Petr Tanko focuses on MACBA as the center of skateboarding in Europe in this new 10 minute docu on the Barcelona scene and the attraction to many worldwide to head there and soak up the many spots on offer. Paul Rodriguez is also involved in a story where the much documented popularity became an issue for locals.
If you have ever loved the Jameson 2 Eco shoe from etnies from their previous incarnations you may want to check out their new variation of it that has become Julian Davidson’s signature colorway this week.
It’s a suede canvas mix with a thin padded tongue and Soletech’s STI Evolution Foam midsole for impact and looks like a solid option for those who prefer skating in a light weight shoe. Comes in maroon, black, brown and blue colourways.
Check out Davidson’s switch skills in this new edit.
Part deux has arrived from NYSkateboarding‘s couch interview with Jason Dill and Gino Iannucci. The subject matter of the inevitable story of Gino leaving Chocolate to the new FA graphic selection process and colours are discussed amongst more.
If you missed part 1, then follow your nose and watch it first.
5BORO Skateboards have worked on a new deck range called the 5B Airline Series, a collaborative project illustrated by German artist Stefan Marx.
This series consists of six planes, five of which have a unique registration number representing one of the five NYC’s five boroughs, (5BNY-BK-1996) consisting of 5boronyc’s brand/boro abbreviation and establishing year, 1996.
These should be making their way to skate shops over the next few weeks, order from your local store this weekend.
Sizes:
5B Airline Series Brooklyn 8” X 32”
5B Airline Series Bronx 8.3” X
5B Airline Series Manhattan 8.25” X
5B Airline Series Queens 8” & 8.5” X 32”
5B Airline Series Staten Island 7.8” & 8.125” X 32”
5B Airline Series JFK 8” & 8.25” X 32”
POND
Man It Feels Like Space Again
Caroline
”Soulful pop in a seashell dress, except the sea in question is the one from that bit in ‘Interstellar’ on the perpetual wave-machine planet.” – anonymous
That is just one way that the new offering from big ol’ buddy pals POND has been described to me since its release. It sounds like the sonic interpretation of having a really great time with some close friends, except that you all have the ability to transform into lava-lamps, and that’s what you do all night, every night for a week straight.
Three tracks into ‘MIFLSA’ (as I call it) you’ve been dragged aboard the Pond Rocket depicted on the cover and are heading into uncharted cosmic territory that somehow still feels like a sofa bed in your cool friend’s mum’s basement. Friendly, but slick grooves are split up by oases that float you down gently from the sonic equivalent of the East Australian Current (as seen in the 2003 computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film ‘Finding Nemo’), and out into tepid waters, where you can look back and have bit of a think.
Penultimate track ‘Medicine Hat’, however, sounds like something off Exile On Main St that was recorded in the bottom hull of the aforementioned Pond Rocket as it soars past Saturn. Other highlights include an insanely cool guitar sound in the second quarter of the behemoth title track that figure skates right over your shoulder and into your heart.
All in all, this album is pretty nuts and pretty great. The fact the centerpiece of the album is called ‘Heroic Shart’ basically sums it up – don’t take it too seriously and that makes the quasi-cosmic journey all the more fun.
Charlie Pelling
It’s not often that skateboards are blamed for fire related incidents but recent reports from firefighters in West Yorkshire confirmed that Josh Jarvis’ deck started a freak blaze in his parents home last month.
Following an investigation, fire chiefs found that a skateboard (sitting idle for over 4 years) had been in contact with central heating pipes over a long period of time until ‘pyrophoric action’ kicked in, igniting the wood.
It seems absolutely ridiculous but apparently “the temperature variation of the heating going on and off cooks the wood like charcoal and eventually if the combination is right it will go into a smouldering fire and then will ignite something,” says Fire Investigator Mark Whitaker. The fire wrecked a room and into their hallway but did not spread to the rest of the building thankfully.
Skate Police are said to be making enquiries to possibly charge the kid for negligence as leaving your rig for so long without a schralp should be a crime. Lesson learned here: Never leave your rig alone for no longer than a week or risk it setting fire to itself in protest.
Photo: The culprit kid who left his deck unskated for 4 years poses with firefighters.
Source: Examiner
Ph: Pierre Prospero
Sit back and take in what Paris has to offer from this 8 minute edit from Pierre Prospero. Skating coming from Hakim Shérif, Thomas Busuttil, Jon Monier, William Moreau, Guillaume Moquin and Donger.
This seemed appropriate to kick off a Monday morning. Trauma’s Alex Richard brings pop on both fronts.
Scroll down for the full video with skating frmo Fred Plocque Santos, Cédric Gaubert, Jeremy Vlscek, Constantin Delmas, Paul Austin, François Tizon, Anthony Rousse, Vincent Dallemagne, Yann Felixain, Jeremie Plisson, Bastien Nicollet, Alex Richard and many more.
The Living Eyes
Living Large
Agitated Records
The Saints have come back and are marching in, but Australia’s The Living Eyes don’t wanna be in that number, they wanna do their own number. And that number isn’t the D4, erstwhile and ersatz garage punks. This lot sure as hell know their product and they totally own it. In fact they sell it hard. While Tame Impala and Pond do the hippy dippy do, with thousand yard stares and degrees in distortion, The Living Eyes combine the song writing sass of The Clean with the bare knuckle vigour of The Hard Ons. And if King Gizzard did garage psych, this lot do garage psycho. Less likely to hit the superfuzz pedal than do a super big piddle on your shoes.
As you might imagine from the title this is a party record, and one which Andrew WK the professional party idiot might approve. Hooky as hell, it recalls compatriot’s Eddy Current Surpression Ring, and last year’s excellent Meatbodies album, and wouldn’t be out of place in San Francisco or on Castle Face, In The Red or Goner Records. But in fact they’re on Agitated Records. This is their second album but their first was put out on bandleader Billy Gardner’s own Antifade records, a man staking his claim as a Melbourne Ty Segall by also playing in bands enticingly called Ausmuteants and Wet Blankets.
Stand-out and hair on neck stand up song ‘Guilty Pleasures’ starts off like Adam & The Ants’ ‘Antmusic’, goes all Dick Dale and ends up like The Damned before dying abruptly in a brick wall of feedback. I won’t pretend that this is high-brow, in fact it’s more like deep set monobrow but it’s one furrow that I don’t mind ploughing.
Nick Hutchings
Ah, the smell of the fashion industry smoking on skateboarding’s chosen few in exchange for wedge. This time, Bianca Chandon cheese Alex Olson has signed up for Louis Vuitton’s new bag collection who says: “skateboarding is more of a dance than an art” as he back smith’s a bowl with the bag on on his back.
Try not to break dance after watching this.