Still Ill

Skating Videos

still ill from pizzy on Vimeo.

The new full length by Patrick Forster.

Starring Max Murphy, Sean Hanley, Nick Mistele, Chad Benson, Dan Jackson, Jerry Mraz, Pat Murphy, Jon Rockafellow, Danny Stemper, Cory Stubing, Alex Keck, Jacob Mumford, Drew Rickaby, Payne Counihan, Tavis Schulz, Vince Stranc, Chase Hopper, Brent Menchaca, Benny Fosco, Roger, David Gackstetter, Taylor Lalk.

Production photos below all by Bradford Bishop.

Drew Rickaby – Frontside Wallride
Drew Rickaby – Backside Smith
Tavis – Wallie
Max Murphy – 5-0 Grind
Vince Stranc – Ollie
Payne Counihan – Smith
Drew and Pat behind the scenes
Max Murphy – Ollie
Max Murphy – 50-50
Sean Hanley – Wallie Backside Noseblunt

Mini Video 92 – Witch Hunt

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During pandemic lockdown I claimed I was going to make a new Mini Video in 2021. Promises delivered.

The saga that started over 20 years ago continues..

Starring: Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Gabe Chan, David Gackstetter, Mike Al Wathiqui, Rory Morgan, Nick Mistele, Sean Hanley, Taylor Lalk, Jacob Mumford, and Payne Counihan

Additional behind the scenes media provided by Bradford Bishop.

Taylor Lalk – Backside Smith
Max Murphy – Backside Lip
Rory Morgan – Bomb Drop
Max Murphy – Wallride Nollie
David Gackstetter – 5-0 Grind
Behind the scenes.

Heat, On Laser Disc

Skating Photos

2020 into 2021.

Not much going on, right?

During this pandemic I was a decent citizen. I stayed home, and if not, I was meandering all over the city on my bike taking b/w photos of crap in alleys.

To maintain a bit of sanity I would occasionally ride the bike downtown to meet up with the skate brethren and shoot a telephoto spaced out photo or two.

I haven’t been good at sharing this stuff because well, no one looks at the site anymore. It does work as a decent photo repository for self use, so maybe I’ll keep adding more here or there.

Here’s some recent-ish selections from who knows when.

David Gackstetter, backside smith. This set up was less Berra than one might guess by just looking at the photo. All materials were found onsite, so any tricks here receive a slightly higher score than if the materials were brought in from an outside source.
A mother load of debris. I felt blessed to find this post apocalyptic scene, while actually living in an apocalyptic scenario.
Drew Rickaby, backside nosegrind. Look at Bradford’s dumb hands creeping into the scene. I shot this on a Canon Rebel 2000, the same camera I used to shoot photos of Ben Vance for use on wiskate.com twenty years ago. Ben Vance did not already do this nosegrind though.
I lied, this is from pre pandemic. You can tell, because there are humans in the photo acting like normal people. Remember that? I wonder what Pizzy is showing to Hank here? Maybe they’re looking at the wiskate.com Wiki to find out what tricks Ben Vance already did.
Sean Hanley, wallride nollie. This is also from before the pandemic. The debris used to make the cellar door skateable were found onsite in this scenario as well. It’s weird how over the years you could either skate this spot forever, or get kicked out in one second.
Vince Stranc, boneless. I really am a dummy, this is also pre lockdown. I guess I’ve just been sitting on all of these photos for longer than I realized. Landing on that grate is kind of scary. I know it’s not likely to happen, but if you fell into that zone you’d be living a similar scenario to the South Korean film “The Host”.
HANK
Max Murphy – Boban assisted tailslide. Now we’re back on track. I rode my bike over here, and Risser was unloading the Boban from his van. Some points lost due to offsite material logistics, but still a nice scene. He did the same trick on another taller loading dock roughly fifty feet from here. This photo is nicer.
Curb delivery. Pre Covid.
Safety first! I hope we’re all through this soon, friends!

3.1

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3.1 from Gabe Chan on Vimeo.

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:

Gabe Chan – Nollie Backside Tailslide
Max Murphy – Ollie
Drew Rickaby – Backside Smith

Handy The Movie: Edition 2

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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.

Rewind: Mini Video 22 – Ben Vance Does Nashville

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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.

Driving the Dodge Neon very far with no plan, to skate one spot. How did we get there? How did we find a hotel? I was there, before the Internet, and I can’t answer the question. The car blew the head gasket on the way back, and I traded it in the next day. They were none the wiser. Karma got me though, the new car was a piece of shit too.
I had no idea how to shoot a skate photo. Some would say I still don’t. Ben crooked grinds, Mike films. Pictured is the Canon GL1 I still use to this day. Used as recently as last year to make WAZPZ.
I’m not familiar enough with Nashville to say how different it looks now. Let’s say: some.

Nashville – Legislative from Josh Ellis on Vimeo.

Here’s some contemporary supplemental content of Greg, Mike, and Ben skating the plaza.

3

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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

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