A Comprehensive List of Videos I Saw Last Week That Were Significantly More Entertaining Than the New Transworld Video:
1 - Justin White’s magnum-opus, New Thirsty. I have a pretty heavy bias, granted that New Jersey is vastly superior to all of Southern California, but anybody who subscribes to the “short-and-sweet” preference of modern day skate videos should enjoy it. I have a very strong suspicion that Justin White was in fact the first person to introduce a generation of early-puberty VX1000ers that spent the majority of their adolescence on the Skate Perception message board to various intricate concepts like foliage, “art” angles, and insertions of Super8, 16mm, and any other fancy camera they assign to you for your final project during your first semester in film school. Justin White was definitley the first person to bridge the gap between your Photosynthesis VHS tape and your first poorly-compressed .mov of all your friends skating a random bench behind some school in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Beyond the inherent artistry presented by the video (which is actually kept to a comfortable minimum), it features some outstanding skating. It has sixth best skateboarder of all time, Taji Ameen in it , Bubba Heckman and Adrian Vega share a very good first part, and Andy Bautista shares the final part with German Nieves , which was a pleasant surprise, seeing as how their shared-part in Logic #6, back in 2000 or 2001 (a video actually better known as an introduction to Paul Rodriguez, Mike Taylor, and Justin Case, a year or so before the City Stars video came out and ruined any aspiring fourteen-year-old’s chances of going pro forever), has always been a personal favorite.
2 - The new City Skateboards video. Honestly, I only watched Russ Milligan’s minute and thirty second part. He’s my favorite skater from Canada who wasn’t in Baby Steps, and he manages to do retarded flip-to-grinds that somehow maintain aesthetic appeal. Plus, he does not skate handrails.
3 - Moving in Traffic. Although the cellar-door school of skateboarding has been overflown with a bunch of assholes in slim corduroy pants and half cabs who watched Static II way too many times, I feel like the majority of the people in the new Traffic video get a pass since they largely pioneered skating on obstacles meant to prevent people from falling into basements. Seeing as how most cellar-door skating is usually limited to no complys, wallrides, 5050s, ollies, and backside 5-0s, it is interesting to wonder how many more videos of spots-that-aren’t-really-spots we can handle, but for now, it still holds my attention.
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I co-sign anything involving Sweden, so here is the trailer for Patrik Wallner’s Visual Traveling video.
Hey, Mr. Carter! (The Better Version).
Quote of the Week: “We can take Jet Blue to Miami and drive the rest of the way to L.A.” - Benjamin Nazario
Bonus Quote of the Week: “Nas is trying to reach an audience that doesn’t exist anymore because all the white kids like electro now.” - DJ Roctakon
