The Copenhagen Pro event this summer attracted thousands inclusing the Freestyle shop crew, Haunting Skateboards riders and Carve Wicked aficionado’s. This video blog has fun from many including Sam Pulley, Sox, Arbel Samsonov, Chav Dan, Jake Collins, Ben Devine, Lois Pendlebury and more.
Illustrator and Witchcraft honcho French has teamed up Dave Sweetapple from Tee Pee Records for a run of bespoke limited edition boards under the 1939 moniker.
“We work with the bands to make sure the artwork, shape etc is all really authentic to what the bands are about and engages with their personal links to skateboarding. For example the Earthless board is Mario’s own personal shape that he has on Assault Skateboards and the artwork was made by Alan Forbes for a tour poster and we adapted it to make sure it really worked with the shape of the board. The band had total input right down to choosing the veneer colours of the boards.”
These look rad, pre-orders are running from today here. Get yours before they are gone, these are limited to 200 only.
The Lords of the Swords teams have congregated this morning for a solid weekend of filming and tasks across Essex. Once the edits are ready we will bring you the video votes as usual. Lock up your daughters.
A new UK skateboard company called Blast Skates has launched from London this week. Matthew Bromley here shows you how the first 8.75″ Sidewalk Psycho decks are made and shredded. Visit www.blastskates.com for more.
Very strange to see why anyone would leave Flip Skateboards considering the support they give their riders but it seems as though all was not well with Greyson Fletcher who has been announced on the Element team this morning. Surprise move for sure.
Ph: Sebastiaan Vijverberg – Kickflip
The Bombaklats crew took a week out to skate Amsterdam and came back with a fresh edit.
A few Familia faces sessioned Berlin’s street spots for this latest edit. Footage of Shaun Witherup, Flex O’ Connor, Steph Morgan, Gary McNaughton in this, filmed by Andy Morgan.
Deathgrips have released a new track called ‘Birds’ that they posted overnight. Filled with metallic vocal stabs intense synth parts and dreamscape melodies their new nightmare soundtrack is an example of what the band have been working on in advance of 2014’s new album on their own imprint label.
Jackass skater Bam Margera woke up this morning in a Glasgow police station after being arrested last night at the Jury’s Inn hotel in Jamaica Street. Bam was with Eminem’s entourage and performed as a guest on Yelawolf’s set who was supporting Eminem’s headline show. He was charged for being a loud knob after trying to check in and finding his room was not booked, so he apparently threw a kiddie tantrum and then sinked some whisky before he got the bumhole and the fuzz were called.
“I had the pleasure of visiting Glasgow jail for 48 hours after performing with Yelawolf at an Eminem show. After that, I try to check into my hotel room. but they think i’m a street bum checking into a 4 Star Hotel and called the police. I got arrested for being loud in public. Halleluah!”
He was fined £500 at Glasgow Sheriff Court this morning. Good one.
Photo from the Scotsman.
Paul Parker is one of the UK’s very best illustrators in the UK and you will find him carving the transitions of Victoria Park regularly. This week he has a new Stone Age tee out on Volcom and a short video insight into how it was made, plus a shred at the local hole. If you crave more, scroll down for our Day in the Life video featue with him a while back, incredible works.