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Hot Plate Interview and Brandon Knowles Full Part
Marshall at the world premiere of Hot Plate
Down in Ft. Myers FL, the little city south of Tampa that's produced some legendary talent like Elissa Steamer, Matt Milligan and various other tenants of the infamous Six Newell skate house in SF, resides TOA friend and videographer Marshall Nicholson. On the eve of the premiere of his new release “Hot Plate” roughly 6 years in the making, I caught up with Marshall to chat about his newest offering.
Interview by Mike Wine
What’s up Marshall! Hope all is well down in FM...so, when did you first start filming for Hot Plate?
What up Mike! Thanks for taking the time to do this interview! Glad to have known you throughout the years and am humbled to have you behind the pen pad for this article! Remember when I broke your sliding glass bathtub door in Orlando… I do haha anyways cheers dude lets hop into it.
We started filming for this project unexpectedly in the tail end of 2014 and Hot Plate as an idea really formulated in 2015. The name came from tons of different things kicked around but we will keep the meaning a mystery and allow the viewer to make up their own definition of it! I would say the first trick for the video was most likely filmed in late 2014 and the last trick was filmed in Nov 2020! A 5-6 year time capsule during which I was blessed with my beautiful baby girl Eden Marie Nicholson!
James Coleman and Josh Miller
That's awesome man...well, who is all featured in the video?
The lineup includes a good portion of my best friends, Jimmy Lannon, James Coleman, Josh Miller, Mike Lent, Takahiro Morita, Jethro Coldwell, Brandon Knowles, and Logan Lewis. Love all these dudes and am very hyped to have been able to include them in my second baby, “Hot Plate”. Hahaha.
James Sayres crooked grind from Hot plate
You connected a lot of underground skate crews in this video from Threads to Far East Skate Network, Note Skate Shop in Manchester, TOA and even the infamous Westside, how did some of these connections come to be?
Yes! Very honored / humbled to have been able to connect with all of the mentioned folks! So many incredible times were had hahah. Many I remember and quite a few I’m sure I don’t. Cheers Boys! Anyways, back in 2015 right after moving to Crown Heights, NYC Matt Creasy from Threads Idea Vacuum reached out asking if I would be interested in linking up with Dom Henry in NYC. Matt really wanted to include Dom in Super visual. A Threads video that was released in 2017 I Believe. A link to Dom’s Supervisual part can be found here
I was down to link with Dom so Creasy mailed me a hi8 camera and we got to it! Dom was on holiday with a heavy crew from Stoke and Manchester so everyday we linked we had a heavy English crew! It was incredible getting out with him, Jethro Coldwell, Reuben, Ceej, and the rest of the guys representing Note Skateshop, Stoke, and the Manchester scene. After Dom Flew back home, Jethro and the guys stayed in the States for a bit so Jethro and I were able to skate enough together to stack up a nice grip of footage that formulated into his Hot Plate Part!
Jethro's part hosted on Vague Mag
After everyone flew out, I began working with Josh Stewart filming with a bunch of the guys riding for companies under the TOA umbrella. Around that time, I became pretty good friends with Colin Read and was able to help him with filming some of the guys during the tail end of the Spirit Quest era. I was at an all-time high at this point working with Josh and going on missions with Colin. It was incredible to be able to contribute to Spirit Quest and TOA projects. I look up to these dudes and to be able to call them and shoot the shit or in Josh’s case email or text is awesome. Thank you both for everything!
Here is a link to the “Northern Friends Section" from Hot Plate! It has a good recap of the crew I was filming with and hanging with at the time!
I was a big fan of FESN & Morita a while before moving to New York and I remember mailing him copies my prior projects Jive & Feed Your Head in 2014. He was visiting NYC for a two-week span back in 2015 so we had to link up! We met at LES skatepark to warm up then skated around The Lower East Side filming at various places. Within the 6-8 hours we skated we were able to stack enough footage to put together a nice section in the video combined with footage filmed in Japan by Shigeta Iha.
