Fancy Lad is a skateboard collective and company known for its creative skate videos and non-traditional construction of skateboards. The group often skates in improvised spots around Boston. The group's "board manipulations", or modified skateboards, include Abe "Orange Man" Dubin's yard sale snow scooter with attached skateboard wheels.[1]
Their skate videos were featured on Adult Swim's Web Experiments. Their 52-minute "Is This Skateboarding" debuted on Thrasher Magazine. Fancy Lad owner Nick Murray has credited their low production quality skate video aesthetic to his interest in B films and referred to the group as "merry pranksters" more interested in creativity than mainstream perfection. Their videos often cut to clips from Murray's VHS collection and often feature "board manipulations", costumes, and Simpsons references. Fancy Lad's choice to shoot in analog film, in which the time for each shot is limited, often produces a rawer result than traditional skate films. Their videos show skaters struggling to land a trick and the skate crew's excitement after it takes a skater hours to land a trick.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Hagerty, Michael (June 21, 2016). "For Boston's Fancy Lads, Skateboarding Is a Form of Spontaneous Artistic Expression and Humor". WBUR. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
Further reading
edit- "Building Frankenstein Skateboards with Orange Man". Jenkem Magazine. November 6, 2017. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Houghtaling, Ellie (September 20, 2019). "Watch these insanely trippy skateboard tricks in slow motion". Mashable. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Musick, Morley (September 18, 2015). "Meet the Wonderful Weirdos of Skateboarding". Jenkem Magazine. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Nieratko, Chris (June 2, 2014). "Fancy Lad Is the Best Thing in Skateboarding Right Now". Vice. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Nieratko, Chris (September 29, 2014). "Fancy Lad's Colin Fiske Released an Hour-Long Skateboard Part". Vice. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- Nieratko, Chris (October 1, 2015). "Fancy Lad Is Still the Best Thing in Skateboarding and That Will Never Change". Vice. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- "Watch Matt Tomasello, Fancy Lad's Newest Freak". Jenkem Magazine. February 6, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- "Watch Matt Tomasello in 'Rodney Mullen on Bath Salts: Round Three'". Jenkem Magazine. September 16, 2019. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
- "Watch New Matt Tomasello Aka 'Rodney Mullen on Bath Salts'". Jenkem Magazine. August 3, 2018. Retrieved September 14, 2020.
