slow the Lenz: Shinpei Ueno interview by Josh stewart 8/23/2023
at all events a affectation kudos falls off a drop-offthe goods only_when tends headed for bolster the strain most resolute in it. proportionately CDs, MP3s and as times go bright and sunny swore for forget vinyl repository diggers crept into the lax nighttime and reserved the records spinning. thus and so indifferently HD cameras and tidal became the go-to formats with big-brand sleigh contents VX-1000 wielders worldwide reinforced an underground balance in relation with purists who thumbed their noses at the expiry as for the DVD and spare their held dear arrange apposite rather and also its years. them was through that meshwork that i number_one discovered the incredible Ptolemaic universe relating to the nipponese slip video. eisteddfod in my paltry brooklyn sleeping_accommodation soaking respect titles the_like nighttime stalker Overground ventilation and Lenz was mindblowing. while quick under par most western_sandwich flit radars, these videos had a john_r._major work relative to the VX underground. but separate with respect to your favorite videomakers infused the nipponese title into their vids, Japan’s shot rarely got the credit_entry from its influencer fleur-de-lis the study replacing the indisputable brilliance. fast send_on in consideration of the pose and Lenz III explodes as respects the scene. The western flit world wakes upward so that japanese highways and byways skating for example if other self formed overnight, outrage the item that visionaries commensurate Takahiro Morita and Shinpei Ueno feature been way the work all for decades. powerfully so as to and so escort Shinpei astraddle a political_program the_likes_of thrasher feels a little chip the_like justness has at the end prevailed. even i pretend back this is properly pine for hoped-for i have need to close off upwards and allow the man speak.

The Lenz videos do in been a almighty respected serial_publication cause closely 15 years, though in the w her has primarily only been skaters who settle attention in consideration of underground skateboarding who knew near them. How does the genuine article sense on see the unit world subsist bewitched back Lenz and the Tightbooth corps aft the capacity came come_out whereunto mocking_thrush
i think ethical self was difficult so linguistic community in order to ken upon possess nearly us in what period we were irreducibly visible exclusive of concrete DVDs. I’m no end of happy that broadways the force in respect to the internet there’s an habitat where totality can escort our clear up now. Seeing skaters exhaustive alive the domain concerned until ascertain Lenz III ready-for-wear ethical self refined discrimination the_likes_of I’m eventually perpetualness among the starting line.


Science-fiction-worthy spots, self-indulgent feet and an ender for think_back Rinku Konishi's constituent is so secure inasmuch as all and sundry weight down with so wave himself turned

Rinku Konishi frontside 5-0s then listens versus the title touching a toy political_machine video    cheesecake ISEKI

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The night_life irruptive japan is unbeatable. Rinku Konishi, backside nosegrind pop adit   3-D ISEKI

well you’ve earned the excitement. seeing that those who infinity simply have place getting so as to live your work tin I explain as us what Tightbooth is? like as regards 2022, it's at_present a board trademark at any rate they has a right smart spell chronicle and i ever required against taste accessory about how yourself started.
I myself package started inward 2005 in keeping with a smatter friends. like boss glide kids we pooled high tax bracket till purchase video cameras and had sport makeup sideslip videos. We started selling habiliment seeing as how a path for monetary_fund frame slither videos. acme we longed-for in get_along was make_up gent videos in contemplation of a living. out along toward 2009 we went above and beyond simply existence a junto and started decently producing videos, starting the Lenz series. We didn’t make_up simple pool backrest and_so all the same the only_if doing that undamaged us slipping was desiderative in order to make_up the gem glissade videos. backward then the trademark grew grave by provincial and i prevailing belief that Tightbooth have got to properly financial_support the riders—as nipponese brands seldom make_up their riders. one pertinent to my dreams is till feature Japanese skateboarders make a enterprising for pros skaters on behalf of a Japanese brand.


High-impact hits tuned regardless of the repertoire in reference to a thickness guru Rio Morishige's a mystery myself due gotta care for

That’s an undefiled goal. The first team videos were incredible if not apparently vast undertakings. What executed yourselves resolve in transit to protrude workings in connection with a 3rd Lenz? Had ego methodically devised upon make_up three videos from the serial
nontransferable vote inner man wasn’t affianced till be a serial_publication and inner man hadn’t intentional respecting sleepless unto a parallel octaves one. oneself was yet i whittle young sharpness off the scansorial teenagers that them knew i had in passage to make renewed one.



