Tyler Lahanas
Age: 19
Birthplace: Leominster, MA
Favorite Hollywood Director: Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan
Skate Films: Ty Evans, Chris Ray, and Chase Gabor
Favorite Hollywood Producer: Martin Scorsese
Favorite Skate Films: Spike Jonze
Top 5 Films: Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Inception, Notorious, 500 Days of Summer
Top 5 Skate Films: Lakai - Fully Flared, Nike SB - Debacle, Element - This Is My Element, Girl - Yeah Right!, Emerica - This Is Skateboarding
Top 5 Snow Films: Red Bull - The Art of Flight, Quicksilver/Red Bull - That's It, That's All, Forum - F*** It, Standard Films - Catch the Vapors, Forum – That
Year you started filming: 2006
Things you do when you aren’t filming: Skate, Edit, Play xbox, Work, Go to school, Hang out with friends.
Favorite Music: Anything that doesn't make me want to slam my head against a wall. Mostly Indie and Electronic music, but I can pretty much listen to anything.
What inspires you: Other people that are passionate about what they do. When I see someone devoting themselves to what they love I want to do the same thing, and when I see the masterpieces that they come out with, I get pumped to make my own. Seeing others films and analyzing how they filmed/edited them motivates me a ton.
Goals: To get through school and eventually have a job related to film, hopefully filming for FLUIDIAM when it gets big! But ultimately, I just want to be satisfied with what I've made of my life and have no regrets.
Shout outs: Josh Thomas for just being hella pumped on filming and pushing me to try new shit since the beginning, Lil' Will Blakley for introducing me to filming and showing me the ropes of how to film skateboarding, Jeff Hammerton for motivating me to actually do something with my skills by being a complete dick, My Mom, Sarah, and Step Dad, Joe, for helping me get my first camera, lending me money for my second, and being supportive of my skating and filming from the moment I started, My Dad for getting me my computer so I could actually edit without my laptop blowing up, and everyone else - Kyle Davis, Nick Lukaszewski, Austin Welden, Mclain Fleming, Hilah Connelly, Lauren Smith, Nick Farnsworth, Max Young, Danny Bristow, TJ Van Auken, or anyone else I may have forgot that's just killin it.
I AM: Word.