p>\n<p class=\"p14\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinvenicemovie.com\/\">www.madeinvenicemovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"p14\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Martinez Interview by Chris Nieratko Photos by Dan Levy (@Juicedan)\u00a0and Ted Terrebonne The Dogtown\/Zephyr skate teams of the \u201870s may have sparked the Venice Beach, California skate scene, but it was the unruly \u201880s Venice locals, headed by Jesse Martinez, that doused it in gasoline to see how high the flames would go. Born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Skateboarding's Most Notorious Enforcer: Jesse Martinez interview by Chris Nieratko","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4027,4041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-skate-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BA-JESSE-ROCKNROLL-TERREBONNE.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59817"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99387,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59817\/revisions\/99387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}