Mini Video 96 – Cellscape

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Here’s where I try to inject something clever about the number ninety six. Something something “96 Tears”?? Print it.

Segment two – Cellar Cection/Sellar Section – A tour of cellar doors available in South East Wisconsin. Fifteen unique sloped entrances were skated upon and captured in our field notes. Segment brought to you by our corporate sponsor BILCO – an Amesbury Truth Company.

Filmed on Hi8 Spring/Early Summer 2022. The camera almost gave up and left a final session uncapturable. After a very outdated Youtube tutorial, and a hail mary electronic surgery, the TRV-120 again joined the living. The day was saved and the clips were logged.

Starring: Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Payne Counihan, Pat Forster, Sean Hanley, Drew Rickaby, Jacob Tyler Mumford, Josh Ellis, Eric Risser, Nick Mistele, Bradford Bishop, Taylor Lalk, and Mikey Al Wathiqui.

Filmed by Josh Ellis and Hank Scorsese.

Production stills by Bradford Bishop:

Vince Stranc, Bam Drop onto a constructed specifically for the spot cellar door. It was determined that custom doors were worth at least double the points versus a store bought cellie. (Sorry BILCO.)
Vince Stranc – Frontside Shove It
Max Murphy – Euro Gap Noseblunt
Nick Mistele – Gap to Backlip
Vince Stranc – Hurricane
Max Murphy – Tailslide to Switch Crooked Grind
New father Sean Hanley performs a switch frontside kickflip.

Thank God it’s Fridave

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Been carrying around a disposable camera in my backpack for the past year and a half. Here’s a handful of photos I got from it.

Max Murphy – Ride on grind
Juke & a juke
Taylor Lalk – Boardslide
Josh in a hole
Max – Cup carve
Crack maintenance
Max – Ollie
Jimmy Brickner – Crook
Ben Narloch – Bam drop for the people
Daves in the city

Mini Video 95 – Bodywork

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Not since Mini Video 3.1 in 1999 has a Mini Video corresponded to a major Windows release. What does it all mean?

Shot on Hi8, Winter/Spring 2022.

Starring: Max Murphy, Josh Ellis, Vince Stranc, Nick Mistele, Taylor Lalk, Payne Counihan, Gabe Chan, James Brickner, Bradford Bishop, Pat Forster, & Sean Hanley.

Filmed by: Josh Ellis and Hank Scorsese.

Production stills by Bradford Bishop:

Max Murphy – 50-50
Max Murphy – 50-50
Max Murphy – 50-50
Taylor Lalk – Lipslide
“Awww man, my favorite belt”
Chainer navigates the dystopian wastelands of today and tomorrow.
Crewed up at the “Pile of Fuck”.
Vince Stranc – 180 to Fakie 5-0

1:2

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Welcome, latest news from the Päwl Corporation is that the originals and duplicates have been eliminating one another. These two factions will eventually come to peace…or not. Only time will tell. Check the microfiche…

Previous installments: 3, 3.1

1: Max Murphy 2: Vince Stranc Ph: Bradford Bishop
Sean Hanley or his duplicate?, kflip wallride ph: Bradford Bishop
Taylor Lalk, an original 1? ph: Bradford Bishop
Payne Counihan, he teleported from Milwaukee to Philly to UWM to fight the 2 resistance. ph: Nick Mistele
Vince Stranc, they couldn’t duplicate him… ph: Bradford Bishop
Gabe and Max reviewing the evidence, “THEY are watching”. Surveillance ph: Josh Ellis
Guerilla filmmaking is the only way to document the duplicates and originals, Max. Surveillance ph: Josh Ellis
Gabe Chan sw crooks through geometry wars ph: Bradford Bishop

Mini Video 94 – Bushcraft

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Feeling inspired after making “Blue Building”, I set out to recapture that feeling. For the first video of 2022 I used the same Hi-8 cam I used in the late 90s, fisheye screwed on with step-up ring, and fully auto settings.  Just turn on the camera and go –  caveman style – focus, exposure, shutter speed, and white balance don’t exist in this beautiful world.  

I must admit that the camera did have some downfalls in the harsh Wisconsin winter conditions.  It was in the teens Fahrenheit for some of this, so batteries had to be kept warm in pockets or they’d last approximately four minutes.  All weapons have their weaknesses.

Skating by: Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Josh Ellis, Bradford Bishop, Sean Hanley, Drew Rickaby, Payne Counihan, Gabe Chan, and Nick Mistele.

The Sony TRV-120. 450x digital zoom. (up to) 12 hours battery life. “Nightshot” 0 Lux. A glorious weapon.

“Bushcraft” production stills by Bradford Bishop:

Max Murphy – Lower Level Wall Plant
Vince Stranc – Wall to Grabber
Josh Ellis – Wallride Fakie
James Brick, up close w/ nightvision. During the day. Think about it.
Drew Rickaby – Backside Kickflip
Sean Hanley – Nollie Backside Kickflip
Vince Stranc – Wallie
Vince Stranc – Wallie Boardslide
Max Murphy – 50-50 Hippie Jump
Max Murphy – Frontside Bluntslide
Payne Counihan – Boardslide
Sean and Drew, Bushcraft Legends

Rewind: Mini Video 01

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Originally posted November 22, 1999. The one that started it all! Big news.

This is a reasonably accurate recreation made using the raw footage. I was too lazy to make a perfect copy of the excellent(?) typography employed in the original video.

Trivia: This wasn’t actually called “Mini Video 01” at the time. How could I know? The file is called “ben vance promo.mpg”.

The original web clip is 320×240 and the frame rate was lowered to 20 fps. The file size was less than one meg.

At the time, it would’ve taken the viewer around 10-15 minutes to download the clip onto their computer. From there they could load it up into their video player of choice. That is, if they remembered where they saved the file on their computer. There was no such thing as a web based video clip player.

A screenshot of some late 90s tech tips. There was a lot more effort involved in this whole thing.
And of course, a quick comparison of how bad the image quality was back then.
Hi! From the 90s.
Enhance! The PC where this video was edited. It was probably something like a pentium 125, and it probably had both Roller Coaster Tycoon and Doom installed.
Enhance! The fuel that kept me fired up for those long editing sessions to make 10 second long videos.
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