Art and Life: The Story of Jim Phillips | movie | 2024 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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Embark on the epic ride of Jim Phillips, the genius behind skateboarding and rock culture's electrifying art.  Drawing i | dG1fb0FSUFNZbWdSOUk

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00:00 (soft music)

00:02 - That's where art starts, with a doodle.

00:08 That's where I started.

00:11 I'm in school and I'm doodling around,

00:13 pretty soon it's a drawing.

00:14 I'm somebody that just really loved it and admired it

00:21 and brought it forward and found a home for it.

00:27 He set the bar, everything was compared to him.

00:31 Came from surf world, pot rod world, rock world,

00:33 and I was going, I'd rather work with this guy

00:35 way more than the other dude.

00:36 I mean, to me, this dude has more soul.

00:38 - You're all fired!

00:40 - You're all fired!

00:42 - And the mantra is, everything else fails and that succeeds.

00:46 That's all you care about.

00:47 When an idea comes to you out of nowhere,

00:50 that's the real thing,

00:51 so that's what you pay attention to.

00:53 - You've seen his work, Mr. Jim Phillips is here.

00:56 - Oh, hi.

00:57 - Surfing and skateboard artist, Jimmy Phillips.

01:00 - The volume of work that he has done

01:03 is just beyond anything I've ever known.

01:05 - He changed art on skateboards forever.

01:12 - Screaming Hand, Rob Roscoe, all that stuff,

01:17 that's as iconic as the Rolling Stones tongue or something.

01:20 - He was super collaborative with everyone.

01:25 He knew how to make Tom Nox look like Tom Nox.

01:27 He knew how to let me be me,

01:29 even when I didn't even know who the (beep) I was.

01:32 These guys were punks.

01:33 They wanted the wild stuff,

01:34 and so I was right there for it.

01:36 - It's hard for an artist to work at times

01:41 when the business end of things is pushing and tugging

01:44 and due dates and deadlines.

01:46 I was losing ground and I just couldn't do it all.

01:49 (dramatic music)

01:52 - I thought it was all over.

01:57 I thought I had a month to live.

01:58 I didn't think I'd see the end of some of my projects.

02:01 - Happened so fast, there's no taking it for granted.

02:08 - Jim Phillips!

02:13 - He was giving skateboarding its identity.

02:18 - Jimmy was probably the most famous artist

02:21 that nobody ever knew.

02:23 (dramatic music)

02:26 (swooshing)

02:29 (clattering)

02:32 (slurping)

02:34 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Art and Life: The Story of Jim Phillips | movie | 2024 | Official Featurette

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