Flip’s Arto Saari discusses his upbringing in the town of Seinajoki, Finland before discovering skateboarding and photography in the ongoing series Let Us Roam from Leica.
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Age is just a number. Skateboarding is just a pleasure. If there was any civil response to the Telegraph’s awful blog feature on ‘How Old Is Too Old To Skateboard‘, this answers it head on.
Neal Unger is a 60 year old skateboarder who took up skating and is enjoying his life shredding. Some would see this as being weird, but for us, this is the best news ever. If we are all still rolling at 60 we should thank our lucky stars that we never listened to the haters, the people who believe that this fun should be for a certain age group. It’s for everyone. Never let anyone tell you to give up the things that you love as you will never replace it.
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Antiz do Greece
When the Antiz Skateboards mob go in full squad mode to any country, they always come back with the goods. Enjoy this latest venture to Greece where the spots are never an issue to find.
Photo: Akira
If you have not seen Lens II yet then get a taster of what’s hidden in the magical DVD box from Koichiro Uehara‘s section. The fastest feat in the East takes Skate Edit of the Week for unique and well deserved reasons. Get ready to gawp and then pick up the DVD from here.
That mushroom-munching, hip-hop don and pro skate legend Jereme Rogers (aka J Casanova) has only ended up in the nick this week. A story has broken suggesting that an alleged attack on another clubber in Hollywood took place last month with his involvement as reported by LA gossip hub TMZ.
“Rogers has been charged with 1 count of felony assault likely to produce great bodily injury, and 1 count of felony battery. He entered a not guilty plea today and was released on $50,000 bail.”
Yeah, you read that correctly, that’s 50 biggun$ for his release. 30,000 £coins. 36,000 €Euro’s. At least “bitches” will still be found around his waist rather than him bending down to pick up the soap. Money well spent J, but stay away from that pizza.
Remember Belgian ripper Axel Cruysberghs’ AB&A section? Here’s some raw outtakes and extras from those sessions following his Damn Am win this weekend.
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Baker Euro Tour part 3
Part 3 of Baker’s European tour video is now online. Watch Andrew Reynolds, Dustin Dollin, Bryan Herman, Terry Kennedy, Sammy Baca, Don Nguyen, Theotis Beasley, Justin Figueroa, Beagle, Nasty Neck, Riley Hawk, Dee Ostrander, Cyril Jackson and Tristan Funkhouser get stuck into all terrain.
You’ve seen Jaws part in ‘A Happy Medium 3’ and that set a precedent of what’s coming.
Here’s Ryan Reyes‘ part from said flick with some tasty NBD’s and a whole lot more filmed in ditches and dusty spots that most would not even bother with.
Don’t forget to mask up next time you hit up an early grab wallride…
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Silo
Silo
Work
Novennial Paralysis
Silo are a three piece band from Denmark, and together they concoct the most captivatingly obscure music you’ll hear this side of the solar system.
If you haven’t seen nor heard of Silo until now, be aware that this is by no means the first time they’ve made some noise. The last time Silo were an active band was some 13 years ago with barely a handful of releases on WIRE frontman Colin Newman’s label, Swim Records, before the band sadly faded out of music and into the perils of ‘real life’.
Thankfully, Silo have ended this vow of silence, and reconvene to bring us a brand new album, Work. This is a particularly obscure body of music and often intensely monotonous, applying the pressure straight form the off. Glancing at the artwork, it’s plain to see where the inspiration for this one has come from.
Fading into brooding instrumental opener ‘Filaments’, you can sense it’s going to be an eventful journey. The first three tracks on Work are as warped and twisted as they come, each built on a sturdy industrial rhythm and a cacophony of clashing guitar frequency. These tracks swing into each other like a relentless pendulum of noise until the bottomless bass hook of ‘Stationary’ gives way, cascading into an interlude of synthesised sensations.
After coming up for air, Silo pick up where they left off with hiphop infested curveball, ‘Cabinn Fever’. The heavy grooves and broken beats of which feature album guests High Priest and M Sayyid, coating this track with their rap verse spat all over it.
Offering itself up as a musical sedative to the chaos that came before, ‘O’ is one of the more mellow tracks on Work, but undoubtedly one of the finest. The droning bass line, shattered rhythms and synth inflections all melt into something deeply twisted and far beyond the norm.
As this journey comes to a close, you’re left with what’s probably the bleakest song title ever. ‘The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils’ chimes on infinitely, shedding a new light on the meaning of monotony.
If you like it loud and left field, Work is an album to get fully immersed in. Silo harness the endless capabilities of effects and computers and run wild with them. Digitally reshaping their guitar hooks and broken beats to make disturbingly futuristic sounds. It’s uncommon to hear music bearing these unexplainable, ultramodern qualities coming from anywhere other than the Turquoise Hexagon Sun studios, until now.
Work is available from April 14th via Novennial Paralysis.
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Pat Rumney ‘A Day in the Life’
Deathwish’s Pat Rumney allows Ride into his life for a full day of filming, skating, chicken wings, mini ramp sessions, tats and more.