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1. Skinemax

by Smash TV

4 months ago

STARRING KURT RUSSELL

Skinemax is Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes. It's long form entertainment for short attention spans. An hour long VJ odyssey, it will move your body and warp your mind.

A nostalgic look back at a half remembered childhood growing up in the 80s and early 90s, Skinemax takes a close look at the culture of that era. The images that motivated, delighted, and terrified us on the silver screen, set to propulsive modern music that pines for a simpler time.

Please support the original works, these are film makers and musicians that have upheld the values of originality and creativity.

This video is protected under fair use copyright law. It is presented for the purposes of entertainment, education, and criticism/commentary only. No infringement is intended.

Tracklist:

Com Truise - Norkuy
Depakote - Tummler
Martial Canterel - For Us
Fulgeance - Glamoure
Daedelus - Penny Loafers
Teebs - Why Like This
Laurel Halo - Embassy
Games - Strawberry Skies
d'Eon - Transparency
FOE - A Handsome Stranger Called Death (Com Truise Remix)
Games - Shadows In Bloom
White Car - No Better
Gatekeeper - Forgotten
The Hasbeens - You And Me
Ford & Lopatin - Emergency Room
Rainbow Arabia - Mechanical
oOoOO - Burnout Eyess
VHS Head - Motions
Outer Limits Recordings - Plastik Child

Download higher quality MP3 here:
percussionlab.com/sets/smash_tv/skinemax_video_mix

Many more DJ Mixes here:
percussionlab.com/sets?list=tag&tag=sparkle%20motion

Blog: supersmashtv.tumblr.com/
Twitter: @supersmashtv

Credits

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Noah Fallis
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Daniel J
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James Gardiner
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DJ B-Roll
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Brittany Washington
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Notre Jam
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Jordan Williamson
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David Cameron
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Evert John Vonk
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Luis Román
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shæriffuse2lose! 4 months ago

sweet baby jesus
Smash TV 3 months ago

I don't know how you found this, but you were like the first person to ever watch this and then you spread it to Russia. Thanks for spreading the word, cheers!
Michael McPhail 4 months ago

Holy crap this is the best thing ever made by anyone!
Smash TV 3 months ago

WATMM represent
westcoaststrangler 4 months ago

awesome music and visuals. props
Jym Davis 4 months ago

Impressive. Videodrome for sure
Anthony Antonellis 4 months ago

!!!
CrsTian Luciano 4 months ago

uffff todas la vi ajajajj buena edicion
PΔ12Δ11ΔX 4 months ago

too good /// posted up at parallaxdepthor.blogspot.com/
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thank you!
slurpTV 4 months ago

nice footage!
Semih Akalin 3 months ago

awesome!

we share it... atbreak.com/videos/skinemax/
Smash TV 3 months ago

Most excellent, thanks!
Joe Dillingham 3 months ago

This will be played on the walls of every party I ever throw for all time.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Radical.
trackofalljades 3 months ago

Ditto!
trackofalljades 3 months ago

This is fantastic work, congratulations and thank you! One question, I thought that Vimeo terms of use wouldn't allow this sort of thing (would love to do similar work myself, and hate YouTube for all kinds of reasons). I'm relatively new here, do they not hassle for this kind of thing as long as you give credit to the sources and don't make any of the clips/songs too long?
Smash TV 3 months ago

I'm really not too sure how that works, it was kind of flying under the radar for a while there but it looks like that's over now.

There's something called fair use copyright law which protects videos works that are for educational or entertainment value but I'm not too sure how well that holds up legally. Since I didn't use any of the original audio and the cuts are so quick I'm hoping that helps, not to mention a lot of these were B-movies.

Glad you like it though, hoping I can keep it up here. I was just trying to show my love for these films that had a profound impact on my memory of growing up.
trackofalljades 3 months ago

I don't want to cause any trouble! Feel free to delete my comments if need be. I'm just genuinely curious because I love this sort of mashup artwork (guessing you are also a fan of The Golden Age of Video).

