Last night (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) skateboarding filters, editors, and stars gathered at Hollywood, California’s Music Box for the “invite only” International Skateboarding Film Festival Awards presentations. Festival founder Fabrice Le Mao, (pictured right) welcomed everyone to the awards and then they went down a little like this:
After a tie between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma’s Kyle Walker and Virginia Beach, Virginia’s Trevor Colden in the Volcom Damn Am Street Finals at Woodward West in Tehachipi, Californiaon Sunday, October 23, 2011, organizers had to step back to their second runs and that meant Walker took it for the second year in a row.
From the above footage from Saturday’s street recap it would seem that the extra drive out into the sticks kept the lurkers out and everyone got down to some serious skateboarding. Congrats. Follow the jump for full results [click to continue…]
Videographer Dave Bergthold hit the road with the iPath team for some rock and rolling in the wilds of the American Southwest. It is only part 1 of iPath’s three-part Search and Enjoy tour. Just watch, you’ll see what we mean.
The four day International Skateboard Film Festival presented by Vans kicks off tonight (October 21, 2011) at Los Angeles California’s Downtown Independent Theater with a 3D Filmmaking Panel Discussion featuring director Ty Evans with screenings of Girl Skateboards’ Unbeleafable, Krooked’s Kook3d 3D DVD, and Red Bull’s Canvas 3D Skate.
A Film Festival dedicated to skateboarding solely, a festival rooting itself in the heart of the skateboard industry and aiming for the general audience had yet to become a reality. A skateboard film festival held in the City of Angels made perfect sense.
The skateboard film festival runs Friday, October 21 to Tuesday, October 25, 2011. For all the details click the flyer to see if full-size.
Burton’s skateboard company Alien Workshop just launched an attractive new Solo Series of Celtic Sea Salt decks featuring similar but different designs for Anthony Van Engelen, Dylan Rieder, Grant Taylor, Omar Salazar, Rob Dyrdek, Mikey Taylor, Tyler Bledsoe, and Jason Dill.
Since 1976, Celtic Sea Salt Brand Sea Salt has developed a reputation as one of the finest sea salts in the world. Artisan crafted and sustainably hand-harvested Celtic Sea Salt Brand provides a healthy and flavorful alternative to refined salt.
Sometimes we forget how deep the Alien ranks go. And we shouldn’t. The boards are reportedly in shops now.
On 11-1-11 Organica will release the world premiere of Walker Ryan’s pro video part in high definition on Facebook. Click here to be the first to view it. And, if you leave a comment you just might win one of Walker’s first pro boards. Like we didn’t see this coming. . .
Take this Steven Reeves edit as a little reminder of two things from the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada range:
1. The Brothers Skatepark in Mammoth Lakes, California is raw.
2. Better skate it while you can because this whole place is going to be buried under a thick blanket of snow real soon.
Wilmer Valderrama, Jeff Renfroe and Kathy Herndl, the producers of a documentary on the life of 7-year-old Venice skatepark dominator Asher Bradshaw, have reportedly decided to go to Kickstarter.com to crowd source funding for the film, according to a story on Hollywoodreporter.com.
To raise completion funds for the project, the filmmakers have turned to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com. . . “We’re so close,” says Herndl, who is also directing the film. “We need $100,000 for post production costs and to fund the film’s entry onto the vital film festival circuit. We want the world to experience Asher’s story.”
Better than standing out on a street corner with a sign. Those who supply more than $1,000 will be listed on the Shred movie website as an associate producer. If you’d like to buy in on the project, click here.
Deceased pro skateboarder Ben Pappas’ family used Facebook to help stop a planned documentary on the skater’s troubled life and death, according to a story in The Age.
The documentary, Gnarly: The Ben Pappas Story, being filmed by Mike Hill from Moonshine Movies, had been criticized as exploitative. . . [Hill] said it had been pulled as soon as he was made aware of the family’s concerns. A spokeswoman for Louise Asher, Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business, said Film Victoria had withdrawn funding after Moonshine decided to make significant changes to the documentary.
According to the story Pappas’ body “was found in the Yarra River near Victoria Harbour in Docklands eight days after his ex-girlfriend Lynette Phillips’s battered body was discovered at Dights Falls in Abbotsford on March 3, 2007.” Not sure anyone needs to live through that all over again.
Apparently some girls got in a fight over a skateboard at a shop called Clout Malibu. The solution to that fight? A jello wrestling match. No Shame, no sorry.
Last night (Tuesday, October 25, 2011) skateboarding filters, editors, and stars gathered at Hollywood, California’s Music Box for the “invite only” International Skateboarding Film Festival Awards presentations. Festival founder Fabrice Le Mao, (pictured right) welcomed everyone to the awards and then they went down a little like this:
