5.16.2008

chrome ball incident #29: do you know the importance of a skypager?

i touched on this earlier with how much better droors was than dc... multiply that difference by about 50 billion and thats how much better Underworld Element was (with Andy Howell at the helm) than its modern Element/Johnny Schillereff incarnation. In a way, kinda like the gangsta blueprint for Menace (along with Shut), UE was more 5th Ward than Pac-Sun.

And Chris Hall was so ill back in the day.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

you should expand on this article. my homie is allways bangin on about this was the best company ever. peace

Michael Stenerson said...

yeah, please do a full on post on UE, that company was the illest. from graphics, to team, to ads, to videos. so so fresh.

nettic said...

best ever

Nattie Dap said...

I'm sorry but Menace is and was really corny. Check those dudes's presently?! At a demo wit some of them and !01 the Mencae team basically sat down. It was good to Natas and Dill and even Clyde shingletoes but those Mence dude's looked home sick and thus kinda stupid. Why are you professional skateboarders?

Nattie Dap said...

Whereas Underworld Element was super rad. That was an unpretentious time in skateboarding. I can't imagine any of them doin' "do-overs" when filming Skypagers; which is refreshing.

The best "Menace part" was in the Spitfire video. Those two video along with the Real and Color videos and then maybe Sub Zero video and maybe first FTC were pivotal.

Nattie Dap said...

Someone really needs to inform Californians in general that in order "to recover from a hopeless state of mind and body" one has to be anonymous not revelling in dubious Epically Latered tales of robbing people and smoking crack, and becoming some weird Protestant suit wearing geek. But at least the guy put on some weigh and got rid of the jerry curl.