Stereo agent Clint Peterson has some great footage online today filmed around the Los Angeles area. Check how close he comes to being wiped out by a car in this!
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Kill City’s Jake Collins shows you 10 ways to drop into a mini ramp in this latest clip from Dainton’s lens.
How many of these can you do?
Casper Brooker features in Slam’s latest teaser. Got your tickets to the premiere today? they are on sale now, get all the info from here.
The Slam City Skates video premiere of City of Rats will be taking place early evening on Sunday 4th March 2012 at the Prince Charles cinema in London. Tickets for the premiere are now available and can be found online from this Monday here for both 6pm and 7:15pm showings.Tickets are £4 per person and come with a free Slam City Enamel Pin Badge while stocks last. You can also buy tickets from the Covent Garden store from this weekend.
The Prince Charles cinema can be found at 7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY. Get yourself sorted before these tickets all go.
The Blueprint team are busy traveling as usual this month. Paul Shier is currently out with the troops in Cyprus for a future feature so look out for that with a video edit to boot.
Whilst currently sitting on the front page of the new Grey Magazine, Neil Smith now riding for Destructo, Mob Grip and Ricta Wheels, Danny Brady now skates Spitfire Wheels and Jerome Campbell is now riding for Converse and Paradise Wheels.
Look out for a Blueprint competition on here next week where you can win a package of BP goodness.
If you are a fan of Stereo Skateboards get stuck into this two part series with Chris Pastras discussing how the brand was started with Jason Lee, plus the death and of course, the revival.
Everything you need to know in about one of skateboarding’s most prolific companies is all here in this Hand To Hand documentary. Press play.
Marc Johnson shares words on the Crail Couch today and talks about the side effects of too much boozing, boners, the skate industry, skateboarding on the internet and much more here.
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Poisonous Products
By Jeremy Elkin
Watching Jeremy Elkin’s Poisonous Products DVD is like a throwback to the golden 90’s era of hip-hop mixtapes. Back in 1993 New York DJs were pumping out 90 minute Maxell tapes of raw talent. I remember Tape Kingz running a solid distribution program that stocked my tape deck with the latest joints out of the 5-Boroughs. You’d hear exclusive tracks from your favourite rappers, but also get the tip off on new rappers that were pinned to be the next big thing in the rap game. Kids nowadays ignore the debut of Jay Z as he cut his teeth with a unique double tempo flow on the epic Big Daddy Kane track Show n Prove alongside a miniature version of Shyheim and the one Ason (later known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu Tang Clan). Big Daddy Kane, Jay-Z and Ol’ Dirty all on one track – That’s some dope shit right there.
Poisonous Products is a 13 minute mixtape of VX footage filmed in New York City between November 2010 and November 2011 set to the soundtrack of the aforementioned track, Boogie Down Productions (Poisonous Products) and Lil’ Kim (Queen Bitch) mixed together by Grapes La Roc. The Eastern Seaboard of skateboarding is well represented with everyone from Rob Campbell and Shawn Powers to Aaron Herrington and Joseph Delgado getting clips. Those last two names are definitely on the rise and likely to grab your attention. Both of them weave sick lines through the city: Aaron skating past IRAK throw-ups and piles of grey snow in Brooklyn whilst Joseph rocks colourful Supra’s through Queens.
I remember the day the 90’s era of hip-hop died. The producer formerly known as Puff Daddy released his own solo album No Way Out and introduced the world to a genre of Rap music that sidestepped the streets and went straight to the clubs, suburban bedrooms and MTV. Low budget bro cam videos of rappers spitting verses in front of their local bodega were shelved and replaced by Hype Williams bubble lens studio sessions in front of flashing lights and film crews. I can’t help but feel the golden age of the skate video fell to the same fate when Ty Evans decided to introduce HD cameras and fireworks to the session.
I can’t guarantee that Poisonous Products will receive unanimous applause, but it will definitely tug on the heartstrings of skaters that still remember how to set the white balance on a VX-1000. When Rob Campbell runs a quick slappy and a tailslide at Astor Place it makes me feel like I’m watching the promo tape for the infamous Zoo York Mixtape 15 years late.
Support independent skate videos and order a copy of Poisonous Products from Theories of Atlantis. Funds will go towards Jeremy’s camera repairs and broken fish eye collection.
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Get jazzed up with two of the Superdead team having fun on the mini at Mile End’s lock up. Effortless skating as ever from Chris Oliver and Andy Scott
A show featuring the art of Dean (Bod) Brodrick (RIP) will be running up in Middlesbrough this month from the 15th-18th February. Put together by close friends the art show will run at the Pop Up Gallery at 148 Linthorpe Rd, TS1 3RA and feature Bod’s deck graphics, videos, t-shirt designs and will also pay homage to Mischief Skate Shop and Bingo (RIP).
This is a truly wonderful thing to do to honour the lives of skateboarders who have contributed much to their local scenes. The gallery will be open daily from 10am-5pm and there will be a closing party from 7pm-10pm on Saturday 18th. Please spread the word if you are local.
