pathways (full length skate video)!

click on the image above to check out more of  brett nichols videos on vimeo.

pathways is a skateboarding film focused on modern architecture, drawing its influence from the skate videos of japan. 5 years in the making and filmed primarily in the san francisco bay area, it stars chris jatoft, josh paz, and many more.

learn more about this project in reel talk with brett nichols over at the transworld site, here.

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if vimeo happens to be unavailable in your region, alternatively, you can watch the full length version of pathways, here.

enjoy the muthafukkin' piece of art, yo!

levi's® skateboarding!!!

skateboarding in puerto peñasco, mexico.

our fall 2016 campaign shoot took place in puerto peñasco, mexico. in this 3-minute documentary, we follow a small, but energized community of skateboarders and help them build a new skate park.

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community service - puerto peñasco, mexico.

the levi's® skateboarding crew broke ground at puerto peñasco's newest park, cutting the ribbon with the city’s mayor in march, 2016. they found the time to also build several new diy obstacles at the existing park and also hit the streets, encountering a handful of rad spots with the local skaters.

check out levi's® skateboarding and the skateboard mag.

the cinder cone!

this back to nature, alternative lifestyle and also a little skateboarding, short docu-film, is too good not to be shared. this really changed my perspectives on the idea of “alternative living space”. to sum this short, utopians living lifestyle and communing. that's just my personal humble opinion and take on what i've observed. please check this out and judge it for yourselves. also, share this video on the world wide web! thanks! 

in the spring of 2014, a small group of close friends broke ground on a building project in skamania county, washington in the columbia river gorge. their primary endeavor was a multi-platform tree house but also included a skate bowl and a wood fired soaking tub as well. the crew came from all over the country and from a variety of backgrounds. some were professional carpenters, others learned on the job, gaining experience along the way. the cinder cone is foster huntington’s short film that documents this year-long process of building his dream home with this community of tight knit friends.

a farm league original.

directed by foster huntington.

edited by jess gibson.

check out the cinder cone build book on kickstarter, here, too!

check out farm league.

enjoy the docu-film!

skate session in a house!

t'is an old one but still gold! i posted the other video of philipp schuster's skate villa, here, back in 2012.

take one neglected house, add a bunch of top skateboarders, throw in a few tonnes of building material and what do you get? the coolest skate spot in salzburg, created by skater philipp schuster and friends inside a once glamorous hunting lodge.

check out red bull skateboarding.

enjoy!

skate melbourne.

nick boserio, jon fitzgerald, bryce golder, max couling, jack kirk, matt reilly, sam george, anthony mapstone, gabriel summers, casey foley and crew give you a personal skate tour of melbourne, australia.

more episodes of skate on the ride channel, here.

check out the ride channel.

spa skateparks | arlington, tx.

by far one of the most fun weekends ever… from packing into a car to getting hammers all day and night and from getting our keys stolen and being at the park 'til 3am.

thanks again to spa for letting us come to yet another amazing skatepark!

- tetra media 210.

filmed by rye beres and isaiah rendon.

edited by isaiah rendon.

check out spa skateparks.

a day in the skate life of klaus bohms in são paulo!

i wanna go to brazil! hells yeah!!!

são paulo is packed with people and sick spots. check out what this brazilian city has to offer while klaus bohms and crew throw down a heavy hand of tricks at every stop on the new #skate.

check out the ride channel.

enjoy!

fdr skatepark: a visual history.

click on the image above to enlarge.

fdr skatepark began its life in 1996 with a few small obstacles built by the city of philadelphia in an attempt to meet the needs of a growing community. in true d-i-y fashion, local skaters soon gathered their resources and began the ongoing construction of a space of their own design. as the world's largest d-i-y skateboard park, today fdr is recognized throughout the world as a landmark in the skateboarding community. a photographic history of fdr, this book contains work from more than 25 contributors, from amateurs with disposable cameras to professional photographers. side by side with the actual skateboarding are photos of wildfires, box cutter wounds, riot police, and drunks shooting sewer rats. complete with oral histories gathered from park locals, this one-of-a-kind record documents the legend and landscape of the past fifteen years under the bridge.

check out fdr skatepark book.

peace.

p.s. all profits received by the authors will go towards the ongoing maintenance and expansion of fdr.

