This is pretty much a perfect video. Great music.
Love how the slow mo and second angles are kept to a bare minimum.
I would pay money to see the Hewitt/Gerwer comedy duo in a nightclub.
It's great how even with all these new young tranny rippers; that there is still something really special about TNT. And you would think him and Pfanner are holding onto their best stuff for the Vans video. That should be nuts.
My only small complaint is Grant doing a fs 5.0 over the hip at Fort Miley. That is bordering on sacrilege in my book. Do it for fun or to pay homage; but don't film it and put it in a video. I'm sure he is capable of a fs tail or smith. Better yet, do a fs nosegrind tailgrab and take out your almost teammate.
Anyways, this video rules. And I will be watching it multiple times.
Initially I saw it as in poor taste too, but the more I think about it/nerd out on it the more I believe it was done either to pay homage to Phil or done spontaneously and just happened to get caught on camera. The footage, for one, looks like it was filmed in the heat of the moment and possibly on an iphone. He might not have even known it was being filmed. I doubt the mode of thinking was "fuck yeah, gonna go to Miley and film this 5-0 that Phil Shao did 18+ years ago, and it'll definitely go in the new antihero video, and that'll show em all". From what I've read and heard, Grant more seems like a guy who doesn't care about formalities and just worries about skating things he wants to and having fun. Lastly, Grant didn't edit the video, Julien Stranger did (along with dan wolfe's help this time according to the credits). If anyone's to be criticized, its Julien, although he probably put it in thinking that it was some fucked good skating. If you wanna overanalyze it like me, consider that when Phil died Julien honored him in an ad saying "Goodbye Phil The Straight up Best Skater I Knew"; Julien clearly held Phil Shao's skating in high regard, so maybe putting the 5-0 in the video was a way of saying to the viewer (and phil) that grant is a boundlessly gifted skateboarder and possibly now the best skater Julien has ever known.
All that and from what I've read and watched Phil seems like the kinda guy that would have loved to see grant grind that bar, regardless of history
Edit: Honestly though, the 5-0 was probably put in the video because he did it so why not