Professional Status
Congratulations to Mad Max Murphy, pro for Strangelove Skateboards.
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Mini Video 98 – Microclimates
After 98 times what can you even say?
Starring: Max Murphy, Nick Mathews, Christian Leon, Taylor Lalk, Vince Stranc, James Brickner, Eric Risser, Payne Counihan, Nick Mistele, Sean Hanley, Gabe Chan, Jeff Chase, Alex Keck
Production stills by Bradford Bishop:
StrangeLove x Ray Barbee, Featuring Timothy Johnson and Max Murphy
Enjoy some photos of Max doing tricks from the video. Shot by Bradford Bishop.
Born to Roll Presents: Burnt
Milwaukee skating. By Joey Beaver.
Skaters in order of appearance: Mike Kierzek, Al Rodriquez, Brian Stase, Joe Somers, Josh Chimel, Dave Bonk, Dustin Schweitzer, Vince Stranc, Payne Counihan, Max Murphy, Drew Rickaby, Axel Laureano, Pat Murphy, Drew Gricar, Nelson Torres, Kenny Melendez, Mando Garcia, Mike McCain, Rory Morgan, Alex Keck, Brandon Spantikow, Danny Stemper, Mike Beer, Joey Beaver, Mitch Schmidt, Andre Colbert, Josh Rivera, Tony Manion, Nick Hams, Jake Zuberbier, Donovan Rice, Jon Bartels, Rob Owens, Donnie Moran, Kyle Terbush, Brad Monte
Mini Video 97 – The Red Shoe
It’s been 19 years since I made a Sky High skate jam edit. Since then everything has changed and nothing has changed. This video covers a certain percentage of actions inflicted upon a giant red shoe on July 16, 2022.
Big ups to Aaron Polansky and the crew, thanks for everything you do – forever!
Mini Video 96 – Cellscape
Here’s where I try to inject something clever about the number ninety six. Something something “96 Tears”?? Print it.
Segment two – Cellar Cection/Sellar Section – A tour of cellar doors available in South East Wisconsin. Fifteen unique sloped entrances were skated upon and captured in our field notes. Segment brought to you by our corporate sponsor BILCO – an Amesbury Truth Company.
Filmed on Hi8 Spring/Early Summer 2022. The camera almost gave up and left a final session uncapturable. After a very outdated Youtube tutorial, and a hail mary electronic surgery, the TRV-120 again joined the living. The day was saved and the clips were logged.
Starring: Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Payne Counihan, Pat Forster, Sean Hanley, Drew Rickaby, Jacob Tyler Mumford, Josh Ellis, Eric Risser, Nick Mistele, Bradford Bishop, Taylor Lalk, and Mikey Al Wathiqui.
Filmed by Josh Ellis and Hank Scorsese.
Production stills by Bradford Bishop:
Mini Video 95 – Bodywork
Not since Mini Video 3.1 in 1999 has a Mini Video corresponded to a major Windows release. What does it all mean?
Shot on Hi8, Winter/Spring 2022.
Starring: Max Murphy, Josh Ellis, Vince Stranc, Nick Mistele, Taylor Lalk, Payne Counihan, Gabe Chan, James Brickner, Bradford Bishop, Pat Forster, & Sean Hanley.
Filmed by: Josh Ellis and Hank Scorsese.
Production stills by Bradford Bishop:
Appiteasers
Bloomin’ Onion, by Vince Stranc.
Mini Video 94 – Bushcraft
Feeling inspired after making “Blue Building”, I set out to recapture that feeling. For the first video of 2022 I used the same Hi-8 cam I used in the late 90s, fisheye screwed on with step-up ring, and fully auto settings. Just turn on the camera and go – caveman style – focus, exposure, shutter speed, and white balance don’t exist in this beautiful world.
I must admit that the camera did have some downfalls in the harsh Wisconsin winter conditions. It was in the teens Fahrenheit for some of this, so batteries had to be kept warm in pockets or they’d last approximately four minutes. All weapons have their weaknesses.
Skating by: Max Murphy, Vince Stranc, Josh Ellis, Bradford Bishop, Sean Hanley, Drew Rickaby, Payne Counihan, Gabe Chan, and Nick Mistele.
“Bushcraft” production stills by Bradford Bishop:
Rewind: Mini Video 01
Originally posted November 22, 1999. The one that started it all! Big news.
This is a reasonably accurate recreation made using the raw footage. I was too lazy to make a perfect copy of the excellent(?) typography employed in the original video.
Trivia: This wasn’t actually called “Mini Video 01” at the time. How could I know? The file is called “ben vance promo.mpg”.
The original web clip is 320×240 and the frame rate was lowered to 20 fps. The file size was less than one meg.
At the time, it would’ve taken the viewer around 10-15 minutes to download the clip onto their computer. From there they could load it up into their video player of choice. That is, if they remembered where they saved the file on their computer. There was no such thing as a web based video clip player.
