Meet Zane York | Writer, Agent, & Artist

We had the good fortune of connecting with Zane York and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Zane, what do you attribute your success to?
For me it really comes down to two things: 1. being an initiative based person and 2. a desire to excel at things I love. Too often people believe things will just happen* to them or manifest based on how much they love their passions but in reality, it takes knocking on doors, shaking hands, and being unafraid to follow your intuition with action. For me, it all started with skateboarding and I didn’t just want to skate, I wanted to be a great skateboarder. As a writer, photographer, musician, artist, etc., these things appeal to my soul because I can spend the rest of my life honing them – receiving each of them ten-times as much as I put in. The whole idea here is that when your moment in time comes, when the Universe sends you your invitation, you’re able and ready to accept because you put in the work to meet the moment. I’ve had my moments and had the work to show the opportunity I wasn’t showing up empty handed.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
This interview comes at an intersection in my life, where my career is a honing of the chaos of writing, skateboarding, art, music, business, and nonprofit work of the last ten years; whirl-winding into a new horizon. While it’s a story that begins with my love for writing, my commitment to skateboarding, my education, and the way I see my purpose in life; I feel my horizon expanding more now than ever into world’s unknown. It has never been easy for me. Scratching and clawing as a writer, writing hundreds of articles and watching magazines and opportunities come and go. But it has always been my own initiative and sacrifice. From my mind onto the keyboard, critically, creatively, unyielding and unequivocally truthful and at the goal of being philosophically valuable. I want people to know I’ve done my best to make you think and feel something with everything I’ve ever done. To bring the world and humanity to its great truth and potential.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.

I would take them to first all my local gems in Sherman Oaks – Studio City. Places like Franklin Canyon Lake, Mulholland Look Out and a secret lookout my family has passed on for almost.3 decades. Then we’d hit up Ventura Blvd for some happy hours or take them to the East Side to some of the live music venues I frequent. We’d go surfing in Malibu (best beaches in LA) and hit up Malibu Seafood and bring a bottle of wine. If they’re a skater, I’d take them to my old stomping grounds, The Berrics, or hit up West La Courthouse to skate the ledges. There’s some rad places in downtown to explore or to feel fancy like Perch or Sunset strip. Also Dodger Stadium in the summer is a great night to root for our boys in blue. Art shows, music and good food, good vibes and meeting my family of course as well.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
There are so many people to thank on a personal level but it ultimately begins with my family and skateboarding community. My family has supported me in such profound ways, to attempt to write about it here would be insensitive to the reader’s time. Everything I have received professionally as a writer started with the skateboarding industry, from Chris Ray and “Flying Strangers” to Steve Berra and Eric Koston at “The Berrics”, to Adrian Morales and Red Bull Skateboarding, Denia and Moch with Skateism, and now, Yulin Oliver with For Us By Us. Much of my corporate writing work has been all over the spectrum but my most palpable will always be connected to skateboarding and those groups of people I’ve worked with over the years. The Apache Skate Community, Palestinian Skate Community, BLM Skate Community, and countless nonprofits over the years who’ve helped me amplify the profound cultural vessel skateboarding is throughout the world. My mother and father of course, two hippies out of San Fransisco seeding in me the appreciation for art and music necessary to become myself. My hometown of Los Angeles for breeding in me a insurmountable duty to be greater than myself and Claremont California and all those I’ve ever had the honor to call a friend.

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