Go behind the scenes with Goldcoast Skateboards‘ Product Developer, Brock Harris and Art Director, Dustin Ortiz to see hear some pretty heady stuff about skateboarding and what Goldcoast hopes to accomplish. We don’t really cruise, but there is no denying that these boards look nice.
Snowboarding brothers Jesse and Lukas Huffman produced this amazing 14-minute film exploring the lives of several Far Rockaway surfers following the devastation of Superstorm Sandy. It’s good.
We talked to Jamie Thomas about his involvement with New Balance Numeric and Hypebeast spoke with Westlife and 686 founder Mike West and Numeric Brand Manager Sebastian Palmer. West and Palmer discuss where the design is coming from and where the brand is headed. If you look very closely you’ll might even see some other familiar faces in this edit. Check it.
Gary Rodgers kicks off the first annual Skateline Awards presentation show and it goes pretty much exactly as you’d expect. . . “like a buff chicks titties. . . ” plus a few n-words and MFers as a bonus.
Norway’s JP Solberg is the best snowboard dude ever, ever, ever. Just ask his friends. They all love him to death and aren’t afraid to put all their jazzy hype thoughts about him on video. Nope, not scared one bit. Here, watch and see for yourself what T.Rice, Danny Kass, Dan Brisse, Scott Sullivan, Wolle Nyvelt, and a host of other snowboarding superstars have to say about JP. Wish we could disagree, but we can’t. Not ever.
Apparently, there were bits with comedy shotgun Will Arnett that didn’t make it into Girl/Chocolate’sPretty Sweet. Here are a few of them. “Do you smoke? Start now.” Cue the laugh track.
Them are some big waves in this edit, not to mention some serious big wave lingo: proving ground, ultimate arena, homage, primal challenges await those who answer the call, pushing natures limits.”
Plan B has a full-length video on the way this summer. In the meantime, Torey Pudwill gives everyone a little taste of what we can expect when it drops. Yeah, give T-Puds his hundred bucks bitch.
“I wanted to work with Penny because after riding all the plastic boards on the market nothing felt as good under my feet as a Penny,” said Christian Hosoi. “As the original, it exudes style and performance, and Ben’s aim in starting Penny to get more feet on skateboards really appealed to me and my own life in teaching my own kids to skate. For me, Penny’s about what I’m about, so it’s an honor to become an ambassador.”
For the official word from Penny (and his new board), follow the jump. [click to continue…]