Sunday, July 14, 2024

Andy Anderson and the Concept of Cool. July 14, 2024. Mostly Skateboarding Podcast.

This week, Mike Munzenrider, Patrick Kigongo, and Jason From Frozen In Carbonite are talking about Andy Anderson's Crazy Wisdom video part and the concept of cool. Listen here and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.


Alex Olson slamming to Jamiriqui 
Mike Crabtree's Emo Girl graphic for Sonic
Nanda Zipp's Wheels Of Fortune from 411VM #6
Legends Never Die, DJ Odin's skate video mixtape
Tony Ferguson in Virtual Reality (Rapping)
Yngwie Malmsteen "more is more"
Threads like to put footnotes in their videos.
Olympic skate uniforms
Olympic skate jumpsuit
Nyjah's bump to rail
Adam McNatt's infamous rail
Lennie Kirk in Timecode
Jeron Wilson's toe drag in Skate More
Rodney Mullen in Rubbish Heap
Rodney Mullen in Second Hand Smoke
Tom Penny's Skate Hall Of Fame acceptance video
Tom Penny in High Five
Trent Reznor Inducts The Cure at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

This week, Patrick is stoked on Spitfire Wheels, seeing the Rolling Stones, Euros, and Copa America.
Jason is stoked on Venture Trucks, Victor Campillo et al in this Valencia trip edit, Sabotage’s Go Skate Day montage, and his birthday gift (a fully detailed car).
Mike is stoked on Clinton skatepark in Montana and USA Olympic men's basketball.

1 comment:

Justin said...

Andy is Canadian and inherently nice. He's sincerely explaining a 35 year old novelty trick in precise skateboard terms to people who don't skateboard. He's about the same as a rambling drunk to them. Is this good or bad? I dunno.

I'm kind of intrigued at a pure vert or bowl version of Andy, but not so much the modern skatepark skating.

You're never going to get good music from Powell Peralta. That's how it goes. You're also going to be stuck with the professional level television production aesthetic.

Has there ever been a triple threat pro before who could competently skate street, vert, and freestyle? I don't think that even happened in the 1980s.

Threads did footnotes already.

Being a cool company is darn near impossible. Venture maybe almost has it. We're never getting Aesthetics or 101 or Rookie or whatever again. We might get something new, but the world is too apathetic and all over the place these days. That's not to say cool doesn't exist, but the algorithms ain't helping.

I'm too swamped with work to weigh in with deep thoughts on cool. Nothing is cool.