Comments on: Slow-Motion Skateboarding

By: Slow Photography or Fast Video Captures? - PSFK.com

Slow Photography or Fast Video Captures? - PSFK.com — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:06:17 +0000

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By: Tim Leighton-Boyce

Tim Leighton-Boyce — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:20:24 +0000

Wow. This makes me jealous.

If only technology like this had been available back in the days when I was shooting skateboarding.

Andrew Conklin’s point about checking out “Yeah Right” is a good one. But I have a suspicion that was shot on high speed film camera, like the ones used for motion analysis. The cost in film stock alone, excluding equipment would have been frightening.

By: Floyd Hayes

Floyd Hayes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:01:01 +0000

Thank goodness someone has figured out a new way to film skateboarding.

I swear, if I see another baggy fool ‘grind’ down a handrail on a video I’ll scream.

Yeah, it takes skill and I can’t do it but I can’t pogo-stick on a jelly either..so it all works out in the end.

By: Andrew Conklin

Andrew Conklin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:07:14 +0000

This is pretty cool.. but you should check out the opening scene to the skateboarding flick “Yeah Right”… Shot by Spike Jonze… It was released back in 2003 and is incredible..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RQNDcXpfQw

By: GEARFUSE » Afternoon Linkage for August 21st, 2008

GEARFUSE » Afternoon Linkage for August 21st, 2008 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:29:54 +0000

[...] Move it slow-motion for me [...]