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All Day
All Day is a 2006 Animal Bikes DVD filmed by Bob Scerbo, following Can I Eat? with raw New York street riding from Edwin DeLaRosa, Tom White and the team.
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All Day is a full-length video from Animal Bikes, released in 2006 and filmed by Bob Scerbo. It follows Can I Eat? and keeps that video's focus on raw street riding in New York, with sections from Edwin DeLaRosa, Vinnie Sammon, Tom White and the wider Animal team. Where Can I Eat? introduced the Animal style to a wide audience, All Day confirmed it, and the two videos together define the brand's reputation.
Background
In the two years after Can I Eat?, Animal had grown from a small New York parts company into one of the most recognised names in BMX street. The team expanded, the brand's reach went well beyond the East Coast, and the riding in Animal's videos and advertisements was being copied by street riders everywhere.
All Day was the chance to put that period on record. It was Animal's third video, after Animal (2002) and Can I Eat? (2004). Bob Scerbo again filmed, and much of the footage was shot at night on New York streets. The DVD runs about 40 minutes, with extras.
Contents and sections
All Day follows the structure of its predecessor: a run of rider sections with no narration and the sound of the street left in the footage. In running order, the sections are Tom White, Tyrone Williams, George Dossantos, Joe "Butcher" Kowalski, Steven Hamilton, Ruel "Wormz" Smith, Vinnie Sammon and Edwin DeLaRosa.
- Tom White. Opens the video.
- George Dossantos and Steven Hamilton. The two sections reviewers singled out when the DVD came out.
- Vinnie Sammon. Grind-heavy technical street riding, continuing from his section in Can I Eat?.
- Edwin DeLaRosa. The closing section, from the rider who also closed Can I Eat?, showing the same speed and line-based approach on new spots.
Bonus sections include a Chicago section and extra footage of Butcher. Guests such as Van Homan, Wiz and Stricker also appear. Scerbo is mainly behind the camera, though his own riding was praised in reviews of the video.
New York is still the base, and the riding is still built around pegs, ledges, rails and rough transitions found in the street rather than built for riding.
Standout parts
Edwin DeLaRosa's section is again the one most riders point to. By the time of All Day he was already one of the most respected street riders around, and the section shows why: consistent speed, careful spot selection and a refusal to slow down for the camera. Watching his sections in Can I Eat? and All Day back to back shows how his riding developed over the two years between them.
Scerbo's filming is also a standout. The look that he established in Can I Eat?, with handheld fisheye footage and natural sound, is more controlled here without losing its roughness, and it keeps the rider and the city in the same frame.
Impact and legacy
All Day came out while the DVD was still the main way riders saw footage, a few years before free online video took over. See the web edit era for how that transition unfolded.
Together with Can I Eat?, the video fixed what people mean by "Animal style" and, more broadly, by East Coast street riding. Pegs, brakeless or close to it, fast lines through rough spots and an indifference to contests became a recognisable school of riding, and All Day is one of its key documents. The rise of street riding to become the largest discipline in BMX was well under way by 2006, and Animal's videos were a large part of why.
Related
- Can I Eat?: Animal's 2004 video
- Animal Bikes
- Edwin DeLaRosa and Van Homan
- Street and the rise of street riding
- Web edit era: what came after the full-length DVD
Frequently asked questions about All Day
What is All Day?
All Day is a full-length video from Animal Bikes, released in 2006 and filmed by Bob Scerbo. It follows Can I Eat? (2004) and features the Animal team riding street, much of it at night in New York City.
How does All Day compare to Can I Eat?
The filming is more refined and the team had grown, but the approach is the same: raw street riding, city spots and no ramps. Many riders consider the two videos a pair.
Who filmed All Day?
Bob Scerbo, who also filmed and edited Animal's previous video, Can I Eat? (2004).
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