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5 The Birth of The Skate Video
If you’ve ever filmed a trick of yourself skateboarding, edited your own video or been inspired by a skate video you owe a small part of that experience to Stacey Peralta and the Bones Brigade crew. Before Stacey Peralta, skate videos were just documents of live contests or events. Simple utilitarian pieces of media that captured the skateboarding as it happened. But Stacey and his work with the Bones Brigade team blended skateboarding and video into what we know today as the “skate video”. Thus changing an entire generation and the following decades of skaters and youth around the world. And giving birth to a whole new art form.
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..also one question Theorizer… You sure the tape wasn’t a combination of the movie Thrashin and the television show Mash? I don’t see Mashin’ on…
Wasn’t kids? Weren’t kids*
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I started actually skating in late 1999, after telling everyone I already skated for about a year. My first vid was Fulfill the Dream, followed…
did ryan g film u ? cool idea who’s next?????
even though i started skating at the tail end of the 90’s, “The Search of Animal Chin” and “Public Domain” were 2 of 3 videos…
I was fortunate enough to make it up to Sundance to watch this film last week. The little Sundance interview gives a great portrayal of…
Fixed the video link…..it’s a Youtube link now, should work for all you fools.
Bummer this clip wont play for me either…
Cool link sza…. too bad Ron Paul will never be president (im writing him in regardless)
Hey man, you spent some time in Orlando with the ol’ Floridian as well.
Wow, The Berrics coming through with some great content. What do you have for us leeches Theorizer?
nooooo. what the hell is wrong with my computer? im getting an up side down question mark and quicktime logo when i try to play…
Mark Wetzel