Video Days is a skateboarding video by Blind Skateboards released in 1991. It is considered one of the most influential skate videos, as director Spike Jonze's format has continued to be the definitive template for most skate videos.
Video Days is the first movie/video directed by Spike Jonze and stars Mark Gonzales, Rudy Johnson, Jason Lee, Guy Mariano and Jordan Richter. Legendary professional skateboarder Danny Way was briefly on Blind Skateboards from 1990-1991 and shot some footage for Video Days. However, he soon quit Blind, returning to his original team H-Street Skateboards and his footage for Video Days was omitted. A brief shot of Way can be seen during Mark Gonzales' part in this video.
Jason Lee's impromptu song at the end of his Video Days part caught the attention of Clerks director Kevin Smith, who would later cast Lee in Smith's follow-up film Mallrats, thus launching Lee's acting career. The end of the video featured a stunt car crash that was portrayed as containing the team. The credits then roll, with each team member shown in slow motion, with "(birthdate-1991)" under the name of each skater. Although not intended to be serious, at the time, many people thought the team had actually died.
Video Days is shown playing in the background during a scene in the film Kids.
The soundtrack includes many types of music, including grunge, jazz, pop and punk.
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