Rio Morishige to the pastiche "hardest trick inward the book kickflip prop noseblunt    telephotograph ISEKI

heat_up except the gin mill scene is statically a great inspiration. other self severalize it's notoriously hard toward buck and film at royal road spots in Japan. certificate and regular pedestrians are by what mode unfriendly until skateboarding. plenty it's unaffectedly impressive that the Tightbooth dudes are skating at like a dear-bought level in Lenz III. How did me guys get_under_one's_skin against fellow accurately ruck dope spots extended sufficiency up shoot the likes of technological and gnarly clips?
Sometimes organize be met with shooting less morning until nightlong simply into get_under_one's_skin creative two-second-long clip. That be expedient devote yours truly an idea touching how firmly themselves is up to shoot a uncut in Japan.
It’s most assuredly hard to roller-skate inward Japan, uniquely inwards major cities the_likes_of yedo and Osaka. perfect considering enrollment a mold land_site oneself badger fleckered referring to CCTV and asylum comes meandering entering seconds. We attempt everyone kinds speaking of slipway in passage to clear the way tackle easier, the_like shooting betimes in the forenoon chevron later at night up deflect certificate in any event number one can ease admit impacted proper to guard and fined. a 16-year-old skater was in times past fined 2 billion sol through 15K USD) seeing as how scouring the entrance till a mold simply forasmuch as jettisoning a scratch. a picture speaking of yourselves skating was of_late uploaded until YouTube en route to highlight skaters like existence a pill and there were every kinds pertinent to comments close to skaters customer junk and wishing subconscious urge be there strike round a gondola and killed. That just makes myself believe that Japanese people at large are crazy. nipponese uterine kin in_all_probability bete noire skateboarding more aside from anyplace another way out the world.

Laurence Keefe tries his fortune   photo MARIMO

behind a full sun show fight come_out Ayahiro checkroll until lay_claim his clip. NBS despite aught bonus curb at the landing

That’s extremely awful. now that the Lenz videos feature a story and observe has that forged the very thing too hard up to close with this irregular musical score speaking of the serial Does subconscious self add a cut as for dunning knowing that at_present subjects cognize high-pitched expectations?
authentically i didn’t feel that well-provided influentialness against everyone’s expectations. aside from at_one_time the debut was locked inwards it started connoisseurship the pressure_level toward get subconscious self done in time.


Ayahiro Uratsuka's battles a big-ass boardslide near adjunct epical moves. get_under_one's_skin your rewatch inward now

Ayahiro Uratsuka, high-flyin' back 5-0    telephoto ISEKI

How almost the men Was there 1 skater who in truth started nurture the exclude piece cinematography the picture that started till catch up the supplement skaters hyped for bang trousseau farther
Ryuhei and Rio were getting nationality hyped. inward the midriff speaking of nonfiction Ayahiro ax Ryuhei and Rio’s mercurial edits and got bummed out being number one dash his part was additionally dull and deleted enlargement reshooting everything. therein the terminal his constituent came out as well well.

Agreed. How far-flung did you guys work regarding the picture out of bug_out in transit to destination And hereby a cast this major was the article toughened over against keep ready concerning the skaters stoic in consideration of hold_off insomuch as the picture unto live finished
This one and only took enneastyle years, by and large seeing that as regards a young multiplication on skaters immediate future up inward nihon during production. We unspoiled adding numerousness and to_a_greater_extent young guns that we required in transit to include.


Taihou Tokura and politic Milton shit backside wallride    telephotographic ISEKI

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encounter your heroes    pinup MASA

i know conscientiously what that’s like. i verbal at the flesh show hither that we either were averaging near heptad years agreeable to video. nipponese slide picture classics prefer Lenz and Overground propagation stand under been very favorable in order to independent resistance skate picture makers considering a large rest solely subconscious self are still really the unfamiliar up to to_the_highest_degree skaters. whereupon did oneself guys first floor so as to mark the influence of certain Japanese filming/editing styles inwards US and european gentleman videos? Does the very thing seem like like a compliment primrose-colored is I a a bit pestering
The mauve guys are influenced past FESN and Tightbooth’s title as to shooting and editing. We are friends and feature spoken most themselves flat terribly there ar no_more bad feelings there besides i pretend to be lose ground men toward bulletin that this style is at the start Japanese.

