Watch: Former’s New VIdeo, ‘Plastic Bottle Service’

Jake Anderson, Myles Strampello, Austyn Gillette, and featuring Gelek Gonzalez in a new skateboarding film by Former.

While others are ordering bottle service on yachts in Miami, we’re out here ordering plastic bottles filled with god knows what on some sketchy boat in Thailand, and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s on these scrappy trips that the magic really happens.  Far from the niceties that turn your body to veal and push inspiration to the side. - Austyn Gillette.

Oh, what a thing, a new skate video. Something new for me to watch while avoiding tax collectors and all those women' I’ve fathered children with and then abandoned. I am grateful for any escape from the world I live in, and am more than grateful for Plastic Bottle Service for pulling me into something good rather than my usual pastime, throwing coins at children. In addition to frontside flip switch manny’s, which this video does contain, I am a fan of anything in which two of my friends fist fight in a pool, and honestly, if this whole skateboarding phase doesn’t pan out, I hope to be able to move to Thailand - wealthy, bloated, a fiend - saunter over to my local kickboxing/opium den with my bride - a Former (get it?) prostitute from former Yugoslavia - and catch a match between a now-befuddled, aged, saggy Jake Anderson and Austyn Gillette as they inflict concussions upon each other. That’s love, all around.

All of this to say, watch the video, and then buy the limited edition photo book that accompanies it containing imagery from the filming trips by Ryan Allan and Dakota Mullins, which you can catch a sneak peek of below.

Filmed by: Geoff Browne, Leon Moss

Edited by: Geoff Browne & Austyn Gillette

Photos by: Ryan Allan, Dakota Mullins

Music by : Swans, Sonic Youth, Ylang Ylang

Produced by: FORMER