Fully Flared - Spike Jonze et al (2007)

...this one's worth the price of admission for the opening scenes alone, sort of a skateboarding spin on the closing scenes in Zabriskie Point (also showing on MojoTV), beauty in slo-mo...

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...Fully Flared is a skateboarding video by Lakai, directed by Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and Cory Weincheque.

The video's release was postponed for about two years, mainly due to important team additions.^[1][2] Overall it took about four years to make.^[3][2]

Some team members had a lot of left over footage and are now planning to use it for other videos.^[2][4] Most of the video was filmed with Sony DCR-VX1000 cameras and Panasonic HVX200 (which Ty Evans gained access to towards the end of filming) high-definition footage is used for second angles.^[5]

Originally, Evans, Jonze and Howard played with different ideas which were all a lot more dangerous. The intro was then filmed 3 weeks before the premiere.^[5]

According to Brandon Biebel, the most dangerous part of the introduction was Mike Mo Capaldi's "Switch Flip", down the staircase which was then exploded with a small portion of napalm. This explosion was expertly timed and carefully planned so that Mike Mo Capaldi was not in any danger of being hurt from the explosion itself, the danger was of falling debris...