New skateboard company Pariah Skateboards have announced that new flow riders Dave Davies and Jon Minta have now joined their ever growing team list. Pariah currently has welcomed Lee Blackwell, Austen Seaholm, Craig Smedley, Amir Williams, David ‘Doh Doh’ Rosen Oakley Liddell, Liam ‘Danish’ Palmer.
If you came down to the Art Dump show at the Hoxton Hotel back in November for the launch of the Pretty Sweet gallery, you may remember seeing these exclusive art prints on the walls as the main exhibition pieces. Girl and Chocolate are about to issue a full deck series and t-shirt series for all of these. Look out for them on your travels as they will be collectors items looking back in years to come.
We received Scott Bourne‘s newly released novel in the post yesterday (thanks to Carharrt) and cannot wait to get some downtime to induldge its content.
If you are not aware of Scott, he is one skateboarding’s most interesting characters who took to the road to find his own space on this planet. We all seek something different and Scott’s tale, “A Room With No Windows” is his story of growing up as a skater, fucking up, pushing the system to its limits and looking back on it in another era.
Check out this retrospective video by David Coulilau released by Slap last night for more info and look out for this book, as it is guaranteed to be one hell of a story.
Jarne Verbruggen is the latest Element rider to unleash a teaser ahead of the releae of their full length video that is incoming called “Hold It Down”. Press play for some behind the scenes shots of what’s coming from him.
Bristol’s skater owned shop Fifty Fifty have joined forces with the Diamond Supply Co for a limited edition Capsule Collection. This collab has been in the works for the last 5 years when Wainwright met Nicky Diamond outside the infamous Max Fish bar in NYC and now the fruits have blossomed into reality.
The graphic was designed by Gavin Strange who designed this Crossfire webiste you are viewing right now. His work alongside art direction from Fifty Fifty co-founder Danny Wainwright formed the new graphic you see in this collab.
Visit the Fifty Fifty Store to view the series.
It looks like Mike D and Ad-Rock are to tell the Beastie Boys story in a new book that is said to be in the works for 2015. Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House will be publishing their memoirs edited by hip-hop journalist Sacha Jenkins.
It is said that the book was underway before the unfortunate death of soul-mate MCA aka Adam Yauch last May but the remaining members have reignited their interest now in completing it.
Cian Eades section in Jart’s ‘All You Need’ video has been re-edited this week. Click play for footage filmed in Ireland, England and a bunch of absolute bangers in mainland Europe.
The new edition of Pixels features Dan Wileman in Costa Rica plus Joxa and the BEAR in the west country. Click for beer metal.
Pixels Episode 16 from Pixels on Vimeo.
Alex Hill was one of the many who were throwing themselves down the stair comp at the Almost demo back in January. Here’s four minutes of raw UK street skating from our unsponsored pick of the week. Send us yours.
Despite the rain showers that got in the way the Emerica team managed to pull off a successful demo at a wet Mile End for a packed house on Saturday evening following a signing session at Parlour. Watch this crowd-cam footage from Hal Woodhouse and Parlour’s official edit.
Photo: Andrew Reynolds pops a fs half cab flip from the Emerica instagram.