What Makes a Skate Videopart Timeless? | An analytical discussion
What makes a skateboard videopart a timeless classic that will be played over and over? Music, flow, terrain, style, editing? In the time of Instagram parts and 30-second attention spans does such a thing still exist? Will we still be looking at todays parts 15-years from now like we’re looking at Arto’s and Geoff’s parts from the early-2000’s?
These are all questions that Europe skater/Carhartt marketing manager Joseph Biais dives into in this interview with Solo Skate Mag. For those that grew up on the legacy that an epic video part leaves behind this is an interesting one.
As a bonus here are Joseph’s personal favs:
Joseph’s Favorite Parts (2007 – 2017)
Arto Saari – Flip – Sorry (2002)
Geoff Rowley – Flip – Really Sorry (2003)
Stefan Janoski – Habitat – Mosaic (2003)
Kevin “Spanky” Long – Emerica – This Is Skateboarding (2003)
Charles Collet & Lucas Puig – Cliché – Bon Appetit! (2003)
Johnny Layton – Toy Machine – Good & Evil (2004)
Danny Brady – Blueprint – Lost and Found (2005)
Chet Childress – Black Label – Back in Black (2006)
Steve Forstner – Antiz – Z-Movie (2007)
Jake Johnson & AVE – AWS – Mind Field (2009)
Bert Wootton – Cosmic Vomit 2 (2012)
Donovon Piscopo – Nike SB – Chronicles 2 (2013)
Dylan Rieder – Supreme – Cherry (2014)
Franky Villani – Zero – No Cash Value (2014)
Ryan Townley – Welcome – Fetish (2017)
Gilbert Crockett – Any part
Click to SOLO SKATE MAG for the discussion on skateboard video parts with Joseph Biais
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