Here are all the new fall 2013 looks from Bohnam featuring Koki Kasai along with Adam Taylor, Cody Subido, Austin Lycans, Chris Larue, Kyle Berard, and Cameron Wetzler. Time to get your outdoor, fishing, skate on with Bohnam.
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Brooklyn, New York’s BAMcinematek has lined up one seriously deepcollections of skateboard filmmaking as they present Skateboarding Is Not A Crime. The 24-film series runs September 6-23, 2013 at The BAMcinematek and BAM Rose Cinemas. No one deconstructs what many of us take for granted like the New York art crowd and this festival is no different. Here’s an example:
The ultimate in counterculture coolness, “skating” has made an irresistibly sexy subject for movies thanks to its rebel-athlete superstars, SoCal slacker fashion, and jaw-dropping jumps, ollies, tricks, and stunts.
Right. That said, this collection of skateboarding film includes the classics from every era featuring The Devil’s Toy from 1966, Scott Dittrich’s Freestylin‘, Spike Jonze’s Yeah Right, and Hollywood classics like Thrashin’ and Gleaming The Cube. For the entire breakdown of all 24 films and a schedule of the screenings, follow the jump.
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Roger Folsom gets on it at Granite Skate Park. Photo: Paul Kitagaki/Bee
As the late 70s became the early 80s it was difficult to skate a pool in Northern California without hear tales of the N-Men. Whether it was their signature “N-Men” scrolled on a pool wall or an occasional glimpse of their founder Randy Katen drawing out long, fast lines at a local skate park, it was hard not to know of them. At the time, some younger Sacramento skaters even began calling themselves the “N-Punks” in tribute to the SacTown pool legends.
Sacramento Bee writer Chris Macias gets the N-Men straight story from Katen, Bryce Kanights, Thomas Bix, David Moorhouse, Marty Radan, and Jamie Hart in his story N-Men Skateboard Into the Sunset.
Over the decades, the N-Men have earned a reputation as one of Northern California’s pioneering skateboard crews, especially when it comes to skating in pools. In a sport that’s synonymous with youth culture, these elders command respect when they show up to a skate spot, even if they don’t roll the fastest, catch the most air or execute the latest tricks. . . They paid their dues back when skateboarding was dangerous, sometimes dodging the law or braving barbed-wire fencing that stood between them and a skate session.
The best news from the story is mention of a N-Men documentary on the way. Could be a while, but it will be worth the wait for certain. For the rest of the story click the link.
[Link: Sacramento Bee]
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Ray Barbee is getting a little behind the lens with his feature in Element’s Perpective film series. Just watch it. You’ll get it.
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Morgan Smith has a Venture Pro Truck this fall (with Blue Jays on em). In the meantime, here he is always on the grind.
[Link: Venture Trucks]
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Ever since the GrindMedia consolidation of the action sports media business on May 20, 2013, there seems to have been nothing but changes for the employees of both companies (no duh!). The first casualty was Transworld Surf Magazine. Now, it’s GrindMedia’s turn to take a hit as the publisher has reportedly decided to stop what little print and digital operations Skateboarder Magazine had left and move forward with their leading skateboard media property TransWorld Skateboarding, according to a post on SkateDaily.net.
“Unfortunately market conditions have forced us to have to make the difficult decision to cease publication of Skateboarder,” said Norb Garrett, SVP Group Publisher of GrindMedia. “It’s especially disappointing given the strong interest and initial success we’ve had with the new digitally focused editions; our Skateboarder team has worked incredibly hard producing a cutting-edge product that has been successful at reaching a larger audience online. We will take all of the learnings from Skateboarder’s efforts and apply them to TransWorld Skateboarding and our other brands as the digital model has demonstrated real promise.”
Yes, they say you learn more in failure than in success. If that is true, then things should be looking up nicely for the crew at Transworld Skateboarding, indeed. This also means that there’s one more face off yet to be played between Snowboarder Magazine and Transworld Snowboarding. Wonder which way that one will go? Maybe they’ll both stay.
[Link: Transworld Business and SkateDaily]
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On Saturday night, August 17, 2013 Girl Skateboards celebrated their 20th Anniversary (yeah, you’re old) in Los Angeles, California at the Known Gallery on Fairfax. Girl rounded up an amazing collection of their skateboards, photos, and people from two decades of real skateboarding in Southern California. If you didn’t go Crailtap.com has rounded up all the photos of all the legendary people you would have bumped elbows with had you gone. Click here for all the photos.
[Link: Crailtap via SkateDaily]
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Dennis Busenitz can get more skateboarding done in 29 seconds that most pros do all week. Here’s more proof from Spitfire.
[Link: Spitfire Wheels]
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On August, 25, 2013 Rob Dydek and his merry band of street skating pranksters will be putting on their Super Crown World Championship Show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. This brings to a close the 2013 SLS season and could be their best show yet. So, are you going?
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To promote their cruiser skateboards Globe did what any skateboarding company would do. They loaded up the Ace Palm Springs Hotel with a bunch of girls in bikinis (and topless); strategically stacked the booty in prime locations; and let the boys skateboard all over them them. And it works, because there is a dearth of booty in the world. Grow you quiver, indeed.
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