Yeah Right!
Slow blogging weekend as we move into the home stretch of my wedding day… so check out this clip from the new skateboarding video “Yeah Right!“. Directed by Ty Evans and Spike Jonze this particular bit of the video (the opening credits) was shot with Spike’s personal camera shooting at 100 frames per second. One. Hundred. FPS. Hot DOG! These tricks all look so easy when they’re so slow, believe me, if life was slow mo’ I could do all of ‘em.
This clip from the same video (Magic Board) is incredibly sweet too, and the music has a little Chali 2na action, which you know I always appreciate. Turns out Spike Jonze is the bomb. :)
July 15th, 2007 at 9:42 am
That’s pretty damn impressive. Amazing how far skateboarding has come since back in my day, what with those roller skate wheels nailed to a 2X4. ;-)
July 15th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Yeah, I can remember my gigantic, extra wide board - was totally asymmetrical with a really fat, wide tail and it had huge wheels. Not quite a 2×4 with roller skate wheels, but not far from it compared to the decks now.
July 15th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I believe felix had the metallica zorlac skateboard. now selling on ebay for $300!
http://cgi.ebay.com/vintage-NOS-zorlac-metallica-skateboard-Pushead-graphic_W0QQitemZ250141196079QQcmdZViewItem
dont you wish you kept that bad boy?
July 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
That’s totally it! Course I was rockin’ with black grip tape.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
wow $300.00! I wish I had my old boards. I had every one of these boards except the one on the left.
http://www.homestead.com/MOBBSKATES/files/oldschoolcollection/Mvc-008s.jpg
If it weren’t for curbs, rails, stairs, pools, ramps, rocks and sewers they would still be premo!
July 16th, 2007 at 7:21 am
Heh, I didn’t do any of those and my board was still f’d up!
July 16th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
My ex-wife used to work for Shorty’s Skateboards. She was a bookkeeper for them. She spent most of her time doing things like paying for damaged hotel rooms and arranging bail for the skaters. It was a shit job, but she did get to cruise around in the owner’s stock GTO from time to time. She also got decks for 1/2 price (like we really needed any of those!)
August 1st, 2007 at 7:31 am
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