"second nature" a documentary film about janne saario.

second nature is a 20-minute documentary on element team rider and budding landscape architect, janne saario of finland.

the short film allows a glimpse of saario’s thoughts and dreams, which float between design, art and skateboarding. though it also reveals the important concurrence of post-industrial areas, sustainable concepts and natural environments and unfolds the demanding obligation, towards today’s generation and those to come, to create positive and inspiring, local communities.

over the past two years, filmer yves marchon’s keen eye reels in the various aspects and angles of janne’s life and creates the perfect portrayal of what element is most proud of and strives to constantly stand for through their products, artists and team riders: to bring progress to skateboarding in the most honest and ethical way.


check out element skateboards.

enjoy da film!

skating in a house - philipp schuster skate villa.

you hafta check this house out!

client: red bull.
year: 2012
role: filming, editing and post production.

check out red bull skateboarding.

enjoy!

skateable sculptures by rich holland.

click on the image above to enlarge.

photo: rich holland

artist rich holland presented his skateable sculptures in finland and in doing so, his sculptures became the world’s first large scale skateable sculptural installation. holland’s work can serve as both works of art all by themselves, but should you get the itch to shred, they’re entirely skateable. if anything, that could add a bit more detail and character to the pieces.

one of the key artworks is skateable sculpture by rich holland. his work combines action with aesthetics, physical pleasure with visual pleasure. sculptures that can be skated on are placed in a challenging position between highbrow art and urban popular subculture. he focuses on the issue about the right to public space, fiercely debated in finland too, that is gradually being occupied by commercial and other private bodies. the exhibition and particularly the his work brings the outdoors indoors.

moco loco conducted an interview with the artist and it can be read here.

- nick estrada.

check out highsnobiety and moco loco.

peace.

through our eyes.

just sharing... thanks wrex cook!

a short film done by towson film student, joseph poole, talking about the true meaning of skateboarding. this film was done for his hd electronic field production class and will be entered in multiple film festivals.

enjoy!

especial macba.

assista um especial sobre o macba, lugar que leva uma grande história do skate mundial e que é a segunda casa de muitos que moram na cidade.

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watch a special about the macba, which takes place a great history of skateboarding and is the second home of many who live in the city.*


check out olho de peixe.

* translated by google translator.

space for rent.

space for rent is a short documentary which examines the creative act and process of reacting to spaces in architecture, as it manifests itself in both performance and sculpture. street skateboarders are largely reacting to the excesses created by industrialization and corporate capitalism.

written and directed by jeremy knickerbocker.

camera, edit and sound recording by jeremy knickerbocker, eric stout, ginet ochoa and alex rohloff.

featuring: casey huizenga, fehim velagic, jeremy knickerbocker, seth juszkiewicz, jake keenan, auttiesh danger, troy martin, austin cox, jonathan eisenman and ryan kuerbitz.

original musical score by matt finch.

enjoy the docufilm!

skateboarding vs architecture.

we can definitely learn something from this video, right here.

skateboarding vs architecture: a study of public space and materiality in auckland city.

educate not hate and stand tall for what we believe in! betta' recognise, yo!

p∧s house.

i know that i have not been updating this blog here lately... anyways, here's an eye candy for your viewing pleasure and fuel for thought. chekkit and enjoy!

more here.

check out etnies.

after the quake!

make do with your natural environment.

enjoy.

one time.

click on the image above to enlarge.

photo: shahidil saleh

this is probably the only cleanest image of me jugglin' my plank, that i can find captured on a still camera in the longest time.

