Bones brigade an autobiography dvd empire

This film by Stacy Peralta focuses on Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen.
"The Bones Brigade was a talented gang of teenage outcasts.

To increase brand awareness and grow skateboarding, Stacy produced and created a new Bones Brigade video every year, showcasing his crew's varied personalities and invented maneuvers. For most of the 1980s, this misfit crew headed by a 1970s ex-skateboard champion blasted the industry with a mixture of art and raw talent becoming the most popular skateboarding team in history.

The core unit of the Bones Brigade built an empire that covered the world.

Although they've succeeded in separate endeavors, they continue to be bonded together as veterans of a culture war. Almost all the core Brigade members split and started their own skateboard brands just like their mentor had in 1978. Stacy recruited the skaters and handled marketing along with his longtime creative cohort Craig Stecyk III.

Rejecting the expected action shot marketing, they used their young team to create esoteric images conveying the culture's sarcasm and disenfranchised dark humor. Powell Peralta dissolved over the owners' business differences and Stacy left to pursue filmmaking in Hollywood. The industry broke apart as zeros dropped off checks and most top pros drifted away in search of second jobs.

While spitballing about his stable of skaters, Stacy commented that he never wanted to call them a "team," a label that invited all kinds of jock baggage. The videos routinely featured riders crawling out of sewers, skating abandoned pools and back alleys, bombing desolate hills—essentially shredded an apocalyptic world hidden to most non-skaters.

By the mid-'80s, Brigade videos were sold all over the world and a new generation of teens discovered skating, making the Brigade international stars.

Unmotivated by fame or popularity, they completely dedicated their lives to a disrespected art form. They dominated contests, made hundreds of thousands of dollars, created the modern skateboard video, reinvented endemic advertising, pushed skate progression into a new era, and set the stage for a totally new form of skating called street style.

There's nothing comparable in today's skateboarding.

In 1978, a mechanical engineer who had developed new skateboard products teamed up with one of the most popular skaters of the era.