Some photos from November 2018 until March 2019. I don’t got much to say, enjoy the pics!
Max Murphy – Backside lip into bank.
Max Murphy – Backside Smith.
Nick Mistele – Lipslide into bank.
RUSS
Sean Hanley – Switch 180 to nosegrind.
Drew Rickaby – Backside smith.
Drew Rickaby – Switch frontside heelflip.
A special doubles routine, by Max Murphy.
Everyones either watching sports, has low T, or some sort of combination of both, so here I am posting on the long neglected site. These are all images from October of last year. I wasted them all on Instagram, and now 10 months later I am posting them here. Enjoy?
Let’s start off with this ultra serious cell phone creation: “Hank On One”.
Taylor Lalk – Fakie 5-0 Grind
Vince Stranc – Hurricane
Nick Mistele – Frontside Carve
Angry Little League Dad
Taylor Lalk – Backside Tailslide
Vince Stranc – Backside 5-0 Grind
Mikey Al Wathiqui – Crooked Grind
Nick Mistele – 360 Flip
Max Murphy – Melon Grab
Tavis – Backside Smith
Max Murphy – Backside Nosegrind
Max Murphy – Ollie
Max Murphy – 50-50
A long weekend in Nashville visiting the B-MAN.
Mini Video 91 – Bacherlorette Party from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
The world is polluted with Bird Scooters. Max says NO and commits a crime of passion.
“HI! I’m Mikey!!”
Matt Nordness – Kickflip Fakie.
Matt Nordness – Various states of a crooked grind pop over.
Matt Nordness – Fakie Flip.
Max Murphy – Nose Grind.
Matt Nordness – Boardslide to fakie.
Matt Nordness – Crooked grind to fakie.
Max Murphy – Lipeslide.
Mikey and Ralphy.
Medically induced PT Cruiser coma.
Hey, y’all wanna kick it with Pizzy?!
Patrick’s first full length skate vid: High Strangeness. Enjoy.
High Strangeness from pizzy on Vimeo.
Shot (mostly) in 2017 on super 8. A few video clips from 2018 crept in there. The follow up to Film School from 2010.
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John Rockafellow
Max Murphy
Pat Murphy
Nick Mistele
Eric Risser
Mikey Al-Wathiqui
Chase Hopper
Drew Rickaby
Bradford Bishop
Vince Stranc
Pat Forster
Neal Erickson
Payne Counihan
Gabe Chan
James Brickner
Harald Reynolds
Jacob Mumford
Danny Stemper
Rory Morgan
Sean Hanley
Matt Nordness
Ryan Walters
John Mcguire
Spaz
I also made a zine that (sort of) covered the creation of the film. All photos were shot on film and developed in my bathroom. A few of these might’ve been on the site before, but many were not.
Max Murphy – Ledge Ride
Jimmy Brickner – Crook Pop Over
Jimmy Brickner – Ollie
Vince Stranc – Hurricane & Max Murphy – Nosegrind Bs 180
Put Murphy – Wallie Boardslide
Nick Mistele – Backside Noseblunt
Nick Mistle – Backside 180 Nosegrind
Nick Mistele – Wallride
Max Murphy – Naughty Car Ride
Max Murphy – Various 50-50s
Max Murphy – Lipslide
Max Murphy – Crooked Grind
Matt Nordness – Wallride and Backside 50-50
Eric Risser – No Comply Pole Jam
Mikey Al-Wathiqui – Into the Void
I don’t have the edited master file for any of the early web clips. The earliest one I have the final edit for is number 26, from Aug 2003.
Not too long ago while I was trying to throw away some hoarded crap in my basement, I found a pile of burned cds in a box. On those dozen or so cds were files I must have moved off of my hard drive to make room for newer stuff. In other words, some of the earliest stuff I had ever filmed. The gears in my head started to slowly turn.
I knew on a hard drive somewhere I had the tiny compressed web version of the early web clips. Why not try some forensic files shit and try to recreate an early webclip? I dragged the 320×240 3 meg web clip into the timeline and slowly started puzzling the original clips over it. Eventually I found all the files I needed, and Mini Video 17 was reborn.
Some of the files are kind of glitched out with some dropped frames, but there’s nothing to be done. I was too lazy to 1:1 match the idiotic 2000 typefaces I used, so I used some idiotic 2018 typefaces. Good enough.
