Wanderers || Short Film

Eric Wernquist presents a beautiful short film entitled Wanderers. A vision of what humanity’s expansion into the Solar System might looks like, the short is entirely based on existing scientific ideas and concepts. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, and have been built from real photos and map data that are available today. Overwhelming in one way, at the same time so beautiful and mesmerizing on the other hand, Wernquist’s vision of the future in space is certainly a positive one. Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and of course Earth, are all featured in the short, once again emphasizing the close to reality approach of the short film. Turn the volume up and enjoy it here below.

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Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo.

Brixton East Coast Surf Trip 2014

The good folks at Brixton have just released their East Coast surf trip video featuring Tanner Rozunko, Oliver Kurtz, Skip McCullough and Troy Elmore. Follow them as they surf their way through New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. Watch the video to see a bunch of West Coast kids enjoy what the East Coast has to offer.

Brixton East Coast Surf Trip 2014 from BRIXTON on Vimeo.

K'LEKT.ION Recap

Find Your Grail.
K’LEKT – The Sneaker Marketplace – hosted the first K’LEKT.ION Sneaker Convention in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Private sellers and stores from all over Europe offered a massive selection of sneakers. Besides stores like Run Colors, Afew Store, Prime, Monox and Sole Hunters you also found an amazing variety of heat at private seller tables.
Thank you all! It was a blast!
Keep on klekt.in

K'LEKT.ION RECAP from KLEKT IN on Vimeo.

The Guild of Artisans

Melbourne-based cosmetics company Aesop has produced a beautiful new short film called The Guild of Artisans which, rather than simply showcasing their wide array of products, pays respect to the materials frequently employed in Aesop spaces: ceramic, leather, textiles, copper, timber, and marble. It also honours the historic craft guilds and "those who spend a lifetime honing the knowledge and techniques that enable them to excel in their respective crafts."

 

The Guild of Artisans from Aesop on Vimeo.

The Canyon's Child || Dino Carmo

Portugal's Dino Carmo had a sterling October at Nazaré.
Here's a clip that fell through the cracks last week that we just couldn't not share with you (does that make sense?). Anyways, Dino's one of the many world-class boogers to come out of Portugal and he was not only born in the country's big-wave haven of Nazaré, but has been raised among the towns triangle peaks since picking up a board when he was around eight years old. There's a fair bit of juice in this clip, put together by Pedro Luis, from just one month of surfing.

 

'The Canyon's Child' - DINO CARMO from Pedro Luis on Vimeo.

Jacob Harmer || Skate

Filmmaker Jacob Harmer has created a short film in conjunction with White Lodge agency which extols the virtues of skateboarding. Shot during a foggy day in London, it takes a look at the beauty of the sport (or lifestyle, if you will) through the eyes of French artist, model and lifelong skater Theo de Gueltz. "Maybe skateboarding is a way out," he says. "You don't speak, you don't fuck around, you just skate. The only thing that matters is the present time, what I'm doing right now. The sound of the wheels on the concrete is so loud, everything else isn't important any more, that makes you feel stronger, that makes you feel free." 

Jacob Harmer - Skate from White Lodge on Vimeo.

Take Me Home

In a cold, dark dog shelter, a young beagle is waiting for the right one to take him home. Time passes by and the beagle is getting desperate. Until one day, when hope finally shines upon him. He has to do everything he can to leave the place.

Making a PornBurger With Mathew Ramsey

When it comes to the perfect burger, food photographer and owner of PornBurger.me, Matthew Ramsey, is the absolute master. To find out his secrets, National Geographic paid him a visit and filmed him putting one together one of his deliciously mouthwatering creations. Beware, don't watch the below video on an empty stomach.

For more foodporn, head over to PornBurger.me. 

Resurrect The Destructed || David Gonzalez

Born and raised in the rough suburbs of Colombia, David Gonzalez made it his mission to forge his own way of life the only way he knew how, through skateboarding. Currently residing in Long Beach, CA, and having spent most of the summer injured and homebound, Desillusion Magazine’s Pierre David stopped by the former SOTY’s home to gain an insight into David's world.

Resurrect The Destructed - David González from Desillusion Magazine on Vimeo.

