AARON THE OUTSIDER!

Aaron D. Sewell A.K.A Aaron the Outsider(2/10/78 to 7/07/07) R.I.P. My interests were watching a lot movies,going out to eat,skateboarding and managing my skateboard team Outsider Skateboards "We Just Don't Fit In!" (but it fell apart!)and just chilling at home. Outsider Skateboards "We Just Don't Fit In!" was done solely by me, all out of my own personal pocket money! It started as a bet between an employee of an infamous Baltimore skate shop and myself, on who can make a better team! I worked a tedious yet flexible, day job as a union worker on ships, that came to Baltimore Maryland (The title is a Longshoreman!). I saved up my own money (NO PARTNER,NO LOANS!, NO GRANTS)and made Outsider Skateboards come to life by myself! I took the top doubted,unrecognized,hopeless feeling,unsponsored local, potential having of success, skateboard talent and sponsored them! I brainstormed and wrote in several composition books with my ideas for t-shirts,bumper stickers and board graphics that would best represent us and our outlook on things! Our Outsider situations! I paced myself and slowly made each idea happen! I came up with all the ideas for my t-shirts,and stickers that had phrases that expressed how my team and I felt like Outsiders! I did all the drawings for the board graphics. I did all the writing for my one panel comic book decks, that showed how my team riders,close friends and myself were treated like Outsiders by mean,closed minded,trendy, mainstream skateboarders, big corporate skateboard company people, authority figures, school bullies, females that rejected us etc..etc..!I believed in excluding myself and my team riders away from the skateboarders and skate industry people that had doubted,rejected and ridiculed us. I wanted to create our own skate world, on our own terms! Outsider Skateboards " We Just Don't Fit In!" was Limited Liability Incorporated, but I claimed a big loss every year, by trying to be the coolest,down to earth skateboard company and hooking up real skaters who were actual Outsiders. I preferred to have a skateboarder who was a real Outsider skate and wear my product, rather than a skater who could just afford my product. I really believed in sticking to the theme of being an Outsider to the mainstream world and making the product exclusive for skaters/individuals who really felt like Outsiders! Meaning that, alot of the time they didn't have a lot or any money to buy my product! I really was down for the unsponsored talent of Baltimore Maryland , who were denied a fair chance to get sponsored or recognized as the great skateboarders that they were! I was "down" for the underdogs,the freaks,the perverts,the nerds, the underrated,unnoticed,overlooked ultra tech,hip hop skateboarders of Baltimore, the weirdos, the OUTSIDERS OF SOCIETY! I saved up from my day job in December of 2001 and invested in a one chip mini dv Panasonic camcorder and also purchased a mark one ultra fish eye lens (The Death Lens!) From watching 411vm Skate videos, and studying their great videography, and the right angles to shoot tricks! I did my best to shoot my video with the same angles! No filming the back of people,always shooting the front of them and centering them in the shot! I videotaped each of my team riders and also trained many of them, by passing down/teaching them the many technical,eye catching skateboard tricks, that I had learned over the years,to make them stand out from the typical skateboard scene and for them to bring forgotten tricks back with their own twist! My video took four years to make, having one group/team abandon the project for college,girlfriends,jobs etc..and then starting all over again with a new younger, hungrier for recognition team! I hired one of my friends/team riders Shawn Wixted, to edit my Outsider Skateboard video! Shawn Wixted editing my Outsider video, was the only outside help that had gotten! I paid for the Outsider dvds to be mass produced! As far as who I was personally,I was a very quiet person at first, until I got to know a person. I used to dress very casually. I'd regularly wear very baggy Old Navy jeans, a tan baseball cap and baggy tshirts or hoodies. I considered myself very open minded,non judgemental and down to earth, extremely modest and humble (I didn't believe in arrogance!), a loner/misfit,a hermit amongst people,a big kid,a deep thinker,sometimes a manic depressant,a detailed observer of people and life in general. I didn't smoke or drink. I used to get really sad,frustrated,angry and lonely around people in relationships. I found it impossible to communicate with women, that I found attractive. The reason for this, was because I had a preference to date interracially with an attractive,average to thick, curvy built white female around my own age. But,I never approached women, that I found attractive. This was out of fear, of rejection,offending them,them telling me that I wasn't funny enough or that I wasn't thuggish enough. The few women that, I was lucky enough to date in the past, described me as an attractive,very affectionate(a pleaser)thoughtful,loyal,generous, guy who was very laid back. But, I could be depressing,too passive,not confident enough, irresponsible and boring! I couldnt take the pressure from all of the fake crab ass skaters who were against me and tried to drag me down. I was hung from the highest tree in Maryland and set on fire by my enemies, for expressing my Outsider point of view! In the end, I was just viewed by my enemies as a stupid "NIGGER", who was put in his place! wid.. bject type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="350" width="425" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/nXjN58aMAZI"> .. .. .. ..th="425"> .. .. .. .. .... ..