Category: Rewind

Originally posted June 23, 2008. “I think uh skate uh boarding is awesome…”, this is it, the big one! My favorite Mini Video I ever made. A lot to take into consideration. First Max Murphy appearance. Stemper had just moved to California, and faxed in a couple of lines. How did we facilitate this file…

“Mega ramp this!!!” The 43rd document. Originally posted April 10, 2008. It appears to feature footage from both the fall of 2007 into spring 2008. Nothing much from the winter in between. I don’t think we were such gluttons for cold air punishment back then. Instead, to pass the winter, we spent our time playing…

Originally posted Nov 2, 2007. I never really actually liked this one that much. I think it’s the song. Have I convinced you to watch it? The chronology is a bit confused as this video features footage filmed that came from before Mini Video 40. Why didn’t I use it in that one? I don’t…

The 40th Mini Video.  The file “date created” is October 1, 2007, which is the same date as the last video, and doesn’t exactly seem correct. But what do I know? It seems as if this one was filmed from around May to September. I think it took sort of a long time because I…

“Hey, y’all wanna kick it with Pizzy?!?!”  Originally posted Oct 1, 2007. This one is novel in approach as it was all filmed in one weekend.  9/22 to 9/23 2007.  George Bush was still president. I don’t know why I remember this, but this is the same weekend that Brooks Schuping from Louisville was in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Mini Video 16 from Josh Ellis on Vimeo. For true completionists only! On the same Hi8 tape that I found “Gone Wild”, I also found this piece of ancient wiskate history, thought lost forever.  This was a weekend trip to Minneapolis in Y2K (we survived) where we skated such illustrious spots as the two stair…