“There hasn't been another impactful camera in skateboarding like that. It had a handle built into it so you can follow somebody while riding a skateboard,” videographer Chris Ray told Engadget. The VX1000 only really solidified its legendary status among skaters once it was coupled with the Century Optics fish-eye lens.
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The fact that footage could be easily transferred to a PC with a nascent technology called i.Link (which you might know as “FireWire”) meant anyone with a computer could now make videos entirely at home.
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The relatively affordable price, coupled with its small form-factor and new, digital tapes – MiniDV – made it the perfect camera for gonzo filmmakers seeking professional results. At around $3,000 the DCR-VX1000, was the first digital camcorder in Sony’s consumer lineup. In 1995, Sony released a camera that would define how the skate video looks (and sounds) right to this day. Not least thanks to another new technology that was about to land. This new format – skaters shooting skaters – complete with slams, skits, music and pissed-off security guards would become the template for the next decade. Not everyone had access to a ramp, but everyone lived on a street, meaning this new style was much more accessible with the videos almost serving as a how-to manual.Īccording to Borden, H-Street put cameras in skaters’ hands to film each other and the change of pace and dynamic in videos shifted away from Peralta’s more conventional approach. Right at the end of the ‘80s, H-Street – a more grassroots skateboarding outfit – released Shackle Me Not and Hokus Pokus with a focus on street skating. But Peralta’s polished style and squeaky-clean team wasn’t for everyone.
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In the ‘80s Peralta and his Bones Brigade team dominated on-screen skateboarding, typically on vert ramps, including several movie cameos. The success of The Bone Brigade Video Show, and the titles that followed, exposed skateboarding to many more new eyes along with an all new revenue stream for the struggling “sport”.
“From the get go, videos were more lucrative than they thought they were going to be: It's this sort of famous thing that Stacy says that the first Bones Brigade video, they thought they were just gonna write the costs off as a marketing cost, but actually they made a load of money on it.” Author, professor and skateboarder Iain Borden told Engadget. Peralta claims he hoped a few hundred copies of his first video might find their way into the new VHS players that were taking the US by storm. Thanks to its performative nature, skateboarding would soon form a symbiotic relationship with the technology that showcased it. Things changed when, in 1983, Stacy Peralta – who managed the ragtag team of skaters that Tony Hawk was a member of – effectively invented the modern skate video. Early skate screen media consisted mostly of skeptical documentaries or whimsical California dreaming-style chronicles. In 2022, Tony Hawk is a household name, skateboarding is an olympic sport and it’s possible to master digital laser flips in any number of video games on TV.
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