Here’s a short but crazy video of a guy with two paint rollers fixed to his board instead of trucks. It comes from the folks at Alis in Denmark with no explanation whatsoever. Whoever this is, he doesn’t seem to have a problem ripping on a wackyboard.
– Thanks to Michel Skart Poulin for the tip.
15 comments
Bevilacqua
might be this:
http://wackyboards.blogspot.com/2010/08/brushboard.html
poulin
lets see a 50/50 grind… 😀
Bevilacqua
do did done: Alis in Wonderland
http://sakaroule.blogspot.com/2011/01/alis-au-pays-des-merveilles-1976.html
talentlessquitter
Just saw it!
I like how you elaborate on the subject with tons of Hobie photo’s…
Bevilacqua
Actually I left apart the Sundancer when I delt with Hobie,
http://sakaroule.blogspot.com/2010/12/hobie.html
and I wanted to “bridge the gap” 35 years later … I even added another paint advertisement from Guadeloupe.
(yes, check it again, Sam !)
Concretin Nik
Watching it more closely, I think it’s both… it’s real, as in he skated that board and painted those lines, but each “letter” is edited into one run. The re-entry from the invert is way off.
Bevilacqua
Argh Kilwag you took the edge on this one again !
I was about to post a short word on the similarities between this “Alis” wackyboard and the old Hobie Sundancer !
Nevermind, I ‘ll do it anyway.
Concretin Nik
It could be real. Little details, the board being immediately covered with paint spray, and the lens spackle, the mop at the end, make me believe…
However, I do agree with Luke about slippage, and DS points out that ‘calculated shake’ and zoom that is in every freakin’ one of these type of vids…
Lot of work either way. I dig it.
luke
i also call shenanigans.
have you ever used a roller to paint a smooth wall?
that thing would be slipping all over the place.
bk
That’s Nicky Guerrero roller ripping at the Copenhagen skatepark!
Daily Sesh
Hate to break it but this is fake, shows the signs of a classic viral marketing video. Little explanation, and very calculated camera shake to simulate it’s real.
Totally sick idea though!
kilwag
Yeah, i didn’t realize it spelled out ALis… watching it at 720p is more suspect, pan away before he actually drops in, doesn’t seem to quite line up after that invert, and hand doesn’t appear to be covered in paint when he picks it up. I’m guessing it was painted on and then skated, cloned over and unmasked. Still, the reflections in the water at the end… ah photoshop.
I wanted to believe. What a sucker.
That’s the last time (probably not) that I make a post on a tip I get a half an hour before I go to work.
poulin
lol…I hadn’t realized it spelled Alis when I tipped it…never the less still interesting, fake or not….
talentlessquitter
What’s the fake part? It’s a Dogma video! 😉
aaron
Yeah, and it spells ALIS. Pretty good little ad though, now I’ve heard of them…