SKINNER: Santa Cruz Skateboard TV Spot

awesome..! Congratulations SKINNER!

Animated spot for Santa Cruz Skateboards which premiered on ESPN during the 2012 Street League Skate Series. Head over to Santa Cruz's Facebook page, they're giving away free boards every week! Facebook.com/SantaCruzSkateboards

Directed and Animated by James Dirschberger
Artwork by Skinner
Animation by Kori Valz

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The Perfect Skate Vid? Kilian Martin by Brett Novak

Combine skater / artist Kilian Martin's unique and fluid street tricks with Brett Novak's amazing cinematography and mellow sound track and you have something more like Ballet rather than Skate video. beautiful. I feel all zen now.

Skateboard that Rides Down Stairs: STAIR ROVER

Designed by PoChih Lai

Inspiring action

The piece aims to expanding the capability and possibility of extreme sports as we understand them. Inherited from our natural instincts, sliding as children and snowboarding as adults, the focus is on one of the most influential and stimulating sports - skateboading, aiming to push the boundaries further. The piece creates a groundbreaking form of sport which previously never existed and utilises the hidden energy of our cities - stairs. STAIR ROVER – the Stairboard is a product that relies on the other product - stairs, which are found easily within the human habitat, especially in cities. This is an outstanding performance reflecting where we as residents live and what we love.

Inspiring values

Extreme sports are hugely various and engages many people to be involved. Indeed, extreme sports are one if the latest crazes in our culture with kids as young as four and five years old fascinated by it. This is an innate behaviour from the deepest recesses of ourselves, keen to challenge ourselves and look for the edge of what we are capable of. It is an activity highly reliant on the balance of danger, control and excitement. There are very few sports which can compete with skateboarding which can boast so many people having experienced them so enthusiastically in this generation.

Creating a legacy

No city is so fascinating and encouraging as London. Few can outline the metropolitan diversity so perfectly as this place. The Barbican Centre presents its Urban Stories, indicating that the sub-culture of graffiti, free-running, skateboarding, street dance, and extreme sports are now accepted and a valid and valuable influence on our generation. London is my inspiration. It leads me to craft a new hybrid sport around the classic skateboard and novel stair climbing mechanism. The project aims to create a new experience for users to rove along the landscape of the city. This advanced boarding activity turns boundaries and restrictions into a positive and creative physical enquiry into the ever changing kinesis of the urban ecosystem.

STAIR ROVER from Po-Chih Lai on Vimeo.

via: Geekologie

Aaron Homoki X Games Real Street 2012

I don't know how this dude survives these jumps. Somthing about transfer of energy from feet to board when he lands.

Shit Skate Reps and Photographers Say - Crailtap

I can relate to both these guys. Crailtap parodies both the Skate Rep and the Skate Photographer in these three vids. Hilarious.

Altered Route: A Skate Film feat. Kilian Martin

This is interesting and very well done by filmmaker Brett Novak. Set in an abandoned water park in the middle of the desert with this really hypnotic music track, it features skater Kilian Martin performing all these really unique tricks over this desolate landscape. Video from the park during it's hey day are super-imposed to give it this melancholy vibe.

Skatepark of Tampa - Tampa PRO 2012 PUSHEAD T-Shirts

Probably the best deal you're going to find all night. Skatepark of Tampa - Tampa PRO 2012 PUSHEAD T-Shirt for $15??!! C'mon... you can afford to buy 4 of 'em at this price.

HUF x HAROSHI X DLX January 7th @ HUF LA

HUF x Haroshi x DLX Collaboration | As part of the upcoming HUF x Haroshi x DLX Collaboration, Japanese-artist Haroshi has constructed six original works to be exhibited in an Opening Ceremony at our HUF Headquarters in downtown Los Angeles (located at 545 S. Clarence St, Los Angeles, CA 90033). The event will take place this Saturday, January 7, 2012, from 7PM-11PM, and will include a live performance by Tommy Guerrero, Money Mark, Ray Barbee & Fredo Ortiz. Admission is free. Click here for event details, or RSVP directly at haroshi_rsvp@hufworldwide.com

HUF x Haroshi x DLX Teaser 003 shot in Tokyo, JP, by Shinto God, cut by Martin Reigel. Collaboration available January 7, 2012.

