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.
Seems most of the SoCal action industry made the pilgrimage to Las Vegas the weekend of October 14-16, 2011 for the Caffeinated High Fructose Corn Sweetener Finals presented by Go Kill Elephants Daddy. We didn’t watch one lick of the contest so we’re not going to pretend to know what went down, but from the looks of the results there were no real surprises.
PLG took the vert event and the 2011 tour title, while Ryan Decenzo did the same in street. Follow the jump for the full results. [click to continue…]
Today (October 14, 2011) Thrasher Magazine announced that they have convinced Ewan Bowman to join the team as Director of Videography.
[Ewan] work with P-Stone, Schmitty and the rest of the crew to take the videos you see on our website and DVDs to the next level of radical. Though he’s known for being one of the best in the biz behind the camera and computer, we’re stoked to have Ewan on the team because he’s a stand-up dude, a true skater and fuckin’ hilarious.
We can’t agree more. Follow the jump for an full interview with “Lord Bo.”
Last night the pleas went out over Facebook, Instagram, and via text: Skateboarder Kanten Russell’s 15-year-old daughter Kaelia has been reported missing in Chula Vista, California. She was reportedly last seen with a Bryan Espinoza in a yellow Nissan Xterra with license number 6AZP660.
Captain Roxana Kennedy of the Chula Vista Police department says they’re doing everything they can.
“What we have is a high school girl who was last seen with her boyfriend,” Kennedy said. “They left in a vehicle together. . . Right now there is nothing that we have to follow up on that would suggest foul play. This girl does not have a history of runaway. So the family is understandably concerned. We are doing everything we can and if anything came up that suggested foul play we would release that information.
Hopefully, it doesn’t come to that. Anyone who has info should call the Chula Vista Police Department at (619) 691-5151.
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.
