Period footage
Photos or video from when the board was current. Bad video is the best video: camcorder, disposable camera, a scan of a print. Tell us the year and who shot it, or stay anonymous.
A series about single-plank machines
Every board
is a timestamp.
Snowboards, skateboards, slalom skis. Somebody stood on it, somebody stored it, and the graphics, the trucks and the base all give away the year. Film yours. We date it.
Four so far
Each one opens with a memory from that year. The board is the clue; the card at the end is the answer.
Rode it
A board on a wall is an artifact. A board under someone's feet is a record. If you have footage of one of these being ridden — then or now — it belongs here.
Someone young, riding it today
This is the one we want most. Put a rider who wasn't born yet on gear from before they were — no modern edges, no camber they recognize, bindings that make no sense — and film what happens. Kindness optional.
Rode it
Make the cut
One take, one phone, under a minute. You film it. We edit it, score it, and date it.
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Stand it up and shoot vertical.
Lean the board against a wall in decent light and hold the phone upright. Get the whole board in frame, then move in on the details — graphics, base, bindings, trucks, wheels.
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Ask the question out loud.
Start with "What do we have here?" It gives the edit a clean opening and it gives you somewhere to begin.
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Say what it is and what's unique.
Brand, model, anything stamped on it. Then the one thing that makes it interesting — an odd base material, a serial number, where you got it.
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Don't worry about the year.
If you know it, say it. If you don't, that's better. Dating it is our job.
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Leave the mistakes in.
Pauses, false starts, thinking out loud — all of it gets cut out. Talk the way you'd talk to a friend in a garage.
Rough phone audio is fine. Every episode gets its levels fixed, its pauses tightened and its terms explained on screen.