Anon mentioned starting a thread to celebrate Lakai but I’m throwing the net wider to discuss the single videos that truly changed the way we digest and discover skateboarding.
A few off the top of my head:
Alien Workshop Memory Screen: Experimentation
Plan B Questionable: Hammers
FTC Penal Code 100A: Proper shop video
Zero Misled Youth: Editing
Coliseum PJ Ladd’s Wonderful Horrible Life: Solo parts
Tiltmode Man Down: Crew videos
Lakai Fully Flared: Pushing the limits at every level
I still watch this before I go for a skate now.
The final push at the end of his section still gets me hyped to pick up my board and go.
It’s a bit worrying that, in my head it’s one of the new videos, but it’s from decades ago.
Fuck I’m old!
I know that’s the accepted answer but I didn’t see it until really late when the internet made it available. Always heard about it and saw photos but never saw the vid. It still had an effect on me without seeing it, that’s how powerful it was
For me it was Shackle Me Not. I watched it once in someone’s bedroom and when I left my whole world had changed. I could only half remember what I’d seen but I went out and started flipping my board as much as I could. I’d only seen the Bones Brigade, Vision and Santa Cruz vids before that because they had them in my local video rental place.
But H-Street blew them out of the water. It was so modern!
Toy machine Welcome to hell was on repeat for me when that came out , absolutely gnar but tech .
Elisa setting standards big time , was/still is an awesome part.
Loved Barley and Maldonados style
And then there’s JT . Say no more .
This is such a personal subject and impossible to make a list, really.
But I applaud the effort.
Welcome To Hell (Edit), Mouse (Skits…although maybe Video Days started this?), Trilogy & Cow would all need to be on there.
Like I say - personal and impossible.
No Bones Brigade videos?Not that I give a shit about those or ever did - but its a good example of this being an impossible task.
Streets On Fire? We could go on forever!
I will say this though - I think these two aren’t quite right…
I’d have G&S: Footage here. Memory Screen was just an evolution of Memory Screen in terms of experimentation. To me.
I’d say that this one doesn’t differ too wildly from Thrill Of It All and even Welcome To Hell in terms of edit.
What Misled Youth brought was the Century Fisheye which was a game changer.
And yeah, you need a Fred video in there. Probably Menikmati over Sorry because Menikmate was his product from start ot finish whereas Sorry was a project the finished up. Shout out to Bon App, though…The way it covered cities as well as having parts in a seamless manner really made things feel worldwide.
I think I could have added Welcome To Hell to my initial list for gender issues.
I don’t think I’m trying to argue for personal favourites but more for videos that really made all of skateboarding stop and think, either through the skating, the production, the cast, the ideas….
I maintain memory screen because footage felt more like a preview of what was to become.
That’s what I found when I was thinking back - most I thought about were my favourites linked to memories/times/friends and not necessarily game changers so to speak.
Supreme, ‘Cherry’ should probably be in the conversation for pioneering a new, HD-friednly style in filming and editing. Dylan’s Gravis part also for setting some sort of standard in solo parts.
Hard not to just repeat the usual suspects that come up in these type of discussions.
Yeah thinking a little outside the box Jackass and the Tony Hawk pro skater video clips were probably more influential overall than anything else put out during that time period.
Probably Berrics after that.
Nyjah ‘Til Death’ is the most watched legit skate part on YouTube.
Most influential Instagram clip/account?! Dane Brady’s clips seem to be remembered fondly by younger skaters but that could be because he deleted them all!
