{"id":90613,"date":"2020-11-13T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/?p=90613"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:39:29","slug":"beatrice-domond-in-conversation-with-jim-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/beatrice-domond-in-conversation-with-jim-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatrice Domond in Conversation with Jim Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEATRICE DOMOND INTERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION BY JIM &#8220;MURF&#8221; MURPHY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Talking with Beatrice, I was blown away on how she views skateboarding. She is so inspired by the culture and stoked to ride that her humble approach and appreciation for being part of the skateboarding family made me feel like I was speaking with a skateboarder for life. Listening to Beatrice speak about going to NYC for the first time and being stoked to meet the people that she had grown to respect via magazines and videos, it reminded me of growing up and first being welcomed to a skateboard crew. She is living proof of how hard work and dedication and your view of the world can inspire you to achieve your dreams. Beatrice is Fucking Awesome!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Hello, Beatrice. This is Jim Murphy from Juice. How are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Hey, Jim, how are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: I\u2019m good. How are you doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I\u2019m well. Everything is good. I\u2019m in L.A. right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: All right. You\u2019ve been chilling out there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I\u2019ve just been chillin\u2019 and hangin\u2019 out. The weather out here is awesome, so I\u2019ve been trying to skate and film and just have fun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. Are you ready to get this interview going?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah, for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Let\u2019s talk about what year were you born and where you were raised.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was born in 1995, in January, in Miami, Florida. I lived there until the age of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: When did you start skateboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It wasn\u2019t until I moved up to Palm Beach County, when I was five, that I started pushing around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What got you into it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was always athletic and I was playing a whole bunch of sports and then skateboarding came up and I was like, \u201cOh, I should try it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What other sports were you into?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I grew up playing tennis, soccer and basketball, and I was into swimming. I did a lot growing up. My mom put me into a lot of activities. She just wanted us to be well-rounded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up skating with anyone. I didn\u2019t have anyone to skate with besides my younger brother, so I got him into it. I had a little patio in the backyard, so we\u2019d skate that, or we\u2019d go to the park a couple of streets over. It was just me and him for a while.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you digging the team sports?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KATE: I liked them to an extent. I\u2019ve always been such an individual and a very singular person, so I didn\u2019t like the aspect of being relied on or being the tallest all of the time. With basketball, that would put everything on me and I\u2019d rather not have that responsibility, so I tried skateboarding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: With skateboarding, did you see other kids skating or were you just burned out on organized sports?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KATE: Yeah. I think that\u2019s what it was. I didn\u2019t grow up skating with&nbsp; anyone. I didn\u2019t have anyone to skate with besides my younger brother, so I got him into it. I had a little patio in the backyard, so we\u2019d skate that, or we\u2019d go to the park a couple of streets over. It was just me and him for a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Was your mom understanding of what it was that you were getting into in skateboarding?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KATE: She was super understanding and super for it. I think she saw that I was just happy and really enthusiastic about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Your mom must be super cool because you really went individual and you were doing things that none of your friends were doing, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KATE: Yeah. It\u2019s hard to explain because some parents might be like, \u201cWait. No one is going to do this with you?\u201d My mom is a really special human. She grew up not getting to do things that she wanted to do, so one of her things was that, when she was older and had children, she was going to let them be themselves. She let us be individuals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s great. A lot of the kids that you knew probably didn\u2019t have parents that were quite as accepting. A lot of parents will railroad kids into activities that they want them to be into, you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: For sure. She had her moments. My mom wanted me to be into tennis and I really loved tennis at one point. When she saw how passionate I was about skating, she did everything in her power to help me continue to get where I am today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s really cool. Were you reading skate magazines or watching skate videos? What inspired you to keep going?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. YouTube had just come out in the early 2000\u2019s and you could type in the word \u201cskateboarding\u201d and just start&nbsp;watching videos and see how to ollie or kickflip. Then you could find pros on the sides of the videos. I\u2019d watch videos and study the magazines and learn from that. I learned how to ollie from watching the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I know. [Laughs] It\u2019s kinda weird, but I learned half my tricks from watching videos online. I never really thought about that until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you feel like you were part of the skate culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I felt like I was part of the skate culture or, at least, I wanted to be. I love a challenge and I really love how&nbsp;skateboarding was back in the day where you had to be knowledgable as well as good. I was like, \u201cIf I can get good at skateboarding and I have all of the information, I can meet these cool people and one day skate with them or film with them.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/5Beatrice_Domond_BusSkitch_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/5Beatrice_Domond_BusSkitch_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg 648w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/5Beatrice_Domond_BusSkitch_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/5Beatrice_Domond_BusSkitch_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-614x921.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption>BUS SKITCH. PHOTO BY MIKE O\u2019MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: When did you start to take road trips? At that point, were you hooking up with anybody to skate with?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. It was just me for a long time. I would go to Tampa and watch the Tampa Am and get stoked by that. I was like, \u201cOne day I could be here skating Tampa Am.\u201d Eventually, I went to the skatepark, but I never really made friends at the park, so I\u2019d just skate by myself. It wasn\u2019t until I met Bill [Strobeck] and I sent him my videos and I went to New York that I had a unit of people that I could call my friends and travel with. I had school friends, but no one skated in my high school.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So you sent Bill your videos?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. That\u2019s how I got on FA and Supreme. I\u2019d make these videos and film them on my tripod and edit them myself and send them to Bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s incredible. Who was Bill working for at that point?