Human Skateboard Sells Shoes

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Gee, where have we seen this before? Created in '05.

http://kickflip.ytmnd.com/

And just 'cause:

http://walkonsunshine.ytmnd.com/

Just proof there are no new ideas.

There are new ideas. Just not if you go on the web and say "hey someone did something cool...let's throw a logo on it and claim it's original"

This is why people hate our industry.

To be fair, if you go to the Sneaux Shoes website, you'll see they actually acknowledge that YTMND clip as a "pioneer" of the "sport", along with a few other similar clips from youtube. So that's hardly "claiming it's original".

It did hurt. It was 80 degrees the first day, and 50 degrees the last. I went through 5 shirts, and had neck problems for 2 weeks after we finished shooting. I am the human skateboard. I have some photos from the shoot on my website.

More insight behind the spot can be found here at The Ranch.

this actually was a blatant rip-off

A good buddy and former co-worker of mine (erik erling, www.myspace.com/aphexflip , www.indyskate.com) came up with the idea for 'human skateboarding' well over a year ago while we were working at an indianapolis skatepark.

Erik shot this that same day and it has been floating around his computer for awhile. A company out of new zealand paid him to use the idea mooooonths ago, before he even won some photobucket contest for his 'picture'.

Sneaux shoes wrote an email to the owner of the park and basically said they would fly out the two kids who were in eriks clip and one adult since they were not 18. never happened. instead, erik go zero credit for his idea and up to this point still has not gotten any credit for his idea from sneaux.

emails to sneaux seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. erik tried to contact them and all they did was forward the email to the owner of the skatepark.

sneaux is a sketchy company, though i am in no way accusing the artists involved with stealing the idea, i entirely belive it was the 'creatives' over in their advertising department.

thanks for listening

this actually was a blatant rip-off

A good buddy and former co-worker of mine (erik erling, www.myspace.com/aphexflip , www.indyskate.com) came up with the idea for 'human skateboarding' well over a year ago while we were working at an indianapolis skatepark.

Erik shot this that same day and it has been floating around his computer for awhile. A company out of new zealand paid him to use the idea mooooonths ago, before he even won some photobucket contest for his 'picture'.

Sneaux shoes wrote an email to the owner of the park and basically said they would fly out the two kids who were in eriks clip and one adult since they were not 18. never happened. instead, erik go zero credit for his idea and up to this point still has not gotten any credit for his idea from sneaux.

emails to sneaux seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. erik tried to contact them and all they did was forward the email to the owner of the skatepark.

sneaux is a sketchy company, though i am in no way accusing the artists involved with stealing the idea, i entirely belive it was the 'creatives' over in their advertising department.

thanks for listening

this actually was a blatant rip-off

A good buddy and former co-worker of mine (erik erling, www.myspace.com/aphexflip , www.indyskate.com) came up with the idea for 'human skateboarding' well over a year ago while we were working at an indianapolis skatepark.

Erik shot this that same day and it has been floating around his computer for awhile. A company out of new zealand paid him to use the idea mooooonths ago, before he even won some photobucket contest for his 'picture'.

Sneaux shoes wrote an email to the owner of the park and basically said they would fly out the two kids who were in eriks clip and one adult since they were not 18. never happened. instead, erik go zero credit for his idea and up to this point still has not gotten any credit for his idea from sneaux.

emails to sneaux seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. erik tried to contact them and all they did was forward the email to the owner of the skatepark.

sneaux is a sketchy company, though i am in no way accusing the artists involved with stealing the idea, i entirely belive it was the 'creatives' over in their advertising department.

thanks for listening

this actually was a blatant rip-off

A good buddy and former co-worker of mine (erik erling, www.myspace.com/aphexflip , www.indyskate.com) came up with the idea for 'human skateboarding' well over a year ago while we were working at an indianapolis skatepark.

Erik shot this that same day and it has been floating around his computer for awhile. A company out of new zealand paid him to use the idea mooooonths ago, before he even won some photobucket contest for his 'picture'.

Sneaux shoes wrote an email to the owner of the park and basically said they would fly out the two kids who were in eriks clip and one adult since they were not 18. never happened. instead, erik go zero credit for his idea and up to this point still has not gotten any credit for his idea from sneaux.

emails to sneaux seem to fall on deaf ears and blind eyes. erik tried to contact them and all they did was forward the email to the owner of the skatepark.

sneaux is a sketchy company, though i am in no way accusing the artists involved with stealing the idea, i entirely belive it was the 'creatives' over in their advertising department.

thanks for listening

Doug said it all below, completely ripped off the idea from my site. I made that animation a couple years ago, and I know they found and used the animation as a bases for their video. Ignoring all of my attempts to contact them, and failing to give any credit, sneaux shoes is a sketchy ass company, and their shoes are a joke.

Doug said it all below, completely ripped off the idea from my site. I made that animation a couple years ago, and I know they found and used the animation as a bases for their video. Ignoring all of my attempts to contact them, and failing to give any credit, sneaux shoes is a sketchy ass company, and their shoes are a joke.

It's just another example of Neil Powell's inability to concept. He steals other people's work and claims it to be his. I would sue him for stealing your intellectual property. A civil court case is not expensive and you will win just by proving your time line of conception. It's about time we stand up for originality and let agencies like Powell steal from us.