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ETS 'zine...

November 15, 2009

Blair made a 'zine. Limited edish. You'll be missed, Eric...

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The Romano effect...

November 10, 2009

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There's a great piece about Johnny Romano on ESPN today...

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Boneless 'zine!

November 9, 2009

When a 12-year-old comes up to me at the Johnny Romano Make a Wish event asking if I'll check out his 'zine I say, "Hell yeah!" I certainly wasn't this ambitious at 12. Probably would have jumped started my career way better. 'Lil man even got a Sieben interview! Nice one, Rye!

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Quote of the week... from the maestro...

November 9, 2009

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"I've spent my entire life in radio. And out of all the guys I've ever met who were in charge of things... and I've worked for hundreds of guys... I'd say maybe two knew anything that I could even respect. Like... guys that kind of had interesting thoughts on radio and how it should go down... two."

-Howard Stern

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Make A Wish...

November 9, 2009

I was lazy this weekend and shot two sequences. Luis Tolentino made it easy for me. I only aimed the camera at him twice and both were makes. Conserving megabytes for sure...

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The top of that rail is really high.

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Double heel.

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Makin' wishes and makin' out!

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The Story Behind Boxton Square

November 4, 2009

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Wrote this piece on/with Mike Manzoori and Sharon Tomlin about their work on Boxton Square and it got shut down by etnies... resulting in my inspiration and writing of the Legend of Boxton Square fiction that ran in the mag. If at first you don't succeed...

Anyway, thought someone out there might be interested in reading... so here ya go.

The Story Behind Boxton Square
By Rob Brink

“There were supposed to be clouds made of corn starch packing peanuts, but there just wasn’t time. I’m pretty gutted about that… they would’ve been awesome,” says etnies Skate and Create art director, Sharon Tomlin. “But Mike [Manzoori, director] did a pretty good job of reminding me to keep it as simple as possible—otherwise I'd still be barricaded in the etnies TF making overly detailed buildings, cityscapes and sniffing glue. I'm amazed we made as much stuff as we did in the time we had.”

“To be honest, my heart was not into this project at all until the concept came together and got me sparked,” says Mike Manzoori, “Having done Skate and Create with Emerica last year, my main goal was to create a dream world that would be easy to configure around the skateboarding that would occur when the etnies team (Sean Malto, Mikey Taylor, Kyle Leeper, Tyler Bledsoe and Davis Torgerson) rolled in.”

After talking in circles with the crew at countless creative meetings, Manzoori turned to Tomlin for a bit of inspiration.

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Let's keep this Fletcher thing going...

November 4, 2009

I didn't know this was happening while doing the Fletcher blitz last week, but coincidentally, he just had this little part come out... and from the looks of some of the etnies he was wearing, I can easily confirm that some of the footage is over three and four years old while other stuff is pretty recent. Fuck yeah, Fletch!

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Found one more Fletcher bit!

November 1, 2009

Because a lot of you asked for it... There's always these oldies but goodies from the early days of this site...

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Toy Machine Helloween!

October 31, 2009

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There was a manny pad in Leo's way. So he backside flipped it.

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Leo... avoiding the manual pad again.

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Guess who the new Toy rider is!

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Strange World...

October 30, 2009

In an attempt to avoid the seemingly popular "I'll snarkily rant about a new skate video ad nauseum on my blog" thing that's been all the rage lately... I'll just say that Marisa ripped and Garrett Hill has come a long way. Can't wait to see his part again. Oh... and here's a warehouse video part worth noting before you see Strange World...

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