It started in the early nineties and it has since evolved. What once was a group of teenagers recording skateboarding tricks with a fish lens will no longer suffice. The Jackass boys brought guerrilla film making to a whole new level at the turn of the century with their mix of bizarre skateboarding tricks and mindless stunts. Now daybyday productions is carrying the torch. But where the hell are they going?

I met the boyz from DbD a few weeks ago while I was out of town. I started shootin the shit with them for a few minutes and eventually David Stewart (daybyday’s CEO) handed me a free copy of there newest release Teenagers from Marz. I had no idea what my DVD player and my eyez were in store for.

Teenagers from Marz is part Jackass and part SNL with sprinkles of The Hoax (the OG of skateboarding movies) and Style Wars. Was Teenagers from Marz a documentary? Was it a sketch comedy routine? Or was it a warning?

Whatever it was, it was fucking hilarious. The PSAs and parody commercial sketches were making me choke with laughter (or maybe it was that bong hit I took, regardless, you get my point.) The raw footage of graffiti artists could make anyone feel like they were a member of a real tagging crew (Teenagers from Marz features some of the finest graf artists on the eastern Seaboard.) Music videos from punk acts Avail and Luggage both enhanced this video but also helped to skew the films purpose. But I think that is the purpose.

TFM lacks plot, purpose, and mental penetration but who really gives a fuck. This movie dabbles in skateboarding, graffiti, and sketch comedy to unite an underground that gets even more segregated everyday. The message I got from the filmmakers at DaybyDay is it doesn’t matter if you are a fan of GWAR (Odorous makes a cameo in TFM) or a graf artists hitting the streets at night, we are all part of the same cause. Regardless of whom you are as long as you are part of the counter-culture, mainstream America will be looking over your shoulder with a watchful eye. We all might as well get together and bring fourth the revolution.

DaybyDay productions operates out of Richmond, VA and there newest release Teenagers from Uranus is available for pre-order now.

MaimZ