Early work and insomnia and rain storms meant video night. First I watched some British skating, which makes NYC spots look like california. In Taipei, we are blessed with the smoothest surfaces and most beautiful ledges of anywhere in the world. They say China has a lot as well, but I'd rather not deal with the death air, among other things. Shoddy workmanship might be something in common: in the four months since our toilet broke, only I've been able to rig it up to flush again. The workmen just spat betel in the sink and milled around scratching their useless balls. Many months later, we still have an open toilet plan. There is no wall between the toilet and the living room. If you ever wonder if or if not you should marry someone, try to imagine living in an open toilet plan living room. If you can handle that, then yes, marry her. Also, Taipei luxury apartments might be for you.
I watched some loonybin and some pyramidcountry, and eventually wandered into the old 411s, as nostalgia overtook my better judgement. It used to be a lot rawer. Also, there was more terrible music. Anyone complaining about how bad modern music is needs to fuck right back to 1996 411s. Selection bias is a real thing.
Use your mind to skate. Thanks bob. In these times of revolution, you're going to encounter a counterrevolutionary man. Garry Shandling, Garry Shandling, Garry. Vert footage is like very, very technical footage. It's hard to care, no matter how good it is. I need to get a HORTY shirt. Oh I also watched some brasilian skating. The skating is maybe the second or third best style in the world, but I hate how they try to make it look like a sport. I can't wait to see some brasilian creativity. I know someone over there is doing it. I do like how raw these 411s are. The interviews are delightfully candid, and they pretty much just talk about how it's fun. There's certainly none of this two cameras for every skater bullshit. Fuck filming. It's worse than cops. At least, done wrongly, it's worse than most cops. Overfilming never shot anybody. I need to get a 411vm shirt as well. I like the slam sections in these videos too. I feel a more intense connection to the event. Ultimately, this is why filming is masturbatory bullshit. Filming is a filter, and skateboarding is a participatory event - it shouldn't be filtered through anything. At least when it's a particularly pure video, it's less filtered than this WeAreBlood happy horseshit. If anything is a predictor of how shitty and irrelevant a skatevideo is going to be, it's the size of the budget. Small budgets don't guarantee anything good, but big budgets almost universally guartantee some kind of redbull mountaindew trash. Also, I don't like robot tricks. It's way more exciting to see the drama of someone nearly not rolling away, especially at speed, than boring bolts.
If I hda the budget, I'd make a 30-60 min monthly vm, traveling to a different city each month. Also, I couldn't film any tricks, because I'm not good enough at skating or filming. But if it existed, it would be a fuck of a lot more interested to see than park footage or people skating the same street tricks on the same street terrain, trying to land ever closer to their bolts.
One thing 411#18 got right was bluntslides. Also, waffle house. Were I in God's Country right now, I'd be at a waffle house. Another contest would be to get 60 min of film and film whatever you can get. It's probably been done, but I don't know because I don't watch videos. I say that having watched about 8 straight hours of skate videos.
Inshallah, I can skate tomorrow night: my evening session is cancelled, so I can start at 7:00 or something.
Since skateboarding is only about the sport, I've invented a new way of scoring my skating. It has a consistency bias, but that's the point. Art isnt about consistency. One good painting, and you've done your life's work. Of course, you had to do a lot to get there, but that's not the point. The point is, I've been trying to do one more ******** everytime I skate. Next time I skate, that's going to be at 50. Originally, I thought that was going to go to 100 but it's eating up a lot of time and it's frankly pretty fucking boring. Instead, I've been counting in the Fibonacci sequence, and maybe I'll start doing that up to 100 for each trick. This isn't a reasonable way to spend my time either, but it goes like this:
try sequence + total
1 1 1
2 2 3
3 3 6
4 4 10
5 5 15
6 6 21
7 7 28
8 8 36
9 9 45
10 10 55
11 11 66
12 12 78
13 13 91
14 14 a ton
so if I do the first 14, then i met the n goal. of course, I wont, so the (+) needs to reset when I miss one. ex
try sequence + total
1 1 1
2 2 3
3 3 6
4 4 10
****************************** missed
5 1 11
6 2 13
7 3 16 etc
so fourteen in a row means I don't need to practice it, but if i can't land it consecutively at all then I ll do it 100 times.
I have to do improtant things in a few hours. I think I've obsessed about this enough for the night.
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