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I think he was just freelance then. I had watched Photosynthesis and he participated in filming that and then I read an interview with him where he said that he might quit filming skateboarding to do other work. I was like, \u201cI\u2019ve got to hang out with this guy and film with him before he decides to quit filming&nbsp;skateboarding.\u201d So I sent Bill all of my videos and he was like, \u201cI\u2019m working on this video.\u201d That happened to be the Cherry video, which was the first Supreme video that he was working on at the time and he put me in the video. Then, in 2014, I got an invitation that said, \u201cYou\u2019re invited to the premiere of Supreme\u2019s first video.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Wow. Did they fly you up there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. I had a job working at Sky King Fireworks, at the time, in my hometown, and I\u2019m a big saver, so I had some money saved. My mom got us tickets for the Amtrak train up to New York and I financed the hotel and the food we ate. The train takes longer than a plane, but we got there and spent three days in New York for the premiere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you tripping when you got to New York City?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I was so excited. That was my first time to New York and I was tripping so hard. I was taking pictures of everything. [Laughs] I was taking pictures of trashcans on the side of the roads. I was like, \u201cLook! It\u2019s a New York City trashcan! Dill ollied that in <em>Mind Field! <\/em>I was so excited and happy to be there. I don\u2019t know if I mentioned this, but my dad is from New York. When I was growing up, he was like, \u201cNew York is the best!\u201d He always talked about it, but we never got to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Where did your dad grow up in New York?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: He grew up in the Bronx. When he was in high school, his family moved into Manhattan to the Lower East Side. That was in the \u201870s and New York was wilder then, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Yeah. He was in the Boogie Down Bronx.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: That\u2019s so funny. That\u2019s what he calls it, the Boogie Down Bronx! [Laughs] That was his vibe. He was telling me these crazy stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: For him to see you go to New York, he must have been stoked. He wasn\u2019t fearing for you going to the city, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. He just said, \u201cBe safe and watch out for yourself. You\u2019re going to have an amazing time.\u201d To him, New York is the best and will always be the best.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s so rad. Where did you stay?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: We stayed at the Holiday Inn on Delancey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIt\u2019s about the journey and not about the destination. You\u2019re going to look back on your life and think, \u201cI miss&nbsp;drinking 99 cent rootbeer and eating Cheetos at my skatepark while I was trying to learn this new trick.\u201d Those are the moments that you live for. If you can cherish those, you can always cherish when you reach your goal. Trust me. You\u2019ll regret it if you don\u2019t spend time just enjoying your youth. Don\u2019t rush. Take your time.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So you were on the Lower East Side. Do you remember what the scene was?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was freezing cold. We got there on the 12th of March, which is prime time winter in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Totally. What did you do before you went to the video premiere?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: We checked into the hotel and everything was chill and then I DMed Bill on Instagram. He was like, \u201cYou should come over to the house and bring your mom.\u201d So we go to his house with the famous wall. By then, that was already becoming a thing where people were taking photos of the wall. It was so sick. So we\u2019re there and my mom got to meet Bill and he was so pleasant and kind to her. He told her about skating and how we met. She was like, \u201cThat\u2019s cool. Beatrice talks all about you.\u201d Then he was like, \u201cWe should go to Supreme and you can meet everyone.\u201d He got my mom a taxi back to the hotel because she was kinda beat, and then Bill and I started skating down to the East Village. I had no idea where I was, so I was just following him. As we were skating, I was seeing every professional skateboarder, in the span of five minutes. I guess everybody was out there for the premiere. Alex Olson was just sitting and having a coffee, so I met him for the first time. We stopped and he was like, \u201cWhat\u2019s up? I\u2019ve seen your skating.\u201d He was complimenting me and it was so crazy. I couldn\u2019t really say anything because I was freezing cold and speechless. I had just gotten there from Florida and here were all of these skateboarders that I got to meet. Then we went to Supreme and everyone was there. They were all like, \u201cWelcome. Good to have you. Super stoked that you\u2019re here.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you sponsored by Supreme then?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: In 2014, I was getting FA flow and Supreme flow.&nbsp;A lot of people don\u2019t know this, but I\u2019ve been on FA since the beginning. Since Dill and AVE quit Alien Workshop, I\u2019ve been on FA. The first time I got a box was September 23rd, 2013.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7Beatrice_Domond_Gold_Profile_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7Beatrice_Domond_Gold_Profile_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg 648w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7Beatrice_Domond_Gold_Profile_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/7Beatrice_Domond_Gold_Profile_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-614x921.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption>PURE GOLD. PHOTO BY MIKE O\u2019MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How did you get on Fucking Awesome?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Well, I think my case was just different and special. Before then, I would send Bill my videos and, one day, he was hanging out with Jason and he showed him my videos and Jason emailed me. I still have the email. I even cut it out and put it on my wall as a good memory. He was like, \u201cHey, this is Jason. I don\u2019t do email much. I\u2019m very old, but I saw the tape that you gave to Bill. You look cool. I want to send you some Workshop stuff. Send me your address and I\u2019ll get you something soon. Hope all is well.\u201d &#8211; J.D. I laughed that he said he was old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: [Laughs] At that point, Dill was still on Alien Workshop, but he was looking to do his own thing, right?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. He was still on Alien Workshop, but then FA came to be.&nbsp;Then they announced that they were doing FA as a board brand. That was around the same time that Cherry was being filmed, so I was talking to Bill every day or every other day. Jason was putting work into his new company and just before the brand got released to the public, I got a box of two FA boards. It was two Anthony class boards and a few Supreme t-shirts and stickers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Those first AVE boards had his picture on them of him as a little kid. What was your reaction when you saw those graphics?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was stoked. I was like, \u201cWhoa! He looks exactly the same. That\u2019s Anthony. This is AVE\u2019s board.\u201d I knew about Fucking Awesome before it became a board company because it was his clothing brand. There was imagery of it. I do my research and I really care about skateboarding, so I kinda know what\u2019s going on. I knew of FA as a clothing brand, before it was a board company, so I was like, \u201cOk. Now it\u2019s going to be a board brand.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Jason was starting from scratch with a board company and I know he was stressed about it, but you were confident it was going to work, right? You were like, \u201cThis is going to blow up.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: For sure. They were just so cool. Now when I think about it, that\u2019s ridiculous. As a kid, I was like, \u201cThese guys are the coolest people on the planet and they\u2019re going to make something so sick and I\u2019m going to ride for it.