Keen Distribution roll out a brand new skateboard company today made up of Thomas Harrison, Joshua Young, Danijel Stankovic and David Mackey. Watch this introducing video and visit www.thenationalskateboardco.com for more.
Introducing The National Skateboard Company. from The National Skateboard Company on Vimeo.
Slayer are not pissing around this Xmas. They know where it’s at when it comes to beating the winter freeze with the release of these brand new Christmas jumpers on sale for £49.99. Oh, and they even have the audacity to have a thrash filled pack of playing cards on the go too for those family gin rummy moments at the dinner table when you are snowed in this December.
If you were at the Pretty Sweet UK premiere last night you may have ended up back at the Hoxton Hotel where you will find some treats hanging on the walls. For the next three weeks, the hotel will host Never Mind The Art Dump, an exclusive art show brought to you by Crossfire and Form Distribution.
Never Mind The Art Dump is showcasing iconic posters of the Girl & Chocolate Film Archives, re-interpreted versions of those posters, as well as exclusive skateboard decks and 8 brand new prints from their new feature, ‘Pretty Sweet’. This work will run from Tuesday November 20th through to December 7th at The Hoxton Hotel, 81 Great Eastern St, London, EC2A 3HU and is free entry. Prints from the show will be available to purchase soon. Look out for details.
From Mouse to Goldfish, Yeah Right, Fully Flared and now Pretty Sweet, Spike Jonze’s work has graced skateboarders screens since 1992 with some of the most iconic skateboard videos ever made. This exhibition, allows visitors to revisit some of skateboarding’s classical moments made up of The Art Dump‘s most creative work force.
The Art Dump is the name tagged to a team of like-minded creative misfits who work under the same flat roof in Torrance, California. They are, essentially, The Girl Skateboard Company’s full-time art department. The veteran, Andy Jenkins (Bend Press) uses his title as art director loosely. He considers the crew a co-op and lets it operate that way, with each artist bringing their own unique, individual vision to the Girl brands.
The current team roster includes: Eric Anthony (The High Desert), Hershel Baltrotsky (Art Raffle), Jeremy Carnahan, Michael Coleman (Michael Coleman Studio), Christian Morin (M District), Andy Mueller (The Quiet Life & Ohio Girl), and Chris Waycott.
That is the simplest way you can break down the Art Dump, though it’s not really that simple, for each of these people has a myriad of interests, talents and mediums. As a group, and individually, they work in both commercial and non-commercial worlds. Sometimes these worlds collide and that is where the Art Dump’s collaborative projects exist — amidst the rubble and question marks of a crash site of graphics and fine art.
There are others who flow in and out of the Dump, offering their own abilities from time to time and working in the collaborative environment with the core group. Those include: Spike Jonze, Evan Hecox, Lori Damiano, Thomas Campbell, Rick McCrank, Brian Anderson, Marc Johnson, Brad Staba, Andrew Pommier, and Edith Abeyta. Alumni of the Art Dump include: Rob Abeyta Jr., Bucky Fukumoto, Johannes Gamble, Bob Kronbauer, Tony Larson, Michael Leon, Kevin Lyons, Geoff McFettridge, Jordan Mitchell, and Misato Suzuki.
Visit the Hoxton, grab one of their incredible burgers and a beer and enjoy what’s on show.
It looks like the new Flo Skatepark in Nottingham is ready to be sessioned this Saturday with Element team riders present to open it officially. Have a look around courtesy of this video that has surfaced today.
Los Angeles airwaves were taken over by UK skaters this week when FOS fm braodcast its latest radio show. Blueprint’s Paul Shier, Sylvian Tognelli and Nick Jensen came in as guests to play tunes and talk mates, so hit the play button for the goods.
Jarne Verbruggen, Manny Lopez and friends are currently residing in Barcelona testing their party steez on the locals. Here’s their video postcard with Chris Olivier, Douwe Macaré and many more having a laugh.
Real street spots, downhill in German terrain. Watch Benny Fairfax, Philipp Schuster, Lem Vellemin, Albert Nyberg, an many more Bomb The Line in Berlin.
The final 45 tickets for Girl and Chocolate Skateboards’ brand new video ‘Pretty Sweet’ are now online at £6 each. Get them quick as they will go like hot cakes. Girl and Chocolate team riders Raven Tershy, Elijah Berle, Rick Howard, Cory Kennedy, Vincent Alvarez and Stevie Perez will be in attendance on the night.
The film starts at 5.45pm, hosted by Form Distribution and Crossfire. You will need to be in the venue well in advance to take your seat. You will also be asked politely to hand in your phones and any other recordable devices on entry. You will be able to retrieve these after the film.
Tickets can be bought from here. Look out for a comp to win a deluxe boxset, full set up and much more next week PLUS daily random swag on our Facebook and Twitter pages this week.
Rollersnakes’ Vault gets rinsed by the A Third Foot team this week courtesy of Ryan Price, Andy Coleman, Dave Pegg, Adam Keys and Doug McLaughlan.
Sidewalk have started to release full sections from their ‘In Progress’ DVD this week. Ryan Gray’s project will all be online over the coming week or so. Look out for Ben Raemers, Harry Lintell, Conhuir Lynn, Nicky Howells, Tom Harrison, Mark Baines, Nick Remon, Ben Nordberg, Chris Jones, Denis Lynn and more soon.