This new short film from Pep Kim dubbed “Rose is the Apple Of My Eye” takes a closer look at the rise of Aaron Herrington and his development on the burgeoning New York street skating scene which led to him linking up with Polar Skate co. The video also features input from Josh Stewart, Mike Walter, Waylon Bone and Jeremy Elkin. Check it in full above.
Out of no-where Sour Skateboards have come through with one of the best promo’s of the year, nothing fancy, just good skateboarding all the way through. Filmed and edited by Gustav Tønnesen, the clip features riders Daniel Spängs, Nisse Ingemarsson, Albert Nyberg, Erik J Pettersson, Josef Scott Jatta, Kristofer Hallgren, Simon Isaksson, Barney Page and others, hitting up some of the best spots in Europe.
Enjoy the full 15-minute’s in all it’s glory above and head to sourskateboards.com for the latest.
Al Hodgson is a seriously driven and rad dude. Having been in the Brighton scene his whole life he’s got some stellar knowledge about our often overlooked scene’s killers. Relocating to Bristol in the last couple of years hasn’t stopped him from being a pro-active figurehead in the scene, doing some amazing things on-board and behind-camera to push the envelope of what Brighton skating is all about. I don’t know how he juggles running Owl Skateboards and running Gripthumb simultaneously. Dude’s a machine or something. He approached me, with for-said knowledge in mind, saying that he had an idea to do an article with 5 of the best parts to come out of Brighton in the last 10 years. Of course I was down and without having to lift a lazy finger, he’d uploaded these following parts – with accompanying blurb – for us all to enjoy…
Mike Nicolls & Sam Blewett – ‘Brighten’
So this section is the first part of a ‘friends’ section in Brighten. However I always thought it was so sick purely because these guys showed how there were spots in Brighton when people constantly complained about there not being any. In the part they skate so many spots that had never been touched and proved that all you need is a fresh set of eyes in a city. Also, the Noseblunt Pop in is actually so so fucked…
Niall has basically managed a part in pretty much every single major Brighton scene vid since 2007, and in this most recent one he put a hurting on a ton of old O.G Brighton spots. Plus the homage to our friend Felix at the end is really a beautiful way to cap it off.
Phil Russell & Dexter Daniels – ‘death aesthetic’ (Original Version)
Possibly the current most stylish pair in Brighton skateboarding. Phil and Dex shut it down. With the rad filming and piano score by Sirus. Also, Polejam late flip.
Dan Emmerson – ‘Like’
Dan is an absolutely powerhouse as anyone who’s ever seen him skate knows. He can Kickflip Backtail anything at Mach Ten and never seems to lose energy. His closing part in ‘Like’ to the Beastie Boys was perfect choice from Ed. Tre Flip ender is bonkers.
Joss Heierli – ‘Brighten’
Finally, my favourite Brighton part of all time, and he never even lived here. Joss was an amazing skater from Worthing who nobody in Brighton really knew, until his surprise penultimate part in ‘Brighten’. He stylishly killed the streets of Brighton and Hove with timeless style and finesse, slyly hitting spots you’d never even consider.
Slim also killed it was the editing and Animal Collective track with this one. This part showed Brighton how you approach true street skating in a city that has ‘no spots’.
List compiled by Al Hodsgon
Additional words from Joe Coward
New UK skate brand Severn have come through with it’s first promo dubbed LDN, filmed and edited by Sirus. The four minute clip follows the team as they tear up the streets of the nations capital, featuring riders Manny Lopez, Charlie Munro, Jimmy Silver, Ben Rowley, Sam Murgatroyd, Will Creswick, Conor Charleson and Sam Bottenberg.
Check out the video above and be sure to shop the latest quality headwear pieces from the brand over at Native and Parlour.
Back in April, the New Balance Numeric Team were on the road hitting spots across London, Paris and Lyon and returned with this 5 and a half minute clip documenting their travels. Filmed by James Messina, with additional filming from Jake Harris, the video features riders Antoine Asselin, Levi Brown, Tom Knox, Tom Karangelov, Tyler Surrey, Jordan Taylor and Flo Mirtain. Check it out in full above and head to www.newbalance.com for more.
Nike SB Australia and The 4 Skateboard Company have teamed up on this 10-minute clip dubbed ‘344’. Filmed and edited by Geoff Campbell, the video celebrates the pro debuts of Casey Foley, Mike Martin and Harry Clark.
Check it out in full above and head to the4skateboardcompany.com for more.
If you haven’t already, read our interview with Butter Goods and The 4 Skate Co. rider Casey Foley HERE
Sirus has come through with his latest project dubbed “URL {un real life}” – a 2-piece Brighton skate video featuring familiar faces from the local scene and exploring a personal battle with life online…
“Having a laptop & an internet connection is at once a modern blessing & a perpetual dread. Probably a lot of people bothering to read this will somewhat understand the inordinate feeling of the saturating, (as i’m typing this i take a quick break to check a Facebook notification and edit a post) overflow of glowing blue-white information, that the internet and social media consistently hurl at our tired, red eyes. Creating videos for me is intended to be some form of physical, creative catharsis, and a well earned interruption from the digital realm. But inevitably each production i put together results in far more hours sat in front of the achromatic glow from my retina display, than it does sat in gutters & alleyways (Alfie Whatsapps me, and i check it but don’t reply. he proceeds to send 3 more messages, addressing my lack of acknowledgment. I reply) triple checking my focus, or blowing dust off my fisheye. ultimately it’s inescapable ??
This clip has two halves to it, the highly edited, ostentatious 1st half and the looser, raw 2nd part, you can probably guess at what they’re suppose to represent. It was put together to play as a loop, as an allusion to ur fave social media outlet’s endless scroll of colours and sounds. It’s just another internet skate vid”
Featuring: Ben Woodhouse, Harrison Woolgar, Rupert Antoine, Joe Coward, Dexter Daniels, Alex Barron, Sam Ibekwe, Tom (shakes) Delion, Alfie Williams, Dan Fisher Eustance, Parky Doodles, Zak Gilbert, Phil Russell & Rich West.
Video & Words: Sirus F Gahan