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PATRICK O’DELL

introductionby jeff thorburn portraitby jody rogac

The host of vbs.tv’s Epicly Later’d show sits down with Color on the other side of the interview desk.

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Patrick O’Dell had high hopes of traveling the world with his friends and their skateboards. He got his chance to live out his dream [in 2001] when he was taken on as a staff photographer and writer at Thrasher Magazine. Realizing he’d had enough of going on long van rides with random amateur skaters, he moved on to a position as Photo Editor at Vice Magazine. When Vice started their online television website, vbs.tv, O’Dell was brought on to put together a skateboard show. Epicly Later’d as we know it was born. The show was an instant hit with skateboarders, showing a mix of current interviews and skating, as well as past video clips. Focusing on a different skateboarder each week, the diversity of the subjects makes the show appealing to all kinds of skateboarders. The show’s name was taken from O’Dell’s online photo journal, epiclylaterd.com, which was beginning to gain notoriety beyond his circle of friends. O’Dell makes the distinction between the two different Epicly Later’ds: “My website is a personal photo journal. The show is like skate history, and the show is a public thing. I want more people to watch the show. My website, I don’t really care; I want less people to look at it.”