WORDS AND VIDEO BY JURGEN KOCH
Dirty Sunshine? It's a "homie video" but not in the sense of "here, press the red button and point this camera at me."
The trip kinda came to be because of the winters in the Northeast. Our crew all live in different cities now, (Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philly, NYC, and Austin) and we haven't all skated together in a while. We all felt like something had been missing in our lives, and this is what it was; skating with your friends. There were no "hammers" or "enders", just being psyched, having fun and skating with your friends. Some people would rather not have a camera around to fully enjoy the "bro-down", but the other thing that made us all feel like we needed this trip was each of us viewing an old trip video we made and remembering good things like sleeping on floors and not speaking the local language.
So we all met up in Austin and we skate like we were kids again. We are all still kids though, we just pay bills now too. And we drink legally. Anyway - having some form of video from trips doesn't seem important until way after the fact. Even when we don't get to hang out, you can remember the fun stuff with a some help from the videos. At the end of the Austin trip, we were beat. That's when we got a ton of sausages and grilled out, all different kinds like garlic spice or italian this, beef that, with peppers, without onions, all kinds of them - but they all tasted exactly the same.
I took the Panasonic camera and decided to actually shot the whole thing in 24p anamorphic mode. I think it looks a lot better than regular death-lens footage. It feels more "grown up" for some reason too. Even with the shitty tripod I had (I left it behind because t sucked so bad) I think it turned out okay. |