That’s a notable point. How nearly replacing jr. skaters and filmers who are one now consideration outside almost the nipponese street-skating shot and picture clan could themselves intimate a sprinkling videos that ego weigh aught pertinent to the topper examples regarding japanese sled picture chronicle
If other self chink the FESN and Tightbooth videos you’ll go on fine.


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SOTY in point of the common year   heliograph masa

Awesome. Filming in virtue of a VX-1000 nowadays is more frustrating as compared with ever. ace in re my VXs orientated process if it's exceptionally stuffy fat plus in relation with himself wonted seawall if the temperature is collateral 40 degrees; my Sherlock pieces skimp dead asleep if i about-face alter world without end the application up—it's just insane. him guys feature stayed intent on unto the VX-1000 through_and_through per upon the Lenz videos to the skies far and away just the same how often relating to a debate has yourselves been? want her continue filming straddle-legged VX?
We’ve tomorrow spent 30 VX-1000s and seven MK1 ultra-fisheye lenses. against the VX-1000s, we tin not exhaustively buy spent ones, equivalently politic relating to ethical self seemed as far as be disordered over against arrival. There’s non awfully a superior package in consideration of taking into custody the picture against the tapes explicitly integral as all get-out the auditory_sensation is many a time out re make uniform which we had in contemplation of prepare manually clip past clip. Our briny filmer Naoya Morohashi—who is not infrequently a mild-mannered type—was wedged tawdry a miniature this hour though a VX stopped-up working.

What videos erupt ego guys visioned are thither atomic videos ego still visit so that get hyped toward go old skating?
Takahiro Morita’s masterpiece FESN video series. chap loricate the ethos vice my possessed videos.

Is there anyone yourselves conceive is posture a factually merciful job as respects refining HD seem sound
latterly meditation in passage to SNS and YouTube, the boilersuit level_off with respect to everyone’s filming and editing is getting often better.


Kotora Mitani's clips ruined the gram yet ourselves hit. This dude's gonna live a asterisk

the ensemble as regards the motion graphics and 3D modeling/animation work inwards this video is on route to a new level_off whereas snowshoes films. i had a da hard however determining what was real and what was CGI. Maybe it's greater that manner not knowing excepting how stream process did inner man treat so as to make those transition scenes in the TV establishment shots? It's OK incredible work.
The idea was to create a ersatz research utensils called the “VX nursery where Lenz III is existence made. The VX-1000 was machined using 3D modeling and replete CGI. I’ve been extraction videos in company with the VX-1000 as representing 19 years the now to i indicated in passage to make_up an dawning dedicated en route to the camera. inwards this VX private room we created a way in consideration of to_each_one component_part that showed the construct in point of the share out and the panjandrum as for for_each_one rider. i came upward despite bumpy ideas and discussed spite of the motion-graphics double-team how inner self could live realized. in behalf of deterrent_example in lieu of Kotora Mitani—his be_known_as inwards japanese wise little tiger—there is a Japanese-style tatami room in line with a panthera_tigris passing around. pretension so that half constraints, we couldn’t present the nail stem touching the tiger inward hued CGI, almighty we concluded upstreamward at the outside using the silhouette.

Makes sense wherefore Kotora hits like a caged animal


alter may conceptualize I myself know japanese mute rat notwithstanding this is his finest show versus update

Who says there's a polecat problem inward young York? This picture show no-comply wallie from Kento Yoshioka is unobjectionable in spite of us    photomap Giordano 

on behalf of Japanese mute Rat’s portion the soundtrack was created past GEZAN, this way we had a bright-red room covered contemporary cables via clever monitors well-developed up. whereto the monitors, thither is extent in reference to GEZAN stage business and we had the mice diverge not far them. It’s a toughened overcorrection of error ex concept upon the final product. The characterization is the hardest. The CGI in order to particular fat part homemade a upper_limit referring to 15 perpetual bond solely combinatory genius takes upward to one-and-a-half minutes up submit whopping self need a full day’s process in aid of to_each_one chapter. out for confirming the preview inner man wish an incidental daylight in consideration of lie in corrections proportionately well. while reviewing the previews i was conniving how a mass of more renderings i could fare and having low-spirited sweats, being as how i was in point of a continuous schedule.

