You wouldn’t expect Vans to be the presenting sponsor of the new hit Stacy Peralta documentary The Bones Brigade: An Autobiography without getting the clothing and footwear licensing deals out of it would you? No. You wouldn’t. And you’d be right.
In celebration of the highly-anticipated new documentary from Vans’ first sponsored skateboarder, Stacy Peralta, Vans offers a limited Vans x Bones Brigade footwear and apparel collection available now at finer skate shops and Vans retail stores worldwide.
You can load up on all the Bones Brigade 2012 official gear at www.vans.com/bonesbrigade. They also have some social media friendly games to play on the page as well. Think of it as one more reason to give VF Corp more of your money.
While skateboarders can be precious, Peralta’s film is refreshingly honest about the commercial motivations behind Powell’s marketing efforts. For instance, while the biggest stars of the Bones Brigade were ramp skaters like Hawk, Powell-Peralta began pushing street skateboarding as a way to broaden the appeal to kids who didn’t have access to ramps. (He claims to have enough on the cutting room floor for an entire documentary on the advent of “street” skateboarding.)
Not sure there is anything else we need to say about this other than Tony and radio show host and author Jason Ellis sit around, tell stories from their times together, poopy pants, and eat bugs. Yum.
It seems it was only a matter of time. Jason Jesse has been wearing these clothes, riding these bikes, shooting these guns, and sporting this style since long before Brixton was even a brand. Might as well put a couple logos on him.
“Jason is an inspiration to people inside and outside of skateboarding,” said Brixton co-founder and Brand Manager David Stoddard. “He brings a rich heritage to the Brixton family and we are honored to be working with him.”
“I feel right at home on Brixton,” said Jessee. “I’m into everything they’re into, so it’s very comfortable. I wear two hats and a lot of clothes and their stuff rules so I am fully stoked on being a part of this.”
Former Snowboarder Magazine online editor (and award winning photographer) Laura Austin is curating a photographer show at the Lomography Gallery Store LA during the month of November 2012. The show is titled Everyone’s A Photographer. The show features images from Chad Muska, Corey Smith, Jared Eberhardt, Jeremy & Claire Weiss, Natas Kaupas, Ian Ruhter, Danny Zapalac, Jason Lee Parry, and Laura Austin herself.
The opening party for the show kicks off Friday night, November 2, 2012 at 7 PM and features free drinks from Pabst, Peligroso Tequila, and O.N.E. Coconut Water with DJ Aaron Castle and others spinning through out the night. The event is free but they’d like you to RSVP to store.losangeles@lomography.com.
On Saturday while we were rolling a quiet bowl and casually carving pumpkins the rest of the Southern California skate world was at Bucky Lasek’s house for the annual Bucky’s Bowl-B-Q. Here’s a little of what you missed.
The next time we’re asked “what’s wrong with today’s college students” we’ll point to this video of an entitled, bratty, obnoxious, rude, cargo-short wearing, flipflop sporting longboarder on his way to class. It is obvious that this kid should have been spanked as a toddler. Sadly, he’ll likely end up the CEO of a major corporation, because these are the skills American business seems to appreciate.
The Danny Way Waiting For Lightning bio-pic officially hits theaters (and digital downloads) on December 7, 2012.
Waiting For Lightning is the inspirational story of visionary skateboarder Danny Way. The film follows the journey of a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him fame and a lifetime of accomplishments. Way’s drive has no limits as exemplified by his creation captured on screen, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China’s Great Wall on a skateboard. It’s a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the challenges life presents, and how high and far dreams can fly.
Here’s a little taste for everyone who missed the premiere.
Chicago skateboarding leader, mentor, and legend Reggie Destin died Saturday, October 29, 2012 from the injuries he suffered when he was hit and run down by a drunk driver in the early hours of October 19, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times. He was 42.
On Saturday, just hours after Destin’s death, dozens of people — most of them skateboarders and many of them in tears — gathered at Uprise, a skateboard shop near the scene of the accident. The group of about 50 walked somberly to the 1700 block of North Milwaukee Avenue and placed a white skateboard — similar to a “ghost bike” left as a memorial to a slain bicyclist — at the site where Destin was hit. Flowers, pictures and other mementos were left at the memorial.
