Today is Tony Hawk’s birthday.
But it is also Danny Brady’s birthday.
Wait, so it’s still Tony Hawk’s birthday, twice.
Category: Video
E.T’s Raw Clips
So much effort, money, etc. is spent avoiding being here the first two months of the year, but then March hits, and levels of low morale you once thought were impossible to plummet to begin to surface.
What better way to feel better than to time travel to skate trips of yesteryear, yaknow?
(Yes, it’s April, but the dive happened in March, you Type A jerk.)
Dustin Eggeling’s Part in “8-TRACK” By Busted.Mic
📷 Photo by Josh Bowser
Few skateboard color palettes are as iconic as sun-drenched Florida spots filmed on a VX1000. Dustin Eggeling’s closing part to Busted.Mic‘s 8-TRACK video is exactly that, with a nocturnal encore that returns to spots you probably wouldn’t want to skate baking under the Tampa heat.
Weekend Viewing — Naquan Rollings’ “Roadkill: Episode 4” Video
📷 Photo by Mike Heikkila • Roadkill ‘zine available here
Have you been waiting your entire life for P. Tricky to open up a video?
Something — the universe, fate, astrology — is saying today may be your lucky day. Maybe!
Naquan Rollings took the “Roadkill” series over to his YouTube channel for the latest installment. (The first three are over on Thrasher.) It features part’s worth of footage from Chucky Lane, Pero Simic, Jiro Platt and Christian Henry, and frequent appearances from Nikolai Piombo, Carl Aikens, Ish Cepeda, Mark Suicu, and many more. It is a half New York / half Paris project — actually, maybe it leans a lil’ heavier on the hometown clips.
“You’re Skateboarding At 30!” — Stephan Singh’s “Millions” Video
It is rare that an angry homeowner yields a clip that gets screen-recorded and shared among a symphony of unconnected group chats. The ones who make it into videos either grab your board and say the cops are on the way, or douse the spot and/or you with water.
But there is just something so fucking funny about a guy screaming “you have NOTHING, you’re skateboarding at 30!” while kicking you out of a drop-in grind in front of his building, particularly at a time when there’s a culture-wide discourse about skateboarding aging and the trickle-down effects of that writ large.