Thursday, October 25, 2012

Magenta Hill Street Blues 2

This past weekend in San Francisco saw a crush of skateboard-centric events ranging widely from the easily-accessible-to-the-uninitiated Dew Tour to the humbler presentation of a new film by free-wheelin' French dirts Magenta Skateboards.

And while the latter definitely catered to those more apt to drink tall cans of Tecate out of brown paper bags than bubbly yellow corn syrup and/or monstrous concoctions of taurine/caffeine/etc., both, indeed, were displays of total ripping.

Check out the Magenta trailer:

The scene at the show.














The premiere, held at Book and Job Gallery, proved to be popular amongst the Bay's dedicated street-slashing set. Alongside the video was a two-floor installation of photographs by Color Magazine's Isaac McKay-Randozzi, John Lindsay, Stereo-pro and friend-of-Magenta Ben Gore and others. The photographs, many of which depict the stunts/spots/skaters featured in the video, read less as a catalog of production stills than an earnest endeavor to capture a sense of the attendant adventure inherent in skateboarding: the triumphant rollaway, the migratory hit-and-run approach to city spots (and non-spots, too), the often unnerving clack-clack-clack of racing the sidewalk's approaching end into a blind intersection--an essential expression of skating's violent bliss.

And at just 16 minutes, it's well-suited for pre-schralp viewing. Order a copy from Theories of Atlantis by clicking here.

And if you've yet to see the Dew Tour stuff, click here.

Dew Tour SF 2012 Skateboarding

Dew Tour clips. Dudes obviously smoked it.
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This one's worth watching just for the ridiculous chest slide Daveed endures.
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Monday, October 22, 2012

Forrest Edwards: Unhinged Thrasher Part

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A few short years ago, this would've been an ender part and a career milestone. In 2012, it's a web-clip of a dude with no board sponsor. Pretty crazy, huh? Is it the internet age's destabilization of the marketplace for physically-reproduced creative content or the now-seemingly entrenched expectation of free-of-charge access to books, newspapers, movies, music and, yes, even amazing skate footage?

Whatever your personal take, and my own disbelief at the absurd advancement of technical prowess aside, one thing is absolutely certain: This foo rips shit to fuckin' shreds.

Darin Howard, sign this dude up on the DLX program!

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

New Flip Stuff: Ben Nordberg and "Weight of the World" Tour Video

Shit be tight.

Foundation "WTF" Full Length

WTF! from Foundation on Vimeo.

This one's even older than the Darkstar video, also forgot to post it. This tape is sick! Merlino is insane.

Darkstar "Forward Slash" Full Length

This came out a few months ago, but I forgot to post it. Here it is in case you haven't seen it.