Here we go here we go! Heath Kirchart for skateboarder of the year? We'll see after Stay Gold.
It's been a while since I've opened up this blog, but I felt it necessary as this entry's a little more important than my daily blogs about nothing, which you can follow
HERE. I figured I'd have done this one a long time ago, but life has caught up with me and there's been no skate filming lately - thanks to that surprise 14 inches of snow that we got here in Boston.
Mind Field! This one was great - I loved it. Let the hating begin please, because this is Photosynthesis II - or as close as a video ever could come to it. Yes I know, No Castrucci this time. But what would you have done differently to make it more like Photosynthesis? Love Park is gone, the teams changed drastically and there's no Habitat section because skateboarding is corporate now.
I loved it, the art was pretty on par minus those awful animations of the monsters and penguin with the snake in it's mouth, and they shot some film! I havn't seen much good super 8 shot lately, so that was refreshing. The soundtrack was also great, lot's of dinosaur Jr. but you had to expect that - old AWS lovers.
Everyone's parts in this were really good. I could hate on Steve Berra for putting those stupid yellow bars at two different spots and trying to trick us into thinking it was actually a spot, but now that he has the berrics he's a lazy guy - but still can do really good fakie flips. Dyrdek is an MTV star who can put together pretty good lines, and Omar is a beast - such a machine. I was psyched on his part. Who else is in this... Dylan Ryder is sick, amazing style and such clean tricks - kind of a wacky dressing style but I dig it. Grant Taylor's part was amazing with some really interesting new spots in there, including a waterpark? AVE is still awesome, but has gone 30+ year old hesh style with the red curb skating, but makes up for it in the last minute or so of his part with switch back tails to noses, nollie crooks on huge handrails and lots of ollie over to grinds on handrails. Mikey Taylor had a really solid part too, but it still wasnt in bloom. Maybe he's just meant to skate to a beat.
My personal favorite parts were Arto, even though they stole my song! (
SEE HERE) Jake Johnson, who I think is one of my all time new favorite skateboarders (check his part out in Short Ends) Kalis who absolutly blew my mind, and of course Heath Kirchart. The ender part of this video was absolutly amazing and well earned. Heath Kirchard is a mysterious man and will remain so forever. His skateboarding abilites and style while going so big that I get scared watching makes me wonder when he'll start to slow down. Certainly not in this video. The style on that back lip is absouly amazing - watch the arms just throw down!
All in all, I love this video - a much different team than Photosynthesis, but the times have changed in 10 years, and so have you. Enjoy Mind Field and definitely go out there and buy yourself a copy - it comes with a nice little photo book too and is worth every penny you spend.