Posts tagged Skateboarding
Social Distortion - Another State of Mind
As heard in Kristin Svitak’s part in Black Label’s 2003 skateboard video Black Out.
Belle and Sebastian - I Don’t Love Anyone
This is another recording taken from a skateboarding video. This song was used in Austen Stephens’ part in the 2003 Emerica video This is Skateboarding.
The Crowd - Surf Ghetto, as recorded from Black Label’s 2003 video Black Out
This is one of my favorite songs that I discovered through a skate video. It was used in Pat Rakestraw’s part, and the material at the beginning comes from an event in which Rakestraw fell off of a railing that he tried to grind, focusing his kneecap in the process. Black Out was one of the first (and still one of the few) professionally-made skateboarding videos that I purchased. My friend Lizz helped me copy the soundtrack onto a CD with all the clanging, scraping and swearing from the video included. I don’t think that any other version of this song or any of the others from the video would sound “correct” to me at this point.
we were skating this spot behind a sports academy for kids but we ended up making their job easier and kinda put on a demo for the kids
Hanging out with Tony Lovejoy at the Hard Rock Cafe in Niagara Falls, New York after biking 100 miles in three days. August 2006.
Anton Webern - Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9 (1911-1913)
Lately I’ve changed my usual paper-writing inspiration mix. A standard combination of sports, Guided by Voices and skateboarding has developed, but it has become part and parcel of the broader monotony of finishing out my undergraduate college career. Therefore I’ve replaced or at least augmented it with works from German Expressionism, focusing on music by Anton Webern and Arnold Schoenberg and the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky.
Atlanta Hates Us - Ghetto Banks
This was July 3rd last year. We bought fireworks after the spot.
Atlanta Hates Us is one of the skateboarding sites that I’ve been following for a while. I’m posting this particular video because I think that Frank Gerwer appears in it, but I’m not sure. The shout at 0:22 seems very Gerwer-esque to me.
As an explanation for why I care whether Frank Gerwer is in this video, please refer to his part from Antihero’s Cash Money Vagrant. It’s one of my favorite video parts from a great video.
Edit: By Frank Gerwer, I clearly mean Peter Hewitt. Because, you know, they look the same. I’m clearly off my game with this stuff. It doesn’t help that Peter Hewitt’s last name is on the pair of shoes (shown below) that I’m wearing right now. Duuuhhh. Here’s his part from Cash Money Vagrant.
I’d just like to point out my happiness over discovering Patrick O’Dell’s website a few days ago while posting about the latest episode of his internet show. The site features two of my favorite O’Dell pieces from Thrasher - a piece on a trip with some Baker riders to Barcelona, and a piece detailing an Enjoi trip to Portugal. “Barcelona Gangster Situations” ranks as one of the most memorable articles from the time when I read three or four skateboarding magazines each month (compared to zero now) and features the “Status Correction Five Style,” which I still have to use on occasion.
Epicly Later’d - Josh Kalis Episode 3
In Episode 3 of the Kalis series, Josh talks about his trip to the mental hospital, getting dropped from H-Street, and being over skating. Jamie Thomas makes his first appearance on Epicly Later’d to talk about finding Josh and filming with him in Texas. The real deal here though is about 3 minutes of never-before-seen footage filmed in 1994 that stands up to most of what’s being filmed today.
I’ve been following Patrick O’Dell’s Epicly Later’d series on VBS pretty regulary, and I am glad that I have because I would have been disappointed if I had missed this episode. I’ve always found Josh Kalis to be an interesting skateboarder, and I’ve never heard anything about this period in his life and career.
