MARS || Short Film

Victor Cascarigny in MARS.

An immersive skate part shot in Marseille during scorcher.

Morgan Jouquand have been skating for almost twenty years. 

He finally found the energy to create a project combining music and skateboarding, with the man who does kickflips faster than his shadow.

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MARS from Morgan Jouquand on Vimeo.

 

The Porsche 911 || Reimagined By Singer, Driven By Enthusiasts

Follow Petrolicious into the heartland of America as they pay a visit to Indiana to meet Matt Euson and his Porsche 911 reimagined by Singer Vehicle Design.

Whether it’s a quick jaunt to the office, picking up the kids from football practice, or tearing through the secluded snakes of tarmac outside of town, this 911 is driven as it was built to be.

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Chill Beats Music || Chill Beats Presents: Lofi Dreams (Full Album)

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Keith Haring || The Childlike Genius of America's Favorite Artist

Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop & graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.

His art is instantly recognizable for its simple childlike aesthetic and line-drawing style often made with very few colors.

That universal quality that draws us to his work lead some to think that his art is easy to achieve but it isn’t.

Haring believed, and his work shows us that that art should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

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Istanbul. Love of the continents || Short Film

Immerse yourself into the authentic atmosphere of the city between East and West.

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Istanbul. Love of the continents from Timelab.pro on Vimeo.

 

tympanik. || Above The Clouds (Full Album)

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The Rise and Fall of adidas Boost || What Happened?

adidas' Boost technology changed the world of footwear as we know it.

Since the invention of Nike's Air technology, there hasn't been an innovation this significant.

The hype for adidas Boost was so high at one point that it was looking like adidas was going to take up a large portion of Nike's market share.

Over the past few years Boost technology has gotten old and isn't as popular as it once was (among sneakerheads at least).

So what happened?

Well, in this short film NachoAverageFinds will be taking a closer look at the history of adidas Boost and why it declined.

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Unscripted. || Short Film

Unscripted. is a surf short film that tells the story of surfer and creative mind Diogo Martins.

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Tommy Guerrero || Sunshine Radio (Full Album)

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AUGENBLICKE || a blink of an eye

Three perceptions of one truth - hers, his and ours.

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AUGENBLICKE - a blink of an eye from Kiana Naghshineh on Vimeo.

 

Homologation Specials || 1990 Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II

In the 1980s and ’90s, Mercedes-Benz produced nearly two million units of the 190 compact sedan, but these were not created equally. The variants of the entry-level Merc ranged from  beige Moroccan taxi cabs with workhorse diesels under the hood and fewer amenities than a room at the YMCA, to the homologation specials with Cosworth-and-AMG-developed engines wearing aero kits shaped by wind tunnels and phDs.

The ultimate road-going iteration, the 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II featured in this film driven by none other than Alain de Cadenet, was born to support Mercedes’s battle with BMW and Audi in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM), homologating the competition version that went on to win the manufacturers’ championship in 1991 and 1992, besting its rivals during one of the headiest periods of touring car motorsport.

But even without the achievements of its racing relative, the street legal version was fated for infamy. The almost egregiously tall rear wing and the rest of the bodywork augmentations are emblematic of the era it was born into, and although its styling has been polarizing car enthusiasts for three decades and counting, there is no denying that this car has presence. It’s a lot to look at, but what’s it like to drive? Is there a better way to answer that question than to put one in the talented hands of Alain de Cadenet on a winding mountain road in Portugal? Not likely.

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Jazz Spastiks || Camera of Sound (Full Album)

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Great Art Explained || Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps we are over familiar with her.

Here James Payne explains why he thinks it is not only a great painting but also a revolution in art.

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The Ripple Effect || Short Film

At the start of the pandemic, Mike Guest found himself in an unusual setting: home. 

After 20 years of working as a freelance photographer in outdoor environments all over the world, he had been accustomed to constantly being on the move, surrounded by athletes, clients, collaborators – and distractions.

It was during this period of personal darkness, and following a conversation with his friend and fellow surfer/photographer Nick Pumphrey, that Dawn Days was born. 

Every morning, Mike was up at 3.30am, pulling on his wetsuit and walking down to the beach with his camera, where he would swim out and capture the dawn.

The Ripple Effect is a beautifully open and honest reflection from Mike on how this project helped him process his mental health over the pandemic.

