Amsterdam’s Valuta Brand released a new video, and once again we are amazed by all the perfect spots in the garages and subway stations. They look better than most of the skateparks here in Berlin.
This video made us go back and rewatch Ziggy Schaap’s “No Service” and “bitte sich festzuhalten” by Relativ. Also, two very good videos exploring the possibilities in garages and subway stations.
Globe has been killing it with the output recently which has really put some shine back on a brand that most of us grew up with.
As for this part, all credits have to go to Fries himself and his friend Robin Pailler who really did a lovely job in putting this together.
Connected to our “TIME ISSUE” we did not only create a print feature with Fries Tailleu, we also went out and documented our day with him on video. In between the rainy moments, we actually managed to combine a lot of fun activities with some great conversations.
Watch this video to see the action and pick up a magazine to read about the things we talked about.
Video by Peter Buikema.
Photographs by Danny Sommerfeld.
We would like to thank Globe for the support.
We would like to invite you to the launch event for PLACE Issue #60 the “Time Issue”.
During this event, we want to take you with us and celebrate things in style at Eo7 in Madrid in partnership with Carhartt WIP & Sevenmad and with the support of Converse CONS.
Our new issue is focusing on the thing that is constantly ticking or tocking in the background, not a clock but time itself is the focus of our newest issue.
The evening starts off, with us presenting our newest issue that is followed by a showing of four videos related to the print issue:
Fries Taillieu “1 24 1440” / Adidas Summer camp / Felipé Bartolome’s “Time” / Berlin’s Jerusalem
For more info please go to our Facebook event.
PLACE Issue 60 Features:
Jacob Elliot Harris, Phil Zwijsen, Fries Taillieu, Hugo Maillard, Paul Grund, Felipé Bartolome and many more.
We met Fries Taillieu a couple of weeks ago in his new hometown Amsterdam. Fries has got everything it needs to be a professional skater. For some reason we always had the feeling that Arto Sarri took him under his wings; well, those wings are long gone and Fries is already moving on.
A While ago he posted this:
A few months ago I got a phone call from the @globebrand TM @anewblack telling me I would get a colorway on the Eagle shoe. I was working in a cafe at the time and needless to say I handed out drinks with the biggest smile on my face for the rest of the night. this is the result. thank you @globebrand @anewblack @joshbarow for your endless support and belief in me, you made my dream come true ❤️. more info concerning the tour coming tomorrow. a big thank you as well to my girlfriend, friends and family as they stood beside me through skateboarding.
Here is the result:
More of Fries in our upcoming issue! Love you, Fries.
Afends is a young Australian clothing brand, which is about to expand their markets, and thus, now signed their first European team rieder, namely the Amsterdam based Fries Taillieu. A really great pick if you see the fluent style of Fries in his welcome clip below, which was shot in Belgium during one weekend. We are curious to see more of Afends very soon!
This summer the GLOBE skate team blazed through five European countries and multiple cities for their EU Trippin Tour. Seems like Mark Appleyard, David Gonzalez, Rodney Mullen, Louie Barletta, Ryan Decenzo, Chris Haslam, Paul Hart, Anton Myhrvold, Fries Taillieu, Charles Collet, and Phillip Schuster had a good time – check out their video recap below:
The day we got an invitation to go on tour for a day with Globe we started thinking: what should we do with this and how? The thing is we see a lot of tours pass through both this city, and possibly your city. Most of us have read a lot of tour articles, and if you are reading this you probably did too. I could write a tour article for you guys and talk about that Rodney Mullen is a nice guy and as popular as ever or that Chris Haslam shut down the demo we had in the Titus bowl, but instead of doing that I chose to do something else.
I thought it would be interesting to hang out with the people that are skating the tour, documenting the tour and running the tour. So when i got a message from Josh (one of the guys behind the scene’s at globe) to meet up with them at the plus hotel at Warschauer platz I said ill be there! Globe rented some taxi vans for the afternoon, we ended up not needing any vans to get to the spot (we just skated the Dog Shit DYI just around to corner from the hotel) but all tour stories take place in a van and so did this tour for about 5 minutes, adding to that all good tours have a soundtrack and we had Paul Hart playing tunes on his fanny pack boombox. DJ Hart played a very short but eclectic mix of tunes ranging from E40’s Choices to Montell Jordan’s This is how we do it! But we always came back to Toto’s Africa which was definitely the song of the day as Paul later stated: I can’t believe last night’s bartender got mad at me for playing this tune!”
So to be honest I had never been on an actual skate tour before, looking back I was pretty nervous I smoked about 12 cigarets and I normally don’t even have a pack on me.
I just started working as the intern at PLACE and I did not know what to expect so I decided to it would be interesting to try something other then just a tour article, I went out kept my ears open and collected some quote’s from the people on the tour.
“Internet sucks in this country” – Chris, the Globe TM
“Is it Kunst?” – Mike O’Meally to Daniel Pannemann
“So Fucking Beautiful” – Chris Haslam about O’Meally’s FS Rock
“I’m just drawn to this fucking dirt dude!” – Louie Barletta about skating at the Dog shit
“God, I’m about to cry!” – Louie Barletta skating at the Dog Shit Spot
“Fuck Chuck! Where is Chuck right now?” – Louie Barletta still skating at the Dog Shit Spot
“We need some Chuck right now!” – The filmer shooting one back at Louie
“When you are sitting on it that long it feels like you’re getting lunch…” – Mark Appleyard to Louie Barletta
“O’meally is getting an Instagram clip today!” – The filmer getting all excited
“Damn, I cut my ass cheek so bad in the shower this morning!” – Paul Hart.
“Damn, tour life got no patterns at all, no sleeping patterns, no eating patterns, no toilet patterns, just shitty patterns!” – Ryan Decenzo.
Globe sends its team to Europe’s major cities this July for the #GLOBEEUTRIPPIN Tour. Mark Appleyard, David Gonzalez, Rodney Mullen, Louie Barletta, Ryan Decenzo, Chris Haslam, Paul Hart, Anton Myhrvold, Philipp Schuster, Fries Taillieu and Charles Collet will join the trip – finest skateboarding guaranteed. Check out the Facebook Event for more information and the trailer as well:
#GLOBEEUTRIPPIN