Fancy Lad is a skateboard collective and company known for its creative
skate videos and non-traditional construction of skateboards. The group often skates in improvised spots around
Boston
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. The group's "board manipulations", or modified skateboards, include Abe "Orange Man" Dubin's yard sale snow scooter with attached skateboard wheels.
Their skate videos were featured on
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim
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and often abbreviated as s is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programme ...
's Web Experiments. Their 52-minute "Is This Skateboarding" debuted on ''
Thrasher Magazine
''Thrasher'' is a skateboarding magazine founded in January 1981 by Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello. The publication consists primarily of skateboard- and music-related articles, photography, interviews and skatepark reviews.
The magazine also ...
''. Fancy Lad owner Nick Murray has credited their low production quality skate video aesthetic to his interest in
B films
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and referred to the group as "merry pranksters" more interested in creativity than mainstream perfection. Their videos often cut to clips from Murray's VHS collection and often feature "board manipulations", costumes, and ''
Simpsons
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'' references. Fancy Lad's choice to shoot in analog film, in which the time for each shot is limited, often produces a rawer result than traditional skate films. Their videos show skaters struggling to land a trick and the skate crew's excitement after it takes a skater hours to land a trick.
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Skateboarding organizations