Habitat - Origin (2010)
Habitat - Origin (2010)
Possibly his best and my personal favourite part: Habitat’s third full length video, Origin, showcases spot and trick selection combined with trademark Habitat cinematography to make for one of the best parts of the video as a whole. The choice of ‘Four Provinces’ by The Walkmen (one of Gillette’s favourite bands) is an amazing fit too… Manual skills are on display as Austyn casually frontside flips to fakie manual then places himself out blindside; while the seemingly never ending line starting at 0:48 results in a similar scenario. It’s also worth pausing around the 45 second mark and taking a second to appreciate Joe Castrucci’s camera work for Austyn’s sunset back-dropped kickflip fakie on what appears to be a disused water slide. Awkward backside tricks are definitely on offer here too; with flips out of fakie backside tailslides, backside lips through well known corner ledge to hill bomb spot, along with going alley oop into to fakie fifty to finish a line at the Warschauer Strasse benches.