Self-guided tour of "Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos" at the Museum of the Moving Image

Recording the Ride features videos and artifacts from skate culture’s formative years, with a focus on releases by H-Street, Plan B, World Industries, Girl, Zoo York, 411, Birdhouse, and others that manifest the structure and style that defined the modern skate video genre. Highlights include artifacts from the production of The Bones Brigade Video Show (1984); a focus on Mike Ternasky and the brand Plan B, with vintage production and post-production artifacts used in the making of their seminal releases The Questionable Video (1992) and Virtual Reality (1993); and behind-the-scenes images, including photos shot by Spike Jonze—whose filmmaking career began with the production of skate videos—on the set of Video Days (1991). Period skateboard decks link the spirit and aesthetic established in these videos to the emergence of 1990s skater-owned brands. 

Attendees are invited to an informal gathering afterwards at the Museum's cafe or can continue to tour the rest of the Museum exhibitions or catch a film --check out MoMI's film calendar to see what's screening that day.