let's see how long this thing lasts

Mar 13

Everyone is doing these character profiles. About “living your life”. Not the best one that’s been done. But, hey, it’s Stevie Williams. 

This was a pretty good one from the same series as the coke burn campaign. 

Also the New Balance X Acclaim Magazine series. Made by one of Leongatha’s finest bro’s Louis Mitchell. He talks about the project at portable.tv 

Another one for adidas originals made outta China by another bro Charles Lanceplaine.  

Apr 11

A fun little video that I had a veeerrrry little hand in, but it’s turned out nice and I met some cool people through it. Protein check out their other stuff. 

I’ve always been interested in videos that could be shot globally. The Protein guys did a pretty good job of wrangling a bunch of filmers to do vox pops around the world, I reckon with friends and friends of friends we could get something going.

Something could be done with camera movement like this Skip video.

Things entering and leaving frame. From Yeah Right.

NY and Paris split screens multiple storylines Nokia competition.   

Cutting between someone in the same part of the frame- Move video, pitch an idea to a travel agent and get a free trip around the globe?

Or this fan video with video stitching by Ninian Doff- he seems like bro.  

May 17

Skateboarding. Plus fireworks. Always going to be amazing. 

Short for Contour Helmet cameras.

(Source: booooooom.com)

May 24

Only Palace videos look like Palace videos. So good to see something original. 
Check out their videos. GANGBANGING AT GROUND ZERO, LUCIEN PROMO, and TRES TRILL.

Jun 21

Following on from the last post. This dude Riley Blakeway is sick, I’ve been following his stuff for a while. His video Sundown Syndrome was the first DSLR skate clip I saw back in 2010, since then he’s been going from strength to strength. Most recently, he was a finalist in the VIMEO awards.

Great track on this clip too. 
 

Jun 21

If I could, I would just make these. French Fred, boss. Interview here

JB Gillet

Lucas Puig

Daniel Espinoza

Sammy Winter

Jun 25

Cringe-worthy skating and product aside, a really nice video.

By Dutch, London based filmmaker Juriaan Booij

Premiered on design blog Dezeen, a quick look around the site had some other interesting skate architecture.  

Thanks to Mathilde for the link. 

Jul 11

Nice video from MofoBy Boris Proust.

Jul 13

yewwwwww!

(Source: vimeo.com)

Aug 9

I was in Amsterdam last weekend on the way back to Shanghai from a work trip. At the Vans Downtown Showdown, I met the guys behind the Skater’s Atlas project- an online TV show, travelling the world to check out different skate scenes. Looks amazing, check them out.