Jerry Hsu (born December 17, 1981) is a Taiwanese-American skateboarder, photographer and currently owner of clothing company “Sci-Fi Fantasy”. As of October 2018, Hsu does not have pro status in skateboarding anymore and has no sponsors.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Photography
- 3.1 “Rolling Through the Shadows”
- 3.2 The Beautiful Flower Is the World
- 3.3 Jerry Hsu Tech Desk Series 2 Chocolate Skateboard 96mm Board with Stand Rare
- 3.4 Enjoi Jerry HSU Panda vs Narwhal Skateboard Deck - 7.6 Inch
- 3.5 Ed Templeton: Wayward Cognitions (UM YEAH ARTS)
- 3.6 Shih-Hui Chen: Silvergrass & Other Orchestral Works
- 3.7 Dark Sky
- 3.8 Cool Guy
- 3.9 Yeah, Right!
- 3.10 3 Pack Womens Leggings-No See-Through High Waisted Tummy Control Yoga Pants Workout Running Legging-Reg&Plus Size (3 Pack Black,Black,Black, Small-Medium)
- 3.11 Vice Magazine’s 2nd Annual Fiction Issue Volume 14, Number 12
Early life
As of 2007, Hsu’s family home remains located in San Jose, California, United States (U.S.). Hsu’s intimates is originally from Taiwan, and his parents talk both English and Mandarin Chinese. Hsu explained in 2010 that his Chinese-language fluency is akin to a “third grader.”
Hsu started skateboarding in the into the future 1990s and he explained what he was attracted by in a 2013 interview: “I remember the reason I started skating was because I maxim these kids with green hair and big pants and they looked so stupid, and I wanted to be that.” His mom brought home a discarded concrete parking block during his early get older of skateboarding and he cutting edge regarded the gesture as “very thoughtful.”
Personal life
Due to the monster toll of his skateboarding, Hsu identified photography as a vocation that he would later to eventually transition into. In 2013, Hsu explained that his body is “constantly thrashed” and admitted that he is “broken.” In 2011, on “Epicly Later’d,” Hsu’s mom expressed her information of Hsu’s skateboarding career: “Well I’m glad for him, as I said. This is his job, not mine; it’s his life, not mine, so …”
Photography
Hsu’s photography career has gradually developed before the introduction of his professional skateboarding career. Hsu contributes work to Vice magazine and, in September 2010, he exhibited a body of photographic bill at the Steinsland Berliner Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden under the title “Vatican Gold,” alongside Ed Templeton, Kevin Long and Jonnie Craig.
Hsu’s photography project “Table For One” was published as a zine of the same name in January 2013. Sold by San Jose’s Seeing Things Gallery, the zine documents Hsu’s obsession with people who eat by themselves and a corresponding Tumblr blog, also of the same name, remains online as of November 2014. Grape Magazine described the “Table For One” as Hsu’s “ode to physical alone.”
The Killing Season, Hsu’s first-ever photography CD was released as a limited edition product (150 copies) in March 2013 by SPA, a publishing company owned by Hsu’s friend. The LP is based on a Vietnam skateboarding trip, in which a organization traveled from the north to the south of the country on mopeds, and was the online video of the vacation was released upon the SkateBoarder magazine website in mid-2012.
The start of Hsu’s solo photographic exhibition “The Observable Universe” occurred in Los Angeles, California, U.S. on July 2, 2013. The exhibition was held at the Family Bookstore and consisted of eleven curated photographs.
Emerica asked Hsu to curate a photography tape for the DVD pardon of the 2013 video Made. Released in September 2013, the 80-page tape features Hsu’s own photographs, as without difficulty as those he obtained from new photographers, including Templeton, Mike Burnett and Brian Gaberman. Hsu subsequently released a zine of photographs (limited to 300 copies) taken of the people who photograph him as a professional skateboarder, titled “Our Moment Together,” in October 2013 through Deadbeat Club.
“Rolling Through the Shadows”
Leica Camera AG, a German camera, lens and optics manufacturer, initiated an interview series in imitation of skateboard journalist Mark Whiteley (former editor of SLAP magazine) in January 2013. The series was introduced through the company’s blog and is entitled “Rolling Through the Shadows”—Whiteley explains in the foundation that he will interview a selection of skateboarders that “have gravitated towards Leica M equipment”, including Hsu and others, such as Templeton and Arto Saari. However, as of November 2014, Hsu was not still interviewed for the series.
Last update 2021-08-06