\u201d I have a sense of people and intuition. I didn\u2019t know anything about money and how that stuff works, but I knew that these people are cool and they\u2019re going to do cool stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cWhen I was growing up, I didn\u2019t see anybody like myself, but I took from people. I\u2019m tall, so I\u2019d look at Kareem Campbell because he\u2019s tall, or I\u2019m brown, like Kareem Campbell is brown. I\u2019m a girl, like Vanessa Torres, so I saw that I could do this too. It was even intricate things like Chad Tim Tim and I have the same birthday, so I thought that I was meant to do this.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you see the brilliance and the insanity of calling a company Fucking Awesome?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Well, at the time, I was scared to tell my mom, \u201cMom, this company is called Fucking Awesome.\u201d Usually, she\u2019s against that stuff, but I guess she saw how stoked I was on it. She was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d After getting her approval, I didn\u2019t think anything of it. It\u2019s just edgy. I call it FA sometimes, but when you\u2019re young, cuss words are cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Look at how big it is now. It was just an idea and you were there at the beginning and you\u2019ve seen it evolve. It\u2019s incredible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. The thing of it is, that what it is now, I already thought that\u2019s what it was then. I was like, \u201cThese are my favorite skaters. They\u2019re cool. It\u2019s going to be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s really beautiful. That\u2019s just pure skateboarding. That\u2019s fucking awesome. You were getting boards and you love those guys and everything was great.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah! [Laughs] That\u2019s exactly how I felt. Now I\u2019m more like, \u201cWhat?! Oh my god!\u201d I might panic. Back then, I was like, \u201cLet\u2019s do it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What was the time span between then and when you went to New York City for the Supreme Cherry video premiere?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was in Florida still, just skating my heart out. I didn\u2019t have anyone to tell me how to do stuff. That\u2019s why I have a different journey than some other skateboarders. I didn\u2019t have anyone around to tell me that I should move to California or New York to get the ball rolling. I was just like, \u201cI\u2019m in Florida and I\u2019m just going to skate.\u201d They knew I was here when they gave me the boards, so I was skating and I just kept doing what I was doing. I took everything literally when I was younger. Everyone was like, \u201cJust keep doing what you\u2019re doing.\u201d So I was like, \u201cOkay.\u201d So I kept skating in Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It wasn\u2019t like you were getting any jocked out pressure from Dill. Dill dug you for who you are and what you did, so you didn\u2019t have to do anything but just be yourself.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I just had to be myself. I was just skating in Florida every day and going to school and grinding it out. I was just finishing up high school, about to enter university. Around that time, I wasn\u2019t sure what I was doing. It was one of those things where I was going to go to school and just keep skating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you of the mind that you wanted to go to university or did you just want to go skateboarding? Was that the battle?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Well, I think the battle was that I wanted to do both. I was like, \u201cAll right, I\u2019ll go to school.\u201d I wanted to be an architect, so I thought I would go to school for architecture and skate on the side and try to make it work that way. There\u2019s a lot to say about being naive and not really knowing how to do the skating thing, if that makes sense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Do you mean as far as the business goes and marketing and promoting yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Exactly. I had no idea. I was like, \u201cI\u2019ll go to school for architecture and still keep skating and filming my videos and putting them out, even if it was just on Instagram. I would go to New York on Spring Break and I\u2019d get these modeling jobs and that\u2019s how I would make money to fund my skating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So this was right after you went up for the Supreme Cherry video premiere, when you started getting modeling work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"875\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9Beatrice_Domond_Krooked_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9Beatrice_Domond_Krooked_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9Beatrice_Domond_Krooked_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9Beatrice_Domond_Krooked_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-614x415.jpg 614w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/9Beatrice_Domond_Krooked_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><figcaption>SUPREME KROOKED. PHOTO \u00a9 MIKE O\u2019MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: I had no idea you were a model. I think it\u2019s interesting that you\u2019re skating and people are discovering you and you\u2019re like, \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll model, so I can get to skate up in New York.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: That was the goal. I was doing everything to get to New York to skate and get that feeling that I had the first time I went, so I took the modeling jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Nice! Were those modeling jobs good paying gigs?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. They were paying me well. It got to the point where, on Spring Break, I could fund my own little trip to New York to skate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Where did you like to skate in the city?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I like to skate Tompkins. That\u2019s a big hit in the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Explain to people that haven\u2019t been there what the deal is with Tompkins Square Park and why it\u2019s so rad to skate there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Going back to Florida, I grew up watching Compost and those old videos where there was that box in the middle of Tompkins. I didn\u2019t know anything about Tompkins then, but I thought that box was there all of the time. That\u2019s not the case. I like it because I grew up watching Harold Hunter skate that place. They were all skating there and hanging out there and it just looked cool. It\u2019s just a bunch of flat ground. Sometimes people will put obstacles there, but they\u2019re not always there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were there other skaters that you would meet up with there and skate with?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: At the time, Sage was living there, so I\u2019d call him and we\u2019d skate L.E.S. a bunch. I didn\u2019t get a New York summer until later, so I saw that people didn\u2019t leave the house in the winter in New York City. Everyone was either heading out to L.A. or it was just too cold. Now I get it, but then I was like, \u201cI\u2019m only here for a week. Where are you? Let\u2019s skate.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Was Dill living in New York at that point?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. At the time, he was in LA, so he wasn\u2019t in New York anymore. I would only see Dill in New York at the Blessed premiere and the Cherry premiere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Let\u2019s go back to the Cherry premiere with Supreme. Was that the first time that you connected face to face with Dill?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. My mom actually took the first photo of me and him in front of the East Village theater.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Sick! You must have been tripping.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Oh, dude, of course. I was stoked. I was so happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cI grew up watching \u201cCompost\u201d and those old videos where there was that box in the middle of Tompkins. I didn\u2019t know anything about Tompkins then, but I thought that box was there all of the time. That\u2019s not the case. I like it because I grew up watching Harold Hunter skate that place. They were all skating there and hanging out there and it just looked cool.