I'm pretty well versed in Fair Use (in all it's ever-eroding glory with the current state of U.S. law) but I thought in the past that I'd seen something in Vimeo's terms that was far more restrictive than what's arguably legal (which bummed me out because this site is SO much better than most similar services).

If they ever do give you any trouble, I encourage you to share your story with the "blogosphere" because your work is going to become so well known now. If not, then I heartily thank you for helping to push open the door for this wonderful sort of stuff. You might also want to write to the folks at Wired who recently covered "supercuts" to make them aware of Skinemax.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks for the advice and support, I appreciate it. I'll certainly check out supercuts on Wired.
kay kloosterboer 3 months ago

Hey guys, for me the documentary 'RIP: A remix manifesto' was a real eye-opener on copyright laws etc. Maybe you'll find some answers there.
trackofalljades 3 months ago

RIP is a wonderful film (and so are the variants that have, rather appropriately, been made from it or from a lot of the same footage). It's certainly a great tool to get folks actively concerned over Fair Use, and copyright laws. However it's important to draw a distinction between the law, the terms of use of a web service, and the enforcement of those terms (because VERY often one finds online that these three things do not have the relationship one might think).
mathewsmith.com 3 months ago

This is really great guys, you nailed it on the head..

Truly the Koyaanisqatsi of the tv generation.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks! Haha, I have seen people on the internet getting pissed thinking I was seriously comparing this to high art with the Koyaanisqatsi reference. Once Weird Al shows up in the first minute, I think you can throw high art out the window.
Lucas Pedersen 2 months ago

You've made something great here! I'm glad it's gotten the appreciation it deserves.

Also, youtu.be/AFrikkN8nwM :)
Smash TV 2 months ago

Thank you! Haha, I just came across that clip myself about a week ago. Gotta have the Philip Glass commentary, even if it's only in your head.
Django's Ghost 3 months ago

Smash,

you sent me the link to "Skinemax". I featured it on Dangerous Minds a couple of days ago and then The Daily What and Metafilter picked up on it. I'm glad to have helped get it out there.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thank you so much, I seriously owe you big time!
Dan Michael 3 months ago

bitchin
inha 245 3 months ago

that's The knife-Heartbeat at 3:41.
:P
Smash TV 3 months ago

It's a rework by Depakote, check him out.
inha 245 3 months ago

wow, it's pretty awesome.
Great selection here.
Jack King 3 months ago

i love you for making this.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Smash TV loves you back, but not in a weird way.
Bradley Gregory 3 months ago

So. Much. Win.
Tay Trong 3 months ago

Thank you for putting this together. At almost an hour, I know it must've taken a long time to splice all the clips together and make it sync so well with the music.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks for the kind words. It took about 6 months of my free time to put the whole thing together, from conception, to making the mix, cutting up the clips, and then reassembling everything. People said I was crazy, but I'm glad it seems to have found its audience.
baldakino 3 months ago

That's interesting actually - could you tell us a bit more how you went about int the beginning, halfway, end of those six months? Did you stick to a plan from the beginning, or did you re-edit many times? Curious because I always wonder what happens due to the editor's psychology when things get huge.. :D Thanks a lot for the great ride!
Smash TV 3 months ago

After mixing the music, I devoted an hour to go through my Netflix queue and pick all the movies out. I wanted to just go with my instinct and didn't spend much time at all picking out the movies. Just ones I thought might be visually interesting, whether I enjoyed the movie or not. Then I decided which movies fit best with each song.

I had a very dadaist approach to the visuals. There are many thematic moments and jokes here and there, but each edit was like a game of free association. I would try to tie each image to the previous one somehow. Most made sense at the time but now I forget a lot of the connections.

I would do each song as a segment, so I would do a lot of re-edits within that segment, but once I moved onto the next song, I wouldn't touch it much unless I later came across something that would fit well in an earlier song.

There was no real definite plan aside from certain segments where you see a theme for more than a few shots, such as electricity, fire/explosions, babes, guitars, flying, etc. The last song I had pretty well laid out in my head from the beginning though.

