Scott Magill posted up another ten tricks to add to your list of quick edits to watch this morning.
Here we see Taylor Oakley take on the new Cardiff Bay Barrage plaza for Who Clothing.
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French – Down Under
On Friday 13th French gave us the lowdown on his series of exhibitions that started off over the weekend in Brisbane and Sydney. Read words with him to hear about the shows he’s putting on in between skating with the Passport crew and to have a look at those awesome Withcraft beer koozees.
You down under then sport?
Yeah man, Brisbane. Just hung the show, chillin’ now because no one’s skating tonight so I’m going to the pub later.
It’s winter there right?
Yeah, so cold. Well it’s 18°C so not cold! Hahaha!
So what’s cooking out there?
One show in Brisbane and another in Sydney last Saturday with The Gonz, Ed Templeton and so on: check it. I had one at Nine Lives on Friday with Murdoch Stafford too.
How much stuff did you ship over there?
I had thirteen pieces for the Friday 13th show, five screen prints and twelve for the Sydney show.
How did this all hook up and were the organisers aware of exactly what was being taken over to be hung?
Joe, the curator of Disorder Disorder paid for my flight to Brisbane and also hooked up the two other shows. He asked me to make eight new horror and gore works for his show, including new Creature graphics, so he saw all of those beforehand. The theme for Nine Lives was anything with skulls, so I just kept making work for it. The one in Sydney is a mix of new and recent drawings, they know what they are getting.
New Creature graphics?
Yeah. It’s just decks but it’s super new. Not allowed to show the finished stuff though but the drawing is in the show. One’s a Hitz pro model.
Monster Gallery present Draw with French, Stefan Marx and Marcus Oakley
What’s the main difference in the Australian art scene compared to Europe?
Aussies seem switch on to bullshit and don’t take any. People seem to like what they like, it’s rad. Because the scenes are smaller, people are more stoked to have art shows and meet people. It’s really a close-knit thing.
What about the homegrown artists out there?
The metal and record sleeve stuff is great, like Glen Smith and Murdoch Stafford who lives in Brisbane, he’s rad.
So, I take it you are hooked up and shredding too?
Yeah, I have a good crew of friends in both cities. We skate all day around putting up shows and drink all night.
What are the local spots like?
Brisbane’s epic for parks and street and so is Sydney. Skated a pool under this guy Rob’s house, he makes all the parks and this pool is insane, pool coping and super tight. Apparently it’s super rare to get to skate it.
What’s your involvement with the Midsomer Norton park?
I did the boards and shirts for the opening this weekend. Rad, huh?
Yeah, the park needs a session and soon. So you been hanging with the Passport crew?
Yeah the Panthers. They rule and are really good guys, the riders are amazing, it’s like Aussie Cliché but better. So, I’ve been hanging with those guys and my friend Sonny Day in Sydney. He and his Mrs do this. He’s down for beers and BBQs, so good.
I take it you are leaving a trail of Witchcraft on your travels?
Hahahaah! Yeah stickers, shirts and beer koozee’s… the new boards are being made in America right now.
New series?
Yeah, all new, four boards at 8.75″.
Do you only make decks for people with massive feet?
8.125” is small though right?!
You should make chariot slaying wheels that can cut people up. I would buy them…
Hahaha! I’ll speak to the factory…
Keep up to date with French at www.funeralfrench.blogspot.com
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Day in the life of Paul Regan
Andy Rayner recently went to Hull with the northern skateboarding machine Paul Regan. Filming a few bits swiftly turned into a day in the life style section with full Muska style all-in-one day bangers.
Check it out below and try to conceive filming all that in one day…
Portrait: Richard Chung
The fifth video entry of Dan Cintra’s Manchester based ‘Bloggatron‘ series surfaced a few days ago.
Irie’tron sees Cintra’s lens focus on Fred Gall, Ryan Lay and more as the Ipath team take on Central Skatepark, as well as some fun sessions at Mac bumps and Platt Fields.
