Yoan Taillandier has been making progress with his new skate video ‘Minuit‘ and the teasers so far look absolutely incredible.
Filmed entirely at night, ‘Minuit’ takes it to the heart of the streets in France and Japan for the best idea for a skate video I’ve heard of in a long, long time.
Watch the exciting new trailer below and click here for more information.
The second video edit to come from the appointed filmbots John Fisher and Nick Richards has just been uploaded to the Tubes.
It follows from where their stunning first edit left off documenting Crayon’s August trip across Wheelscape parks in the UK. Here we see Chris Jones, Dan Wileman, Korahn Gayle, Paul ‘Barber’ Cooper, James Coyle, Welsh Tommy (and guest skaters Nicky Howells and Barney Page) hit up Uckfield, Bristol, Havering and Teignmouth.
Sit back and enjoy their edit below.
Carhartt recently teamed up with the Catalunian audiovisual production house ‘La Neta Lab‘ for a serious high speed shutter experiment causing the team to enter a serious state of slow-motion. Rarely does slowed down footage look this good.
Check out both edits below.
Get Lesta have posted another banging edit fresh from a mid-week session at The Boardroom.
The clip features Will Golding and Craig Smedley dropping some mad hammers on the flatbar alongside some other visual goodness. Watch Wednesday Round 2 below…
San Francisco’s finest, Western Edition have posted up their promo video for Fall 2010.
It features Brad Johnson, Jabari Pendleton, Matt Jones, Nikhil Thayer, Dwayne Galloway, Yoshiaki Toeda, John Igei, Nate Keegan and newcomer James Capps who performs what could easily be described as the best kickflip I ever did see.
See for yourself below.
Element have posted up some highlights from last weekend’s Vans Downtown Showdown in LA where their team which had European riders including Ross McGouran on board came in 4th and was won by Beauty and the Beast (a team of Girl and Anti-Hero combined).
Look out for more footage online as this comp is always amazing.
VANS DOWNTOWN SHOWDOWN 2010 from ELEMENT SKATEBOARDS on Vimeo.
The third instalment from the mass-touring, beer-swigging, tent-pitching, concrete shredding marriage of hesh and fresh sees Girl and Anti-Hero for the first time opting to release the finished product online, for free. This will be a little gutting to some who look forward to these releases every year and enjoy flicking through whatever booklet of wonderful pap the oxymoronic duo choose to sling inside the case. Whether this was a result of the European Vacation being a little shorter than the previous two jaunts or not, you have no reason this time not to sit down and take twenty minutes out of your day to watch two of the raddest board companies do what they do better than most, skate and have a bloody baller time. Yes, that was a UK/US lexical combo move that was as awkward-looking as a 90s curb dancing session, but this is a transatlantic trip and we should honour it in such a way, or something.
As always, we begin with the Beauty edit which doesn’t hesitate to drop heavy riffs and throw hammers all over the continent. Sean Malto gets stuck into a traditional backside noseblunt shape and carries on in an unsurprisingly perfect fashion. Tony Trujillo comes steaming out of nowhere is the first to step things up and delivers another highlight performance like the demo destroying machine he is; no boneless banquet can touch the exquisitely executed one TNT nails not even two minutes in. The other Tony (Miorana) wears socks and shots like a boss and skates like one too while Mike Carroll continues to provide evidence for my perpetually unpublished (and unwritten) essay on why the world would be a better place if people skate more like him and Vincent Alvarez gets a spotlight early on that should silence any kids bickering about his pro status. I’m sure that the editors did not consciously see this video as a means to shut up any armchair critics, but it’s just further proof that this guy not only rips but is someone who you should fully support by scraping layers of paint off his face whenever you go skating.
Seeing the crew hit up Alv’s infamous TBS was spectacular. The kind of uncouth transitions that make up that particular leg of the tour it would seem were unintentionally created just so Vincent Alvarez can skate them. Control goes beyond comprehension here. Before the end of Aaron Meza’s edit I found myself thinking that the in-joke phrase ‘I’d rather watch Gino push’ should be changed to ‘I’d rather watch Girl and Anti-Hero skate boozed out of their minds on Tuborg’. Really, this shit never gets old.
The Beast edit clocks in at another furious ten minutes that begins like a bad dad’s home movie at a summer camp turned massively inappropriate. It essentially carries on from where the Tuborg guzzling left off so let’s go straight down the hatch! Besides the skating, what’s amazing here is the combination of the pissed filming and the slightly more beastly skating gives you a vicarious sense of intoxication in what is probably the only feel-good edit of the summer that could potentially give you a hangover. It’s one that I guarantee you’ll enjoy however and Rick Howard’s speak no Americano edit will perk you right up again. The Girl and Anti-Hero marriage has provided us kids with a hell of a tortured upbringing but what a ride it’s been. Uncountable wrongs apparently make one huge right so go out, go travelling, go big and have a great time.
But always watch this trilogy of awesome first.
Bellend Sebastian
You can download the entire thing for free from the official website. The server has understandably been suffering from some overwhelming traffic issues but keep trying. It’s worth it.
Element Europe have posted the third installment of their Get Busy Living episodes which features some top shelf shredding from the likes of Marcus Apse, Phil Zwijsen, Janne Saario and many more.
Just click on the screenshot below to get straight in to the goodness.
We recently conducted a little interview with Heath Kirchart about his retirement from filming professional parts, and though it’s more or less impossible to learn too much about the enigma it doesn’t stop people from trying. Ted Schmitz is the latest to try and get into the head of Heath, quite literally by mimicking his Stay Gold part.
Watch below as he tries to decipher the enigma in the most amusing way possible for Roger Skateboards.
“Heath” Performed by Ted Schmitz from Roger Skateboards on Vimeo.
Fos was on Skate Talk at 4am this morning discussing his pants, Heroin Skateboards, graphics with Altamont and Baker, shooting guns and much more. Get straight to the point by skipping to the 15th minute of this video here.