There are 10 tricks in here to end your week with. Joe Hill takes them all at the new Met gap in Belfast, filmed and edited by Monkeybird’s lens.
Category: Skateboarding
Tidy Mike has a new edit online featuring crew members of the Fifty Fifty shop team today. Wileman, Syd and many more hit the road to Cornwall for this one.
The work to bring Kennington Skatepark to life has started. Converse just tweeted this image from the site. Get hyped on the developments as they are leaked. More info about what is proposed for this legendary park from their Fix To Ride program can be found here but the opening date is Saturday 26th May. There will be a jam, put it in your dairy.
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Whenever we see the words, Cody McEntire – raw footage there’s often an urge to click the magic button straight away. Here’s a fresh edit filmed between 2005-2009 by Shane Darnell.
Being huge fans of sample sales, we are proud to announce that we have partnered with Sampled this week for their forthcoming get together. On Saturday 26th and 27th May, the sample sale to end all sample sales will be live and direct from Bar Music Hall in East London packed full of goodness so get hyped on what’s about to hit London this month.
Sampled is not just a bunch of clothes thrown in the corner for you to rummage through, it combines a top quality streetwear sample sale with a record fair and a solo art sale. Expect some of the best clothing brands at a fraction of shop prices, sat alongside many of the UK’s best record dealers selling crates of vinyl, DJ sets with a selection of original Soul, Jazz, Funk, Disco & Hip Hop breaks. There will also be a nail bar for the ladies set up.
Samples of the best threads are up for grabs from brands such as Stussy, Alife, Silas, Fly 53, Famous Stars & Straps, DTA, Dephect , Generic Surplus, Good Enough, Rogue Status, Expensive Taste, The Wild Ones, Any Forty, PXL, Armory, Stones Throw, & Chief Rocka. Also expect art dealers and collectives representing some of the most sought after artists in the land.
Put the weekend of 26th and 27th May in your diary for this and expect a day out with a happy ending. You can find Sampled on Facebook and Twitter who will be updating what’s being planned in the lead up to the event. Please share this for us today to spread the word and we will see you down there.
Sampled will be held at the Bar Music Hall, 134 Curtain Rd, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3AR.
Map here.
Blueprint’s Sylvain Tognelli is back with one of another of his fun video blogs from recent skateboard travels, this time from London with Blueprint team mates.
The epic 9 minute’s of skating that made up 101 Skateboards’s ‘Falling Down’ promo is about to be aired online by 30 SHOT.
The master tape features sections from Andy Stone, Adam McNatt, Gabriel Rodriguez and Eric Koston and was originally released back in 1993. Take in this trailer and come back to our news section to watch it in full tomorrow.
Fred Mortagne has a few more copies of his ‘Hand in Hand’ book available online this week. Bag yourself a copy of his work with the Cliché team in Israel covering 96 pages of goodness from his lens on the road for just 15 euros. Bargain.
The coven at Witchcraft have unleashed raw metal from the vaults of Jamie Morley‘s latest sessions. Push buttons for the Death Strike.
It’s not everyday you get to meet someone as inspiring as Richard Branson, but yesterday we managed to get some of his precious time in his Oxfordshire home for a chat. Back in the 1960’s at the age of just 16, Mr Branson started a magazine for students which led him to open a mail order business for music and a record shop in London. His passion for music led him to open Virgin Records, signing a plethora of artists that included punk rock legends the Sex Pistols and the ownership of over 400 other companies since.
Why should you give a hoot about this today? Well, he got off his backside and opened doors for himself and many others. Maybe that will inspire you to think that you could do the same today or at least get you thinking that if you have positive energy you will at least pull that tre flip you been working on in the next line you are planning to film. You can do what ever you want and enjoy working for a living if you apply enough to the dream and want it enough.
Richard Branson played a small part in inspiring us to start this very mag. One day back in 1995, Branson was traveling into London via Sutton where we all grew up skating. He pulled his car over, walked through the doors of our local pub, joined a bunch of skateboarders at the pool table, got the beers in and started potting spots and stripes with everyone. He was full of energy and presented himself with that beaming smile on his face. You can imagine the instant euphoria of such a random situation but essentially, that day, his billionaire status changed, and he was one of us.
His passion and drive seem to be never-ending, so we hope that one day maybe he will appreciate the skateboarding scene that has been built by so many hard working people in this country. Maybe he could have a role to play and help us to fulfill a dream we have, which is to keep people motivated, bring people together and excite this generation and welcome the next. Only time will tell, but for now, get hyped on the fact that Branson’s garden has the remains of a mini ramp in it. It may not be the Mega Ramp, it may not have seen a session in time, but this is a reminder that skateboarding reaches far beyond the unexpected.
