Skateboard films try to make something new by traveling to weird locations or having cool backdrops but it's rare to actually get something new to skate on.
While there have been some inventive places put on screen, like in Red Bull Perspective – A Skateboard Film, where skaters slide and glide at a waterpark, most are done on concrete with cool backdrops, not frozen sand on a remote beach in northern Norway.
In the wistful first section, the clarinet plays dreamy musings against the cool, contemplative backdrop of the orchestra, scored for just strings, harp and piano.
The would-be cityscape is replaced by the artist with a cool green backdrop, which focuses the viewer's gaze on the figures.
At the time of the Royal Wedding of William and Catherine, then-Ambassador to the US Nigel Sheinwald and his wife Julia arranged for really tough-to-get premium label whiskeys and liqueurs as well as a cool photo backdrop so that guests could get souvenir pics making it look like they were 'there.' It will be interesting to hear what the Embassy arranges for the Queen's big cheer tonight.
I think it will be a backdrop for cool, highbrow events in the future, and I've spotted people like Mary J. Blige, Ashanti and Damon Dash there.
As it turned out, the architecture of the cave is plenty distinguished — it's a cool and elegantly proportioned backdrop for the art, but it's powerful in its own right.
The original version of this song seems like a tune best fit for the airwaves of a low-lit, underground nightclub, but maybe that's just because the video features the French pop star singing into a microphone against a red backdrop (with cool looking x-ray lighting effects).
Since the attacks, German and American diplomats have also been struggling over issues of antiterrorism cooperation, against a backdrop of cooler German-American relations, with American perceptions that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder took an anti-American stance in his recent re-election campaign.