As far as the Westside connect you must be referring to James Coleman & Jimmy Lannon? James & I have been good friends for close to 10 years now. (If not longer haha) We met in MIA long ago, reconnected in Fort Myers a few times, stayed in touch while I lived in Kentucky and he lived in SF, and then in 2014 reconnected and started skating and filming heavily. He is the greatest. As with Jimmy, who is another one of my best friends, we connected in Gainesville back in 2014 and have been skating / chilling / filming together ever since. It has been really cool lately getting together with Jimmy & his son JT with my Daughter Eden. They are a year apart & incredibly hyped when together haha. Josh Miller is like a brother and someone I have been skating with the longest. He will be a part of every project I put out. He has saved my life and has been a solid friend. We go way back and grew up in the same neighborhood together in San Carlos Park Florida.
Mike Lent was one of the first US dudes I would get out with while in NYC and is such a dope human! Him and all of the Long Island guys are cool as hell and Logan Lewis & the rest of the Chattanooga guys have a special spot in my heart too. Love all those dudes! Be sure to peep the Threads section in Hot Plate!
That leaves us with Brandon Knowles. We really connected towards the tail end of “the Hot Plate filming Era”. James Coleman has been living in St. Pete, FL where Brandon also lives and he linked us together. Instantly we became friends and started filming. Brandon is a power house that can do just about any trick he puts his mind to and more importantly he is a solid human that will have your back through anything. As clips began to stack up, I hit him up asking if he would like to work on a part for Hot Plate & within a few months we were able to put together what is included below! I hope everyone enjoys the footage as much as I do!
The skate scene in Ft. Myers has a rich history but appears to be having somewhat of a resurgence, what’s up with that new TF you guys have going down there called The Madhouse? Also stoked to see you started a monthly pop-up skate shop / webstore to help fill the void left by the loss of Brotherhood skate shop which was pillar in the scene for many years.
A few years back the city turned our only local skate park into a huge sand pit for volleyball. It was such a sad sight to see. A Couple years after that happened a group of us formed and started chipping in for a warehouse space, The Madhouse was born. Pat Jones, Grant, Rob Hoovis, Josh Miller, Alex Neuhauser, myself and a handful of other guys have really spearheaded this mission to provide a place for us to skate & host public events. (Pre Covid-19) As far as the monthly pop up / web store, www.palmsskateshop.com, it is really just a passion project right now. When I can I try to stock all of brands available through TOA and a few other small homie brands. All the brands available are from friends companies that I know pretty well. It’s a small shop but when I am able to I try and stock goods for the local scene.
What do you have planned for the future any upcoming projects?
I hope to continue doing the pop up / online store, skateboarding, exploring with my GF and daughter, and filming skateboard videos! The filming for Hot Plate 2 has begun! We will keep the roster for that one a secret for now though!
Thanks Marshall and I’ll be looking forward to the next one. Cheers!
Thanks again Mike & everyone at TOA for being down to spotlight myself and everyone involved in Hot Plate! Means more than words cans can express. A big shoutout to Ben Snawder, Daniel Frank, Josh Miller, John Baragwanath, James Sayres, Jahmal Williams, Dustin Eggeling, Mike Wine, James Coleman, Leo Valls, Chris Thiessen, Kevin Coakley, Rob Hoovis, Sam Elliot, Zach Lyons, Colin Read, Jimmy Lannon, George Hanuschak, Pat Steiner, Jason Spivey, Sam Shuman, Willy Stackas, Zach Dykes, Chris Teta, Alex Neuhauser, Steve Brandi, Matt Town, Marty Murawski, Nolan Blanchard, Josh Stewart, Ally, Mike Newton, Taylor Nawrocki, all the Madhouse guys and everyone else involved throughout the years. Thanks to everyone that took the time to read this! Much love from Florida! - Marshall Nicholson
Interview by Mike Wine
Physical copies of “Hotplate” are available for purchase at theoriesofatlantis.com and digital download available at palmsskateshop.com
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Posted on December 17 2020
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