John Rattray filmed Joe Pease over a few days and has cut the footage wonderfully here. Click play for some amazing work from both of them and read a full interview with the Australian who has some great stories with friends, Jake Duncome, Shane Cross and Matt Mumford here.
Chris Ray was asked to be one of the 13 filmers to submit a part for TransWorld SKATEboarding’s latest film, The Cinematographer Project and chose am Evan Smith as his subject. The results are quite simply stunning. Be prepared to watch this more than twice as we are pretty sure there’s not a better section online this month.
Exeter’s Barney Page continues his incredible journey of skateboard success in his trademark shorts for RVCA this week. This new edit features footage of him skating spots in London, Barcelona and more. Get on this.
The first time I watched 5-Boro’s new video Join Or Die I wanted to rush outside and skate. The second time I watched Join Or Die I wanted to skate even more. The third time worked a charm and so on and so on. This is a no-nonsense production; there are no slo-mos, HD effects or skits; just top-knotch skating with a banging soundtrack.
Steve Rodriguez, Tombo Colabraro and Mark Nardelli didn’t try to introduce the audience to some obscure indie bands or impress viewers with a pompous tailor-made score. They went to the source and picked music from crowd favourites: Bad Brains, Nas, Wu Tang Clan, Joy Division, Dire Straits and The Rolling Stones.
With a 25 minute runtime the editing is quick and concise. It took a few extra viewings to pick up on some truly gnarly stunts performed by the team. The newest pro’s Willy Akers and Joe Tookmanian serve as book ends with Willy’s balls-to-the-wall ATV antics opening the show and Took’s ridiculous switch skills closing off the session. Jimmy McDonald and Dan Pensyl’s sections each leap some super tight and super wide bank to bank launches. Jordan Trahan has one of the most remarkable tricks in the montage section with an asleep-at-the-wheel skid and jump going mach 10 down a hill. It was cool to see Bordeaux resident Guillaume Dulout get a section to himself. The Frenchman and his buddies have been repping 5-Boro for a few years already so it’s great to see them get their shine just as much as the resident New Yorkers.
Finally, no 5-Boro video would be complete without some lovely 8mm footage of the city streets and skylines. The DVD also has a couple of sweet web edits as bonus sections that are bite size delights. I have to take my hat off to 5-Boro for putting out a DVD and then posting its entirety on the web. Obviously the video market is slim pickings and awash with mediocrity nowadays so putting the time and effort into a small masterpiece for free is worth everyone’s support and respect.
Ralph Lloyd-Davis
When Moynihan worked here a while back, he would always remind me that Steve King was a legend and was seriously under-rated. Today, a showreel of Steve’s talent has been unleashed onto the interweb. Get a large taste of Welsh goodness here.
One of Germany‘s finest, Danny Sommerfeld, is skating the streets of Frankfurt am Main in a new clip, bringing real street skating with a definite 90’s flavour right into your home. With black and white imagery and a grainy and raw overall look, new clothing label TPDG Supplies Co, specializing in pants and accessories, is piping up. Reason enough to let them introduce themselves properly.
Who are you and where are you from?
We’re a skater owned and operated brand based in Hamburg, Germany. We’re currently hard at work to get our new website going and to put together our first collection of denim and pants. We’re also going to throw in a couple of accessories and t-shirts. But as they say; Haste makes waste.
This promo video is inspiring, reminded us of the good old days.
It’s nice to see how a lot of people can feel the love and passion we put into that first clip. As skatekids from the 90‘s, our focus always has been on actually go out and skate the streets, to live the counterpart to all the stunt-skateboarding ruling the media these days. We want to bring back some of the spirit of the good ol’ days to 2012.
How did TPDG come about?
When pro-skater Danny Sommerfeld was facing the headache of sorting out yet another sponsor deal with yet another clothing manufacturer, the idea to launch TPDG Supplies Co. was born. With support by graphic-designer/skateboarder Ben Wessler and photographer Eric Mirbach, TPDG was founded in 2010 somewhere in between Gießen, Cologne and Hamburg.
And finally, what is it all about?
TPDG is all about skateboarding. It’s about the streets. TPDG is about gritty imagery, dirty hands. About jersey barriers and brick walls, gangsigns and bloodstains. It‘s about well-made garments, clean styles and classic cuts.
Find TPDG at www.tpdgsupplies.com and on Facebook.
Tune: Action Bronson – ‘Barry Horowitz’ from the album ‘Dr. Lecter’ produced by Tommy Mas.
Real have unleashed a full bonus section of new new pro Ishod Wair from the Since Day One video that dropped last year. Ridiculous to think that this footage didn’t make the final cut as it’s stomping. This should put a smile on your face today. Press play for treats.
Manchester’s Joe Gavin has a new edit online this week courtesy of Stu Bentley’s camera work. This raw, rolling edit features footage of Joe skating London’s streets and Mile End alongside Jak Pietryga, Gez Curran and Joleon Pressey.
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Tom Knox takes Edit of the Week hands down today with this brand new section filmed for Emerica and Blueprint.
He joined the Emerica UK team in February this year and has continued to smash it. This new section has backed that up ten fold moving up to the European team this week, get ready for a seriously great edit filmed by Jake Harris edited by Dan Magee.
The infamous Heygate Estate was built in the 1970’s and has been a part of inner city London skyline ever since. When built, it was considered an ideal urban dwelling but it soon had problems with gangs and for many skaters the brick bank spots weren’t worth the hassle.
Right now, residents of the estate have been evicted. So until the demolition is completed in just under a year’s time, it is ours to be shared with graffiti writers along with the inevitable squatters and street drinkers.
The estate is huge and packed full of a variety of brick branks, with rails and hips too. Be warned, the spots are sketchy and you will hang up on plenty of stray stones and twigs. If you go at the right time though, the estate is deserted and skating round it is a pretty enchanting experience.
