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The L.A. Skate Film Festival Wrap Up

September 8th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, dvd, entertainment, event, movie, video

The L.A. Skate Film Festival wrapped up on the 3rd of September . The films selected for viewing were:

The Best Commercial
Nestle Aero
La tabla Skaters
Woodward

Best US Film
Hallelujah
Extremely Sorry

Best Documentary
Skateistan
10,000 Kilometers
Deathbowl to Downtown

Best International
Plank
The Gypsea Tour
Riding the Long White Cloud

Best Independent
Machotaildrop
Wizard Smoke
Fresno

Best Emerging
Corridor of Shame
19 Years Young
Symmetry

Best Skate Shop
The Dango Is Dead
Spot On
ZVD

…and the Winners Were… Drum Roll…

Best Emerging Filmmaker: Symmetry, Directed and Produced by Dayman Cash.

Best International Film: Plank, Directed by Billy Pols, Produced by Maarten Kuit. Executive Producer: Jeroen Van Den Idsert.

Best Skate Shop Video: The Dango is Dead, Directed and produced by Joe Perrin. Executive Producer: John Montesi.

Best Independent Film: Machotaildrop, Directed by Corey Adams and Alex Craig, Producers: Oliver Linsley and Jared Valentine, Executive Producers: Shon Tomlin and CJ Olivares.

Best Documentary: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul, Directed by Orlando Von Einsiedel, Produced by Orlando Von Einsiedel and Louis Figgis. Executive Producers: Jon Prever, Thanh Ma, Rod Stanley.

Best Commercial: Nestle Aero, Directed by Ty Evans, Produced by Nathan De La Rionda. Executive Producer: Dana Garman.

Best US Film: Extremely Sorry, Directed by Flip Productions, produced by Ewan Bowman. Executive Producers: Geoff Rowley and Jeremy Fox, Claymation: Edgar Alvarez, Original Music: Baron.

Best Soundtrack: Extremely Sorry, Original Music: Baron.

Best Editing: Wood, Directed by Colin Kennedy, Produced by Cullen Pythress. Executive Producer: Tim Gavin.

Best Photography: Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul.

Some interesting videos that are a little different than what we would associate with the skateboarding video.

The Best International Film winner Plank hosted on the emerica website was made last year by Billy Pols. It’s a story about Dutch/Morrocan skateboarder Nassim Guammaz. Although he didn’t win it in 2009, he went on to win the Street Section of the 2010 etnies European Skateboard Championship in Basel, Switzerland.

Also here at Tacky.

Best Commercial Winner Nestle Aero, with skating by Bob Burnquist.

The Best Documentary Winner was Skateistan: To Live and Skate Kabul. Skateistan is Afghanistan’s first co-educational skateboarding school. Here is the trailer for the film.

Another trailer from the Best Emerging Filmmaker, Dayman Cash for his video Symmetry.

If you’re interested in seeing more from Dayman Cash here is his YouTube Channel.

The L.A. Skate Film Festival has some clips on YouTube.
The url for it is http://www.youtube.com/user/LASk8FilmFest

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Old Andrew Reynolds Clip – Baker Bootleg 1999

September 5th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, clip, video

Hyped up over Andrew Reynolds’ ender on Stay Gold? Here’s some footage from him when he was getting gold.


From the original 1999 Baker Bootleg video.

From SkimtheFat:
Following the release of Birdhouse The End, Jay Strickland (who was Birdhouse’s manager at the time) and Andrew Reynolds decided to develop an idea for their own team and company. Unhappy with the image of being at Birdhouse, the two shared sentiments about not identifying with the team and wanted to create something they felt better represented them and their crew of friends. Back then, a majority of their crew was living in Huntington Beach (the infamous Warner Ave. Mob). They hung out, skated together, filmed each other, threw the footage onto VHS tapes and suddenly, Baker was born. Bootleg represents the early days of the crew before they were actually considered a team.

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Emerica – Stay Gold

August 23rd, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, book, dvd, event, international, video

Here’s an interview at the Hollywood Stay Gold Premiere from FuelTV.
And another at the New York City Premiere of Stay Gold on KarmaloopTV.

Andrew “THE Boss” Reynolds comments on the Video.

Stay Gold features sections by Aaron Suski, Andrew Reynolds, Brandon Westgate, Braydon Szafranski, Jerry Hsu, Kevin Long, Bryan Herman, Ed Templeton, Leo Romero, Marquis Preston, Collin Provost, Justin Figueroa, Jamie Tancowny and Heath Kirchart (as an easter egg).

The Bonus has Andrews’s Madness – looking at his OCD, a feature on Ed’s Book in the Deluxe version, Emerica Europe flow sections, an International Montage and US riders who are on the flow program.

The DVD has hidden footage (easter eggs) of Heath Kirchart (from the chapter select menu, select “back to main” button, hit right arrow button once, hit enter) and the Barrier Cult (from the bonus menu, select “Andrew Madness” button, hit left arrow button once, hit enter).

Heath Kirchart has retired from skating in demos and videos, hence his reduced role in the video. His “hidden section” was a career summary rather than groundbreaking new footage. After the US premiere Justin “Figgy” Figueroa became pro for Baker.

Here’s Ed Templeton talking about the deluxe DVD set that includes a photographic book with 148 pages containing photographs of the Emerica team over the last ten years by Ed Templeton, Michael Burnett, Atiba Jefferson, and Mike O’Meally.

Some photos, with amusing comments from the Baker Boy’s Distribution blog on the Stay Gold World premiere.

