I love the bit where they edit gonz’s half cab on flat with the backside air on vert. It’s just so fluid.
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Haha I wouldn’t say I’m mad about it just think most of the time when people haven’t seen something like that they play it off as if they just haven’t got around to it when to me it just feels like their doing it do go against the norm and sort of enjoy the shock responses of ‘what you haven’t seen xyz!!?? Fuck off’ etc. they pride themselves on it to a certain extent.
Exactly, musicwise some people just look at very narrow parts of it and like what they like, that’s all good but it does blow my mind when people say “Meh” to something that really does it for me.
Music is a lot more personal though. A song might stir thoughts and happy/sad emotions in you that someone else is just not going to feel. That’s what is actually cool about skateboard videos, to go full circle. With the repeated enjoyment of a video you often find yourself enjoying a bit more variety than the norm, as you are giving songs more than one listen before making up your mind and never going back to it.
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Yes I’m very proud. That’s the vibe you should get from my posts in this thread. Pride. 
Anyway… Anyone want a zoom watch of this soon. Might give me the push to finally do it.
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Mind field listed as 2005?
Theres a good bit of very early 90’s they seem to have looked over but then go heavy post 2000 on some random shite.
The Deca video was entertaining but one of “skateboarding’s most influential films”? hell no.
Emerica Yellow is a random one and going back, so is Goldfish.
Where is “A Soldiers Story”?
Headcleaner shouldn’t be on there. Unapromo should be in it’s place. That is the amazing one.
I hate to say it, but a lot of people were let down by Headcleaner when it came out.
Dying to Live? Beware of the Flare? BLACKOUT?
So many randoms.
If you are going to curate “skateboarding’s most influential films” then do it.
Reads more like a personal list.
Isolation make man grumpy today. UGH.
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Headcleaner, dying to live and blackout are defo on my influential list!
That’s fair enough though, Stars and Bars was essential viewing.
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Stars & Bars is epic!
Don’t you mean Art Bars is essential viewing?
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This too. Strubing and West. Epic.
…and Markovich.
…Shimizu, too.
Dying to Live definitely for me. Maybe eventually the guy will upload pretty much every video made on there
Yeah, 100% not saying anything against what is on individuals lists…
This apparently is “skateboarding’s most influential films”, which isn’t individual.
If you polled 10,000 people for their top 3 most influential skate videos, I would be very surprised to see any of those in the top 250.
but then, thats just like, my opinion, maaaaaan
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Aye it wasn’t a comment on anything you were saying was just pointing out they were big for me!
How come people weren’t stoked on Headcleaner? It was the first video I ever had and watched it every single day (hence why it was so influential to me).
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Thread.
I think people were just a bit let down.
OG Unabomber was really quite ahead of it’s time and Unapromo was a solid statement. As a company, it was heading towards Blueprint territory.
…but then Headcleaner was just this overly long affair almost throwing everything available in, rather than being some sort of coherent edit.
Vaughan was killing it in contests and the little bits you’d seen of him in photos and in the Dope Clothing videos meant a lot of people were expectant of his opening section.
I think people were waiting for Rushbrooke to have his standout part that he’d long deserved as well as some others, too.
People I know slated that “night section” as the perfect example of it being overly long.
There are some magical moments in there, for sure. Toby’s part is an obvious example. Harry at London Bridge, etc.
I first watched Headcleaner with a crew and I feel like everyone was expecting to be witnessing the next WFTW but unlike WFTW, people were taking piss breaks or making teas happily in the other room (Smoke break wasn’t a thing. You smoked wherever back then).
Bear in mind that Headcleaner was slap bang in the middle of WFTW and First Broadcast releases…This wasn’t a video you’d be excited to put on from start to finish after first viewing. Those Blueprint videos were the go-to.
I spent a long time defending Headcleaner when people would moan about it. Maybe I was just in with a moaning crowd? But years later, I probably defended it a bit too much…
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My crew all thought Headcleaner was well shit.
I can relate to this. After watching it loads when I was young I went back to it a few years ago and had totally forgotten how long it was.
Was Headcleaner the one where it had some kid just skating his front, on a home made grind-box? I think some of the Unabombers weren’t stoked with Unabomber when that came out.
that’ll be the later one up the rebels surely?
