Another new baby...
April 3, 2009
New site... new Japan '08 film. It was a fun tour. Enjoy.
Frost 'n Booze
March 31, 2009
This is the only non-etnies stuff I filmed in Tampa. I wish I skated half as fast as Dennis...
Drop in, push twice, powerslide, kickflip wallride!
March 31, 2009
It doesn't make sense to me... but hey... I'm sure I bewilder people regularly too.
"Earth Hour" was pathetic...
March 31, 2009
"Earth Hour..." because that's all the time we can spare to devote to saving energy.
Check out NYC before "Earth Hour."
Now check out NYC during "Earth Hour." Totally Weak.
Best roomate ever...
March 27, 2009
Not only is Tyler the best guy to room with on tour... but he rips in the most nonchalant of ways. Check out how unfazed he is by the ledge lurker on a kfbstskf as he pops out over the kid's board:
Festivus: YBAm / Damn Am Awards
March 25, 2009
Festivus: YBAm / Damn Am Awards
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag, May 2009
Skateboarders totally deserve awards.
I mean, after all, we’re the best, right? Plus, winning is utterly important. You’re cool if you win stuff. When you win, kids (and even adults in some cases) all over the world want to be like you. Chicks want you to penetrate them. People throw money and free crap at you. You don’t have to wait in line to get into cool parties, and then, once you’re in the party, everyone will buy you free drinks and stare at you and want to stand by you… the possibilities are endless when you’re a winner in this world.
Don’t ever be a loser or your life will suck. You will fail at everything and get pimples and girls will ignore you and your friends and total strangers will ostracize you until you cry and there will be YouTube videos of you doing embarrassing stuff and you’ll want to Elliot Smith yourself. Just ask someone you know who’s a loser. They’ll tell you it sucks. Not every loser is cool and triumphant like Napoleon Dynamite. He’s a romanticized and idealized utopian loser. Real losers don’t come out on top of the world and catch a delicious bass to give to their girl in the end like he did. Real losers are miserable and have the worst luck ever and would never catch a delicious bass. They’d end up reeling in an old shoe or a tire and just as they are doing that, some winner will run up behind them and push them into the mucky, brackish lake.
Festivus: Emerica Braydon Shoe party
March 25, 2009
Festivus: Emerica's Braydon Szafranski Shoe Release Party
By Rob Brink
The Skateboard Mag, May 2009
In the world of skateboarding journalism, there are three very common ways to document a party: “Press release-style,” which tends to be rather embellishing, dry and unimaginative; “Zany party guy-style,” which is essentially the drunk frat boy perspective; and “Cryptic/abstract-style,” popularized in the '90s by Big Brother magazine, which employs a technique of avoiding the actual subject matter and exploring a peripheral perspective.
Since we have that great new president in office, why not celebrate and keep the democratic spirit going strong by offering all three methods to tell the tale of Braydon's Emerica pro model shoe release party? This way you can choose the one you like the best-just like voting!
Tampa...
March 24, 2009
While everyone was out doing the same moat race coverage you've seen for 15 years, RB Umali and I caught Nick's beast of a kickflip.
I wish I knew back 360s.
This guy won. I wish I knew frontside flips.
Dennis...
March 24, 2009
I was most excited to see Dennis skate at Tampa over the weekend. Of course, other dudes are good, but nowhere near as exciting to watch. One thing I realized... he skates so fast that sometimes you need a freeze frame to realize how high he actually does shit. Case in point, the catch on the tre and kickflip below.