The Deluxe DVD with Book.
Emerica Stay Gold Book Front
Emerica Stay Gold Book Back

Here are some of the product to go with that Stay Gold DVD. A Romero shoe…
Romero - Stay Gold
… and my personal favourite the Reynolds 3 – Stay Gold.
Reynolds - Stay Gold
There are six shoe styles available in the Stay Gold colourway.

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Fairfield Clip

August 7th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in Dunedin, Fairfield, New Zealand, movie, skatepark, video

Here’s a clip from the VX of Nikk Sansom, filmed over the last month or so at Fairfield. It features Jono Manning, Nikk Sansom, Adam Mutch, Tom McAuslan, Josh Tana, Isaac Payne, Chris Gaul, Mitch Duncan and Pj Wybrow.

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Behind the Lens

July 8th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in international, video

On the Transworld site they have been doing this “Behind the Lens” series. Being someone who occasionally films things and sometimes does photography, I’m always a sucker for this type of story.

The first pair is by Ricki Bedenbaugh who has filmed for Element and Oakley. On the second of the videos he talks about both Ryan Sheckler and Dave Bachinsky possibly getting injured doing their kickflips. I’m scared of that when I go to video/photograph people who are doing gnarly tricks, It’s such a good feeling when the trick is in the done and dusted. You’re aware that skaters need that sort of footage or photographs to make their way in the skateboarding industry, but it’s still hard not to be scared.

The next lot is by Chris Ray a filmer and editor of Transworld Skateboarding’s “Hallelujah”. To me these clips are another part of filming and photography, where clips mark a time and a place and the people you are with and always that “I hope I got it, and it looks good” feeling that was particularly strong with film, but less so now with digital.

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Mountain Dew Code Red

June 29th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in competition, editorial, video, web page

There is a vertical banner on the side of my blog that has google ads on it. I think I get paid for each click or something but normally they have nothing to do with skateboarding and I guess no one ever clicks on them anyway, because I’ve never seen any money from it. Well a while back there was a Mountain Dew Code Red banner and it looked interesting. I didn’t click it because that’s a violation of the terms of use, but there was a URL http://www.mountaindewcodered.co.nz so I typed it in.

It’s a site decked out like a flat that features three action sports athletes (“the Residents”), a prize room (“Gear Room”) and a TV with action sports videos (“Watch the Stunts”) on it. The action sports athletes are: wakeboarder Brad Smeeke, BMXer Haimona Ngata and skateboarding’s Brett Band. I always have two feelings when I see these sites, first I’m happy that a skateboarder has the opportunity to be on this sort of thing and that someone from outside is interested in skateboarding, but then I get disappointed because it’s too mainstream and thus a little cheesy.

Anyway here’s Brett’s footage on the “Watch the Stunts” section and a behind the scenes clip featuring all three “action sports stars”.

The site is pretty much done now and all the clips are up.

Here in New Zealand Code Red has a berry flavour, but in the US it’s cherry. In the States things have moved on as far as the flavours go, in addition to the CodeRed (Cherry), there is LiveWire (Orange) and Voltage (Raspberry, Citrus and Ginseng), as well as White Out (White-Colored Citrus) which is due out later this year.

Things have also moved on with the Green Label Sports too. In addition to the Dew Tour with footage here, Paul Rodriguez has a mini site. The tour must cost a bit to put on, and I doubt if it they would break even let alone make a profit. It’s cool that they have chosen to put money into our sport.

Another interesting feature on the US site is the “Green Label Art” Shop Series. Thirty-five skate shops across seven different regions in the US each created their own can design. Pretty cheesy, but it’d be cool to have your own can. Schidt colab.

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Love Child Remake

June 26th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, history, nostalgia, video

On the DVS website there is a clip of Daewon Song doing a remake of his Love Child section. Pretty cool.

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Rodney Mullen Article in Huck Magazine and on Thrasher

June 22nd, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in interview, magazine, video

Rodney Mullen has always been one of my favourite skaters. His autobiography The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself was an excellent read. Here is an article and interview in the digital edition of UK magazine Huck of the man who provided the basis for modern street skating…

… and here on Thrasher, “Ask The Phelper” with a Rodney Mullen interview clip. Part one.

And part two.

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Old New Zealand Skateboarding Videos

June 18th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in New Zealand, history, nostalgia, video

A couple of old New Zealand videos previously only available on VHS tape have popped up on the internet.

From ABC part 1 of Freedom Movement, hosted by abccuztv on YouTube, with more parts to follow.

and now Part 2

and part three

Highlights from Screenplay the IRROM video.

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X Games – “Real Street”

June 5th, 2010 by william | No Comments | Filed in USA, competition, entertainment, event, movie, street, video, web page

Take 12 Street Skaters, get them to make a 60-second street video part, drip feed the sections out onto the internet through a Xgames page and you got “Real Street”, a new event for X-Games 16. They’ll feature two sections a week for six weeks starting on June 21st, with the last two sections showing July 25th. On August 1st, all 12 sections will be played on the final day of the X Games 16 broadcast. Pat Duffy, Ed Templeton, Jamie Thomas and Geoff Rowley will choose the winner, who gets $50,000 and an X Games gold medal to hang around their neck.

The contestants are a mixed bunch:
Benny Fairfax
Leo Romero
Corey Duffel
Garrett Hill
Jake Duncombe
Luan Oliveira
Nick Trapasso
Johnny Layton
Sierra Fellers
Tony Tave
Zered Bassett
Tommy Sandoval

Here’s the promo.

Interesting.

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