The other day skateboarding showed its new found level of cultural acceptance when
Spike Jonze Skate Video Night was held at New York’s prestigeous MoMa.
Lance Mountain,
Mark Gonzales,
Spike Jonze,
Ed Templeton,
Ty Evans,
Greg Hunt,
Tobin Yelland,
Jake Phelps and
Pat O’Dell made up the bill. Jon at
PinkCrackKills.com had a squiz and sounds like it was quite an odd night indeed. As he pointed out, who would have thought that Anti Hero’s Fucktards would ever have screened at MoMA? This from PCK:
In a lucky twist of fate I somehow found my way into Poprally’s sold out Spike Jonze Skate Video Night at MoMA last night. The evening was nothing short of the type of wet dream registering somewhere around a 9.2 on the Richter Scale that when woken from requires not a good washing of the sheets but an inconspicuous trash dumpster. It was cold and rainy, exactly “the type of night skaters like to watch skate videos on” according to Patrick O’Dell, who picked the videos/clips of the night.
First was the 80’s. Pretty much dominated by Powell, the videos were: Bones Brigade Video Show, Animal Chin, Future Primitive etc. Lance Mountain, The Gonz and Spike Jonze then took the stage and talked about skateboarding in the 80’s with O’Dell firing off the questions. Spike and Mark got in more than a few fights in their younger years, culminating with Mark throwing a camera out the window of a car somewhere around the Video Days time. Lance reminisced about simpler times, when making a video consisted of waking up with an urge to skate, skating, and having the whole part finished by supper time. Then, talking about one of what must have been the first attempts at actually putting anything resembling effort into skateboarding, Lance remembered Stacey trying to get Cab to ollie off a kicker at three in the morning for some reason. Cab said “Hell no it’s three o’clock in the fucking AM” or something along those lines and was simultaneously fired and quit over a nighttime filming mission… more here.
By the way congratulations on the number one Spikey, we are all super proud of you mate!