Sneakerness Amsterdam 2014

A rusty factory shed is filled with crazy shoes. Grimy hiphop blasts through speakers and more eyes follow each other's feet rather than faces. Now that's a sneaker exhibition. If you're into unique colourways, limited collabs and cracking vintage stuff, well, then Sneakerness is the place to be!

In every edition Sneakerness travels to different countries to provide sneaker enthusiasts the greatest footwear - from old Jordan Retros until hard-to-get quickstrikes. Don't miss out!

Iconick was walking around at the event in Amsterdam whereafter this videographic recap happened. Enjoy!

Sneakerness Amsterdam 2014 from Iconick Online on Vimeo.

Around The World With Branko [Tokyo Edition]

HUF || Stoops Asia Tour

Skateboard tours mean different things to different people. If you're a pro or am, they're an opportunity to skate new spots, drink excessively on someone else's dime, and possibly shrug off demos. For team managers, they're an exercise in disciplinary strategy. And for flow dudes, they're a chance to prove you fit in with the team you're trying to get on.

Rather than load them into a van and drag them across America, HUF sent Brad Cromer, Sammy Winter, Peter Ramondetta, Josh Matthews, Keith Hufnagel, Joey Pepper, Kevin Terpening, and Josh Matthews to Asia. They skated spots in Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, and elsewhere. And they turned their trip into a 10-minute edit, out today. So if you have no immediate plans on going on tour yourself, you can live vicariously through them.

Keirin || The Passion

Keirin is unlike any other form of track racing and this video showcases why.

This Side Up || A Short Animation by Liron Topaz

A naive music-lover's patience is tested on his quest to download music online, as his perspective on technology completely changes.

MUòRICA_

Modica is an unexpected wonder... It has a bizzarre, unique effect on people, something so unreal, as if it seen through the deforming prism of dreams, like an immense phantasmagorical edifice of a fairytale, which instead of being made of floors, is made of layers of houses.” With these words an anonymous traveller skillfully described the city of Modica in the 60's, also called Muòrica in Sicilian dialect.

It is a fascinating place that captivates you in its labyrinth of tiny alleys and staircases climbing up the steep hills teeming with small houses made of white rock, all piled up atop one another, closing off the valley as if in a crude, but warm hug.

The basic idea behind the Muòrica project was that of exploring the city in search of something strange to skate. Mauro was the ideal person: curious, motivated, always ready to travel and dive head-first into crazy and interesting projects. And of course he lives in Sicily.

Enjoy Mr. Caruso shredding the old city founded 1360 years Before Christ.

MUòRICA_ from a brief glance on Vimeo.

4 Days In Barcelona With Ricardo Lino || ENNUI

In the beginning of March Ricardo Lino flew to Barcelona to film this Riding / lifestyle video and the promo video for his Signature frame, The brainiac, built by destroy bicycles.

for those of you who dont know Ricardo Lino has been skating for over 3 decades and after a couple of foot injuries he started a new adventure with fixed gear freestyle bikes, as you can see in this video the NEO FOOTIES are his favorite ENNUI article and usually says "without these things on my feet, i wouldn't be able to ride, thanks Ennui for making my life a whole lot better".

4 DAYS IN BARCELONA WITH RICARDO LINO /////////// ENNUI , ISN´T IT? from Ennui Brand on Vimeo.

Hardballs || Indonesia || 2014

Ryan Hardy - a ripping and a tearing Indonesia. Filmed during his time spent abroad our Northern neighbour throughout 2014.

Hardballs // Indonesia // 2014 from Joshua Tabone on Vimeo.

Ruta Panamericana || Nike Skateboarding

In October 2014, Nike SB took seven of skateboarding’s best along the Pan American Highway to five of the Western Hemisphere’s most explosive cities.
Nike SB Ruta Panamericana incorporates official footage, local media, still photography and the cellphone clips captured by the riders themselves to provide an inside look at a franticly paced skateboard tour of historic proportions. Featuring Luan Oliveira, Paul Rodriguez, Ishod Wair, Shane O’neill, Youness Amrani, Karsten Kleppan and Theotis Beasley along with Leticia Bufoni, Eric Koston, Trevor Colden, Cezar Gordo, Yuri Facchini, Paris Laurenti and the skaters of Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Astronaut || A Journey To Space

Filmmaker Guillaume Juin has utilised over 80GB of unused photos from the International Space Station to create one of the most beautiful videos of Earth filmed from space. The photos were taken over the past three years by crew members of ISS expeditions 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, who travelled in the space station at 28,000 km/h, 350km above the Earth's surface.