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You go from being an isolated skater, watching YouTube and skaters that you emulate, to&nbsp; actually meeting all of these pro skateboarders. Were you surprised at how cool they were when you met them and the&nbsp; camaraderie that went down?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I always had high expectations then, so I was inspired to meet them, which is pretty rare. When most people meet their favorite skaters, they\u2019re let down. When I first met Dill and Bill, they exceeded my expectations. I don\u2019t know if they meant to do that, but they really did. It was kind of crazy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You\u2019ve got your mom there seeing how cool it all is too. It\u2019s perfect.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yes. She was so proud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you tripping at all about your mom coming with you?\u2008What if it went south?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: My thing was that my mom was coming all the way there, so what if I had no clips in the video. I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s going to be so embarrassing.\u201d Then I was like, \u201cWhatever. This is our first trip to New York. She loves me for who I am and she was proud of me just for being born.\u201d At that point, you can\u2019t do anything wrong. It turned out good though. The crowd was so hyped when my clip came on and she was so proud. It was funny. She was sitting next to Steve Olson and Alex Olson, so I was tripping on that. It was crazy. There were all of these pros sitting around us and it was just too much at once. It was so overwhelming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You got hit with everything. It was your first time in New York and you\u2019re seeing all the heavy duty pros and you\u2019re in a video and people were screaming for you. It must have been a trip.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was so overwhelmed. It was just ridiculous. I was like, \u201cWhat the heck is going on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: After the video premiere, did you get into cool conversations with people who were getting to meet you face to face?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yes. Everyone was coming up to me. Jahmal Williams said, \u201cThat was dope. Congratulations.\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat?\u201d It was just the coolest people saying, \u201cThat was sick!\u201d They were so stoked to have me there. It was crazy. Some of the people were just so nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s righteous because you\u2019re skating for fun and you just wanted to connect with people and everything is flowing.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Exactly. It\u2019s crazy how it went. Here it all is in one big swoop. I met Dylan Rieder that night too. I met every pro that I look up to in the span of two days. Everyone came to that premiere. It was crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Everyone was showing respect and love too, which is beautiful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. A lot of people say that there are the cool guys of the industry, like Supreme, but they are&nbsp;actually the sweetest of all of the industry guys, in my opinion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How would you define Supreme and the people associated with Supreme?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: From my perspective, it was very family. They were really open and they really took care of me and showed me around and they made themselves available, when they didn\u2019t have to. They might be the cool guys, but they were super sweet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: After that video, you\u2019ve got your modeling career going. Were you still in college?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was still going to college, but I had switched my major to film.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/10Beatrice_Domond_LA_Tunnel_COL_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/10Beatrice_Domond_LA_Tunnel_COL_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg 648w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/10Beatrice_Domond_LA_Tunnel_COL_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/10Beatrice_Domond_LA_Tunnel_COL_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-614x921.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption>L.A. TUNNEL JAM. PHOTO BY MIKE O\u2019MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Was that because of your skateboarding and the videos you were making of yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I figured that was more close to home, so it made it more tangible and easier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you finish college?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. I ended up getting my associates. Before I could finish, I started going on trips and whatnot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What was your first trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: My first real skate trip was a Vans trip.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How did you get on Vans?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was definitely a Dill connection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: At that point, you know Dill and the guys at Supreme. Did you ever ask them, \u201cHey, how do I get on a trip?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: See. That\u2019s why my story is so long. I never did that. I just didn\u2019t think that\u2019s how you went about it. How I think of things is, if you have it and you\u2019re coming with it, no one can deny you and you should just have what you&nbsp;deserve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So you just thought that people should be asking you.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was more like, \u201cIf I\u2019m not getting asked to go on a trip, I\u2019m not there yet, so I need to be skating harder.\u201d That\u2019s how I thought of that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: The other side of that coin is that they might see it like you don\u2019t want to go because you\u2019re not showing enthusiasm.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: See. That\u2019s what I didn\u2019t know people thought, which I learned later in life. I just thought, \u201cOh, they didn\u2019t ask me to go. I\u2019m not ready yet. Keep skating harder.\u201d That\u2019s what I thought. I didn\u2019t ask. I just kept skating really hard. Then I had this watch sponsor, CHPO, at the time. It was a Swedish watch company that wanted to sponsor me, so I was like, \u201cThank you. That\u2019s great.\u201d They were like, \u201cWe\u2019re going to California to work on ads for next year and we want to fly you out for that.\u201d That was my first time in California in 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What was that trip like?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Well, I met up with the guy from the company and they showed me around and it was really cool. I was like, \u201cI should call Sean or go to Supreme or call someone out here and tell them that I\u2019m out here.\u201d So I did and we all met up and hung out. I guess me just being here showed them that I was&nbsp; serious about this. Then I got a phone call from Dill and he put me on as an amateur, officially, for FA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Killer. At that point, FA was up and running to where Dill could sponsor you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. The FA team was already established, but I was just a flow rider, getting boards and stuff. The team had already come out with two videos and it was already established by then. I think the fact that I came out here to California goes back to what you\u2019re saying. They were like, \u201cOh, she\u2019s serious about this and she wants to skate.\u201d I think that everyone saw me skating and working really hard. Dill called me and said that everyone was telling him that I was doing a great job. It was amazing when he officially put me on, May 28, 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You know what it is, Beatrice? There are a lot of people in skateboarding that oversell themselves, so sponsors aren\u2019t used to people that are humble and quiet. There are so many people in their face wanting free shit. That\u2019s what makes you so unique. You\u2019re like, \u201cI\u2019m just going to skate and, if you don\u2019t call me, I\u2019m just going to keep skating harder.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. That\u2019s what I thought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It\u2019s all good because you\u2019re so humble. The fact that you\u2019re skating hard and you\u2019re dedicated, that\u2019s why it\u2019s paying off now. You\u2019re a real skater.