Flip pro and Danish skate master Rune Glifberg discusses the upcoming CPH Pro comp in advance of the European get together this summer.
Author: Zac
Antiz and Witchcraft Skateboards have unleashed that Fantomas character again this morning for the fun of it. Mask up and shred your local town to Death metal once in a while, you will forget about the recession in no time.
Irish film maker Phil Evans mailed us this morning to tell us that he is back this year with a new film a new Super 8 project titled Format Perspective. Following the wonderful documentary The Scrum Tilly Lush Evans returns with focus now on skate photography covering the passions and sessions of skate photographers in different countries.
The list of snappers that will be documented include Nils Svensson from Malmö, Stuart Robinson in Belfast, Alex Irvine in London, Dublin’s Richard Gilligan, Bertrand Trichet in Barcelona/Tokyo and Sergej Vutuc from Heilbronn in Germany. Look out for it this summer and go to www.formatperspective.com for more info.
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The High Five go Down Under
Randy Ploesser and Preston Harper represented The High Five in Australia this January. Watch the video below that documents their journey featuring guests such as Ben Raybourn, Aaron Jaws’ Homoki and the Death Skateboards crew from down under, Schooner, Rhys Grogan and Dean Palmer.
The decline of record sales worldwide due to to so called ‘fans’ downloading free music these days and not supporting the artists that pay for them, take time to make them and record companies paying for them has affected the music industry in a big way over the last 10 years.
This month Record Store Day will play its part in trying to alert people to go back into record stores to actually support their acts with many acts releasing special limited edition records in order to help. But the labels will be going one step further in May and actually setting up shop in the streets to shift some music. London’s Berwick Street in Soho will host the Independent Label Market on May 21st where various independent record companies will set up stalls and sell direct to people walking past in a market style setting.
Lables that are invoilved so far include Domino, Rough Trade, Bella Union, Tri-Angle, Merok, Angular Records, House Anxiety, Roundtable, Heavenly, Transparent, Weird World, R&S and Moshi Moshi. Look out for more to be added.
Find out more at independentlabelmarket.tumblr.com
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3 minutes with Joe Gavin
The Harmony’s Joe Gavin has some fresh street footage featuring his switch skills online this morning from Etnies which also has couple of awesome Barney Page cameo tricks.
Watch it below and if you want more from Joe then click here.
Portrait: Joel Peck
Toy Machine’s Johnny Layton gets the home documentary treatment this week and shows off his Dad’s red mustang, his Dad’s coffee pot, a collection of decks, some pugs, a basketball hoop and proves he is also artistically inept by wasting $2000 on a really crap painting.
This video is like one of those ‘day in the life’ edits but he doesn’t actually leave the house or an MTV Cribs but without anything interesting going on. No doubt there will be a queue of girls waiting outside every time he leaves the house, all probably after …his Dad.
The Beastie Boys have unleashed a short film teaser for their new album coming for May featuring Elijah Wood, Will Ferrell, Seth Rogen and Jack Black. Humorous? Yes of course, it’s the Beasties.
See the ‘Fight For Your Right Revisited‘ short here and see for yourself.
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Skateboards made of mirrors
Skateboards made from mirrors are now available on the internet for those vain enough to want to wake up and look at their own mugs on a deck. Buy one from here.
What do you do when your City has just been rumbled by an earthquake other than help others around you to get back to normal first? You skate the transitions that have been left from the natural disaster itself of course.
Watch this footage of local skaters in Christchurch, New Zealand who are putting the street cracks to good use out there.