this took about 3 minutes of us not seeing each other for a year and a half or so, ‘hey how’s it goin”. ‘good right on’ . then we walked around the block and i was lucky enough to turn the video on so people could hear him talk. it s fuckin’ funny, if not just for me. oh and at the end when he says–”want some wood? no homo” he walked by a pile of some guys kindling in his yard, too fast, too funny.
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a long time, way better than you were, masters degree , and mr. new mexico(literally)- ben woosley, has part in this vid, and this intro is fuckin’ awesome, fun, gnarly, ticklee
this has been a video project Rico has been working on in Germany, fuckin’ sick.
when you weak minded fucktards want to hate on it because there isn t a picture of a guy grinding a rail, please remember to go fuck yourselves. Or instead you could just say nothing and “be all like whatever”, that would be much better for you. You could even go, “that’s crazy , that fool ’s fuckin’ lurkin’ in another country brooo…(take hit) shit s fuckin’ tight. let’s go to taco bell and roll another joint.”
Thank you very much Rico for showin’ me that, it s fuckin’ awesome, i mean tight a’ight
Rodney Mullen, the inventor of modern skateboarding as we know it today, said these words in an interview recently for a magazine website. When he finished his statement it was inspiring to me that he was speaking directly about what I am showing in this film. I knew that his words needed to be included in this film I was making with Julia Schuller and Elena Schaedel.
Skateboarding to the untrained eye is not easily understood. Maneuvers or trick names are close to a form of language that can only be understood by the skateboard community itself. For example, I could tell you what a tre flip consists of but in this film I show you. I used long expose photos, video and motion graphics to make this visible portrayal. The substructure of the film is motion and the original act of skateboarding that can never be replicated. Long expose photographs were chosen to display the free movement of the skater/skaters and allow them to subconsciously paint a visual picture for the viewer’s own interpretation. Some viewers have expressed seeing words or text in pictures, bodies or forms, while others can not seem to understand that skateboarders only made this composition entirely.
My goal for this film was to show someone, skater or not, just how in the moment skateboarding is grounded. You can’t recreate or reenact a maneuver twice. And that originality is what drives us skateboarders to keep pushing day and night. We are all doing the same thing but to us we know each push, jump and roll away is different than the last.
i found out about this dudes filming talents from an e mail from gabe gallegos, he s right his vid production is sick and his bros are killin it…fuck yeah gabe, adrian all the dudes in this montage-shoot me another email with the skaters names and i ll throw them in.
skaters-dominique goings, michael tang, vinnie thomas, frankie heck, and sean saltamachia