Get the kettle on for Jak Pietryga today as he skates the streets north east London from Walthamstow to Bow. He is one of the nicest geezers in the game and is now welcomed officially to the Parlour Skate Shop team.
Head over to Parlour this Friday to watch a premiere of the Bon Voyage DVD and catch the Emerica team on Saturday at Mile End Skatepark with them too.
Those awaiting the new Deathwish video are now able to download it from iTunes this week with sections from Erik Ellington, Jon Dickson, Brian Slash Hansen, Neen Williams, Furby, Jim Greco, Moose and Lizard King here.
Get hyped on this trailer for what looks to be a killer full new section coming next week from Alain Goikoetxea. Next Monday is the day in question, put it in your diary.
Paradise Wheels have a brand new Spring edit online today featuring Matt Rodriguez, Ron Allen, Dave Abair, Carlos Young, Hugo Balek, Fernando Covarrubias & Zak Gonzalez.
Paradise Wheels – Spring Team Montage from paradise wheels on Vimeo.
Magenta’s Zach Lyons joins the Coalatree Organics clothing farm today with some new footage and this rooftop front rock.
This had us in stitches in here today. Marky Numbers is obviously one of those unique skateboarders you just have to watch. Cheeky stuff in here.
Paul Rodriguez’ apparel company Primitive has rolled out a cheeky collab with Los Angeles photographer Van Styles. It looks like his new range of tees, tank tops, limited edition prints and decks have a certain spice that we are not usually familiar with with the help of models Ashley Sky, Claudia Sampedro, Iesha Marie, Valeria Orsini and Rosanna Castillo as you can see in this NSFW video.
The mainstream media proved once again this weekend that it only takes one article headline to push skateboarding into having the bad rep that it has always been tarnished with over the years. This particular piece in the Guardian/Observer refers to the Boston bombers who wreaked havok across the pond last week with their horrific plans to blow up as many people as they could at the Boston Marathon.
This newspaper ran with the headline that depicted terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a “skateboarding weed smoker, who flirted with jihad”, even though in the same article Tsarnaev was said to have been interested in various other normal pastimes and sports. Boxing and football were mentioned but the newspaper chose to categorise the Islamist and box it up as youth gone wild. There’s no doubt that this guy’s outlook had long gone walkies due to his participation in this dreadful atrocity, but tarring skateboarders with the same old brush that has been dipped in the sticky pot of media bullshit once again rang loud bells this morning. Why should skateboarders be brought into this tragedy? Why do journalists always feel a need to stereotype us?
This monolithic entity has demonized our scene as much as they have glamourised it over the years and with skateboarding being so popular right now across mainstream media and brand campaigns take this as a reminder that there are still people out there who believe that what we do is the work of the devil himself. Most skateboarders are, and always will be creative, like-minded individuals who will always bring fun to this planet whatever age they may be. It’s about time that those media whores who categorise us wake up and live in the year 2013 rather than being stuck in the 1980s when skateboarders listened to their records backwards, wore leather gloves and spoke of ‘rat bones’ and ‘dudes’.
Speculation is the initial basis of journalism; the raw speculation is sifted and examined to find potential truths. Like it or not, 24-hour rolling news means that much of that speculation is aired in public, and sometimes we as skateboarders lose.
Bomb hills not people.
(For the record, I am aware of exactly what the article itself states about the character of the offenders. This rant came from the headline as stated in the opening sentence as it will allow readers to stereotype and could also lead to skate spots being tightened further by security guards.)
The Berrics gets annihilated by the Royal Trucks team this week. Click play for a crazy Guy Mariano, Mike Carroll, Justin Eldridge, Wes Kremer, Jose Rojo, Mikemo Capaldi, Daryl Angel, Jerry Hsu, Trent McClung and more.
There’s only one winner here. Dylan Hughes takes 15 from the Cardiff Plaza’s curves and crete.