The “do a documentary about yourself” virus seems to be turning into a epidemic. In the past it appeared that documentarians would select a person, event, or topic and create a documentary with or without cooperation of the subject. These days it seems that the best way to turn up a career is to create a documentary about yourself. Count in the Bones Brigade on the turning up the heat on the past.
On Monday, November 29th at Los Angeles International Airport, seven individuals that have had an extreme influence on skateboarding sat down to discuss work on a documentary of their experience. They met at the Encounter restaurant in the middle of the airport to begin work on this monumental film. . . Stacy wrote, “Those skaters known as the Bones Brigade are now old enough to take a look back. At a time in the 80’s when many people were mourning the second death of skateboarding, the Bones Brigade through passion, drive, creativity and a surprising sense of teamwork redefined the sport for their time and the future”.
People write autobiographies all the time, so there’s really no reason for us to be down on Tony Hawk, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill, Rodney Mullen, Tommy Guerrero and Stacy Peralta for making a film about how great they were, because it’s true—they were great. We’d just appreciate it more if someone else was saying it.
[Link: Powell-Peralta]
Is that like auto felatio?
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