Filmed Oct 23, 2000. Ben Vance and Greg Lutzka in Chicago. This was the first time I had ever skated down there in my life. I remember those guys skating away from the car before I could make a mental note of where we parked. This was before cell phones, so I had to follow them or lose them. I thought we’d never find the car again.
Mini Video 17 – Chi from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
I don’t have any photos from that session. These will have to do.
Ben, hucking a big backside ollie. Greg, backside tail at the TF. Before we knew what TFs were. Heiderich Greenhouses. Your griptape would be fucked from the dirt, but it was the best ever. Also a time saver if you needed to pick up some flowers in a pinch for a wedding and/or funeral. Or if you needed to play Wolfenstein 3d on a Packard Bell 386.
Ben ollies at the greenhouses. I always thought this photo was kind of tight, but that only happened purely on accident. I had no idea how to take skate photos back then. Still debatable today.
A little behind the scenes. Quality year 2000 digital 8 vs year 2000 super compressed web clip. Yeah, that’s the quality you would get after waiting 35 minutes for the file to download. And you liked it! You might even debate on the wiskate forums what Ben says at the end of the video. “Sean Todd bails”, of course.
Lately, I’ve spent all of my allotted internetting time talking about things that happened in times long past. I’ve completely neglected our current era of disappointment and regret. Here’s some photos taken in the year of our lord, 2018. September.
Tavis, up and over. Tavis is from Racine. I think. I’m actually not sure. I wonder how much he’s skated at the Racine skatepark? It’s a great place to meet Juggalos!
Last time I took a photo here, Bush was the president, my gamer system of choice was the original Xbox (modded – with 120gig harddrive installed – I’d rent games from Blockbuster video and copy them [it was really scary modding the Xbox, I did it myself]), and Pizzy lived mere feet away from me. Fast forward a dozen years, we still haven’t gone back to the moon and Vince did a wallride melon to fakie, and Max did a wallride nollie out at the same spot that I once took a photo at a relatively long time ago. Coincidentally, it was also the first time in a dozen years that we didn’t get kicked out of this spot.
The best natural quarter-pike in Milwaukee. Pizzy found a way. Do you think anyone has ever finger boarded here? It seems like the scale would be off. Finger scale, this would be even bigger than the biggest mega ramp. Is there a Bob Burnquist of finger boarding? If so, I doubt he lives in Milwaukee.
Same day. This goofy vent ledge. It’s not the best spot out, but it looks nice enough in photographs. Vince, switch fs nose. It’s loud when you skate on this thing, and it made some random hero really crabby. If you used it for finger boarding, it wouldn’t be nearly as loud. But again, the scale is off. Is there a Tiago or Stevie of finger boarding? If you can’t land a trick and get really upset, can you finger focus your finger deck?
Tavis again. He was working on a line, so he did this hecka tall nollie tailslide a bunch of times. Does it burn more calories when you skate a tall ledge? Next time I’ll ask Tavis to wear Pizzy’s Fitbit so we can find out.
Vince, no comply. Reportedly facing a moratorium after the year 2018. Sleepy, switch backside kickflip. I actually don’t even recall him ever doing this trick in the past, so it’s somewhat surprising he busted it down the “Love Park Big 3”. If you didn’t get it, that’s a joke. This gap is about 1/5 the size of the Love Park gap. Which was a four stair, of course. What’s your favorite trick down it? If I had to choose, I think I’d go with Wenning’s switch backside 180.
“Congratulations on your switchstance flip trick, sir.”
“Thanks.”
Nick, kickflip backside lipslides. Some sort of tent city has arisen at this spot. The denizens once mocked and verbally abused Mikey Big Shits because he was too scared to ride down some plywood.
Max, front blunt. I can’t think of any pointless information to add to this caption.
The crew that had assembled in the fountain from Caligula. We were all gathered up so we could dance the night away to celebrate Sky High’s 30th birthday. Biggest crew ever at the spot? Was there any oiled up Greco-Roman wrestling? That’s for me to know…
Happy 30th, Aaron!
A legend on the floor.
Also! An interview with me about hi-8 cameras, html, and seeing Baby Shecks skate at Tampa Am – by Matt Wes of Broke Skate MKE.
