February 09, 2007
The Strongest of the Strange
Euros up the ante in this artistic skate epic by Pontus Alv. Gorgeous soundtrack with plenty of 80's alternative classics. Worldwide terrain and styles -- street, tranny, junk, ditches, skateparks, plazas, DIY, allover everything. Good mix of media... film, DV, video, graphics. Savannaside mini docudrama. What else can you say about a skate flic that features Bukowski readings and full male frontal nudity? Not Jackass full male frontal nudity... strangely absurd full male frontal nudity.
...roll on to view it...
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February 01, 2007
Oregon Skatepark Pioneers
You gotta love Oregon if you are a skatepark addict. Plenty of great skate culture and a wide selection of open-access concrete playgrounds...
...roll on to part II...
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January 16, 2007
Burnquist Holy Sh!t
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January 11, 2007
R.I.P. Big O
Here's one of the coolest, longest running, not-built-to-skate-but-eminently-skateable structures in the world. It's like the world's tightest miniramp with elevator extensions to the world's tightest fullpipe. In Concrete. Gnarly with a BIG G.
Marc Tison, Barry Walsh and others at the "Big O": olympic stadium in Montreal. It's gone, as of Monday.
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December 30, 2006
Street of Consciousness
First & Hope
Nice basic street and spot stream of consciousness action in downtown Los Angeles with a cast of thousands... Anderson, Lotti, Karman, Baerwald, Hughes, Chatham, Howard, Berry, Johnson, Brezinski, Evans, Harada, Johnson, VanDusen, Greathouse, Carrol x2, Brewer, Appleyard, Dressen, Howell, Henry, Knox, Christopher, Hensley, Lorenza, Mountain, Schroeder, Barbee, Agah, Diaz, Pastras, Peterson, Rodriguez, Ladd, Edwards, Berra.
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December 20, 2006
American Infidel
...say you saw it here, 'cause that boy Tate, he ain't long for this world...
Yep, I've been watching too many skate vids and not doing enough of the real thing. Time to get crackin! (boards, not bones)
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Anybody know where...
...to find somebody with a trash pump and a few days to kill?
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December 17, 2006
Ultimate Time Slayer
Uh-oh.
...see you in a few weeks...
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Skateboard Kings
Let's crank some munch!
- Tony Alva
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November 03, 2006
The Way We Were
Yeah, it's another "back in the day" video post...
Lock up your sons and daughters... Here they come!
Skateboarders from Hell !
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August 29, 2006
The Devil's Toy
1960's Canadian Mocumentary:
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August 17, 2006
What's Your Name? Who's Your Daddy?
A double dose of Drehobl...
Yes... there's more...
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August 11, 2006
Black metal, grey concrete, white shoes
For some reason, I've never actually been able to hit the same lines at Burnside as TnT does. It must be my black kicks. Trujillo gets shot on his day off...
...stoled from StrangeNotes
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August 09, 2006
Following your buddy is tempting...
...what would you do?
Back in the day, skateboarding was really dangerous. Watch and learn as Mongo Lance follows "common sense safety pointers" and learns to "avoid foolish shortcuts". Many fun-filled hours lie ahead...
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August 01, 2006
Haslam and Song almost put some cheese on your crackers...
This here is some fine miniramp skating, y'all.
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July 27, 2006
Street Skating Defined
Here's a neat little clip from the Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade classic, Public Domain. An ersatz anthropologist makes some poignant observations about the "cult" of street skating, circa 1988.
"Here, in a clandestine observation, we see a roving band of skateboard cultists practicing obscure urban rituals amidst the cultural detritus of an abandoned manufacturing facility. How is that these cultists can derive pleasure from the seemingly insignificant, the debris of modern society?"
Want to see more? Go here.
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