Rewind back to early years of the millenium to Cardiff with a whole host of reprobates shredding the indoor park. Look out for Lee Dainton, Ben Leyden, Grim, Churchill, Howard Cooke, Flynn Trotman, Paul Carter, Dan Wileman, Pitter, Stalker, Chewy Cannon, Wainwright, Habgood and many more. Gold has been found right here.
This short film by Boston skater Dillon Buss just won the Most Creative award at the film and photography competition Connect The Dots. Four skaters get detention and drift off into dream scenes paying homage to Gonz, tripping on evolution, grinding tree trunks and cruising as superheroes.
Buss has a history for directing and producing the most fun concepts for videos so sit back and take this in. The black and white sequence in this is beautiful and worth its weight alone. Enjoy.
Ph: Alex Gavin / Feeble in Montreal
It’s been another great year for French filmaker and photographer Fred Mortagne. He features in a new video today discussing shooting black and white film and his own way of capturing what he sees through his lens.
Enjoy this second montage from the Albion video featuring Tom Knox, Jerome Campbell, Nick Jensen, Mike Arnold, Josh Cox, Neil Smith, Rob Smith, Div, Many Lopez and many more. It’s the DVD that does not stop giving.
Ph: Harry Lintell / nollie flip
The European arm of the Volcom fam hit the road through Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Mexico, L.A. and Arizona in this epic new 7 minute travel edit. Those who made the tip include Axel Cruysbergs, Eniz Fazliov, Daan van der Linden, Harry Lintell, Alain Goikoetxea and many more alongside Ben Raemers, Aaron Suski, Dane Burman, Alec Majerus, Louie Lopez and more.
Get the teas on for this.
This Saturday 13th December will see the second Yah Bru flick premiered at Mile End’s Parlour skate shop in London. Last year’s production cut fresh from the boozed up streets of the capital was fun times and saw Irish Steve (Crawford), Brendan Ryall, Michael Daley, Mark Brewster and more old buddies of ours shredding locally and falling off for fun.
Get your mince pies into this trailer and get down there for a few bevvies and smiles.
Wight Trash have uploaded the Beckys Toys scene video shot back in 1989/90 filmed in the car parks and streets of the Isle of Wight with John Cattle and co. This comes with Wedding Present, Dinosaur Jr and That Petrol Emotion tunes used as soundtracks and sums up a long lost but never forgotten era in skateboarding so well. Supermarket skate bullying as an ender too, such innocence!
“This was our first video and it somehow got all the way around the country. We were told in the years to come that skaters had seen it as far away as scotland. We didn’t know a copy had left the island.” – Cattle
Antihero have uploaded their Fucktards video online for your viewing pleasure. Released on VHS back in 1997, this promo shot by Tobin Yelland on Hi-8 and Super 8 cameras even features a part from Bob Burnquist alongside Eric J, John Cardiel, Julien Stranger and Sean Young and that infamous puke scene.
Get the teas on for this, and if you want more, get some of their new Destination Unknown video.
With skateboarding becoming so corperate now that some of the new breed have become incapable of even smiling, it’s down to the old guard to bring the goof. Marc Johnson has Louie Barletta down for SOTY 2014, who is yours?
Our vote for Skater of the Year 2014, Ben Raemers is Mechanically Recovered today in this new Volcom montage edit featuring a bunch of archived, unseen footage filmed for the brand over the last seven years. Hail the all terrain Essex destroyer.
If you missed our interview with him this year then follow your nose.