Los Angeles skater Oscar Loreto was born with no left foot and only one finger, but that hasn’t stopped him from skateboarding well as proved by this clip from SBC Skateboard. For more on Oscar or the Adaptive Action Sports organization, click the link.
Check out the trailer for the powerful film Alekesam that explores the life of musician Hugh Masekela and his relationship to his son, action sports announcer, Sal Masekela. As director Jason Bergh says:
It began as a simple, four minute promo for my dear friend Sal Masekela’s new album, and emerged as the greatest project of my career, and the most important story I have ever told. The world has known Sal Masekela as the face of action sports for more than fifteen years. But they have not known the man behind the name, Selema Mabena Masekela, whose last name represents not only worldwide musical success and fame, but personal and political struggle.
OFF! is a “super group” lead by ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris and they are reportedly bringing “back everything we loved about old school West Coast skate culture.” Sounds good to us.
Allen Ginsberg saw the best minds of his generation “destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix” and it looks like Jed Anderson, Laurent-Nicolas Paquin, Jake Kuzyk, Darrell Mathes, Danny Larsen, Jake Olsen-Elm, Gus Engle, Nima Jalali, Nick Dirks, Jonas Michilot, and Desiree Melancon are right there with him on the Howl team. Click Howlltd.com for all the infos.
Following the premiere everyone rolled over to the for an after party at The Roosevelt Hotel.
If you (like us) missed the movie and all the Hollywood celebrity action, just click right here to see all the photos of stars like Danny Way and his Mom (above), Ken Block, Tommy Lee, The Dingo, Johnny Knoxville,Daryl Hannah, Steve-O, and Adriana Patridge.
We’re guessing there were some skaters there as well, but not many of them made the red carpet cut it seems.