Woven Documentary

This looks interesting. Although the common thread between a load of the skaters shown is that they are God botherers. Hopefully religion and skate (see what I did there?) can be seperate in this production.

Pulman & Emb

I found this (badly taken) photo of Chris the other day in a shoebox. Chris is popping down the legendary Embarcadero stairs on one of the two nights we skated there back in 1997. Good times.

Guy Mariano 1997

I think I uploaded this a couple of years ago but I can't remember exactly, ah well. Anyway, this is a short Guy section from the Transworld video 'Cinematographers' which was a nice experiment in skate video format. Rather than the usual video parts and montages videographers like RB Umali, Mike Manzoori, Ty Evans, Tim Dowling, etc were given their own sections in which they edited their own footage...so it was sort of a collection of mini videos. This Guy footage was part of the Tim Dowling section and is a bit of a rare gem as late 90s Mariano footage was few and far between.

Reese Forbes

I just uploaded to Youtube a very early part from one of the lords of pop. This part is from a very rare Goodtimes Intelligence Agency promo video I picked up off eBay years back. I'm guessing it's filmed by Dan Wolfe seeing as it's all Freedom Plaza footage and the same year Eastern Exposure 2 came out, with a section filmed there if I remember right. Whoever filmed it...what is sick are the flip tricks being done at huge height at fast speed. For the time, this was cutting edge street skateboarding. That 360 flip at the end over the bin is earth shattering, then and now. GIA was probably the first American skate company owned by a Brit, well, a Scot to be precise, Graham Stanners.

Red Dawn

Red Dawn (1984) was the first video I ever watched when my parents got their first VCR in the 80s. If you are unaware of this generally forgotten Brat Pack (ish) film, it's about The Russians and the Cubans invading the American midwest and during the initial invasion a group of high school kids escape to the mountains. Through the winter the teens (including Patrick Swayze as the quarterback, Charlie Sheen as his brother, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey) become the Wolverines, a crack guerilla unit conducting demoralising raids on the occupying forces.

For me it ultimately fulfils two of my favourite film genres, High School and Cold War. Can't go wrong!

Lesque

Another blog just pointed me in the direction of this rad little Japanese company called Lesque. Great skaters, graphics, photos, video and spots. Can't ask for more.

Akira Tee

I Loved this t-shirt. Back in like 1991 Manga was finally being distributed in the UK rather than just imports at places like Forbidden Planet. It was now possible to by videos via mail order for a tenner and I bought a tonne of them plus a small mountain of comics too. I bought this tee not long after seeing Akira for the first time and being blown away. I think this tee came out of retirement a few times before charity shop death.

It amazes me the amount of money from my first job's wages I spent on videos, clothes and music. The magic of not paying rent and bills I guess.

Alien Workshop Wallets

Around 1998 or 1999 Alien Workshop used to sell these cheapish wallets that had those crappy clear card holders inside that tore and fell apart in seconds of you using them. Inside the card holder for each wallet when you bought them was a little card with an AWS design or photo so one day my sticky fingers snatched up one of each design.

Last Night

A few photos from last night's skate around Croydon.

Hawk Cashin #364

Tony Hawk has never been shy of cashing in. Back in 1989 I bought this skate bag that could hold a board that was Tony approved. Even had a little fingerboard in there too. Needless to say it was a really ugly shape, cheap materials and the strap broke after a few months. Oh well.

NYC & Philly

Small part from a 1998 Thrasher video with some Stevie Williams, Huf, Torres, Trudnowski, Wenning, etc.

Trevn Sharp

This NYE Trevn was my drunk co-pilot. I think I came out worse though, probably due to my brain being all confused by his card tricks. That's what my official line is anyway. Trevn is one of Meg's oldest friends and one of the nicest guys in Canadian skateboarding. Fingers crossed for that leg to finally heal up.

Here is an old part of Trevn's from a few years ago from a video called Disco Orange. It's up on Rip.tv, an online video source Trevn is working with.

The One Foot Tailgrab

Stoked to see Ramondetta bring this beautiful trick back from it's hibernation. Check the new DLX catalogue for literally hours of product lusting, video watching, links and goodness.

Mark Gonzales in New York

Sometimes YouTube really does come up trumps, apart from seeing clips in On Video and some other places i hadn't seen the whole of this Gonz section since like 1988 when it came out. Vision videos were always cheesy and terrible and The Gonz hardly had any footage back then but somehow in all that rough is this diamond of a section filmed in New York. So, so good.

Early 90s Favourite

This tee by Stereo was a real favourite of mine back in the very early 90s. It was pretty huge, I guess a XXL but you know, 93 and all that, everyone rocked the oversized tees and jeans. I found this photo I took of it before it got thrown away because I foolishly had a bit of a life laundry about 5 years ago. Still kicking myself. More regrets to come soon.

New 411 Krooked Montage

Russ pointed me in the direction of this earlier today. Sickness.

Plastic Trophy

Dan Kircher sent up from New Zealand a copy of the new Manual Magazine which comes with the skate video 'Plastic Trophy' by Bill Bycroft on DVD. It's a rad video with a bunch of sick up and coming skaters plus a new full part by NZ legend, Andrew Morrison. 'Morri' was pro in the late 80s/early 90s for New Deal and it's great to see him still killing it hard on a skateboard.

Here is the trailer:

Crystal Palace Tower

Markovich & EPMD

Classic Markovich part from Prime's 1994 video Fight Fire With Fire with EPMD's 'Strictly Business'.

Oh Dear

Chad Knight on the new American Gladiators...