Contest Carnage EP 1 and 2

Coastal Carnage is happening this weekend in Huntington Beach, pitting some of the best skaters of all time – such Christian Hosoi, Tony Hawk and Lance Mountain – against a gang of young rippers.

Check out episodes 1 and 2 of “Contest Carnage” to learn more about the vibes and visit us again next week for more from this exciting skate event.



via: High Snobiety

LOVE + GUTS: 30 Years of THRASHER Magazine Show...Re-CAP

Tonight is the opening of "LOVE + GUTS: 30 Years of THRASHER Magazine". man, 30 years is a long time to do anything. I remember THRASHER when it first came out. I was in elementary school and Stevie Caballero, Powell Peralta BONES, Independent Trucks and Kryptonics Wheels with German ballbearings were all the rage. It was pretty much the height of my skating days. I carried by board everywhere. funny thing is, I wasn't that great of a skater. We went to skateparks and all that, but we all sucked. No ollies, no air. Just some stupid kids who skated after school until dark and all day on the weekends. We put BONES stickers on everything. It was a magical time.





The show itself was nice. Big venue with lots of space, really high ceilings. Made for a club or concerts more than gallery. The air pungent with the greenbud. More memories rolled over me. More photography from the magazine than art, but seeing the PUSHEAD Thrasher cover larger than life made up for all that.

The absolute highlight was meeting Steve Caballero. I was in full on fanboy mode. He's heard it a thousand times, but such a nice guy and down to earth, I felt like he appreciated my genuine admiration. So surreal...I used to cut pictures of him out of THRASHER to hang on my wall and here we are, 30 years later at a THRASHER show meeting him in the flesh. We talked about art and toys a bit. He got a kick out of the fact that we were both in the Popsoda Many Mey Show.


















More pics after the jump..

LOVE + GUTS: 30 Years of THRASHER Magazine...!

Love + Guts: 30 Years of Thrasher Magazine, Art & Photography 1981-2011 opening tonight at ArtNowSF Gallery

ArtNowSF Gallery
3075 17th Street (btw Harrison & Folsom)
San Francisco, CA

Opening tonight, May 6th
7pm-11pm

Tony Alva Finds God

Pass The Bucket with Tony Alva from Off The Wall TV on Vimeo.

Considered to be one of the the most influential skateboarders of all time, Tony Alva, an original Z-Boy, hit a bottom 4 years ago battling drug addiction and alcoholism. There, at his lowest point, his reliance on successes and ego came into perspective for the first time. Tony's fight for sobriety and truth has recently lead him to a new perspective on life and direction moving forward. Dedicated to giving back Tony now see's passing the bucket as the only way out. 


For more information on how you can help support the children go to CHLA.org

Directed & Edited by Eliot Rausch

To see more episodes of Pass The Bucket be sure to tune into Offthewall.tv

Music by:
SK Nava "Prognosis Negative
Russian Circles "Hexed All"
Moving Mountains "The Earth and the Sun"

Skate After Dark at the Exploratorium???

For all you crazy kids that still have the knees to skate, did you know that you can drink booze and check out some rad skaters at a mini exhibit inside the Exploratorium? Part of it's "After Dark" (Night at the Museum-esque) series, the Exploratorium is setting up a mini skatepark inside complete with two 16'x6' quarter pipes, ramps, ledges, tables and a fun box for rail slides. Pros like Dennis Busenitz, Tony Trujillo and the ever popular Elissa Steamer will be rocking the ramps while you are sipping the booze. Debuts next Thursday, April 7th. They will keep the ramps up over the weekend and you can bring your deck and shred it up yourself.

Get your advance tix HERE

Thursday, April 7, 2011: Skateboard Science - explore the science of shredding when the Exploratorium transforms into an impromptu skatepark. Learn about the history of skateboarding and the urban landscape from experts all while watching professional skateboarders demonstrate science in motion.