Respect Authority

Having a particular day of the year set aside for skateboarding (June 21st) seems about as pointless as having a special day reserved for smoking copious amounts weed. If you really profess to be a skateboarder, every day should be a celebration of your slow, glorious decent into perpetual adolescence. Similarly, 4/20 is a great idea and all… except that most of us truly dedicated wastes of life smoke almost every single day of the year anyway. I guess it’s the thought that counts after all… so, thanks to whatever anonymous committee first took the whopping ten seconds to think of that idea.

However, if Santa Claus jumped down your chimney at the stroke of midnight every night like clockwork itself, wouldn’t Christmas just be business as usual? Indeed, if it was always Halloween, wouldn’t the skeleton king grow weary and bored, eventually seeking out different forms of holiday cheer, going on to inspire a claymation musical which would then make Hot Topic ludicrous sums of money for an entire decade?

Nonetheless, there are always those who try to make the special specialer, such as SLAP magazine, Adidas, and skate shop FTC who collaborated this past Go Skateboarding Day in San Francisco to put on the 7×7 Video Contest. The contest featured entrants from shops such as FTC SF, HUF SF, 35 North, and Skateworks, with each five-member team heading out into the streets of San Francisco to create a video part recreating iconic photography from the pages of SLAP’s past.

HUF just posted their finished video, which, admittedly, looks a little more fun than your average flat-ground session in the parking lot.

Now, if only they combined Go Skateboarding Day and 4/20 to form a massive black hole of slacker delights we might finally be talking about a real holiday. Hell, you might as well throw Talk Like a Pirate Day into the mix while you’re at it, just to make it that much more intolerable for the mundane majority. Ha ha, people with ambitions are dumb!