trick of the day. switch front blunt down the rail. nice work chris.
kevin mcdonald is living the skate life. as such, he has some berrics bangers filmed in 60 frames per second slow motion just so you can try and figure out how malto locks down those front crooks…
and yes, that’s a kerry getz triple flip. looks a little better than the ones knigge was doing switch in washington square park in 91.
rumor on the street is that johnny layton might get a chance at marc johnson after all in the dvs battle at the berrics. seems like berra might be really sick…guess we’ll find out this weekend, hopefully. peep mj handle chris roberts and the legion of doom who filled in for layton in the first round.
alien workshop’s mind field hits shops today and i’d like to remind you to go buy the dvd. tell all your friends to go buy the dvd. if you can’t get to your local shop, buy it from aws. if you like good skateboard videos, you have to support the companies that spend the time and money to produce them. if not, you wind up with skateboarding bulldogs and 8 year olds on youtube. i hate footage of skateboarding dogs.
a good skate video makes you want to shred. tony gets by with a little help from his friend after the premiere at ucla’s royce hall.
post-premiere wallie hype
human wallie support
great venue, sick video, deep historical skate figures in attendance. if you would have told me i would have sat next to sean sheffey more ‘buy mind field.’
almost 4 years in the making, and 19 years since alien’s memory screen changed skateboarding video aesthetics forever, it’s safe to say that virtually all of the skate world is eagerly anticipating the release of alien workshop’s mind field video on february 6th, 2009. i caught up with director greg hunt two days before the los angeles premiere to get the inside scoop on what promises to be one of the best skateboarding projects released this decade.
KS: first off, thanks for taking the time to answer some questions in the midst of premiere week. i’ll get right to it, are you ready for the premiere?
GH: I guess so. The video is done. It’s strange. I edited for so long and there are still small things I want to change. I don’t think reality of the premiere has really soaked in yet. more ‘alien workshop mind field pre-premiere interview with greg hunt’
cliche´ pro andrew brophy can jump. he made most of his ollie attempts including the 42″ winner first try. luis tolentino’s legs must have been tired from winning the dc grind for life ollie challenge the day before at 42″ as well. he went out at 41″ today. the donger threw in a few attempts, but he never got warmed up. kechaud johnson gained a half an inch after taking off the clock strapped around his wrist clearing 41.5″, but in the end it was all brophy. i actually got out a real camera for this one, but no world records today. here’s the video.
so this is where it got serious. after about 15 minutes of the rail free for all, jake phelps and jamie thomas picked out 5 guys to skate for 5 minutes for the big money. chris cole, andrew pott, sierra fellers, kechaud johnson and 180 switch crook guy. it turned out to be about 15 more minutes of insane skateboarding. i think the most shocking thing was that this crew was more consistent skating the 11 set than everyone else was skating the ledge. it was winner take all, but if it went in order it would have been: 1 - chris cole, just barely edging out 2 - andrew pott followed closely by 3 - sierra fellers. all three of these guys put down a bunch of tricks down the eleven, hubba and rail that would have been ender enders a few years ago. kechaud came out of nowhere with a nollie kf backside 5-0 down the hubba 2nd try. 180 ss kg tried unsuccessfully to land a 360 kickflip nosegrind down the rail the whole time. as jamie thomas said, “what else do you need? food, people psyched on skating, and sick ass skating. that’s it man.” filmed in jankovision™.
it's chris cole. just put the board down and walk away.
UPDATE:
video part 1 here.
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when animals attack.
deer crossing door gap - gershon mosley $1000
missed this part, apparently gershon murdered it. kareem campbell also made an appearance landing a signature blindside kf fak over the gap
ledge - gilbert crockett $1000
fs kg nol kf out
bank to wall - tommy sandoval $800
fs 180 flip into bank
chad bartie $100 fs blunt
11 set - chris cole $1800
andrew pott $100 came out swinging landing a hardflip, fs 180 kf over the rail, and a fs big spin back to back to back. cole started off with a 360 kf fs 50-50 on the hubba 1st try. bs 270 fs ls on the rail 3rd try, and a bs 360 ollie kf 2nd try. sierra fellers $100 came on strong at the end with a fs big heel rs, nol kf rs and a nol kf feeble. but in the end cole shut it down with a 360 double kickflip. vga jankovision™ video coming soon.
$107 for dual-axis motion control courtesy of an architect named jay in michigan, ebay and william vorce at telescope warehouse in arizona.
this was the first video i shot, it took about 15 minutes out of the box to get it up and running.
i’ve been shooting a lot of timelapse at interesting locations (my office isn’t one of them) lately and wanted to add some motion to my shots without spending a fortune or adding a shit-load of gear to my kit.
after a little searching online i found a cool and easy diy dual-axis motion control setup. check out milapse and you’ll get the haps. thanks milapse! pictures of the setup below.
speaking of diy, club mumble member and all around good guy, ricki the dude put up this post with one of the best diy dollies i’ve seen.
skate and create. what have you built lately?
say what?