omar skates to almost ready by dinosaur jr. his intro song was written by J mascis for his part. anyone have any questions? the premiere was amazing and the video was fucking great...had butterflies the whole time.
Just got back from it. Had the best blag in ever, got first dibs to seats at the second showing. The whole thing was perfect from start to finish. Honestly there was NOTHING I didn't like about it. The perfect follow up to everything Workshop has put out until now. If you're a Workshop fan you're stoked. New ideas, new skating, new tricks but referencing tradition of the company.
So basically...
Jake killed it. Switch Wallride!? Nuts. Good to see the footage from a bunch of the photos he's had recently too. Dude is so tall he looks like he skates backwards in time. Dude seriously floats. Some epic shit in his part. Mostly single tricks, not many runs (if any).
As mentioned music is mostly Animal Collective, Dinosaur Collective, and Growing.
Grant and Tyler went off! So much good stuff from them both. Grant is SO gnarly and Tyler landed everything perfectly.
Rieder does in fact look like a girl but skates some sick fucking stuff. I think he even had an SF street line wearing what looked like actual dress shoes.
Surprisingly Dill did not disappoint. In fact thinking back he had one of my favourite parts. So many sick, quirky things in there.
AVE went on a mission. Fast, big, long, tech gnar. Insane combos. Straight at and over shit. Amazing.
And Heath? Heath pretty much one upped himself at every spot. Any photo you've seen of him in recent years is pretty much the second best thing he did on everything. And while everyone now knows his last trick, to see how beautifully he catches and rides away that shit is a sight to behold.
Fuck I could go on for days....
I was stoked on the editing and music choices too.
So stoked I went along in the end. To be honest I got mad lucky in getting in. Back row with two of the main dudes in the video to the right.
Dill was shouting out props to other peoples parts. Yelling out for people to cheer for Dyrdek, and saying things like: "That shit's actually hard! Clap that!" He was actually pretty rad about it all.
Berra got some boo's.
Intro was straight up the best intro to any video ever.
Aside from maybe Memory Screen. Which got the reference before Omar's part....
OMAR FUCKING KILELD IT. So fast, and did some pure mental stuff. I remember hearing an interview a while ago talking about how his Nike part was supposed to be fun and he was hoping to make his Alien part straight up gnarly. Dude delivered for sure. Perfect opener.