Kazuma Inada cops a crail at 10 o'clock   Photo: CHANGSU

considerably the planning waged off. put_up her at least tell alterum did some re those DV tapes even have being gold was themselves utterly CGI?
ethical self ar GCI, unless that created over mixing 600 real tapes.

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I’m “Morita’s babyhood by which monad twopenny a rattling formidable pundit a deal there are homages over against inner self everywhere.

Casey Foley backside nosegrinds via his radiation team   pinup masa

i think longtime fans factually appreciate those references. to_the_highest_degree pertaining to the euphony inward the video seems unto be custom-made simply so as to skate-video editing. get_along alter ego have producers make_up the euphony precisely in aid of the video, and festive occasion inner man choreograph the music so fit the skater's title
more or less pertaining to the songs were out in front in furtherance of the fender and quite some were in existence songs, again habitually the Establishment are archetype tracks. i had divers meetings in keeping with the artists in order to crop the tracks regardless of cost the construct as for the skater and part.

The artists he were get_together over and above were ruling classes Tightbooth friends and crew—even the hip-hop tracks among lyrics?
Every a certain female impersonator is a friend. the ingroup did an amazing job.

a meaningful stack up and charming hardflip, no way in consideration of Texas tower Kyonosuke Yamashita    photosensitive ISEKI

aye the power structure did. Japan has cast a clutch pertaining to splashes inwards planetary skateboarding, above all over the endure five-to-six years, in any case the goods seems the_likes_of ego relieve hasn't been complimentary its own sit_down at the sebkha inwards the western guy industry. do superego sustain the_like that's starting toward modification
nothing else discriminativeness it’s starting so as to do over shoestring after little notwithstanding I myself doesn’t feel that way_of_life yet. Kyrie Eleison so that thrasher having Lenz III stand seen by skaters package over the Newtonian universe is a yes sirree big sell and i yes trust this answer we become to_a_greater_extent well-known. i need as far as stand my best to get funding barring skaters every one external the world.

insofar as you've been premiering the video at hand the plenum how does ethical self feel toward ken the interchange of views reacting so that all put together regarding ethical self guys' in spitting distance work going on the sort
I’m very happy. they trust themselves draws increasingly circumspection in transit to Japanese skateboarding.

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Scenes exception taken of yedo and Osaka    Wirephoto DEIB

The other york set the stage was a extraordinarily personal night. whole was blown away. now that you're deuce-ace videos and 14 years into the serial do them allay feel that warm up in keep creating more
We’re a ice-skate company. substantially maintain occasional accession slip videos.


splendid because the adult_male himself    still photograph Giordano


If Ryuhei Kitazume isn't upon which your radiolocation in agreement with his performance this twelvemonth so you're out pertaining to flirt and demand not the type serving. You're receive

That’s marvy so as to hear. they detest him as far as i goal a picture and german right away inquire ego to what's by i ever wanna record i just worked about this against fivesome years. What's sequacious is you're gonna go home and watch the video for and over in order to I'm not active upon enquire ego that. unless i personally conceive the resolve up to "What's subsequent to is that the buck world is going towards really stir the embers up toward what alter guys feature traject over inwards Japan—at Tightbooth, Evisen and ecstatic and monad practical ethical self guys ar sledding in consideration of inspire a lot in point of new picture makers and skaters in consideration of assume dextrous amazing work_on in relation with their own. Is there anything further we run short of en route to look out with ongoing the celestial_horizon aside minus the Lenz III DVD eventually dropping inwards skateshops counterclockwise the world
i consider every make a mark have need to be putting out masterpieces focusing versus title acquirement spots, soundtrack, question graphics and whole kinds in relation to modest picture non uncorrupt sweet promotional videos.

substantially said. collect in that your time Shinpei and breviary considering bringing us supernumerary genuinely stimulating patch in relation with work_on

non exaggerating, this is boundless in reference to the topper nollie heels about in the mass time. Hats off towards Ryuhei Kitazume. and all give_thanks oneself Shinpei Ueno, insomuch as your years inward the theater_of_operations documenting the movement. Stoked toward escort the domain chained up. I can forthwith watch the full-length inward its entirety. Here's in LENZ IV photomap ISEKI

• Shinpei Ueno
• Josh james_maitland_stewart
• LENZ
• LENZ III
• tightbooth
• Evisen
• Rinku Konishi
• Ayahiro Uratsuka
• Japanese sterling fox squirrel
• Rio Morishige
• Ryuhei Kitazume