Anyways, I could go on and on about this but those are the basics. It was an exhausting project and took more hours than I care to count, but it was a lot of fun to see it come along and I am just overwhelmed with the response it has gotten. I thought maybe 1,000 people would have the patience for something like this at most. Glad I was wrong!
Tay Trong 3 months ago

Did you use Final Cut or something like that? I appreciate that you were dedicated to a monstrous project like this because it adds to keeping certain parts of culture (especially the fringe) alive.

By the way, I read the story behind the making of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and it was just nuts.

It seems like it was less about money back then and more about experimenting.
Smash TV 3 months ago

I used Premiere. Could you link me to the Buckaroo Banzai article/book? Sounds interesting, and yes they certainly don't make movies like that any more.
christian studer 3 months ago

Wow. Amazing.

What's the movie with the animated dancing women in white, which blends into the real world? (Somewhere in the first quarter.)
Januk Latushka ACIDBURN 3 months ago

cool world by bakshi
Smash TV 3 months ago

You got it, starring Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, and a young Brad Pitt. Awesome idea and animation but a pretty horrible movie. Still messed me up as a kid because it was an adult movie and my parents let me watch anything that was a "cartoon."
garbnzgh 3 months ago

Flight of the navigator!
Smash TV 3 months ago

A childhood favorite. I love that Paul Reubens (PeeWee Herman) voices the robot.
mpared 3 months ago

perfect in every sense!! Shared at thecuriousbrain.com/
Smash TV 3 months ago

Awesome, thanks!
Mike Marshall 3 months ago

hell yes running man!
Smash TV 3 months ago

Between this, Videodrome, and They Live, I do love my TV dystopias...
German Vitti 3 months ago

Wow!!! my sincere congrats on this from Paris, I have to say that completely loved your work, will love to feature it and party with this on my home walls!
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks very much! Smash TV is the international language of partying.
Ian Aleksander Adams 3 months ago

awesome. reshared :)
Smash TV 3 months ago

\m/
Krzysztof 3 months ago

VHS and big spoon to fix creased tape
Dimitris Christou 3 months ago

Krull? Seriously?
I love it! Great,great stuff...
Smash TV 3 months ago

Oh yes, I went there. Thanks man, glad you like it.
Morgan James Chadwick 3 months ago

Awesome on so many levels. Great mix!
Morgan James Chadwick 3 months ago

How long did this take you to put together?
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thank you, glad you like it! Unfortunately this is not my day job, so it took about 6 months of my free time to put everything together from start to finish. Glad it's getting out there though, thanks for watching.
Robo Brain 3 months ago

Absolutely fantastic work...This was the equivalent of a nostalgia nuke, and kept us mesmerized for an entire hour. Thank you so much for putting this together, it means a lot. We featured it.

awesome-robo.com/2011/11/skinemax-tribute-to-cinematic-golden.html
Smash TV 3 months ago

Excellent, thanks for sharing and the nice write up. I love the term nostalgia nuke, have seen that floating around elsewhere. Enjoy, there's lots more to spot the second time around!
Smash TV 3 months ago

Mad props if anyone can find a young Gus Fring from Breaking Bad in Skinemax. He's in there somewhere...
MMCCV 3 months ago

Haha, 7:47 with that shotgun blast? I love King of New York. Walken is so great. Nice job on this thing man. It's so great.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Holy crap, that was not the one I was thinking of, but I just confirmed you are right. Nice job! Ok, there are at least TWO instances of Gus Fring!
Raytrace 3 months ago

utter great
Nilz 3 months ago

I think this is really great. The images could have had their own separate but harmonious flow to the music though, it was a little too integrated.
Jordi 3 months ago

I wish there was an Oscar for banging 59 minute mixes with 80's movie footage, just so you could win it.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks you! I wish that were a category as well.
Kristen Trøen 3 months ago

Really nice work, I love it!
Is it possible to get a list of the films?
Thanks in advance.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks Kristen! Sending you a direct message now.
Billy 3 months ago

