Human Skateboarding
Sunday February 25, 2007
You guys remember Sneaux Skate Shoes? Their main sponsored person is Steve-O, from Jackass. Anyway, Sneaux has made a fun little commercial called Human Skateboarding, where you get to watch one guy skate around using another guy as a board. It's funny, and what else are you going to do with your afternoon?
The weird part is the remarkable similarity between this commercial and this human skateboarding clip from Indyskate.com. Watch both, compare and contrast, and have a paper written by Friday.
Comments
this actually was a blatant rip-off.
A good buddy and former co-worker of mine (erik erling, www.myspace.com/aphexflip , www.indyskate.com) came up with the idea for ‘human skateboarding’ well over a year ago while we were working at an indianapolis skatepark.
Erik shot this that same day and it has been floating around his computer for awhile. A company out of new zealand paid him to use the idea mooooonths ago, before he even won some photobucket contest for his ‘picture’.
Sneaux shoes wrote an email to the owner of the park and basically said they would fly out the two kids who were in eriks clip and one adult since they were not 18. never happened. instead, erik go zero credit for his idea and up to this point still has not gotten any credit for his idea from sneaux.
emails to sneaux seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. erik tried to contact them and all they did was forward the email to the owner of the skatepark.
sneaux is a sketchy company, though i am in no way accusing the artists involved with stealing the idea, i entirely belive it was the ‘creatives’ over in their advertising department.
thanks for listening