Slow Motion Inspiration of the Day: Lakai Fully Flared
To distract from their intensely repetitive subject matter, skateboarding videos have used a variety of techniques, from blooper reels showing people hurting themselves, to Spike Jonze post-producing the decks to invisibility.
The latest iteration of this process I will let speak for itself:
Updated: Lakai had the video removed from Youtube. Does anybody understand why a company would do this? The video went seriously viral last week. I encountered it via Dooce (which, if you’re not in to reading about Mormonism and constipation, is one of the most popular blogs on the whole internets), and when I added it to CDMo it had well over 1 million views. The actual video was released in November, so any initial buzz has long faded. Suddenly there is a resurgence of interest in the video, and by association the company, and they respond by removing the video which is causing all of this positive publicity?
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massivechunks
hey waitaminute. the nerd blogs i read and my secret skateboarding life are not supposed to intersect!
January 30, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Jaymis
Aah, but you forget that the nerds have access to all other aspects of your life. Nothing is secret from us.
January 30, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
ian
kaboooooooooooooooom
January 31, 2008 @ 4:59 am
Joseph
Does anyone what the accompanying music is?
January 31, 2008 @ 5:50 am
Joseph
sorry left out “know”..
January 31, 2008 @ 5:53 am
Jaymis
The music is M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun
January 31, 2008 @ 5:58 am
Mike
Video no longer available. :(
February 2, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
Joseph
The mp4 is still on youtube..
February 4, 2008 @ 5:01 pm
Jaymis
Do you have a link Joseph?
February 4, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
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