Brian Lotti’s sick movie 1st And Hope will be dropping this week thanks to the guys at Studio 411.
The film consists of a journey through the Los Angeles landscape following the likes of Kenny Anderson, Eric Dressen, Ray Barbee and more.
Watch the trailer here.
Swooped up in the fervour of signature trucks, British Danny Brady joins in on the fun thanks to Venture Trucks.
On a British side note, rumours are spreading about a second First Broadcast from the digital eye of Blueprint darkman, Dan Magee…?
Unfortunately, Jean-Marc Soulet has parted ways with Element Europe.
However, the US team looks like it’s still growing with with the addition of Chad Tim Tim, Levi Brown, Jimmy Lannon and Mike Barker to the group.
DVS are out to sell some sweet kicks with their new Photographer series that’s shipping out to shops right now. Shoes will feature some of the amazing work and images captured by some of skateboarding’s finest shutter bugs – Giovanni Reda, Gabe Morford, Atiba Jefferson…
According to a certain French fashion guru, there’s a T-Shirt in the series with a photo of The Game taken by Atiba Jefferson. It turns out The Game doesn’t want his image used on some random skate goods, so expect to find a few on e-bay soon.
Creeping on the come up, Ronson Lambert looks like he might be a steady competitor for rookie of the year: Internet media hype, two flawless video parts, an amateur position on the exclusive Plan B squad and now another new sponsor, Silver Trucks.
Ronson joins heavy hitters Paul Rodriguez, Brandon Biebel, Nyjah Huston, Josh Kalis, Ryan Sheckler and Rob Dyrdek. Peep this link for footage of the street technician – especially the last trick!
Sole Tech (home of Etnies, Es, Emerica, Altamont and Thirty Two) are proud to announce their acquisition of the UK distribution outfit A Four.
By securing this deal, riders and businesses can work directly instead of passing through various middlemen (the bane of most companies, their riders and the distributors), and run an even better service. A Four Distribution are one of the UK’s best, with some of the coolest people on board to deal with in the UK, now watch them get even better…
In related news, Etnies are about to release a collaboration shoe with fables London skateshop Slam City Skates to celebrate the two business’ 20 years of operation.
Click here to see them on the Slam site.
Just so you know, the second annual Vans Downtown Showdown took place at paramount Studios, Los Angeles.
The particularity of this comp is that various teams design the obstacles- one of which was a mini version of Danny Way’s mega ramp set-up rainbow rail and all!
In any case, the Girl team reigned supreme and took top honours as the Team winners, whilst team rider Rick McCrank took top spot for the pros. Real‘s Nick Dompierre won the amateur part of the comp and pocketed a sweet $5000.
The Aussie bad boy crew that is Hoon have to add a new face to the pub crawl: Lyonnais skater Julien ‘Jutix’ Viallet. Jutix is a serious ATV that likes to skate fast with flawless style to boot.
Expect to see this kid whipping his cock out and thrashing about with Hoon Wheels from now on!
For a bit of footy click here.
If you want to see some good skating, eat great food and meet gorgeous women, we suggest you try and make it to the Etnies European Open in Rome, Italy, on October 6th to 8th and watch the cream of European skate talent battle it out for €20,000!
For all travel, accommodation, prize etc.. info click here or here.
I don’t know if we mentioned this a while ago, but one of the most stylish companies out of San Francisco looks like it’s back for round 2 – Rasa Libre!
Despite the new website still being under construction, we still managed to get a sneak peek at the Fall catalogue, and as per usual the goods look very good indeed!