Hooray For Hollywood

Many years ago, when this and other gentlemen affiliated with The Herald Lifestyle Clique were young, skateboard media was harder to come by than these fast-moving times; skateboard videos were rare, expensive and only available from the exclusive realm of few-and-far-between skateboard shops.

However, on occasion skateboarding would make excursions from the underground and into "youth" oriented American cinema, and even became the focus of several films, allowing those unaware of skateboarding and its culture a distorted glimpse of what was possible.

An early landmark of this movement, 1978's Skateboard is before this correspondent's time (in skateboard years, at least); therefore, we would like to take this opportunity to remind the few readers there may be of the following classic movies , some of whom may have been inspired to take up the practice of skateboarding by these films:

Thrashin'



Starring none other than retiring President of the United States of America, Josh Brolin, rising son Christian Hosoi, TA and Steve Steadham, amongst others...

Gleaming The Cube



Starring former professional Jack Nicholson impersonator Christian Slater and various members of The Bones Brigade, who also feature in this seminal sequence from the mighty Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol:



Having become a little misty-eyed, no reminiscence would be complete without a viewing of these two sequences:





We do hope you have enjoyed this little trip down memory lane. Thank you for your time.

Chardy.

Chris Hardy Spring 2008 from littletee on Vimeo.

In the interest of showing a degree of cultural breadth, Herald Cinema is deviating from the norm to show the above short featuring the not-inconsiderable BMX skills of one Mr. Christopher Hardy. A gentleman of excellent breeding, Mr. Hardy is no stranger to a ponytail or jazz-funk and can on occasion be seen sporting one of the rather marvellous Herald T-shirts designed by living legend Mr. Lee Rozee.

In a reciprocal gesture, we would like to showcase Mr. Hardy's bicycle antics and the editing skills of Our Man in London, Herald Lifestyle Affiliate and all-round good egg Mr. Tristan Summers, whom we have to thank for this little creation.

Quicktime version here.