Those who follow John Rattray’s unsurprisingly excellent blog will have had the pleasure of watching this already. For those who don’t, well, you should start. You should also start by watching this superbly documented trip to New Zealand, Riding The Long White Cloud. Here’s what John himself has to say about this project:
“Below, in 5 parts, you should hopefully find a film of a muscle-powered tour that a group of skateboard enthusiasts undertook in New Zealand one summer. My idea was to use the trip as a speculative platform from which to investigate what life might be like in a post-industrial society. That is to say a society whose main fuel source has been depleted to the point of being scarce and expensive. Please let me know in the comments if this objective is not clear from the film. Thankyou.”
Expect great things, and reward your expectations with something beyond them. Check it and find Rattray’s blog here for more goodness from one of skateboarding’s most interesting minds.
Riding the Long White Cloud Part 1 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 2 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 3 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 4 from predatory bird on Vimeo.
Riding the Long White Cloud part 5 from predatory bird on Vimeo.