Thanks to SLAP message boards user Mad Max who generously took the initiative to go ahead and rip his own VHS copy, one of the most underrated S.F. skate videos of all time is now online for everyone to watch, in full for the first time - at least in a good while! "INFINITE MOMENTUM" was released back in 2000 by Supernaut Skateboards (which then, a couple of years later, delivered another classic: "URBAN CANVAS", also a must-watch). The roster, comprising Matt Pailes, Mike Daher (!), Matt Rodriguez and Tony Cox, amongst others, makes it well worth the 240p that any honest passionate skateboarder will spontaneously overlook anyway, given the importance of the footage and the quality soundtrack. As far as history goes, Supernaut was started in 1996 by Paul Sharpe (also featured in "INFINITE MOMENTUM"), Ted Newsome and Mike Ballard, who ended up handling the art direction before, alas not unlike many a great thing, the brand disbanded too soon.
When Dan Wolfe himself uploads "CLOSURE", the legendary full-length video recap of his filmmaking career - between 1993 and 2003, precisely - with the best clips he ever filmed for classic releases such as "EASTERN EXPOSURE" and "REAL TO REEL" paired up with a lot of never-before-seen footage, with a healthy dose of S.F. in the mix as well, in the original quality and even clickable chapters, every man's quarantine is bound to suddenly get a lot smoother!
All right, everybody, get your pen out and take notes! So, in 1994, the relatively young brand Stereo Skateboards was dropping its first full-length, in the direct line of its magazine advertising and board graphics, in between a vintage imagery and a full on jazz soundtrack, a first in skateboarding. Rubbing the –rather tech– times the wrong way (or the right?), A Stereo Sound was putting style, flowing in the city, and once again style, before all. The line-up was quite perfect for this, with a young Ethan Fowler filming his part in a couple weeks or a Jason Lee, not an actor yet, at the peak of the art of flipping his board the backside way. Everything else is in the same vein, with notably a Mike Dasher whose skateboarding has not aged one bit, and the integration of the photography of Ari Marcopoulos and Tobin Yelland that help the video turn into way more than a collection of footage put together. A classic, for real.
Guess the GX 1000 gang needed some fresh air, and left the dirty and gritty back streets of SF to explore some suburban landscape, to discover one sought after treasure: an abandoned mini-golf! Let's note the skills of up and coming youngster: Matt Rodriguez!
