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Homeless people existing on film during the spontaneous capture of street skateboarding is not exploiting the homeless.
Major cities pricing everyone out and creating a culture of dependence that does not seek to rehabilitate those that could get back on their feet does exploit the homeless.
People complained about it with that Greco Glass Carousel video too, but it’s probably hard to film anything there without any homeless people in your footage, which is a bigger problem than the footage. itself.
There's a difference between catching glimpses of homeless people in clips because they were around when filming and using them as props so a million to billion dollar company can get more street cred. It's not hard to use angles that don't have them in the shot and/or offer them a few bucks to move for an hour.
Using homeless folks in skate clips has been a thing for 30+ years now, but as it's becoming more common knowledge how gentrification and legislation is exacerbating the issue, you'd think we as a culture would to let the practice die out.
I don’t understand this “street cred” point. Anyone actually care one way or the other if there are people on the right edge of the frame or not regardless of perceived economic class?
Do you think there are any skaters who saw this ad and thought how much cooler mark is because people were closer than usual (mind you in the heavy fisheye days the filmers would have been a lot closer).
Honestly, I think it’s a matter of suciu thinking he could bang out a difficult trick off first-try without bothering anyone