Vancouver’s infamous tunnel park is one of the best in the world. Could you just imagine if London had something as gnarly as this? Frank Shaw rips it to pieces in this new edit from Vagrant – oh, don’t forget Halloween is coming and you should know what goes down in this spot annually. If you don’t then watch this.
New footage of Sam Beckett alongside Alex Perelson, Nicky Guerrero, Bertrum Kirchert and more plus ridiculous over-vert skills from Rune Glifberg in his own backyard Denmark has been released overnight.
Hopps Skateboards have unleashed their Fall 2013 piece featuring Brian Clarke, Keith Denley, and Dustin Eggeling
Brad Cromer‘s Lo Fi part has been given the remix treatment by the Quartersnacks crew this week following his welcome to the pro ranks over at Krooked. If you missed that welcome edit, then head here after you have taken this in.
This year’s legal battle between Black Flag founder Greg Ginn and Keith Morris’ Flag band has finally come to an abrupt end with the courts ruling that Ginn does not have the rights to won the trademark on the band. Spin broke the news overnight with the following statement:
A judge found that: SST has no rights to the Black Flag copyright; Ginn has no special rights to any of the trademarks; neither Ginn nor the label gave a damn about copyrghts or trademarks until now; Rollins never quit Black Flag (!); fans are smart enough to know which band is which; and nobody tried to screw anybody over, so let’s all give it a rest.
Here’s what all of that looks like in legalese, via FLAG’s camp:
(1) the court found that SST had no rights in the trademarks;
(2) Ginn seemed to have no individual rights in the Black Flag trademarks;
(3) even if either had had any rights in those marks, they had abandoned those rights through a failure to police the mark for nearly 30 years;
(4) the defendants’ claim that the Black Flag assets were owned by a statutory partnership comprised of various former band members – even if these members only consisted of Henry and Ginn, based on (a) accepting Ginn’s argument that he never quit and given that there is no evidence or allegation that Henry ever quit – has merit;
(5) that even if the plaintiffs had some trademark claim in the marks, there was no likelihood of consumer confusion between Black Flag and Flag given the ample press coverage over the dispute; and
(6) the trademark application and registration that Henry and Keith made was done in good faith (e.g. not fraudulently) – and is thus not necessarily subject to cancellation – given that they understood their actions to have been done on the part of the Black Flag partnership (see No. 4, above).
It also looks like Black Flag’s original artist Ray Pettibon is backing Flag’s corner and has designed them a brand new t-shirt this week. This has a been a sad news story where money rules the roost once again. We hope we do not get to see any more of these cases in the future. Damaged indeed.
Ty Evans has released a new edit this week testing out the Phantom Flex4K camera. With capable speeds from 23.98 to over 1000fps at 4K, and up to 2000 fps at 2K pixel resolution you can imagine the type of quality that comes from the fruits of this shoot.
Click play for super slomo and incredible depth with skating from Brad McClain, Oscar Meza, Al Partanen, Arto Saari, Mason Merlino, Louie Lopez, Jordan Hoffart, Curren Caples, Tony Tave and many more.
Remember Dylan Rieder skating with Natas in the Team Average edit this summer? Well, here’s some slomo clips of Dylan from that edit.
French Fred’s archived tapes have unleashed a bunch of pool sessions from the 90s that have never been aired before. Get on this raw footage of Steve Alba, Rune Glifberg, Al Partanen, Arto Saari, Rick McCrank, Bob Burnquist, Omar Hassan and Ronnie Creager getting some.
Remember Gytis Bliuvas from our last Xmas Jam? He has unveiled a new park edit today filmed by his mate Arturas Jendovickis who also dropped new footage this month.
If you want some inspiration today get on this new interview with NYC skater Quim Cardona who discusses his near miss of being in the cast of the Kids film and much more. “No feeling, no skateboarding”.