Life is good for Mason. Since being lured into the useless wooden toy game by his brother Dayton, and the weird European videos he would watch in the basement, Silva stopped surfing long enough to win a skate contest he didn’t even plan to attend, got sponsored by Element as a result, then had Eric Koston walk up to him unannounced at the Berrics to offer him free shoes from Nike. Some people just have it that way.
The following year he graduated high school, dropped a few tricks in Eric’s Nike part (along with his own web part) and was voted “Year’s Best Am” by our friends at TSM. Now closing out his 2016 filming for the upcoming Element video—a video co-directed by the same guy that made the Euro classic his brother binged on in the basement—Mason set aside some time to talk via telephone about the issues that really matter—the deep impact of Ryan Smith’s The DC Video part along with his own failure to have seen the movie Blow.
What’s new?
Been hanging out. Not doing too much. Filming for the Element video. Trying to get my shit together.
Is that the same video French Fred is working on?
Yeah. I think he and Thomas Campbell will be working on it and then it’s a mish-mash of everyone else pitching in.
How was growing up in Manhattan Beach? Did the movie Blow (’01) give an accurate description?
I wish that I knew what you were talking about (laughs). I think I’m too young. What was it about?
The cocaine trade—Johnny Depp moves to Manhattan Beach and they frame it as like a druggie paradise.
No. It’s a bunch of pussies down there.
That was my one funny question.
Yeah. Fuck. I want to see it now. What was it ‘80s or something?
No. I think it was like 2002 maybe (2001). Moving on, I was told your brother works at the TWS HQ at Surfing magazine and skates. Did you guys grow up skating together?
This story is from the December 2016 edition of TransWorld Skateboarding.
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