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Thanks, Jim. I appreciate that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"872\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13Beatrice_Domond_Powerslide_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13Beatrice_Domond_Powerslide_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13Beatrice_Domond_Powerslide_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13Beatrice_Domond_Powerslide_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-614x413.jpg 614w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13Beatrice_Domond_Powerslide_LA_2020_OMEALLY-NEW-768x517.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><figcaption>POWERSLIDE. PHOTO \u00a9 MIKE O\u2019MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You\u2019re a true skater saying, \u201cI\u2019m just going to skate. It\u2019s all good. I\u2019m modeling in New York and I\u2019m going to make some money and skate.\u201d That\u2019s skateboarding.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Thank you. Yeah. I grew up thinking that\u2019s how you do it in skateboarding. You just keep skating and, if people think you\u2019re rad, they\u2019ll hook you up. I was raised to be confident, but also, if you do the work, you\u2019ll get your shine. There\u2019s no need for me to be putting it in your face. If you see it, you\u2019ll see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: I think you\u2019ve taken the best road possible because you stayed true to yourself. I think Jason and AVE have been around the block enough that they know true people. I think that\u2019s why you are where you are and that\u2019s fucking awesome!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: [Laughs] Thanks, Jim. I appreciate that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So it\u2019s 2018, and you\u2019re in California and Dill puts you on FA as an amateur. Did you go skate with Dill when you were out there for that watch shoot?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I don\u2019t think I saw him on that trip. He gave me a phone call to tell me about all of these things and he was like, \u201cWe\u2019re going to shoot your first ad. You\u2019re going to meet up with Atiba.\u201d Dill was living in Ventura then and I didn\u2019t really know my way around, but he said, if he came to L.A., he would hit me up. I didn\u2019t skate with him when I came to L.A. for the first time. I was just skating with&nbsp; everyone around me and meeting people at parks. I skated the Diamond Park and I knew Spanish Mike from Instagram. I was just skateboarding all day every day and going to every park and all the street spots. I was just hyped to be here. I didn\u2019t get to see AVE either. I think AVE was on a trip. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you street skating mostly or did you hit many skateparks?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I hit Frogtown and we street skated all through the streets. I met up with my friend that was living here. She is from the East Coast too and she just loves skating around. We had no car, so we were just skating everywhere. It was like skating in New York, but in L.A. you just skate everywhere. You skate to the spot and you skate to the skatepark. We skated the Silverlake park and the Diamond park. I got to skate AVE and Dylan\u2019s old park. Now it\u2019s the Nike park in North Hollywood. I skated there and I skated the L.A. Supreme bowl.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How did that ride?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: That was sick. I like that bowl a lot better. It\u2019s tight. If you\u2019re&nbsp; &nbsp; really good at transition, you won\u2019t really like it, but, if you\u2019re a beginner, like myself, with transition, it\u2019s good. I love it. I could do boneless tail in there and I got some backside grinds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you skate any pools out there or other bowls?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. My friend didn\u2019t know of any and I was just going where she was going. I didn\u2019t skate any pools, but I skated that bowl a lot. I went to a lot of skateparks and a lot of street spots. I just skated anywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Cool. So how did things go with that watch company?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I did that photo shoot and then I ended up getting another&nbsp; modeling gig while I was here. Someone saw that I was in L.A. and they were like, \u201cHey, we\u2019re doing this shoot in San Pedro. We\u2019ll bring you up, if you\u2019re down to do it.\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay. Yeah.\u201d I extended my flight so that I could stay in L.A. for two more weeks, from that money.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So you were out in L.A. and you were skating. Now that you were on Fucking Awesome, as an amateur, was Dill hooking you up on other stuff?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. He was like, \u201cWho are you riding for?\u201d At that time, I had Nike SB giving me flow from Nike. He was like, \u201cWhat?\u201d The last time he had seen my footage, I guess I was wearing Vans, but I wasn\u2019t riding for Vans at the time. He was like, \u201cWhat? No Vans?\u201d I was like, \u201cNo. I\u2019m on the Nike SB deal.\u201d He was like, \u201cWe can get you on Vans. It will be a good look.\u201d With the help of Dill, I got on and I started riding for Vans. The team manager called me and got it all sorted and I got on Vans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Who called you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: First, Frank Mare called me, who is the TM. Then Jamie Hart called me. Dill told me that he knew Jamie. Jamie had known Dill since he was a child. He was telling me that he was a good guy. I was like, \u201cOkay, cool.\u201d On that note, after I got on Vans, a couple of months went by.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did Frank or Jamie start talking to you about possible travel and what Vans wanted to do with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: They were just like, \u201cWe\u2019re stoked to have you be a part of it.\u201d It wasn\u2019t until my first trip where they were like, \u201cWe want you to do this trip. We think you should do this.\u201d We didn\u2019t really talk too much at first about other avenues. They were just happy to have me on, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeatriceDomond-IMG_0071-Los-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeatriceDomond-IMG_0071-Los-1.jpg 648w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeatriceDomond-IMG_0071-Los-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BeatriceDomond-IMG_0071-Los-1-614x921.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption>NYC NO COMPLY. PHOTO BY LOS ESTRADA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Which Vans shoes were you riding then?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I hadn\u2019t ridden many Vans, so I wanted to try each shoe so I could see which ones ride the best. I knew that I liked the old schools because I used to ride the Tony Trujillo Old School Lows. Vans sent me a whole bunch of shoes, so I got to test which ones I like better. It was really cool. Even though Nike is super sick, when you get on Vans, it\u2019s a big deal. That\u2019s a dream sponsor. Every kid who skates has wanted to get on Vans or has ridden Vans. Mike Carroll, Keenan Milton and Rick McCrank have ridden for Vans at one point. All those guys have their own deals now but, at one point, they rode for Vans. It\u2019s an insane brand. To get to ride for them, I was like, \u201cHow am I on Vans right now?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It\u2019s because you rip.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: [Laughs] Thank you. I\u2019m so grateful for it. It\u2019s just so crazy to think. I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat? It\u2019s Vans. They are so big.\u201d I try not to think about it too much, so I don\u2019t get overwhelmed, but it\u2019s a big deal to ride for them. When Dill told me they were down, I was like, \u201cWhat? Really?\u201d That\u2019s real. They have AVE and Ray Barbee on there. They have really good skaters and it\u2019s a heavy crew.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Yeah. All of the teams have heavy crews, but Vans is such a family thing with Van Doren. It\u2019s just a different vibe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. He\u2019s the coolest. I got to meet him at the Geoff Rowley event to celebrate all of the years Geoff has been on Vans. Steve was so cool. You wouldn\u2019t think he knew my name, but he did. I was like, \u201cWhoa.