As camera gear becomes more advanced and affordable, skate videos are becoming increasingly gorgeous. Case in point: this high concept video shot by Brett Novak featuring the talented and Rodney Mullen-esque footwork of Kilian Martin.
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Shred the gnar in geekalicious style with this Wookie Longboard designed by Geoff McCleary. It even has Wookie fuzz so you can skate in your bare feet! Get it for $300 from weirdboards.com.
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Buy: The Complete Vader [Hardcover]
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This limited edition collaboration between Radio Eva, FTC, and intheyellow includes two designs in black and white tees and two skate decks. Available from the FTC Tokyo online shop and their flagship store in Harajuki.
Check it: Epic Evangelion graffiti
Buy: Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance
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I’m 28 years old. My leg-bones can’t handle landing skate tricks like they used to, but every now and then I get the urge to skate to work. I’ve been debating scooping a decent longboard and I think the fine peeps over at Boosted Boards have just what I’m looking for. Their electric longboards are just 12lbs., making them world’s lightest electric vehicles, they get about 6 miles out of a single charge, and they can hit speeds of up to 20MPH. The only downside is they’re a bit pricey. $1200 is no joke.
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Watch Kilian Martin and Alfredo Urbon tear it up together on a custom board built for two. Okay, so it’s really an Smart Car ad, but it’s still awesome, so watch!
And while you’re at it, check out the making-of spot.
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It’s pretty much a well-known fact that Globe’s Bantam Cruiser boards are the proverbial shiznit. Although summer’s almost over, there’s still time to cruise your streets during the fall before snow starts to drop. These all new clear versions of the popular boards are by far their sickest yet — expecially that Albotas blue one!
Pre-order on in clear, green, orange, blue, red, or black for $109.95.
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Here’s an awesome twist on the Screaming Hand logo designed back in 1973 by Jim Phillips for Santa Cruz Skateboards. This geeky remix was designed by Derin Ciler a.k.a. MEKAZOO and it’s currently up for voting on Threadless. Go vote!
I was pretty bummed out by the not-so-cool dude-shirt designs that tokidoki released a month or two ago. But they’ve redeemed themselves already with some awesome new designs, especially the Spider-Man hoodie with some Japanese writing on it. My head is way too big for hats, but some of the new ones are pretty cool. And those new skate decks are just too nice to do boardslides on. I’m just hoping tokidoki eventually start giving back attention to their original characters rather than creating a majority of Marvel stuff.
Jeff Beck sent us these pics of some customs boards he did for the Grind skateboard art show at the Center for Visual Artists in Greensboro, NC which kicked off this past weekend. As huge fans of sugar skull girls, Nintendo, Ultraman, and skateboarding, we fully support these radical shenanigans.
Speaking of sugar skulls, Nintendo, and Ultraman, check out these sweet prints from Jonathan Koshi.
Bart Simpson Would Be Proud
Skateboards and spray cans often go hand in hand, but not like this. These dudes rigged remote controlled spray paint cans to the bottom of skateboards so that a trail of paint can be traced out by the board’s movements through the pool. Genius!
The dudes at Smash Tokyo Toys have a new skate deck out featuring their flaship toy, Seismic Ace on 8 1/4” maple hardwood. Get it HERE. We hear it’s what all the cool kids are skating on these days.
The deck is available from a cool site I’d never heard of before called Board Pusher. It’s basically like Cafe Press or Redbubble, but for skate decks. Pretty cool if you’re looking to get your own art on a skateboard.
This video just de-rezzed my brain
A small team built a mini-ramp for the premiere of Tron Legacy. Oh, and they also created a particle effects generator that works in conjunction with accelerometers and infrared censors. The skaters’ motions were tracked and Tron-like particle effects followed them across the ramp. The iPod Touches given to the skaters also measured airtime and the projector would display the airtime upon landing. So cool. It would be nearly impossible on a small-ish budget, but it would have been awesome if a silhouette of a fallen skater could be created and projected right where he bailed, then slowly de-rezzed and faded away.
If you live in LA go stop by the LA Art Walk today to go see a bunch of really awesome painted skateboards from the Board out of my Mind skateboard art show, including this awesome deck painted by JR “Cunch” Goldberg that’s titled “A Pile of Clones”.
Here’s the address:
Board out of My Mind
Los Angeles Art Walk
August 12, 2010
7:00PM – 11:00PM
SK8 CAFE
111 W. 7th Street R3
(Between Spring & Main)
Los Angeles, CA 90013
