Girl video was really good.
Ha! That’s rad. I didn’t get the double edit of the nosewheelie thing either. Pretty amateurish!
I still back this guy, even with the shrugs and everything. It’s almost his signature thing and for some reason I don’t see it as arrogance or anything. More that he was more surprised than anyone that he actually landed the trick. Almost as if his body just fell back onto his board at the right time!
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Completely forgot this had already been released!
…which just shows how forgettable Girl videos are now - the complete antithesis to their back catalogue and a symptom of their downfall.
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Hold camera in a 90s Dadcam style.
Zoom in on face.
Tilt down to feet.
Tilt back up to face.
Never show full gap/spot/ledge.
Make sure there’s never a good poster frame.
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“This is Rusty calling you from Maine…”
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Enjoyed this one, especially the ender…
Its a remix of Doll, right? reworked to clear music.
It can’t be that good if people have seen it before and don’t remember.
But it is really good.
Griffin Gass is probably good enough to get on Primitive.
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Doll was fucking great, just that People already decided that Girl was done so they put the fact that they only watched once and moved on down to that rather than it’s because that is the reality of skate consumption now… with every clip. Doll can’t hold up to previous Girl vids because of the times, not the skating.
I’d say Tiago’s more recent part has been the best thing since forever and yet, I can’t remember what it’s from, when it came out and I have maybe watched it 3 times. That’s bullshit, I have watched skaters I don’t even like ten times that on vhs/dvd. How can anyone ever have as much cultural impact as skaters pre internet? A couple maybe but the pull is totally different now, it seems to be geared within fashion and mainstream acceptance not purely the progression of the tricks and style.
Anomalies on both sides of the argument, granted.
That all said, i’m old and I can’t guess what the younger generations feel about it all, to some, it’s just normal.
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Good points, well made.
People relentlessly comparing Girl to what it was has grown really quite tiring, it’s got to the point where some can’t even bring themselves to recognise the good sides. Griffin Gass is awesome for one.
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We have to remember that even a classic like Mouse was only a classic through constant watching. The whole vid would have been carried by Koston and Mariano based on one watch and then you’d have to to watch Mariano a few times to even understand which way he skates. So with only Koston being visibly progressive on first watch, would Mouse be a classic if released today?
The reason why everyone else in that video is so loved is because we engrained their skating on our brains. Just like pop music to the basic bitches.
Not a diss, to any girl skater on there, I loved the whole video but it took time to appreciate that little styled switch crooks were cool as well as the next best new fangled shit.
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Also, theres a generational aspect to it as well. For me, Girl’s heyday was around Yeah Right because i was 14 and it was all new to me. And when I saw that video I wanted to see Rogers, McCrank, Prod, MJ etc, and I didn’t care about seeing the old guy’s – Gino or Jeron or Rudy Johnson – footage. But someone who was 30 at that time would have done.
So now, I’m sure that there’s kids who are stoked on Girl and Doll, just as we were stoked on Girl and Yeah Right or Girl and Goldfish – not because of the old guys on the team, but because of what the younger pro’s are doing.
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Totally, every generation will feel different, and even then you add personal preferences in to the mix and you have an infinite ideas of what one thing is. Kinda makes arguing opinions pointless, but that’d be boring, innit.
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Agree with all the above - also tossing in music rights issue in as a reason.
I can’t think of the last decent video release whose music was exciting in the same was as the skating (with Strobeck/Polar and indy releases like CV being the obvious exceptions). This has to be having an effect on the repeat viewing aspect of things
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Oh yeah totally. I just thought I’d throw the generation argument into the mix on behalf of the teenagers, seen as no one under the age of 20 posts on here
But also folds back into itself again by the tunes can only become good/memorable through repeat plays/views. Some newer edits could may well have decent tunes in them if we allowed them to seep into the footage in time and earworm into our brains to replay when we skate. But yeah, realistically, on the whole music has been a serious quality issue since music rights… blah.
Case being that when I started skating I was all about metal but I found myself humming “gonna gonna gonna lose in the end” every session skating around the carpark. Not a tune I would have ever heard or sought out without skating.
Precisely, try and find me a nice composition!
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Simon Bannerot’s on Girl isn’t he? He’s beyond great.
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I bought a couple of the Girl x Beastie Boys decks this morning. Probably shouldn’t have done as I can’t really afford them at the moment given my work situation is up in the air… but I couldn’t pass up the chance to have one on the wall
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