11/21/2023 0 Comments Spike jonze skateboard![]() If you do skate, then you’ll have almost certainly spent hundreds of hours of your life watching, rewinding and re-watching the same skate videos again and again until you’ve worn out the VHS tape in the best bits and they’re basically unwatchable. If you don’t skate, you might not be aware of this, or care. If skateboarding was a religion, then skate videos would be its sacred holy texts. As skateboarding has grown into a multi-billion dollar global movement, its cult of video has swelled along with it. “We all owe him a whole lot.”Īll through the golden age of the 90s and up to now, Jonze and his contemporaries have taken on Peralta’s videos’ formulas and ran with them to extremes. “ Future Primitive, Animal Chin, Ban This – all those videos Stacey Peralta made in the 80s, they all had such a good feeling for what skateboarding was right then.” Peralta is a legendary early pro-skater-turned-filmmaker, whose run of recent work includes the acclaimed skate documentary Lords of Dogtown. “Stacey is the founding father of skateboard videos,” proclaims Jonze. “Oh man, the first videos I saw were such a big influence on me,” he enthuses. It was in the mid-80s, as the genre started to establish itself with some street skating classics, that Spike Jonze got addicted. Skateboarders first started filming each other in dreamy surf-style super-8mm movies, in the backyard pools and banked schoolyards of late 70s California. “My three favourite things in the whole world are skateboarding, cameras, and my friends,” says Jonze. ![]() Sure, he’s a Hollywood high-flier, but Spike is still a total nerd for the skate video, and he just co-directed one for the shoe company Lakai that has instantly taken a place among the greatest of all time. He also co-created the skate video spin-off Jackass, and directed all those great music videos and movies that wound up being nominated for Oscars and everything. Spike Jonze has directed some of the best skate videos ever made. They don’t need to be explained away.” Here we go explaining away then. They just are what they are, and if you don’t get it, you don’t get it. This is Spike Jonze in the morning, down the phone from Los Angeles, stoked to be talking skate videos – “The rad thing about them is that they’ve always been made by skaters, for skaters. ![]() Taken from the spring/summer 2008 edition of Dazed
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