Rainy Day Viewing — “Pissing In The Ocean” by Brendan Gilliam

We have shared some of Brendan Gilliam‘s moody autumnal edits in years back, but Pissing In The Ocean is the first full-length from his crew. Elisa Martini joins Gilliam video fixtures Nick Lane and Jacob Campbell for a video that bounces between a nebula of Ridgewood/Bushwick/Queens, industrial New Jersey, and a crew trip to Barcelona. Friends pull up along the way, and in the theater of the mind, it’s nice to think that some of these dudes just texted Gilliam on a Friday night, being like, “Yo meet me at this industrial park in New Jersey tomorrow at noon and I’ll try to film as many tricks as I can before I gotta go into work later.”

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‘Videobrain’ — A New Edit by Brendan Gilliam

As was the case with Brendan Gilliam’s “Life Starts Tomorrow” from late-2020, his new one was a bit too nice to leave as a Monday Link.

“Video Brain” picks up where the last edit left off: presenting us this autumnal world where the greys and tans of Queens crust blend seamlessly into spots found throughout suburban industrial parks.

Nick Lane — who, you might remember, 5050’d the perpendicular corner at Brower like it was pool coping in “Life Starts Tomorrow” — remains the star of the show in this one. And that one dude’s front 180 up the four at Reggaeton legit incited one of the biggest smiles at a skate clip this year ❤️

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‘Life Starts Tomorrow’ — An Autumnal Montage by Brendan Gilliam

The video begins with a refrain echoed by all those those who have lived enough years to notice creaks in their joints: “I never thought I’d get old.”

*I* never thought seasonal montages — one of our culture’s most innocent traditions — would become things of the past, but that seems to be the case with each fleeting year. The 25-hour skateboard news cycle has rendered the “fall montage” as dated of a concept as a “concert” or an “office.”

But not all are ok with floating out where the tide takes them :) Some are paddling back.

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