![]() UNSEEN PHOTOS OF SKATING NYC IN THE ’80S.Novem/ Thomas Barker / ARTICLES / Comments: 5 WE HAD A MOVIE CRITIC REVIEW CLASSIC SKATE VIDEO SKITSĮnjoy her unfiltered takes on which skate video skits she thinks are any good.Janu/ Thomas Barker / ARTICLES / Comments: 25 J/ Thomas Barker / INTERVIEWS / Comments: 17Īs Mark Twain said, "Quitting smoking is easy. Plus a wear test that involved jumping out of a plane.įebru/ Thomas Barker / ARTICLES, Photo Recap / Comments: 9ġ9 interviews and 38 hours of transcriptions later, we're proud to present the history of the Tilt Mode Army as told by the crew. THE FACES AT ROWAN ZORILLA’S PRO SHOE RELEASE PARTY.Report this as boomer advice on Instagram and Twitter Share this with a aggro hate watcher on Facebook If you love a video, watch it over and over, become obsessed, notice everything, and move on only when you feel it’s the right time. In the time it takes you to give Kader’s Baker part a watch, he’s already dropped his introduction to Violet promo. These days there’s a new Vans Europe video that dropped in the time it took you to watch the current Vans Europe video. In the early days of skate videos, it could be months before the next skate video would drop, so you would watch a video over and over out of pure necessity. One of the benefits of stepping off the hamster wheel of skateboard media is you can sit with projects a little longer. It probably wasn’t geared towards you, so simply don’t watch it. We know it can be fun to shit talk in the group chat or complain on the slap message boards, but someone worked hard on the project. Don’t waste your time looking for every ABD, scratch on the lens or cringe trick. ![]() Whatever the case may be, rather than hate watching a new video, skip it. Maybe you can’t stand tight pants or hate the filming style or the boomer-ass music. It may feel like it but there’s no rule saying that as a skateboarder you have to watch every single skate video, especially if it’s not your cup of tea. Realistically, our minds can probably take about an hour of skateboarding a day, so pace yourself. That being said, are you really taking in each trick and unique moment in a video if you speed watch four videos back to back? Probably not. Remember last August? We get behind all the time. Some weeks nothing special drops and then suddenly everyone drops their full length in a tight window. There is no shared calendar for the skateboard industry. While we can get mad at the system all day, it is on us to police our own media consumption, so skip past any post you see of a video for as long as it takes, and when your jaw drops to the floor at an insane ender you can thank us. There’s nothing worse than having the ender to a much-anticipated skate video spoiled by the brand or skater’s own social media channel. There should be a rule barring Instagram edits of skate videos until at least a week after they drop online. Hell, pop some popcorn, grab some beer and invite the friends over. If you are hyped to watch a video, put it on a real screen with a real sound system then turn that shit up. You think Greg Hunt is like, “yeah these animations are gonna look perfect on the new iPhone?” ![]() Nobody edits a video to be seen on a phone screen and nobody edits music to be listened to on some shitty iPhone speakers. ![]() I hope they can help you be a better (god forbid we use the word) fan of skateboarding. It’s no one’s fault, but with so much content being put out clips get redundant, songs feel repetitive, and filming styles feel contrived.Īll of this is to say it has never been harder to be a good skate nerd, so this year I came up with a few tactics I use to help ensure skate videos continue to feel special. I know many of us feel the need to watch every video that comes out, but the overload of media coupled with the fact that skateboarding is more diverse stylistically than ever means we end up watching skate videos that we simply don’t enjoy. Then once you are done filming, editing, clearing music, setting up a premiere and showing it to the world, you release this piece of art (yes its art) into the most congested media landscape skateboarding has ever seen with most people skimming clips in between a spliff and a shit. Skaters put their bodies and sanity on the line, filmers lay in the worst places imaginable, and you are battling against 30+ years of skate video history that you have to simultaneously one up and stand apart from. Making a good skate video is really hard.
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