Check it out below.
Bloggatron 5- The Irie’Tron from Dan Cintra on Vimeo.
Over the weekend, Hamburg’s Red Light District hosted the European Vans Downtown Showdown which once again saw some of the continent’s best skate teams battle it out on creative terrain built by the team’s themselves.
The Cliché obstacle took inspiration from Hamburg’s poledancers and the bank/round rail was the first session of the day. Phil Zwijsen started as he meant to carry on – by winning.
Cliché Obstacle
1st – Phil Zwijsen
2nd – Chris Oliver
3rd – Hugo Liard
Next up was Element’s obstacle. Their ‘oil spill’ didn’t cause too much environmental damage but Phil Zwijsen again proved to be the damaja with it comes to shredding up the custom made turf.
Element Obstacle
1st – Phil Zwijsen
2nd – Samu Karvonen
3rd – Ross McGouran
Rather than going the typical route, Death’s obstacle was instead an amalgamation of their favourite spots throughout Europe and was dubbed ‘The Pirate Spot’. Sam Partaix destroyed this and earned his position as the day’s Best Pro.
Ross McGouran goes frontside over the Antiz monster
Death Obstacle
1st – Sam Partaix
2nd – Michael Mackrodt
3rd – Guillaume Mocquin
Antiz constructed a mythical monster to take over Hamburg for the final obstacle. Transition tamers like Ross McGouran and Guillaume Mocquin stole the show here.
Antiz Obstacle
1st – Guillaume Mocquin
2nd – Ross McGouran
3rd – Sam Partaix
The results from the entire day were as follows…
Best Pro – Sam Partaix
Best Am – Phil Zwijsen
Monster’s Most Pirate Skater – Guillaume Mocquin
Overall Team Results
1st – Element Europe
2nd – Antiz Skateboards
3rd – Blind Europe
Stay tuned for videos from the day as they surface…
How often do you see people f/s bigspin down triple sets? Now think about how often you see them do it whilst weaving through security guards? Never, right?
Watch the clip below to see Justin Brock do just that as well as one of the sickest lines you might see this week in his chapter in Quiksilver’s The Skateboarding Collection video series.
Thornes Park in Wakefield will be hosting Gravity’s 2010 Concrete Carnival and there are a vast amount of sponsors giving away stuff so you better be writing this down: it’s on Sunday 22nd August.
It all kicks off at 11am so get yourselves down as there are planned comps for all ages with prizes from every skateboarding company you can see on the flyer below.
The CSC are quite appropriately rinsing Cardiff’s new plaza of concrete and wonder and are concluding a month of shredding with the grandly titled CSC World Championships on August 30th. How much do you want to bet that CSC are going to win?
With the usual skate, beer, barbeque and giveaways in store this is definitely another event you should be adding to your must-attend lists.
Welsh heads can keep up to date with the all the news updates celebrity gossip and lies at the CSC website. For genuine information, check the flyer below.
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Jimmy Carlin Color Theory
It feels weird to write the word colour without a ‘u’, but then it’s strange enough to see a Mystery section that has colour in it.
It’s no surprise to see that Jimmy Carlin has put out yet another ridiculous section though. Here’s what turned him pro, click the image below and get stuck in. Wow.
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A-Team Comp – The Finalists!
So our video edit competition in association with The A-Team brought in some fantastic little edits from scenes, crews, skateparks and some other things we’re not so sure of. Some were funny, some were rad and others were just very odd. We had a great time watching through all of them.
Here’s our six finalists that were been sent to Geoff Rowley to decide who the winner is. One of the crews below got their hands on the mammoth prize package and the winner has now been announced here.
Big props to all those that entered. Keep it real and keep having fun skating.
CHRIS BROMLEY
MAX KING
SWILL POSSEE
REVOLUTION SKATEPARK
K-TOWN LURKERS
BEN CORNISH AND PRIME SKATEPARK