May I have the list also and am I allow to post the list somewhere else?
buzz kill 3 months ago

HAY! could i have a list to? It's like a reading list for those gaps in this awesome video i'd like to fill in.
Brian Basden 3 months ago

Yes, PLEASE send me the list of films, too! There are a few I recognize but can't remember what they were named!
Nomed 2 months ago

Smash TV, awesomest mix! I've been listening to it over and over all day-long! :D

I'd love too the list of the films! I watched many times most of them but some luckily slipped away! :P
That one Guy 3 months ago

Dude, this is beautiful. Would it be too much to ask for you to compile a list of all the movies you put in this?
That one Guy 3 months ago

Sorry, I didnt see Kristens comment^. But still!
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thank you, sending you a direct message as well.
Andrew DeFrancis 3 months ago

Incredible. It's like my entire childhood worth of movies. Every time I'd think to myself "I wonder if ____ will pop on here at some point", it happened.
You've created something incredibly sublime and cool out of some real crap. Great music, too.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thanks Andrew! Crap into gold, simple 80s pop culture alchemy (although I do love all of these movies in my own weird way).
Andrew DeFrancis 3 months ago

I'm totally with you there, and somehow, you were able to find all the little bits of those movies that I specifically remembered. Like the Godzilla suit scene from One Crazy Summer or Ernest agitating a family of badgers. Serious props, man.
atomicsmith 3 months ago

this kind of reminds me hearing the grey album for the first time. It was easy to think that the remix thing had all been done before, but the skill and subtlety made it totally fresh. I think you've done that here. hope you have all of DM success!
Smash TV 3 months ago

Thank you very much, that means a lot to someone who also totally fell in love with the Grey Album a few years back. Glad this stands out from the pack!
Daniel Kelsan 3 months ago

So good. My sincerely congratulations for such an amazing video mix.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Cheers, thanks Daniel!
DakotaStrick 3 months ago

Hey there could I also get a list of films in this video? I have rewatched it around 10 plus times now and its great reliving my childhood one scene at a time.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Absolutely, just direct messaged you.
Oscar Falcón Lara 3 months ago

Wow, that was a great selection of tracks and images. Awesome.
Billy 3 months ago

6:27-6:29
What movie was that? the one with the scary bits?
Sebas 3 months ago

There is only 1 word to describe this: Awesome!

There where a few movies (very few) that I did not recognize, do you mind sharing the movie list details with me aswell? (perhaps blog it somewhere?)
Geoff Evans 3 months ago

This is amazing, though vimeo cutoff my download :( Are there any mirrors?
Smash TV 3 months ago

Hi Geoff, I'll put up a torrent at some point and post it here when I have some time.
Scott Francis 3 months ago

I can see I'm going to be spending some quality time with this clip and my netflix queue this evening ... I'd also be interested in a list of movies used, for the ones where I can't quite remember the title. seriously excellent work - it's an hour spent reliving my childhood (some of these things I haven't seen since then; so glad to be reminded of them).
donald blakemore 3 months ago

Downloading it now...thank you!
So Fresh So Clean 3 months ago

awesome
Justin Lee 3 months ago

I cant believe I have watched this as many times as I have. Really awesome stuff! Big ups on the edit job.
Smash TV 3 months ago

Probably not as many times as I have! Hope those little jokes that require some repeat viewings are starting to make themselves apparent. Thanks for watching!
Louie Downs 3 months ago

JUNKHOUSE.us/blog/ sent me here!

Amazing job & ty for the new music to support
panicz 3 months ago

thank you for this compilation. it brings back memories of carefree childhood.
baldakino 3 months ago

Besides the great mix of music, there's a lot of clips i actually never saw before, and strangely it gave some kind of meta-nostalgic feeling. Not for not having seen them, but for not being able to see them like then (in that time) anymore. Well done :)
[and if there ever is a list presented, i might still waste a rainy sunday searching the real VHS's for what I missed]