By John Walker on September 30th, 2009 at 1:23 am.
Here’s your late night nonsense, discovered via the constantly excellent Swiss Miss. It’s a group of freeborders playing a Tetris-alike in the streets of San Francisco. It’s clearly intended as an ad for the Freebord, which appears to be a skateboard that goes sideways or something. But who cares! They made a pretty game-related thing!
Too bad I didn’t decide to attend the FRAs this year. A bunch of people I know are in that video!
It’s been ALL over the internet I love it.
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A pretty game related thing, in my city? And no one told me? Blast!
Sweet video, I want to get the track that is playing in the background.
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It’s “You Can Not Believe” by Copy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSf4j01maqs
He’s on Spotify also:
http://open.spotify.com/track/7dG2cGCFHEeTDg2AHVuW29
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How awesome is tetris?
And how silly is skateboarding?
Why would you want to make yourself look even more ridiculous by wearing a giant neon throwie on your head?
Buy a car… just one car is all it takes to end this silliness.
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Obviously you’ve never tried to find parking in San Francisco.
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You wouldn’t even have to be driving it.
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Those are not Tetris pieces! I was ready to enthuse, but if they’re going to use crazy 5-block pieces, they can stick it up their collective jumper.
:-[
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kewl
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-1 vote for non tetrimodo pieces
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Too bad they’re going to have to trudge all the way back up those hills carrying those silly boards AND those slight-less-silly glowies on their backs.
They put in cable cars for a reason.
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That’s rather nifty. They move like snowboards on streets. Cool.
@Marshall
You realize that you can roll things uphill, right? You just need to push a little bit.
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Why didn’t the skaters at the bottom vaporize when they filled in the lines?
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This. More vapourising skateboarders please.
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Only terrorists use 5 block bits. Real Americans use the 4 block system made by that true American hero, Alexei Pajitnov.
Wait, am I reading that right?
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Very cool, and an impressive bit of group coordination.
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I’m guessing they didn’t use 4block tetris pieces for possible legal issues that may or may not arise.
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How ridiculous are cars?
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Damn right. Very.
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Those things look like a lot of fun. Sort of like snowboards on pavement. But I can only imagine the brutal falls you’re bound to take from it.
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I am wondering how do you brake or slowdown with those
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And after last winter’s dismal snowboarding experience, I will not be getting one of these.
The video was alright, though had a bit of trouble seeing what was going on.
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I want that in my town, but only with car crashes and shootouts..
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Like, when the a line fills up, a car drives through and kills everyone. Now that would be FUN.
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I assume you’d break the same way you would on a snowboard, torn sideways and lean on your edge…. it’s the logical thing.
As for going uphill with these, it’s impossible, your feet are locked in.
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I didn’t think that was necessarily the case… I thought I had found a version or two that didn’t lock you in…
Ahh… Here: http://www.getboards.com/land/freeboards/freebord_x80.html
“Skyhooks” are what you need for that, apparently… Whatever those are…
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