The big day...As an everyday person, sometimes you have to look for your odd successes—strange successes, if you will. You have to enjoy the challenges you overcome, the little things that you accomplish. I mean, how many of us are going to complete a full video part in a highly anticipated video? Not me, that's for sure. However, a great deal of my friends did on Thursday, so I was hell bent (not a Brockman reference) on enjoying Zero's "Srange World," skateboarding's newest mind-blowing video to drop.
Rattray's house was the headquarters for stars of this "Strange World." Elissa came dressed as a comely young lady, Keegan came with his lady Andrea and Sheldon made it down from Vancouver.
The fact that it was a culmination of my friends' successes, as well as a reunion with my homey, Greg, who used to be Zero's Team Manager, made it an event to achieve my own string of strange successes. Success #1: brews. We drank at Scotsman John Rattray's house, spilled forth onto the street, moved over to the lovely La Paloma theatre (la paloma = the dove) in Encinitas, CA. When the video started, I had successfully poured beer over my bluebird (success #2) and felt a little buzzed.
The premiere crowd...hell of fools.
The short recap of "Strange World" involves shouting at the top of my lungs (one of the loudest ones in the theatre: success #3), which is what I did for the full 45 or however many minutes. Garrett Hill, who you can see here with his teased hair and fair-skinned lady, had the opener. Keegan Sauder had the second part, which had me and my friend Greg shouting, hooting and dreaming of all the small loans, car rides or couch-surf IOUs that Keegan might pay us back now that he's turned pro.
The Chief made his traditional pre-vid speech, but this time it wasn't staving off feasty viewers after an hour delay. This was the first Zero video that premiered on time.
He shredded tranny and rails to the Flower Travelin' Band. I can't remember the sequence of parts through the middle, but Brockman came out swinging and Marisa Dal Santo has solidified herself as the girl with the best skate part ever—no joke. Rattray has a part (apparently, it was supposed to be a full part, but was later slimmed down) which leads into Sheldon Meleshinski, if I remember correctly. Other female boarding legend, Elissa Steamer shares a part with Donovan Piscopo, Cervantes and Sandoval. Lil' Donovan grinds a kinker and reaffirms that there are kids out there that don't tick-tack around with bad style, but rather skate like big kids. Cervantes shredded. Sandoval booyah'd the crowd's face off.
Somewhere in this blurry photo, there was a whole bunch of gnarliness happening. As we all know, there's nothing strange about that, when it comes to Zero, but this really is a unique video.
Elissa had some sweet stuff in there (and looked very lady-like at the premiere). Aussie Dane Burman has a part of pure insanity, which officially introduces him to the masses. Jamie Thomas skates a warehouse that's much less clean and much more loaded with picturesque sunsets than the Berrics. Cole and Tom Asta skate to Young Jeezy's "Turn My Swag On," making "Strange World" the first Zero video to feature a rap song. And, Lil' Baby Jamie Tancowny ends it all, handily, and leaves you hanging on for the upcoming Emerica video.
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