Author Topic: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever  (Read 1563 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Blue Fescue

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 3458
  • Rep: 303
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« on: August 25, 2007, 07:06:12 PM »
Is anybody going to pick this one up/Youtube it? 
The picture made it look like him freestyling in front of some waves.


Shaun Gladwell skate DVD worth up to $90,000



A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky at Bondi Beach will be the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia.

The artwork, titled Storm Sequence, by Sydney artist Shaun Gladwell, is estimated by Sotheby's to fetch between $70,000 and $90,000 when auctioned on August 27.

Storm Sequence, which was shot in 2000, shows Gladwell making moves on his skateboard against the backdrop of a stormy ocean.

The action is slowed by 40 per cent, giving the video a poetic appearance.

Gladwell, 34, was born in Auburn and has risen to become one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary artists.

Storm Sequence is currently showing as part of the Venice Biennale in Italy, and Gladwell has shown his work all over the world.

He's come a long way since 2003 when he won the Liverpool City Art Prize for a work under $1000.

Storm Sequence came into being after Sydney collector Peter Fay noticed Gladwell's student work and offered him "a woefully small amount" to go off and make something exciting.

Mr Fay said he was shocked when Gladwell, who was then a painter, came back with a video work, which was filmed by Techa Noble and set to music by Kazumichi Grime.

The video was transferred to DVD.

Four master copies and an artist's proof were made of Storm Sequence.

Because these should never be played, each was accompanied by a "player" copy.

All five sets were signed by Gladwell and presented in boxes he made himself, which is what makes them so valuable.

In 2003, one of the copies was sold by Gladwell's dealer, Sherman Galleries, for $3000.

In 2005, it sold privately for $65,000 and on-sold in 2006 for $85,000.

Gladwell was "the modern-day Whiteley", in that his work reflected our times, art adviser Annette Larkin said.

The auction will be in Melbourne.


SR Junky

  • Guest
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2007, 07:23:08 PM »
they also come free with volcom jackets

DIGDUG!!!!

  • Guest
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2007, 07:27:46 PM »


A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky
lol

sebastian toombs

  • Guest
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2007, 07:35:11 PM »
ill wait till someone posts it on youtube...



**cough cough ATMurrell cough**

Blue Fescue

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 3458
  • Rep: 303
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2007, 07:46:32 PM »
Here is a still to entice people to bid.


I didn’t even know he was a skateboarder. I was just transfixed by the beauty of this image of this skater pirouetting in slow motion, with the huge drama of the sea; the seascape behind him this incredible storm at sea. All these were elements of luck; the storm and so forth. And then with the rain falling on the lens of the camera transforming what was a video piece it becomes almost a pointillist, almost an impressionist painting, as the blurring, still with this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.

And taking its leave in this last gyration, which just goes on, and on, and on.  It’s quite mesmeric, quite simple in its dynamic, and yet the poetry and the intensity, and the sense of drama that is captured.

I think it is an extraordinary video. This to me contained all the elements that I just think that great video art holds, and I just feel that in this young artist there is an extraordinary talent.



Guile

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 8236
  • Rep: 368
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
    Bronze Topic Start Bronze Topic Start : Start a topic with over 1,000 replies.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2007, 07:58:39 PM »
up until now i really liked australia....
               DGK
              SOME
              TIMES

Universal Remonster

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 5031
  • Rep: -22
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
    Bronze Topic Start Bronze Topic Start : Start a topic with over 1,000 replies.
    Gold Topic Start Gold Topic Start : Start a topic with over 10,000 replies.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2007, 08:01:16 PM »
hahah

Sony MDR V2 headphones

  • Guest
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2007, 08:43:43 PM »
they also come free with volcom jackets

IGYIIC

PAWL

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 3190
  • Rep: -69
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
    Bronze Topic Start Bronze Topic Start : Start a topic with over 1,000 replies.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2007, 11:01:00 PM »
is that really a screenshot? i hope not.
yo mike mo new age ape style high five with my reborn hand.

 2008 psychedelic experience. thanks.

Meth and Hookers

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 915
  • Rep: 12
  • caveman?
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2007, 11:28:34 PM »
i got 3 bucks  on it tops
nearly every time I see a possum it's in dead form.

dave v-house

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 399
  • Rep: 15
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2007, 05:37:32 PM »
If only you could kook people in real life.

max power

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 6856
  • Rep: 675
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2007, 06:14:30 PM »
If only you could kook people in real life.
nah, he'd get gnar'd for those radical cargo pants

DrNewton

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 1475
  • Rep: -169
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2007, 06:16:15 PM »
I hope that this gets posted on SkatePerception.

"DUDE. WHAT DID HE SHOOT THAT WITH. A VX2000000000?"

"HAHA HE DIDNT EVEN POST IT IN AN IFRAME WEBSITE WITH A QUICKTIME MONTAGE"

"HIS EXPOSURE WAS OFF ONE THIRD OF HALF OF A HALF OF A CINTEMETER"

"ORANGE TEXT BRO"

One of my favorite lines is the one of spiked meth drnewton does off of lou pearlmans viarga and toddler-blood induced erection that finally puts that bitch 6 feet deep.

Blue Fescue

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • SLAP Pal
  • ******
  • Posts: 3458
  • Rep: 303
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2007, 08:30:11 PM »
is that really a screenshot? i hope not.

Yeah, that is a screenshot from it.  i was thinking about going to sotheby's to see it, they have it showing, but i had to work.

Gest

  • Guest
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2007, 08:57:44 PM »
i really hope there's some kind of titles at the beginning that resemble the newspaper effect from windows movie maker

alexx

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 586
  • Rep: 10
  • SLAP OG SLAP OG : Been around since SLAP was a mag.
Re: Limited Edition/Most Expensive Skate Video Ever
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2007, 04:45:19 AM »
I didn’t even know he was a skateboarder. I was just transfixed by the beauty of this image of this skater pirouetting in slow motion, with the huge drama of the sea; the seascape behind him this incredible storm at sea. All these were elements of luck; the storm and so forth. And then with the rain falling on the lens of the camera transforming what was a video piece it becomes almost a pointillist, almost an impressionist painting, as the blurring, still with this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.

























this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.