\u201d I\u2019m thinking, \u201cYou probably have so many people that you need to know and you know my name? That\u2019s so cool.\u201d It was super rad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That is cool. So you\u2019re on Vans and you\u2019re FA sponsored and Supreme sponsored. After the watch trip, what was the next crazy endeavor you got into?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: <em>Blessed<\/em> was being filmed in 2018 and 2019. That was the second Supreme video that was being worked on. I was still modeling just because it was fun and Vans was sending me on a bunch of trips. The end of 2018 and 2019 was insane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What was your first Vans trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: My first Vans trip was a New York trip where we just skated and went to the Death Match, which was a ramp contest in Queens, New York. They brought all of their riders to skate it. Vans loves doing things just for the sake of people having fun skating. It\u2019s kinda cool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;My first Vans trip was a New York trip where we just skated and went to the Death Match, which was a ramp contest in Queens, New York. They brought all of their riders to skate it. Vans loves doing things just for the sake of people having fun skating.&#8221; <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It\u2019s just straight up fun, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. They had a park there, free of charge. What\u2019s their motive? I don\u2019t know. Just to have a park. It\u2019s so sick, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Totally. Who was on that trip with you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was Tyson Peterson and Omar Hassan and a lot of the Vans Canadian dudes, like Dustin Henry, Justin Henry, Leon Chapdelaine, Etienne Gagne, and a lot of the young am team that they have.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It was a lot of hot ams and you all showed up and just started ripping?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. We just started skating. Austin Kanfoush who rides for Antihero was there, so I got to see him skate and rip. Pedro Delfino was on that trip too. It was a good trip. That was my first real trip. Vans was like, \u201cWe\u2019re flying you to skate here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: So it was a full Vans family team trip.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. We\u2019d go in the morning and have orange juice at the bottom of the hotel with egg and cheese sandwiches. Then we\u2019d get in two cars and go find spots to skate all day after that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: There were photographers and filmers there all day filming?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. There were two filmers. It was my first real skate trip. It was crazy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: No pressure. It was just fun and skate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. No pressure at all, I realized over the last year or so that you\u2019re there for a reason. Don\u2019t trip too much. You made it here and they want you to do your best. You\u2019ve pretty much made it once you\u2019re in the van already. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Does it ever feel like a job, on those trips, or does it still feel like you\u2019re having fun?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It\u2019s definitely fun. Sometimes I want to do a lot&nbsp; better than I\u2019m doing, so I\u2019ll push myself for no reason. Then I take it back down and think, \u201cThis is supposed to be fun. Don\u2019t stress out too much.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: After that road trip, did Vans have a schedule for you for that year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I think it just goes with where I fit. After that, I was in New York just hanging about in late October 2018. I was in New York just skating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-3-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-3-4.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-3-4-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-3-4-614x375.jpg 614w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-3-4-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you living in Florida still?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE; After that New York trip, in early October, I ended up getting a sublet in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Were you still modeling to pay the rent? &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was kinda like that, but my life shifted because I was getting on these teams and I was just trying to do my best skating. It\u2019s not like I wasn\u2019t looking to them before, but I wasn\u2019t really checking on them. I was just skating. At the end of 2018, I went to see my family and then I went on a House of Vans trip to Detroit, Michigan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How was that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It was cool. AVE was on that trip, so I was trying to do my best. It was really cold, so we couldn\u2019t really go street skate. Detroit is freezing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Oh yeah. The winds blow in off the lakes.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. It\u2019s super windy and ice cold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You had an indoor park to skate there?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. Vans took over this school and there was a three-story indoor spot. The skatepark was on the second floor or third floor. There was a bump to bar and a ledge and a grass gap and two quarter pipes on the side. It was really cool. They had Greg Hunt there and Joe Brook on the ground floor teaching photography and film. It was so insane.&nbsp;They put us up in a spot to sleep and we had a girls clinic so, one day I got to teach some girls how to skate or how to set up boards. I like doing that stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: That\u2019s cool. Vans invited girls from around the neighborhood? &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. Girls came to watch us skate. On one of the days, I got to help them learn to do tricks or set up boards. I like that Vans does that because I like to interact with people that like my skating or follow me or whatever. It was cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You\u2019d set them up with new skateboards?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I don\u2019t know what program they worked with but all of the stuff was there for them to set up. Vans handled all that. I just helped the girls put their griptape on or I taught them how to put their trucks on. It was really cool. I love doing stuff like that because I grew up doing mission work in high school. I enjoy helping people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you see girls that were inspired? Did you teach them and get them up on the board and roll them around the park?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. Some were kinda nervous, so I just talked to them. Some of them were just pushing around on the flat or going up the ramps. It was cool.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-5-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-5-6.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-5-6-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-5-6-614x375.jpg 614w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-5-6-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you find that girls were a little more intimidated about skateboarding or were they really enthusiastic?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: They seemed enthusiastic. Maybe, because it was a Vans thing, they were kinda intimidated. I know, when I was growing up, I wasn\u2019t intimidated by anything but, when I would see my favorite pro or am, I would get all awkward. I feel like they were stoked, but awfully shy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It seems like there is a certain approach that women have that other girls can be inspired by and think, \u201cI can do this too.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: For sure. It\u2019s so sick. When I was growing up, I didn\u2019t see anybody like myself, but I took from &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; people. I\u2019m tall, so I\u2019d look at Kareem Campbell because he\u2019s tall, or I\u2019m brown, like Kareem&nbsp;Campbell is brown. I\u2019m a girl, like Vanessa Torres, so I saw that I could do this too. It was even&nbsp;intricate things like Chad Tim Tim and I have the same birthday, so I thought that I was meant to do this. It was like, \u201cThis is sick.