‘Heaven’ by Unkle. Directed by Spike Jonze (Who also happens to be directing the much-awaited ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ – edit: check out the trailer which was released yesterday! Our beloved Dave Eggers co-wrote the script…) As you will see, the video takes an amazing turn after 3:13…but you have to wait for it. Also, be SURE to don a set of headphones and then click the HD tab on the video’s toolbar immediately after you press play!
1Cor 3:11-15 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what they have built survives, they will receive their reward. If it is burned up, they will suffer loss; they will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
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4 comments
Trevor says:
Mar 27, 2009
Ahh, that’s rad you posted this, Dylan. Cool tune. That music video was actually compiled from footage taken from the Lakai (skateboard shoe team) video that was released in 2007 called Fully Flared. It had the most anticipated release of any skateboard video in the past 10 years at least. Spike Jonze is a co-owner of Girl Skateboards, most of whose team also skates for Lakai Limited Footwear. He co-directed Fully Flared, and I just saw on wikipedia that this Unkle track was originally included in the credits.
Spike also directed another one of the most important skate films in skateboard history, and that is the seminal Video Days, featuring such legends as Mark Gonzales, Jason Lee (well known as an actor in Dogma, My Name Is Earl), and Guy Mariano. Guy was 14 in 1991 when that video was released, and came out of retirement to film his exceptional part in Fully Flared at age 31.
dpotter says:
Mar 28, 2009
Thanks for the background Trevor, that is helpful. Like soccer, skateboarding is such a phenomenon in and of itself. It is great that someone as talented as Jonze is giving it the attention that it deserves. What I’m also interested in is the ‘ethos’ that goes along with identifying oneself as a ‘skater’…I find that as fascinating as the tricks themselves. Questions like: who are these people? why do they like to congregate together? what are their values? how to they see adulthood? (some people might think that once you hit your 30′s-40′s, it is time to put up your skateboard), etc.
Trevor says:
Mar 29, 2009
skater anthropology! in light of skateboard careers starting during puberty, we can at least say that skateboard culture is one that celebrates the young and reveres play throughout adulthood. most skaters would probably self-identify as ethos-less, though this is hardly the case in actuality, because there is almost an ancient morality in skateboarding, especially surrounding kids, play, and the search for freedom (literally physical freedom, on the board, also existential…one guiding the other perhaps).
DZ says:
Mar 30, 2009
i’d never seen that. unbelievable. an improvement even over the powell/peralta movies that my brothers and i used to rent when we were kids.