Monday, February 8, 2010 9:46pm PST (11 hours ago)
I made it very clear before that I wasn't really feeling the new Flip video, Extremely Sorry. It had super sick skating in it, but my two biggest problems were the horrible DJ Baron soundtrack, and the superfluous useless clips scattered throughout the entire thing. Well one night a long while ago, I was sitting around drinking by myself (as is my wont) watching Extremely Sorry, when inspired by the Quartersnacks Mind Field edit I thought to myself "Fuck it, I'm just gonna re-edit this thing and change this terrible music." My initial idea was just to drop the sound from the whole thing, and add new music. But then I figured while I was doing it I might as well cut out all those little inbetween clips that I hated. Then after I started doing that I got really really picky and chopped the fuck out of that thing up like I was some creepy dude named Vince . You see, I have a huge pet peeve about the amount of ride up or ride away in a video. Too much or too little can really make or break a video, and it's something that not a lot of people really pay attention to, but I think it's one of the most important things in video editing. With that being said, when I was done editing, I had chopped up a single clip into 330 individual ones, and reduced an hour-plus long video to just over 30 minutes. The funny thing about this is that I finished my re-edit sometime in November, and it's just been sitting on my external hard drive since then. You see, on Vimeo, you only get so many megabytes per week and I kept trying to upload with the proper quality. And that title you see above kept fucking up the video, coming up blank, or as digital static. I still haven't been able to fix that problem, but I'm sick of fucking trying, so here we are months later and I am posting the video. (Plus I wanted to wait until the video had a chance to sell through as much as it could before I posted it up on the internet.) I have no idea why the title will show up as the thumbnail but doesn't sho More >
Monday, February 8, 2010 9:12pm PST (12 hours ago)
So it looks like the majority of you thought Spanky's lipstick ad was the worst of all the ads. That wouldn't have been my pick. I would have picked Dyrdek first, but I also think Olson's vag wipes ad is worse than the lipstick ad. I mean at least Spanky was doing it for his girlfriend, and lipstick isn't as dumb as vag wipes. If my girlfriend were like "Hey I am gonna do this lipstick ad and they want you to be in it." I'd be like "Yeah, no. Not happening." Then she'd be all like "Alright, say goodbye to my pussy for a couple weeks." And I'd be all like "Okay, I love lipstick ads!" But then again I'm a fat internet blogger virgin who lives in my mom's basement so what do I know about girlfriends and lipstick and vag wipes, or even vagina for that matter? Ask me about shoes, I'll tell ya somethin'. Now onto this week's poll. In the last post I made about Wenning, there were a lot of comments saying that I look like Wenning. And this is not the first time this has happened. Of course since in my own mind I look like a ruggedly handsome movie star, I didn't think this was true. So the point of this poll was supposed to be for you readers out there to decide if I look like Wenning or not. So I went about the task of looking through the pictures on my computer for a very neutral picture of me, when I found this picture I took for some profile picture that a German sneaker magazine asked me for. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't rigging the poll by purposely picking two pictures that don't look anything the same. So I thought "Oh I think there was a face shot of Wenning in that ESPN interview. I'll use that one. I swear to fucking god I didn't even realize until I downloaded that picture and then uploaded them both to the blog posting window that we were both standing in front of a brick wall. So yeah, I think we all know where these poll results are going. I do actually look quite a bit like him. I still think I'm more ruggedly handsome though. Then again I got an e-m More >
Monday, February 8, 2010 9:04pm PST (12 hours ago)
By the way, did anyone out there notice that thanks to Ian you can now ditch the "blogspot" bullshit and just type in www.youwillsoon.com ? About fucking time. Somehow every time we tried it before it fucked up and shut down our blog for like three days. This time it worked. You still have to put up with that goddamned content warning though. But don't worry, we'll get rid of it.... soon. you will soon More >
Monday, February 8, 2010 5:24pm PST (15 hours ago)
Some random snap shots, from the last roll of film I got back... More >
Monday, February 8, 2010 4:35pm PST (16 hours ago)
For the last couple of months I have been telling you about Andy Macdonald Inventors Skateboarding 101 series . Andy has been doing a great job running down legends whose most enduring achievement in skateboarding was inventing a trick. For the most part the posts have been vert tricks. After all Andy is a vert skater. But the latest segment focuses on the origin of the most common of all street tricks, the kick flip. If you don't know, Rodney Mullan the "freestyle" master at the time and of all time was the first to make the trick that we all learn after we can ollie. Flip on over to watch Rodney tell the history. While there view the history of the McTwist, Madonna, Andrecht and the Benihana. "........when it comes to the streets, it is fair to stay that MOST of the tricks being done today can be traced back to one very eccentric, creative and talented skateboarder. His name is Rodney Mullan. Rodney invented the flat ground Ollie, which is literally how every modern street trick starts. Next came the Ollie kickflip, which quickly became the standard in street skating. It wasn't long before people were kickflipping down stairs, onto benches and into and out of other tricks. I'd be willing to bet that the number one most asked question in fan mail to pro skaters to this day is: How do you kickflip?" Ka-nowledge is power. More >
