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The Vans Crossfire Egg Hunt 2014!

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Welcome to this year’s Egg Hunt in association with two of skateboarding’s giants, Vans and Independent Trucks. They have joined forces for an exclusive apparel and footwear collection this month and will be sending one lucky winner a package of goodness next week as an Easter gift.

What do you have to do?

See that egg below? It’s hidden in one of the articles on this very website. If you manage to find it, then head to our contact page to register the URL of the exact page where the egg is hidden. On Tuesday, we will randomly pick a winner from those who found it and announce who takes home the swag.

Where can you get more free Vans this weekend?

Our friends at Black Sheep on 59, Church Street in Manchester have hidden a specific ‘Vans sticker’ somewhere in their store randomly over this Easter weekend. Our friends at Consortium in Bournemouth have also hidden a specific ‘creme egg’ in their store too. Visit the shops, find the swag, hand them in over the counter and they will give you info on how to claim your free Vans shoes!

Good luck and happy hunting!

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Skrimp Life video trailer

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Get hyped on a video that we have been anticipating for some time now as Xavien Francis’ ‘Skrimp Life‘ video is on it’s way and looking amazing. This London crew have been out there filming this for a while now and with various offcuts online already as tasters, this trailer should whet the appetite for the full flick.

Expect appearances from Kyron Davis, Josh Cox, Manny Lopez, Daryl Dominguez, Ben Rowles, Daniel West, Douwe Macare, Jack West, Christopher Mann, Conor Charleson, Evan Knight, Anton Kastritskiy, Will Miles, Kilian Zehnder, Hector Barnett, Caspar Barnett, Louis Pascoe, Nathan Sutherland, Casey Brown, Ollie Gregory and many more very soon.

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Quartersnacks — K.T.B.D.K.O.N.Y. Remix

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Quartersnacks took Kevin Tierney and Black Dave‘s footage from the “King of New York” video and whipped up a new remix version today. Get stuck into this and then watch the original with Westgate and co.

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Chris Atherton presents Slugtrails

chris_atherton-avi-skateRain or shine Chris ‘Avi’ Atherton can be found in the back street and parks of Accrington self-filming his next web part for your viewing pleasure.

There’s no stone unturned, no bench or edge too big for a session for this ‘skate geezer’. Get your mince pies into his latest Slugtrails edit and remember that the basics are all you need for a good time, every time.

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Jim Greco Deathwish part remix

When this part dropped last year the internet stopped and gawked at what just happened. This week, Jim Greco’s Deathwish part has been under the knife for a remix and the results are splendid. Get these hammers down you today that have been prepared alongside The Velvet Underground’s ‘Heroin’ track and look forward to four days off to try and get your own shit up to this standard.

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“blueberry” – Superb

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Now that ‘cherry’ has dropped off the tree it was only natural for a parody to appear at some point. Skate Talk’s Bob Altamirano and a cast of friends that include Chris Segura, Kevin Meneses and many more make up the slick living Superb team, and have made their own version of events titled “blueberry” backed by MECHACHIEF’s music.

Enjoy.

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Cloud Nothings

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‘Here and Nowhere Else’
(Wichita)

cloud_nothings_here_and_nowhere_else_sleeve_artOver the last few years, Ohio’s Cloud Nothings have built a reputation for raw Sub Pop style punk rock with quality tunes and plenty of youthful hunger. This is the follow-up to 2012’s excellent ‘Attack On Memory’ (produced by a certain Steve Albini, no less), and an indicator that Cloud Nothings aren’t mellowing with age (thank goodness).

Certainly, the likes of ‘Quieter Today’ and ‘Giving Into Seeing’ belt along with typical effervescence; singer/guitarist Dylan Baldi sounding increasingly unnerved as the pace quickens. A more melodic side comes to the fore on ‘Just See Fear’ and ‘Psychic Trauma’, which start with a languid Dinosaur Jr-esque jangle, but manage to grow some pretty fearsome musical teeth along the way.

It seems appropriate that, around the 20th anniversary of Mr Cobain’s sad demise, Cloud Nothings are marrying plaid-shirt melodies and fuzzed-up guitar noise in a way that frequently doffs its cap to Seattle’s finest, yet also injects fresh vitality into old sounds. Oh, and they’re great live too.

Alex Gosman

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GETRAD – Another Every Other

If you watch this GETRAD video and realise you are not smiling by the end of it, then you should consider getting a scooter or just dumping your time on a skateboard for fashion parties instead.

THIS IS FUN.

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Arto Saari – Let Us Roam documentary

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Flip’s Arto Saari discusses his upbringing in the town of Seinajoki, Finland before discovering skateboarding and photography in the ongoing series Let Us Roam from Leica.

Get inspired.

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Neal Unger, the 60 year old skateboarder

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Age is just a number. Skateboarding is just a pleasure. If there was any civil response to the Telegraph’s awful blog feature on ‘How Old Is Too Old To Skateboard‘, this answers it head on.

Neal Unger is a 60 year old skateboarder who took up skating and is enjoying his life shredding. Some would see this as being weird, but for us, this is the best news ever. If we are all still rolling at 60 we should thank our lucky stars that we never listened to the haters, the people who believe that this fun should be for a certain age group. It’s for everyone. Never let anyone tell you to give up the things that you love as you will never replace it.

Enjoy this…

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