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You were looking for inspiration to know that you could do this too?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Totally. I\u2019d be like, \u201cGilbert Crockett has both legs. So do I. I\u2019m in this. I can do it!\u201d [Laughs] Anything that is practically called a barrier in my situation, I found other people and took it to see that I could do it too, so there\u2019s nothing that I can\u2019t do. If all of these other people have all of these qualities, it\u2019s not a barrier to me at all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Look where you are now. It\u2019s inspiring. Right on for helping out those girls.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. Hopefully, one of them can be like, \u201cBeatrice taught me how to skate.\u201d It would be flattering if they were like, \u201cI remember she came to the House of Vans and showed me how to skate.\u201d That would be sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Yeah. You were giving. For a lot of kids, growing up, they don\u2019t have a lot given to them. Here\u2019s a stranger giving them a skateboard and saying, \u201cLet me show you how to do this.\u201d That\u2019s heavy for a kid.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. You can only give what you have inside. I don\u2019t know if you know Wayne Dyer. He\u2019s a public speaker. If you have love inside of yourself, that\u2019s love you have to give. If you have hate inside of yourself, that\u2019s all you can give out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Totally. The way that you vibe on Vans and the way they spread the love and you\u2019re spreading the love and helping these kids coming up, that\u2019s one of the best things about skateboarding.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It\u2019s so good. Vans is a really good company. I\u2019m glad that I decided to swing over there. I really do love it. People are always like, \u201cI got the first phone call and they said that we\u2019re a family, but everyone always says that we\u2019re family. Whatever. That\u2019s cool.\u201d Vans really is family. The TM is always calling and checking on me to see how I\u2019m doing and asking me what I want to do to help me get better. They have so many riders and they always remember my birthday. I don\u2019t know if they do that for everybody, but it makes me know that they care about me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: The vibe that you\u2019re putting out there comes back to you. You\u2019ve put in so much hard work and you\u2019ve got such a good heart. After I met you, I was like, \u201cWow. That\u2019s an amazing woman.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You\u2019re doing it for the right reasons and you\u2019re obviously stoked on skateboarding. You\u2019re like, \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m here. I\u2019m in New York City. This is rad.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. Sometimes it gets overwhelming because I get so excited about everything. I went to the warehouse at FA and I was like, \u201cHow is it that I can just pull up here and get pants and boards? This is crazy!\u201d I get so overwhelmed. Sometimes I\u2019m like, \u201cWhen is this going to end?\u201d It\u2019s so amazing. I don\u2019t know about anybody else, but this is who I want to ride for. I\u2019m not riding for a company and going, \u201cOh, well, it\u2019s a paycheck and a board.\u201d I\u2019m genuinely stoked. I\u2019d buy FA boards and stickers if I had to. I\u2019m like, \u201cThis is so cool.\u201d All of the guys at the warehouse are super sick. It\u2019s awesome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: It\u2019s Fucking Awesome. &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: [Laughs] You\u2019re right, Murf. It is fucking awesome. I hung out with Dill when I first got here and that was so cool. We were just vibing and chilling and he was showing me stuff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-7-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-7-8.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-7-8-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-7-8-614x375.jpg 614w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/77-BEATRICE-7-8-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Is Los Angeles your new home now?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. I\u2019m only here to get some good weather and film and try to get a part going and get some skateboarding going and be around skateboarding, so I can improve. I really want to improve my&nbsp;skating. I feel like, being around L.A. where all these great kids are, I can get some inspiration. It\u2019s not that New York doesn\u2019t have that but, in L.A., I go to a park and I see a pro, so I can get more amped or more juiced to go skateboard. This year I just want to focus on making a video part and&nbsp; progressing my skateboarding. I know I can skate a flat bar, so I know I can get on a handrail. I\u2019m like, \u201cLet\u2019s try to get that going.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: When you\u2019re out there, you\u2019re doing a lot of street skating, but when you go to these parks and see kids riding bowls and ripping and blasting airs, is there part of you that wants to learn that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I was watching Erick Winkowski\u2019s part and he\u2019s the sickest. I was so juiced. I was trying to do handplants on flat. I want to be that dude. He\u2019s so good. I want to skate like that with the inverts and long grinds and airs. I\u2019m really into that. I want to learn transition and just progress in my skating, which goes hand in hand. If I can progress, I can skate transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: There is no limit to what you can do. If you put your mind to it, you can do it. Just get ready to endure some pain.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Let\u2019s get it. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about. I\u2019ll get back up and do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You were hanging out with Dill. What is Jason\u2019s state of mind these days? Things are blowing up with FA, so what was it like hanging with him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: He\u2019s cool. He was just talking and showing me new things. When you talk to him, you get a little bit of what\u2019s inside of his brain and it\u2019s super cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Does he ever talk to you about the crazy graphics that he\u2019s coming up with?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. He showed me some of the ones that are coming out in the future. He\u2019s like, \u201cThis is going to be one.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, that\u2019s cool.\u201d He was showing me one that he was working on and how he does it and makes it his own. It\u2019s really cool. He\u2019s got a really interesting vibe. He\u2019s so wild.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Oh yeah. I love his graphics. What do you think of the Fucking Awesome graphics?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: They\u2019re crazy. They are everything I want in a graphic. I love putting stickers on my board. That\u2019s half of skating to me. You grow up and you get stickers. Sometimes I don\u2019t put stickers on my board at all. When you\u2019ve got a graphic that is too sick for stickers, that\u2019s when you\u2019re doing a&nbsp;Fucking Awesome job.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What\u2019s your favorite Fucking Awesome graphic?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Right now it would be the solid white Dylan board. I get so juiced on skating that board. I learned&nbsp;Bigfoots on that board. I learn so much new stuff when I skate that board. Right now I\u2019m into the Hockey graphics too. I like what they\u2019re doing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JUICE-77-COVER-BEATRICE.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JUICE-77-COVER-BEATRICE.jpg 648w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JUICE-77-COVER-BEATRICE-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/JUICE-77-COVER-BEATRICE-614x750.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><figcaption>BEATRICE DOMOND COVER JUICE #77. PHOTO BY MIKE O&#8217;MEALLY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How would you describe the Hockey vibe? How is it different from Fucking Awesome in your mind?