All Aboard is a stunning new film documenting a bunch of friends temporarily living the vagrant life hopping trains from Florida to California and tearing up the streets on their journey. Accompanying the good warm days are the luxuries a tramp cannot afford, sleeping rough in urban landscapes can only bring vulnerable sleepless nights.
Watch the life affirming trailer below.
All Aboard – Official Trailer from Shoulda Danished on Vimeo.
This week Caste released this edit of Nate Pezzillo to promote their latest collab with Traffic Skateboards, the edit also commemorates Nate’s new addition to the Traffic team.
Definitely one to feed the morning stoke right before you push out the door.
CASTE x TRAFFIC – Nate Pezzillo from Caste Quality on Vimeo.
Deathwish AM Taylor Kirby shows he is fully lit in this new KR3W clip. Top dollar.
The ever busy Get Lesta crew have rolled out some Will Golding footy for your viewing pleasure whilst they film their next full length. Get yourself tied up in Nottz (and Barcelona) with cameos from Kelley Dawson, Kris Vile, and James Bush.
Unseen footage from Virginia’s Bust Crew were posted overnight leftover from their ‘Brick’ flick…
This is part one, expect more.
Sometimes there’s no worse sight that to see a classic spot being removed – unless it’s by skaters, as opposed to the man. When the Spitfire crew heard that the classic Cardiel Rail in Union Square, San Francisco was going to be cut down, they decided to do it themselves making sure that rail, 5050’ed in TWS’ Sight Unseen video was given back to the man that owns it.
Brilliant.
Here’s the full flick:
The good folk at SoleTechnology, the company behind the Etnies brand, have spent the last 29 years researching and developing skateboard shoes. This maybe longer than your entire existence, but they have never seemed to tire in their quest to lead the way in skate shoe technology. If you look back to the beginning of this impressive reign it’s easy to remember that they pretty much invented the traditional skate shoe look, that has evolved over the years.
Now in 2015, the scene has changed tenfold, with the intrusion of transnational sports brands dominating technological developments in skateboarding. Independent skate shoe companies have had to dig even deeper to provide not only ground breaking, unique designs, but to also produce high quality products on a par with these sports giants who have pioneered the lightest and toughest materials for those who want to break records.
Knowing that SoleTech have spent more hours since 1986 prepping these materials than you’ve probably spent skating streets, the flame could not have been passed to a better team to give the ‘athletes’ a run for their money In the Jameson SC, that flame should hopefully torch some sense into those who think that funding sports brands and allowing money to leave the skate scene is acceptable.
I must be honest here and admit that when Etnies started bringing out The Scout and similar sports-looking skate shoes, my heart sank somewhat. They looked from here like they were designed for non-skaters. I personally chose skateboarding to avoid mainstream sports and the tracksuit-clad knobheads who liked beating up skaters for fun in my local area. I certainly had no desire to dress like them. Skateboarding was, and still is unique; or is it anymore? Sports brand culture has infected the scene so badly that even skate shoe companies have had to re-address the balance of their designs to compete with the onslaught, but Etnies have brought their usual class to the table, spun my head with their use of man made materials and delivered Supreme Comfort to my feet like I’ve never felt before. Yeah, it sounds crazy but these shoes are like walking in space.
So the question is, can you skate in them? These arrived in the post for review the day before a weekend camping and skating trip. I took one look at the sole and immediately packed a pair of vulcs to skate in, as the foam-like undercarriage didn’t look they would cope with griptape whatsoever, but I was so wrong. They stuck perfectly allowing me to move freely on a cruise and suddenly skateboarding felt totally different for the first time ever. Another first was feeling a breeze in 28′ heat through the breathable mesh. These were the happiest feet I’ve had skating in years. I’m not sure if they would last forever if you skate daily and love your flip variations, but to cruise around in, they were perfect. Like any other skate shoe, the mesh is durable, but no shoe lasts forever if you are out there pounding it. Saying that, your heels feel well protected in the Jameson SC as there’s an inch of STI foam built in to assist the impact; technology that SoleTech are very well known for.
The Jameson has always been my favourite Etnies shoe as it’s a proper chiller, being simple in its design and one of their best sellers. It was never a ‘sports shoe’, but this version that mixes parts of The Scout, feels like what I’d imagine a sports shoe to feel like. That’s if you can remember they are actually on your feet, as they are seriously lightweight. Perfect to chuck in your bag for a trip and ideal for wearing after a session to give your feet some much needed loving. There are no rules to say you even need laces in them thanks to lycra spandex tongue straps inside the shoe. It holds together well and allows great movement too.
The greatest part of skateboarding is that us skateboarders don’t have or need rules as such, we all set foot on a deck for the first time with only one simple code of honour: that we support skater owned. One day, when skateboarders wake up and remember that worldwide, they will hopefully thank Etnies for being there; for caring about skateboarding and spending every minute of their day thinking about your feet.
Zac
Raw footage filmed for the Static III video in London has been released by Theories Josh Stewart overnight and is an 8 minute gem:
“After staring at a towering inferno of literally 21 external hard drives lining my desk in the TOA office and 15 drawers full of DV and hi-8 tapes, it hit me that there’s roughly 25 years of footage just growing stale in this office. A lot of it having never been seen or countless other angles and second, third and fourth makes that never saw the light of day. So, I opened up the filing cabinets last week and started logging footage. The first tape I pulled out was from the summer of 2006 when we spent 3 months in London to film for the Static III video. One of the most amazingly productive summers I’ve ever had filming. As I started to build out a timeline from just a few tapes I realized it wouldn’t be right unless I captured everything from the entire trip. So a 5 minute timeline quickly turned into a 25 minute feature length mess. So I figured instead of edit it all down it would be better to split it up into a 3 part series.”
Hit that play button for unseen footage of Charlie Young, Seth Curtis, Joey Pressey, Rob Mathiesson, Alex Klein, Nick Jensen, Nate Broussard, Olly Todd, Pat Stiener, Daniel Kinloch and James Edson. Archived gold.
Ph: Aaron Herrington by Dan Mathieu
Dime and Vans’ shoe collab called for a shindig with fun and games. Press play for what went down in Canada. Smokin’ sausage party.
If you enjoyed Ed Syder’s last rad book project, The Natas and Gonz Book, you will be stoked to know a new one is in the works featuring skate legend duo, Neil Blender and Lance Mountain.
Speaking to Ed today he mentioned: “I’ve rounded up some more heavy hitters in the super lucrative world of skate art to bring you another book. Stoked to have Russ Pope and Jay Croft on board this time around as well as most of the guys from The Natas/Gonz book.”
This new illustrated tribute will be bigger than the first featuring contributions from Russ Pope, Jay Croft, Phil Morgan, Kev Grey, Ed Syder, Cosme, Keith Watts, Tom Wareing and a host of others.
Get involved in their Kickstarter campaign this week and receive the book and an exclusive tee in exchange. There will be an exhibition of the final art at Beach London in October too.