Juin said all it took was some removal of dead pixels, deflickering, and some simple colour grading in After Effects and Premiere (curves, saturation, and some blue crushing) to produce these stunning results. Watch the 3-minute short, entitled Astronaut || A Journey To Space, below. 

Astronaut - A journey to space from Guillaume JUIN on Vimeo.

Fixed On Fixed

Fixed On Fixed is a short film clip profiling five female bicycle riders and their love of riding fixed gear.

Riding fixed gear is not only about the bike but also the community that comes with it and this particular fixed gear community is a small, passionate collection of riders who all share a love of riding slightly differently from one another.

Fixed On Fixed profiles each rider, along with the group as a whole, to share their individual story and collective experience in what riding means to them.

Fixed On Fixed from Raechel Harding on Vimeo.

Lost Angeles

Situated in Freetown Christiania, Wonderland is the result of an autonomous community, disenfranchised with the mundane culture of modern society. A place for the disillusioned youth of Copenhagen to escape and forge their own traditions.
Desillusion Magazine presents ‘Lost Angeles’, an insight into one of the rarest independent skate spots on the planet.

Lost Angeles from Desillusion Magazine on Vimeo.

Le Temps D'un Paris || Timelapse

Time-lapse video made by Yann Muncy in Paris the summer of 2014.

Le temps d'un Paris - Timelapse from Elcondor Film on Vimeo.

GoPro || The Streets of Japan in 4K

For the Japanese, Bōsōzoku culture encompasses the lifestyle associated with customized motorcycles and automobiles. When translated literally into English, the phrase roughly amounts to “reckless tribe,” and this latest exploration of Tokyo nightlife from GoPro illustrates that title in gripping fashion. Seeing the act as a form of creative expression, many that are part of this Japanese subculture tour through Tokyo in packs, driving highly customized Lamborghinis, Suzuki Hayabusas, RWB Porsches, and on the extreme end of things Kaido Racers, which are the epitome of Japanese car culture. Watch the GoPro footage shot in 4K quality above to get a feeling for some of the extreme aspects of Japanese nightlife and tuner culture.

SABIO || Written in Stone

Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Baptista has been following the graffiti and street art scenes in Rio, NYC, and LA for the last several years and has now collaborated with prolific artist SABIO on “Written in Stone” an original feature short about the urban graff hustle. The still in development project has the support of KRINK and Sky High Murals and is currently crowd funding via IndieGogo.

WRITTEN IN STONE from carlos baptista on Vimeo.

Dirkjan Rules

DirkJan is a famous Dutch comic, the creation of author and artist Mark Retera. In this video, Dirkjan is out for a leisurely stroll with his dog when a spaceship appears from nowhere and abducts him. The aliens have big plans.

Dirkjan Heerst! from Jantiene de Kroon on Vimeo.

Japanese Kokeshi Doll

See how Yasuo Okazaki turns a block of wood into a Kokeshi doll.

鳴子系こけし／こけしの岡仁 from dmp on Vimeo.

Match Made in HEL 2014 || Connecting the skateboarders of East and West

For two days in October, pro skateboarder Arto Saari hosted a skate session at Helsinki Airport, allowing some of the world's best skateboarders to hit up super-smooth marble and concrete spots which are usually unaccessible. Because Helsinki airport is considered to be the gateway between Asia and Europe, with thousands of people transferring between Asian and European flights every day, the idea was to bring together skateboards from both East and West, allowing them to share their passion. Watch the video below. 

AFENDS Presents 'In Our Nature'

A new short film by the lunatics over at AFENDS. Taking skateboarding out of it’s typical context and taking it to a Tetanus minefield. This rusty as hell ramp sets the perfect backdrop for destruction, loud music and of course, fire.

AFENDS PRESENTS 'IN OUR NATURE' from AFENDS on Vimeo.