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: It\u2019s FA, but they have a different art direction over there. I like it. Hockey is very everyone that rides for Hockey, if that makes sense. If you\u2019re getting a Hockey garment or board, it\u2019s based off someone on that team. That\u2019s cool because I feel like that\u2019s why you get gear because you want to skate like that person or you look up to that person.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You know those guys, so you can see it in each graphic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: For sure. I love that it\u2019s from Dill\u2019s brain, but he thinks about everyone and what they would look good in or what they would like. It\u2019s sick.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you go over to the Fucking Awesome store?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I haven\u2019t been there since the opening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: I heard that the line out the door for the&nbsp; opening was the longest in history.&nbsp;I\u2019m so stoked for Dill and AVE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. The opening party for friends and family was the night before and there were people already&nbsp; lining up for the opening to the public the next day. It was insane. I wasn\u2019t there for opening day. I went&nbsp;skating, so I didn\u2019t see it, but I heard the line wrapped around the whole block. That\u2019s crazy. Hollywood Boulevard is crazy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: I hear that they have an upside down cop car in there.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. It looks really cool in there. I gotta go over there and say what\u2019s up. It\u2019s amazing. They\u2019ve got the whole board wall. It\u2019s different. It\u2019s very modern, but it\u2019s very skate shop vibe. I like it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Cool. I heard that you put out a book.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Oh yeah. It\u2019s a little photo book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: How did you get into publishing a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: When I was in university studying film, I took a photography class where I shot photos on manual and I also developed them in school, so I learned how to develop film and shoot film. I grew up having albums in my home. My mom would take photos of us and our lives, so you can see my life from when I was born up until I was 20. There are photos that she took of me and all of my siblings and we each have our own albums. Occasionally, she would open them and give us a story about what happened in a picture and where we were and I always loved that. It was to the point that it was almost exciting to me. I\u2019d wake up and have a day where I\u2019d be like, \u201cMom, let\u2019s go through the albums.\u201d She would tell me stories about the album, so I grew up with photos and the meaning of them. She loved cameras and capturing us. I mean, we were her only subjects, her kids, but I just loved when she would tell me a story of the photos that she took. I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s so cool.\u201d She was so visual with the storytelling. Fast forward and I was in college studying film and I was like, \u201cOne day I want to make an album about my life or things I\u2019ve seen or things I do.\u201d That was just a thought. I kept shooting and kept developing and I ended up getting this Olympus point and shoot camera. In Florida, having a manual camera, it\u2019s super hard to shoot with because everything is always overexposed because it\u2019s so bright there. When I got the point and shoot, it was much easier to light adjust it for autofocus. You can adjust the light to itself, so I started shooting more. I stopped for a little bit because it was just too hard. My photos were coming out super overexposed and it was a lot of money. My friend told me to shoot at 100 and I was like, \u201cI\u2019ll try that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Nice. How did you finally have the time to do a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I was shooting photos of my travels in late 2018 and early 2019 and I had other photos backed up. As I was traveling more, I realized that I was going to these amazing places and meeting amazing people and I wanted an album of my memories. I always go through these tiffs with Instagram, like \u201cI\u2019m not posting on Instagram anymore.\u201d Or I\u2019ll think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to post all of these special moments on Instagram.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I was shooting photos of my travels in late 2018 and early 2019 and I had other photos backed up. As I was traveling more, I realized that I was going to these amazing places and meeting amazing people and I wanted an album of my memories. I always go through these tiffs with Instagram, like \u201cI\u2019m not posting on Instagram anymore.\u201d Or I\u2019ll think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to post all of these special moments on Instagram.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: You don\u2019t want to waste it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. I\u2019ll have my moments where I\u2019m like, \u201cI\u2019m not doing it.\u201d If I shoot on film, I won\u2019t post those photos. So that was the goal, to stay off Instagram more and shoot more film. So I was shooting and, as I\u2019m shooting, I\u2019d get home and have my stuff developed and I was like, \u201cOh, these are so sick! These go together.\u201d I didn\u2019t have the concept until the middle of the year last year. As I was shooting, it was supposed to be a little zine of just four photos, but I kept shooting and not putting the zine together, because I was just so busy, so I just hung on to those photos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: What kinds of photographs were you shooting? I heard that you also went to Copenhagen. Was that a European Vans trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. I went out there for the watch sponsor that I rode for at the time. They took me to Copenhagen for two weeks and Norway and Oslo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Was that in the summer, so it stayed light until one o\u2019clock in the morning?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: Yeah. It stayed light until five o\u2019clock and then it was light again because the sun would come back up. It was my first time in Oslo where I saw it the most. I\u2019d been to Sweden in the winter, but not in the summer like that. I was tripping out because it was ten at night and the sun was so bright. I was filming it and I was like, \u201cThis is insane.\u201d I was&nbsp; tripping out on that like, \u201cHow is it 10am and the sun is at its peak?\u201d It was so crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Did you get some good photographs of the surroundings in Oslo and Norway?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: I got a lot. Those are not really in the book, but I love architecture, so I got plenty of architecture shots and visuals of the streets. I love that because then I can remember, \u201cI walked down that street.\u201d Or \u201cI loved that building.\u201d So I have a lot of photos of that. I love the architecture in Europe. It\u2019s very different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MURF: Those photos didn\u2019t make it into the book though?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEATRICE: No. I was putting it together and I gave myself a deadline, and I\u2019m like, \u201cOkay.\u201d The concept of the book is that every photo that I placed next to each other complements each other. They share a story in some way. I had that concept instead, so it was kind of hard to put the architecture photos in there because they didn\u2019t really jive with the rest of the book. When it came to people, that\u2019s a whole part of the book. I had the idea of it and then one day I had breakfast with one of the Vans guys. Usually, I don\u2019t really ask for anything, but they were talking to me about this trip and they already wanted me to do something, so I was like, \u201cLet me throw this idea at them.\u201d I was like, \u201cI\u2019m working on a little book. Would you guys be down to help me put it out?\u201d They were like, \u201cYeah. Sure. You just have to do everything and we got you.\u201d I was like, \u201cI love that.\u201d I love having to do everything myself and they just handle the rest financially. It came out great. They helped me pay for it and I\u2019m stoked on how it came out. It came out exactly how I wanted it. I did the layout and the photos myself. 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