Top on. Phew
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Nelly and pals
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Don’t watch many dad board videos but he just linked to this lady’s account and this video is pretty wholesome. All about that last trick.
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Non-ego vlogging rules. Her video is great.
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I’ve subbed to Oria’s YT after watching this - all her videos are great.
There’s a static smith small on a barrier / block in this that I thought was ace.
Stoked on being inspired by the young 'uns!
I really liked Oria’s latest video.
Having spent some formative skate years in la location with no “legit” spots, I get the short run ups, pivots as the world drives by and making the most out of a spot with no landing.
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Pedro re-upped his 5am hill bomb in seoul s. Korea
Bit late to this thread but obviously I’m all for self filming. I’ve posted these before on here but I self filmed a couple of video parts (CMOAC etc.)
The main reason being I had just moved to the US and didn’t know anybody but had all these amazing new spots to skate and wanted to document. But what started out as a necessity became quite freeing.
I’m the filmer of our crew, so whenever it came to me trying to get a trick filmed, I’d do something easy so I wasn’t wasting someone else’s time. I started trying harder tricks and things I’d never done before. Some of the manny tricks in these parts took 4 hours to film. I’d never have landed them if I wasn’t self filming.
It also made me get more creative with camera angles as I was aware a full part of tripod shots could look quite boring. I’m really happy with how these parts turned out- it’s the peak of what I can do on a skateboard. I actually quite miss having a part on the go. Maybe I’ve got one more in me- ‘Biggest Portion’?
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This one is relatable.
This one is really good. The little flat bar sesh is sick and the 5-0 on the angle iron is gnarlier than it looks. Wild hares on the sesh too!
Posting Oria thre times in a row. Stalker perhaps?
Rad sticker.
Grinds down to the axle.
61 attempts to get it right.
I was reading some comments on Slap about her but to me she’s legit.
Published this essay yesterday about Brad Cromer’s YouTube channel, skating in solitude and the soundscapes of his videos. Also got Brad on the phone for it to get his take on making those videos. My fave part of the story from it’s author, Finn:
"What’s so inspiring about watching Brad Cromer skate flatground alone, without a soundtrack? Why do I get hyped watching him water his lawn?"
Wasn’t sure weather to throw in the writing thread instead but it felt as fitting in here. All the images through should play and pause excerpts from Brad’s videos too.
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This could go either here, or the AI topic…
Whilst bored waiting for my lunch, I was reading an article about someone indexing their cycling go pro videos using AI to find the interesting bits. A while ago I tried to figure out a way of doing something similar to self filmed tripod clips using the amount of motion and some naive off the shelf libraries (pre-AI stuff)
Anyway, the article and approach gave me enough inspiration to reframe what I was trying to do and how to do it. eg. naively trusting motion in a clip is not enough, AI is getting smarter and things you can run locally are good enough to analyse video now… so a bit of smashing my head into ChatGPT/Codex for a couple of hours and I have a pretty good first pass are highlighting interesting bits in a long tripod clip…
Hopefully it will hold my interest long enough to refine it into something stable and shareable, even if only for the super geeks.
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Anyone wanna send me a tripod clip or two to test?
Could do but my consistency drops considerably once there is a camera about 
The perfect test case then 
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Decided trying to host and deal with uploads was a total headache…
So now I’m turning it into an iPhone app with a terrible name.
(I guarantee I will get bored of this before I can let others use it)
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I hear people say Oria’s a thirst trap but she is s legit skater. The spots she finds and rides are raw. The drop in bank has to be the oxford dictionary definition of crust. The gap to smith stall was sick.
I had to google The Balloon Gang store front snd found thisw 
Whats a thirst trap?