this was taken some time back, on 26th march 2009, of me doing a half cab heel flip to drop at a not so secret location. but the ledges at this particular spot are rough as fuck to be slid or ground on. it'll eat your planks like cookies, if you attempt to slide it and practically mince your trucks, if you grind them.

no matter how much you wax those bloody ledges, it'll still eat your skateboards up. f'n hell! this spot is only good for attempting jugglin' tricks to drops and manuals. but also beware, 'cause the ground is laid outta bricks. so, it's a gore fest, if you bail/spill and scrape your skin and flesh on it.

the big man's architects are seriously doing a marvelous job narrowing down and minimizing all the great spots and locations that are suitable for the art of street skating. there're always hassles one way or another when pushers find comfortable spots to session at. we seriously don't need any more skate parks, please. ecp, com'on... it should be rated as one of "the wonders of the world" for wanting to achieve great heights as an "international standard" skate park. what a waste of tax payers money for an overly ambitious and elaborated project. what we really need are hassle free real street spots.

i mean how bad can skateboards thrash on granite or marble ledges? they have placed stoppers on beautiful ledges and marble curbs and what's worse, some of these ledges have been ground down to act as blockers. some of these spots have been skated on for decades and have never been ground down as bad as how the park authorities' contractors did. these people are the ones who should get fined and summoned, not us. we are just tryin' to have some fun, mr. man.

a fine example is "memo". where skaters have been sesh'ing that spot since the early 80's. it's built outta granite blocks, weighing tons but it's still looks good as new, 'cept for the wax covered darkened areas. isn't drilling holes and locking in stoppers much more an "act of vandalism" to the monument? and let's not get started on cbd/raffles place. that place is almost baron now. we seem to be losing our playgrounds one at a time. it's a form of urban reconfiguration and that's sad news for us who have never caused any trouble, what so ever at these spots.

we are all public citizens, aren't we? so why are we not allowed to have fun in public spaces and places? and further more, we are tax paying citizens too! am i right? lets claim our streets back!

hammers, chisels and portable hand held power tools are our keys to unlock the doors. liberating one spot at a time.

- pinkviolence.

peace.

leisurator tm - a book on kinetic architecture.

leisurator proposes an interactive athletics surface. the design proposal by marco pastore, valentina sabatelli and nilufer kozikoglu, with the consultancy of arup and buro happold, for an adaptive, interactive, sport fields on the upper podium level of london's barbican centre combines off-line activities spaces with an on-line programmable, interface that allows users to schedule and plan events at the site. the book-lenght monograph documents all stages of the project design and development, including the combination of linked performative physical study models, prototypes, scripted IK digital models, and project drawings and images.

leisurator provides a reconfigurable field that engenders a variety of leisure, sport and improvisational activities. this field is programmed with a set of variable configurations, the transformations of which offer emergent conditions suggestive of alternate social organization and cultural dimensions of game-like activities. borrowing the urban sensibility of skateboarding culture, the design of the structure is informed by the series of temporal sessions, which by repetition over time will provide specific localization. the field structure will respond in two ways to the users. first, the kinetic mechanism will adapt to the existing programs considered as a timeline with environmental parameters. this pre-defines numerous configurations which are inscribed as latent performativities of the surface. secondly, the adjacencies and relationship in each of the configurations is to catalyze new way of using surfaces, walls and edges of the field, providing both defined boundaries for existing leisure activities (e.g., tennis, jogging, playground), surfaces for non-formalized games (e.g., skating, casual play, etc.), and zones which allow the occupation of space in a game-like manner.

taken from archinect.


check out leisurator tm.

peace.

freedom of space.

freedom of space is a very interesting film, by steve olpin and tim irvin, about skateboard culture in public space. it has a look at the street skaters and their social and political conflict with the urban environment and publicity.

the film comments on the modern functionality of urban landscape/ public space and tries to get to the bottom of skateboarding as critical redetermination of our habitat. well worth seeing!

- urbanartcore.

i'm gonna go push. enjoy!