I’ve never liked fish eye, yes it’s nostalgic but for me there was nothing more shite than squinting at footage knowing the filmer is struggling to hold the end of that coke bottle up to the lense.
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Modern 4:3/VX fisheye is shot in a totally different way to “classic” fisheye and looks pretty shit, usually.
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- I like the steadicam, extra wide angle footage that Mike Manzoori was putting out a few years back.
- The sooner the fetish for the VX1k subsides, the better. Yeah, great, you can wang it in your backpack and off you fuck for the day, without the tripod, the tracks, the steadicam, the drone, etc. Brilliant. Shame about the terrible image quality for a “primary” camera.
- That bullshit super8 digital effect that every amateur hour clown puts on some b-roll cutaway footage was naff the first time and is now an embarrassing cliche now that it’s completely overdone and easily spotted as the same goddamn effect.
- Filmers running the with the camera so it looks like an earthquake or Godzilla invasion. Use your board, it’s an almost perfect budget steadycam - usually VX1k warriors to be honest.
- I’ve often seen that in so-called “creative” or “underground” skate videos like Magenta’s output or that Japanese crowd Underground Broadcasting (?) where it’s a flatground boneless to tailtap a brick that’s been conveniently left in the middle of the pavement, filmed 5 times in 4 angles, then over-edited by a blind kid with ADHD to some shiiiiiiiite house tune from the early 00s. All then presented like they’re the Avengers coming to save to the world through the medium of interpretive dance.
- Leo Valls - has some ridiculous tech skills for warm-ups, but chooses to put out footage of him powersliding and pushing on flat.
- Lazy pros - fuck off Gino, get it together. You’re not asked to do much.
- Group masturbation by middle-aged men over the latest supposedly zany shit Marc Gonzales did, like carry a longboard to the spot by bike, or learn to order a pizza over the phone. “Oh, but he’s so creative… It is unfortunate that you can’t see it though…”
Tip o’ the iceberg…
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I’d say half of them aren’t unpopular
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…and breathe.
ha ha.
I don’t agree with a bunch of them, but thats an epic list.
10/10. Made me laugh.
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Why aren’t coloured wheels acceptable?
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And coloured grip tape, to a lesser extent.
I guess the wheels from an aesthetic look maybe.
Just one of those things a bunch of old fucks decided on in between arguing about trick names.
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Coloured wheels are whack as fuck. That’s a pretty popular opinion.
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Indys are shit trucks.
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Coloured wheels and grip tape make skateboards look like toys.
I know it is a toy but still…
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Always fancied some blue wheels. I guess peer pressure will always stop me getting some. And formula 4 are the best anyway.
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Coloured wheels look good on a cruiser, slimeballs for example. Always look bad on a normal sized popsicle
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Coloured wheels are cool but you have to be more careful of them ‘clashing’ with your board graphic, shoes, clothing etc. Therefore they are just trouble.
I actually like Orbs colours quite a bit.
I really rate Krux
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Great wheel, feel like Bones SPFs
Cross locked grinds on rails is cheating.
People don’t back lip hand rails enough anymore
Ty Evans is a bad filmmaker
Flip in-Flip outs pretty much always look bad unless your’re PJ
This is fun…
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Transworld was always better than Thrasher.
Slap was better than both.
Big Brother peaked with issue 22 Gino/Andy Roy interview one.
Cliver and Tremaine ruled.
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@anonymity , I was thinking this exact thing the other day.
Cilver was the best writer they had.
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It was downhill from when they sold to Larry Flynt.
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