Tag: skateboarding

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:

I can’t clearly remember the moment I first heard of the Quartersnacks website and crew, but it must have been on the Slap forum. I don’t even know if I liked what I saw… Ten years ago I was 18 years old and my vision of what skateboarding was differed completely from my current day taste. Skateboarding nowadays seems to have split into a couple of different directions: from professional film makers that push skateboarding visually to the art side of skateboarding to a more Homeie type of feel. Me as a 18 year old would have disliked what I like today. I hated most older videos, I wanted to see tricks and clean styles and felt like older videos where often poorly filmed and the skating was either sketchy or it wasn’t pushing the envelope.

Off course I didn’t know shit then, but I was eating and sleeping skateboarding. I started making videos with my friends and we tried to emulate Transworld & Girl videos, which is normal when you start creating your own things… I missed the point when the Quartersnacks crew started to push their own agenda and created their own lane. When I started to frequently visit their website, the focus of the skateboard world shifted once again from the west to the east coast, skateboarding in NYC looked cool and the terrain was different from the sun filled schoolyards (cliché alert!) in Cali.

The Quartersnacks crew was a combination of “cool” pros like Spanky, Alex Olson and Zered Basset, but most of the crew consisted of more humanly skilled skateboarders skating the same terrain together. It gave me a behind the scene’s type of feeling that I really didn’t see before. I naively thought pros only skated with pros, the thought that pros have their own clique with high school friends never dawned until I started following the Quartersnacks website. Even back then QS brought out Christmas edits etc. which slowly but surely started to influence my music taste away from Bob Dylan towards Young Jeezy, Rich Homie Quan and more recently Future.

As my taste changed together with the ever changing skateboard bussiness Quartersnacks seemed to grow, they started to make clothing and did collabos with Nike (they played an important role in bringing back the Dunk), QS rose to the top… The best thing about this 10 years of Quartersnacks edit is to see that their growth lead them into Skate pop culture! I am excited what comes next. Happy Birthday!

Chris Joslin dropped parts for PLAN B, Etnies, Venture, No Hope, The Berrics and uncountable Instagram clips during the last year – no wonder his board sponsor PLAN B turned him Pro recently. Here’s his latest part, which is radical once again and was filmed during 12 days in China. Others would need months to get stuff like this together!

This is what we thought while watching:

– China needs new spots.
– Does he look a bit like Torey Pudwill?
– Jan Kliewer did this FS Boardslide years ago…
– Michael Jordan tounge out moments!
– This Chinese kid!
– Chris can even skate without a hat… (2:01)
– Does he look a bit like Ryan Sheckler?
– Is this Nitro Circus?

It feels good to be a magazine maker, especially when you receive letters by fans saying you are awesome, you have the best photos and an amazing layout. But, stop! Do you know what feels even better in a time where people are only begging for “likes” all day? It’s receiving hate. It feels fantastic and we’re unbelievably stoked how much effort our newest favorite hater put into his latest letter! Let’s take a look inside the envelope that landed in our mailbox the other day:

1. PLACE issue 53 tattered – Well done! Just wondering if the anonymous hater ripped the whole issue into one piece with his hands like the dudes who are famous for ripping telephone books for world records.

2. Drawings – “Oh no, it’s a PLACE!” “Make sure to have an abortion.” “Fuck English, fuck Berlin,” accompanied by hearts and many penises. Very creative! We never thought of giving birth to a penis-PLACE but maybe we should ask female Swiss artist Milo Moiré to do a live performance in one of our upcoming exhibitions.

3. Photos of a dog – Obviously, the hater’s pet looks sad. He should at least show a little bit of love for his dog, he deserves it.

4. Dead flies – The only thing that really concerns us. If the hater killed the flies just for sending over some voodoo shit, that’s really creepy. Otherwise, pimping up a hate letter with stupid things that lay around is okay.

It’s an inevitable fact that hate poisons your life on a regular basis. Hate is a feeling of extreme antipathy and refusal and comes to someone through a deep mental violation. It’s a feeling of being totally helpless and insensible, probably caused by the break-up of a relationship, and a situation where someone feels not being loved, but filled with bitterness. Usually, hate has very negative influences on our mental state, and also on our body.

