That looks so sick! Just how tall can a human be?! I know it’s 16", but still… 
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I find the seat to wheel ratio comical.
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A 16" wheel is ridiculously small. It makes everything look unpropotional. I am not particularly tall, but needed a 500 mm seatpost just to ride it properly.
I guess people are just not used to seeing a 16" and are projecting 20" proportions to it.
And yeah, I think the seat might actually be longer than the wheel diameter!! 
You have a point, there. I ride a 16" maybe once a year, and I’ve never ever ridden one with a long seatpost. Riding them like this looks way cooler, in my opinion, and I can prove it:
That smirk says it all! 
Now to ride any distance I gladly take the long seatpost…
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I am looking forward to see that! 
In case you don’t have 45s laying around, 75s might also work in a pinch. 89 mm hardly get you anywhere.
„any distance“ starts at about 50 meters, in this case… 
that should be doable with any cranks that are short enough not to touch the ground when you‘re pedaling.
After getting used to 29“ (didn’t yet have the 36“ back then) I wasn‘t very happy with the 20“ I brought along for my holidays, so a 16“ isn‘t at the top of my wish list. But once a year I thoroughly enjoy the ridiculousness of riding such a uni.
Well that went off topic quite spectacularly…
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I applogise unreservedly, as I feel like I started this madness. 
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I hope you like the tyre. I like it† but I mainly used it for crusing around, such as on that trip in Iceland and also a little light muni (it has minimal grip but the thickness was nice for swallowing bumps). Quite different perhaps from your plans in a skatepark.
† I say this and yet I gave it away to @PedalSprell but that is because he was running his 24 with the baldest tyre you have ever seen and I felt sorry for his uni.
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This picture is typical or you. Totally different cranks and at all kinds of angles. 
P.S. If you could take that unicycle outside, ride it around and then take another picture of it we could get this thread back on topic.
While not taken on the ride itself (picture taken just now). This is the unicycle I used to commute to work on today. Hopefully this is “close enough” that I get this thread back on topic
That is Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tyre on the uni because it is icy as f**k outside today. The bridge across to my work is like a skating rink. Indeed most of the pedetrians walking over it do a little shuffle/skate movement to get over safely. Really they should use a unicycle like this… it’s much safer!
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What is the length of those cranks?
115mm but the angle perhaps makes them look shorter. Normally I would ride 100s on this uni but I have been shifting around cranks a lot of late and this is what I ended up with and I figured… “close enough”. 
One of thise cranks might be the same crank featured in the background of @PedalSprell’s torker uni above. I did lend them to him for a while. Indeed that is part of the reason I ended up with things getting shifted around. I lent him half my cranks recently. He has been experimenting with different setups. This in the end lead to the craziness of us buying 45mm cranks. You see… it is all connected!
EDIT: LOL @JH33, you even commented to me in that thread. It really is all connected.
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Actual picture from my latest ride, just now. I stopped to take this. The ground is not wet. That is a thin layer of sheet ice.
To be honest it was more scary finding a way to safely dismount and take this picture than it was cycling on it.
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All the ice has finally rained away, but this evening it was so cold that the wet ground started to freeze in the slopes. Luckily @ruari lent me a studded tyre.
Also, when heading towards the steepest slope around my neighborhood this guy warned me it was so slippery he could hardly walk up. I did not feel particularly lucky today so I thanked him a lot and turned back again. 
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I love that you are cycling this setup all the time now and normalising it.
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It would be the height of ridiculousness if you could somehow mount a T-bar and disc brake on that.
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I‘d love to see that! That, plus a Schlumpf hub. And don‘t forget the cyclo computer (with cadence measurement).
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I think this would be the answer to the high-ratio geared hubs recently discussed on other threads
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