Hanley is sent back to the 3rd dimension to capture his duplicate version 5.3. If he’s not successful he will disintegrate…
Starring Max Murphy, Sean Hanley, Gabe Chan, Vince Stranc, Nick Mistele, Payne Counihan, Drew Rickaby, David Gackstetter, Brandon Spantikow, Eric Risser, Jimmy Brickner, Pat Murphy, and Taylor Lalk.
Production images below by Bradford Bishop:
Handy The Movie: Edition 2 from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
I feel like I’ve written this diatribe at least six times now, but here we go anyway.
Instagram is great to quickly film up a few clips, edit them together with some quick cuts and LOLs, and post. You might get some sick comments and several “likes” leading to that nice dopamine blast. But that’s it, one or two days later, it’s never watched again.
The Handy series is an attempt to rescue these clips from the Memory Hole. Above is Handy Edition 2, the cream off the top of my cell phone data from 2015. The clips are presented in chronological order, more or less. Enjoy?
Below, same idea. One photo per month, from the cell phone data. Year 2015.
Mini Video 22 – Ben Vance Does Nashville (unoffical recreation) from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
A reasonably accurate recreation of Mini Video 22 from February 22, 2001. Nearly 20 years now.
I have the original web sized .mpg from 2001, and I found the raw footage on a Hi8 tape earlier this year. I put the old file in the timeline and overlaid the raw footage over it. The audio is original to the 2001 .mpg. Making the “cool” animations was more annoying than it should’ve been. But I persevered.
Comparison of today vs. 2001 web quality. People used to wait 20 minutes for videos that looked like this to download, and they loved it, damnit.
Anyway, back to the past. The crew wanted to skate. It was too snowy and cold in Milwaukee. I remembered a great plaza in Nashville I had skated once on the way to Florida a year or two before. Might as well drive the ten hours.
Nashville – Legislative from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
Here’s some contemporary supplemental content of Greg, Mike, and Ben skating the plaza.
The Sky People have sent Max Murphy, Gabe Chan, Sean Hanley, Nick Mistele, Drew Rickaby, David Gackstetter, John Rockafellow, Mikey Al Wathiqui, Pat Forster, Eric Risser, Cory Stubing, Vince Stranc, Taylor Lalk, Spazz, Bradford Bishop, and Jimmy Brickner to observe, research, and collect data from different dimensions through space and time. This is what they found on their third mission which is believed to be the year 2020.
Production stills below. All shot by Bradford Bishop.
Gabe, on the set.
Nick Mistele – Switch Frontside Crooked Grind
Max Murphy – Autumn Breeze Frontside Blunt
Sean Hanely – Risky Wallride
Nick Mistele – Backside Ollie
Max Murphy – Boban Assisted Tailslide
Drew Rickaby – Backside 180 Nosegrind
Chase Hopper – Nosegrind
Drew Rickaby – Switch Frontside Noseslide
Sean Hanley – Backside Tailslide
Mini Video 38 – Entertain Me from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.
Originally posted May 10, 2007.
This is a biggie! I think this is when we finally hit our stride, and for lack of a better term, the “classic” wiskate video was born. I’d rank this one in the top 5. Kind of silly, kind of serious, great cast of characters, and the song rips! A recipe for success.
Originally posted March 29, 2007.
My grand idea is already falling apart. I thought it’d be easy to to look through the archives and find a bunch of great photos. Then the “awesome” anecdotes that go with them would come rolling in like the waves on the sea. Alas, the reality isn’t so nice. Back then we didn’t wield cameras all day long like we do now. Or perhaps not much happened between the last one (end of February), and this one (end of March). I’m coming up dry.
This video does feature my favorite manual trick I ever filmed. Danny did a great one. I’ll usually straight up refuse to even try to film a manual. Not my cup of tea. Solid ending celebration too. Russ reused the gorking out for his weirdo video segments he had on Fuel TV. Remember Fuel TV? Wow, what a time to be alive.
I hope the next one goes better. Until then, heres several photos without any skateboarding whatsoever. Actually, the site used to rarely feature skateboarding, so maybe it is perfect.
I do have these photos of digging out the polejam from the snow. Freeing it from it’s icy prison. Allowing us to express ourselves freely on our skateboards. But no photos of us skating it.
Originally posted February 28, 2007. Get it, Valentines Day, Love?? So clever.
I’m having a hard time even thinking of anything to say about this one. It seems several of the clips came from the same sessions as when we were filming Beez 3, so it has a little bit of a beezy edge to it. I think some of the clips do even appear in Beez. It’s been awhile since I watched. I’m old, I can’t remember anything.
I do believe that this vid, and the following one were kind of just a mish mash of things I had filmed in the previous months. I had no project in mind to use them for, so I just kind of threw them together with this stupid song. None of this stuff was intentionally filmed to be used as a so called “mini video”.
Here are some period appropriate images from this moment in time:
This was indeed the time period of the Beezing. This mini video was made just as we were filming the outro to Beez 3. I have an incredible amount of photos from “behind the scenes” from the infamous Deer Wizard/Johnny 5 scene. Some favorites are below.