Surprisingly, after opening the hater’s envelope a feeling of being alive ensued. Our heart was bumping and adrenaline flowing. Most of all, we now know that we’re doing it right because this is a real life example of how people deal with PLACE and have their own thoughts about it. This is something that means a lot to us because we’re not just trying to present the latest happenings in the wide world of skateboarding and put them in a PLACE frame. But it matters because we try to add our own commentary; to spread some words on the streets…

Make sure to send letters to:

PLACE Media
Revaler Str. 99
10245 Berlin

Love,
Benni Markstein

You’ve seen Part 1 of adidas Skateboarding’s #3stripes3cities video trilogy already. Today marks the relese of the second edit, in which the entire team around Lem Villemin, Sandro Trovato, Valeri Rosomako and Phil Anderson visit the famous “2er” DIY spot in Hannover. Lofty lines and laid back music – enjoy the show and get inspired!

Filmed and edited by Torsten Frank

More than ten years ago Antisocial skate shop out of Vancouver, Canada released a video. It was one of those videos that I would watch before I would go skating, it had a nice mix of art, skateboarding and interesting music. After this release things seemed to become quiet, until I checked my Tumblr last night and found this clip, what a pleasant surprise! It is a promo for the new Antisocial video that will come out next spring. Hopefully something I’ll be watching before going out to skate!

Skateboarder look at things differently, just think about the urban environment with all it’s stairs, ledges or handrails – in short: spots. This kind of thinking makes many skateboarders sort of creative and so it’s no surprise, that many of us end up working in creative trades. PLAN 9 presents “Skate Trades”, a documentary that shows the connection between skateboarding and trades. The 22 minute film entered into many international film festivals and is now online for your viewing pleasure, due to privacy settings, we’re not able to embed the video… Click here to watch “Skate Trades” on Vimeo, it’s perfect for rainy saturdays…

This July, the adidas Skateboarding team went on tour again, although it feels like these guys are on tour all the time, which is actually pretty sick! #3stripes3cities was the motto for this particular one with stops in Berlin, Hannover and Hamburg. Today we present the first part of three – Berlin, where the adidas Skate Copa Event kicked off the tour. Expect some excellent streetskating by Lem Villemin, Phil Anderson, Valeri Rosomako, Benny Fairfax, Patrick Zentgraf and Sandro Trovato:

Filmed and edited by Torsten Frank

Here is Simo Mäkelä`s brand new Full Part and this is what we think about it:

– MftHelsinki is dope! Good to see that local shops release such good videos.

– Making jokes of weird finnish drunk people is funny. Doing it on handicapped dudes is not.

– You can see if someone is a good skater just from his ability to push – so Simo is.

– VX ’til I die.

– Was Simo on hs way to the doubleset in Copenhagen but bailed? Dopest line anyway (01:21 min)

– Very good second song! Epic but not too epic. Just cool-epic.

– SW TRE!

The 4 Skateboard Company is amongst our favorite brands from down under, they have released a couple of projects that were on heavy pre-sesh rotation. Their most recent video combines still and moving images that create a strong atmosphere – featuring Louie Dodd, Casey Foley, Ricky Watt, Morgan Campbell, Mike Martin, Harry Clark as well as guest skaters Ben Hermans and Kaloe Kaaikala.

Supra just released a 5 minute clip, schowing the best of Spencer Hamilton. Here’s what we thought while watching this journey all around the globe…

– Spencer smokes while doing huge SW BS Kickflips – 1:03
– Spencer has a faible for coloured wheels – 1:12
– Spencer is real ghetto… See 1:54
– Was that Jaws at 3:57?
– Where’s the play again button?

Today we proudly announce the third out of three winners for the PLACE and adidas Skateboarding 3Stripes3Tricks Video Contest: Phillipp Oehmige! If you’ve been around Berlin lately, you probably have seen this kid killing it at any time. We think you can easily call him a skaterat, always on the run and throwing himself down the big stuff. Congratulations!

That’s it for the 3Stripes3Tricks video contest, thanks everybody for entering and submitting your clips. Watch out for the Big Final Edit which drops this month featuring the German adidas team and footage of all three winners: Josh Junkes, Giorgi Armani and finally Phillipp Oehmige. Stay tuned.

The brandnew PLACE issue 54 just arrrived at the office and will be available through skateshops, selected retailers and newsstands next week – some of the shops got the issue already, just ask!

For this issue we ask if all NBD’S have already been done and we’ll find an interesting answer coming along with some crazy photos by Roman Gonzalez aka @gonzox1000 – shot with iPhone only!

Here’s a sneak peak of the magazine, filled with Skateboard Culture… Take a look, order your copy here and enjoy the read!

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EBD – Appropriation in Skateboarding

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Becoming Friends – Sage Elsesser Interview

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Behind The Scenes – 5boro NYC

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Cracks and Crooks – Frankfurt Hauptwache Retrospective

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Those who make – Reik Manig

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Where have you been – Vladik Scholz

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Portfolio – Alexey Lapin

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