Transworld have announced this morning that the new Woodward skate camp in China is complete and ready to open on May 15th 2010. This set up that includes the most audacious plaza, bowls and vert set up should make you salivate. Click here for shots of what every city needs, especially here in London where our only indoor skatepark doesn’t actually even have a name. Yes, sickening isn’t it?
Toy Machine honcho Ed Templeton returns to the UK in April to open a brand new exhibition called ‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’. The show in association with Emerica will be held at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London from 6th-17th April.
Click here to read an interview from his Modern Art Gallery show back in March 2005 and view this video blog from the man himself ahead of his trip.
Ed Templeton – Drinking the Kool-Aid – London Show from Emerica Europe on Vimeo.
A little edit from the Laplaza TF:
Cliche visita laplaza tf from laplaza tf on Vimeo.
Brian Anderson‘s VBS feature continues this week with episode 2 of their latest ongoing series. Find out more about his time at Toy Machine here.
The Death Skateboards team have been keeping their blog updated with fun footage recently. Richie Jackson and Patrick Melcher are down under with some classic rock and Dan Cates and Steak hit the mud and go dirt boarding.
DC continue to roll out their Skateboarding Is Forever series of am edits this week with the latest from Evan Smith. Check out the combo’s this guy can pull out the bag here.
Congratulations to Ross McGouran who has joined the European Element team. Ross started out skating in Harrow and spent a lot of time in our local park here in West London before moving out to set up a new life in Barcelona.
His latest section in the new Vans Europe video was one of the strongest of the bunch so look out for that on your travels and also enjoy some offcuts here from a recent trip to Portugal where the team were filming for Get Busy Living, the new Element Europe video that is scheduled to drop on Go Skateboarding Day, June 21st.
Portugal outtakes part1 from elementeurope on Vimeo.
Antiz Skateboards have relaunched their website and made both of their videos available for free download. Check out both Antizipated and their most recent release Z-Movie plus some footage of Julian Furones after watching this rocking new trailer.
ANTIZ TRAILER from Antiz Skateboards on Vimeo.
Pulled Apart by Horses are set to capture their raucous live performance with a live album due next month.
The record will be released on Transgressive as part of Record Store Day on April 17th.
Pulled Apart by Horses will be playing two instores on Record Store Day in support of the release; the first at Rough Trade East at 11am, and the second at Crash Records Leeds at 6:30 pm.
This year’s Vans Off the Wall Music tour will be headlined by Cancer Bats with support from Ghost of a Thousand.
The European tour will take place between the 16th and 30th of April, calling in the UK, France, Holland, Austria, Switzerland and for five dates in Germany.
The tour stops in the UK for a date at The Garage, although Ghost of a Thousand will sit out of this date as support comes from Chickenhawk and Trash Talk.