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God knows what Gilbert Crockett has up his sleeve for his part in the new Vans video that is being stitched together as we type this, but for now, enjoy his section in this latest flick from Virginia’s streets: Old Dominion. Order the DVD from here. As you would expect, Gilbert smashes it and takes Skate Edit of the Week.
Timmy Garbett has unleashed a sick fast-flowing scene edit filmed at the Devonshire Green skatepark in Sheffield over the summer. Click play for footage of Ben Broyd, Shaun Currie, Dan Beall, Joe Marks, Matlok Bennett Jones, Timmy Garbett, Ronny Calow and many more. So good.
Part 4 of the Flip Eurodyssey tour is live with footage from the Bomb The Line comp in Berlin and a few tricks at Tottenham’s concrete hell hole with ex flip rider Greyson Fletcher and latest pro Louie Lopez.
I remember traveling from London to see this Fugazi show at the Metropolitan University on May 15th 1995. Today, the full recording made up of 37 tracks has been made available through Dischord’s Live Series. Download it from here now for $5 and send this to others you know from the area.
Think it’s cold here in the UK right now? Check out Karsten Kleppan‘s voyage to Spitsbergen, Norway in this new Element production where amidst the waters of the Arctic Ocean on the island of Spitsbergen lies the northernmost miniramp in the world.
Element Wolfeboro Authentech – Spitsbergen, Norway from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.
The first screening of Jono Atkinson’s Over Ply Wood documentary featuring the history of the Swansea skate scene will be hosted at the Kitchen Table Cafe in Mumbles on Sunday 3rd November at 5.30pm. There are limited spaces for this screening so get a ticket as soon as you can from Exist Skate Store at 214, Oxford Street, Swansea SA1 3BG. Space is tight in the cafe so entry will be with ticket only.
We will bring you the full movie and a feature on how this was all put together soon.
Watch highlights from this weekend’s Vans Shop Riot finals with Black Sheep’s team taking the honours at the Works Skatepark in Leeds. Rob Smith’s ender with this ridiculous blunt will have you hitting the rewind button. Ridic.
The Pretty Sweet tour in the US has been unleashed on film this week featuring so many faces from Girl and Chocolate that we cannot be buggered to list them. Top quality, fun driven malarkey guaranteed. Dive in.
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As skateboarders we all know that we have to pay to play. From an early age of pushing down the street, hopping off curbs and learning how to ollie, Pain is something that we universally understand as an end result of wrong doing. Japanese artist Haroshi has shipped his own pain to London this week, showcasing his personal affliction and questioning what pain is within a stunning selection of new exhibition pieces featured exclusively at the StolenSpace gallery in East London.
Haroshi’s trademark art recycles skateboard decks in intricate form. Each sculpture is made from tiny mosaic pieces of deck ply that are cut with a Japanese carving knife, glued together and heavily polished to form exquisite end products. Some take a few weeks to complete, others take up to 4 months depending on the various concaves needed to perfect each structure, but once they are prepped, the artist inserts a piece of metal inside each object to give them a distinct sense of life acting as a soul, only visible via x-rays.
His self-taught ways of cutting old decks into incredible art pieces have handed him worldwide recognition over the last decade. His incredible workmanship has attracted collectors worldwide who exchange thousands of dollars to own his work and by the time we had arrived to this show on Saturday, only one remaining sculpture awaited a lucky new owner.
From the smaller broken finger pieces to the monstrous A Vulture Waits For The Dead montage at the head of the gallery, seeing ‘Pain’ in the flesh is simply mind blowing and highly recommended. This gallery feature is for the many skaters around the UK that are unable to travel to London to see this exhibition for themselves. If you are nearby, witness it for yourself before the show ends on the 3rd November at StolenSpace gallery on 17 Osborn Street, London, E1 6TD.
Get down there and take this in, you will not regret it.
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Our friend Momo (Laurent Molinier) from Bud Skateshop in Marseille has roilled out a demo edit from recent good times in the South of France. Take in various Marseille parks (but not the Prado bowl) and street spots in this new edit with skating from Momo, Nicolas Santiago, Samy Idrissou, Vincent Lamourelle, Karim Chérif, Pierre Hoarau, Fred Ploix and Bastien Salabanzi.