STREET SKATEBOARDING INNOVATOR TIM JACKSON - VENICE 1990- 2023 DIRECTOR'S CUTTim Jackson put the "O" in O.G. In 1990 he was quietly innovating an entire repetoire of wall tricks, street moves and surf- inspired flatground that is untouched to this day. “The hardest thing to duplicate is someone who is original. Be yourself. As long as you can be yourself and do what you want to do, you’ll always be an original.” Tim's brother Kelly: "We spent a lot of time in the mountains and campgrounds of California’s High Sierra, my dad escaping after a drug deal or going to meet someone with it. This is where my brother was left to explore and master his surroundings. As a kid, he could climb the highest peaks, ride the meanest horse, and be the toughest person on a mountain full of men. Our home became a small apartment in Venice that we shared before my dad bottomed out. He started getting sick and eventually died of cancer. Sad and broken, he locked himself in his apartment and smoked crack until the day he died. As bad as it was, we were always full of laughter, but we were also poor, dirty and ate government cheese most of the time. My dad and brother were two of the nicest and funniest people, with my dad’s personality being like a mix between Willie Nelson in The Dukes of Hazzard telling dirty jokes and Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver. My brother basically acted out all of my dad’s vices and spent most of his time in juvee and then prison. The only thing he had going when he got out, the only thing that seemed to fit his personality was skateboarding. He could take his anger out on it for hours. He had an intensity about him, always running full bore with endless strength. We were raised around violence by a father that became a cat burglar and money collector for the mob when he couldn’t find work. My brother was always fighting and knocking someone out cold and then escaping to drugs. My brother didn’t jus