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The Ripple Effect from John Duncan on Vimeo.

 

AK420 || One Night Stand With Mary Jane 

(Full Album)

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Craft Coffee || Short Film

Craft Coffee reinvents the coffee experience connecting coffee lovers directly to the best small roasters around the world. 

Month after month they support these small roasters choosing only the very best. 

Employing a rigorous selection process, they involve the community of baristas around New York to determine which coffees end up in your mailbox. 

Watch the short film to learn how Craft Coffee elevates the morning coffee ritual to new heights.

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Craft Coffee from Show Love on Vimeo.

 

Scotland || Lochs, Mountains & Light

This is a short film showing the incredible light and landscape of some of the Scottish mountains and lochs.

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Scotland - Lochs, Mountains & Light from Adam Stocker on Vimeo.

 

Anti-Lilly & Phoniks || The Instrumentals 

(Full Album)

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Inside the Mind of Favela Funk || 

Brazilian Hip Hop Culture Documentary

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk is a documentary about love and relationships in the world of the extremely popular ‘favela funk’: Music from Rio de Janeiro’s deprived neighborhoods.

The documentary shows the perspective of the favela youth and aims to find the relation between the favela funk lyrics and their personal, daily (love) lives, dominated by a lawless subculture.

Inside the Mind of Favela Funk gives an insight in the current Brazilian underground music and its corresponding values, but it also shows a search for faith, hope and love.

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George Condo Interview || The Way I Think

George Condo was part of the 1980s wild art scene in New York. In this video, recorded in his New York-studio, the iconic artist shares his life-long love of drawing and thoughts on his artistic expression, which he describes as “artificial realism.”

”I kind of draw like you’re walking through the forest, where you don’t really know where you’re going, and you just start from some point and randomly travel through the paper until you get to a place where you finally reach your destination.” Condo studied music theory at college, but soon realised that it was too formal and rigid for him, and that he needed an art form that would give him more freedom. However, he still approaches his art like a musician, working fast and following the rhythm of the drawing or painting without “missing any of the notes.” The tempo, he feels, is very important when it comes to art.

Condo wants his work to contain clear references to the different artists – from Picasso to Velasquez – they’re inspired by, but with a twist. His painting or drawings are about finding a way in which one can capture a person’s humanity through a portrait – capturing not just the outside but also the inside. Moreover, Condo aims to “turn negatives into positives”, portraying “the ordinary characters that make up our lives, whether it’s the janitor or the bus driver or the school teacher or the principal or the mailman or the truck driver. These are not the glamorous people that you see on the cover of Vogue Magazine, but they are what the world is composed of. And to give them a spot in the world is what I always admired about Rembrandt to a certain degree…”

“I love drawing as much as painting, so why not make your paintings from your drawings, but literally have there be no defined sort of hierarchy between the two mediums?” Condo started making “drawing-paintings”, where you can’t distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: “There’s no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, ‘cause it’s all painting to begin with… You don't’ have to follow any rules as a painter. If you’re making an abstract painting it doesn't mean eventually it can’t morph into a figurative one.”

When a famous art historian asked Condo what he called the form of work he did, Condo thought of the description “artificial realism”. Artificial realism gives the painter the opportunity to go back and paint something in a realistic way while still portraying all that which is artificial in our world. In continuation of this, he finds that now everything seems to be “artificial realism” with the fake news that is all around us: “Art is the truth, and everything else is a lie.”

George Condo (b. 1957) is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Condo mixes input from art history’s masters – such as Velasquez, Manet and Picasso – with elements of American Pop Art. He distorts and renews this material so that it stands out and becomes his own: a kind of strange hybrid that blurs boundaries between the comic and the tragic, the grotesque and the beautiful, the classic and the innovative. As part of the wild art scene in New York in the early 1980s, Condo was close to painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, and worked for Andy Warhol’s Factory, applying diamond dust to silkscreen. Condo’s work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, Tate Gallery in London, Centre George Pompidou in Paris and Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, among others. He is the recipient of an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999) and the Francis J. Greenburger Award (2005). Condo lives and works in New York City.

George Condo was interviewed by Kasper Bech Dyg at his studio in Soho, New York City in September 2017.

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Junk33 || The Equinox (Full Album)

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How a Duracell Worker Invented Supreme with His Last $100 || Short Documentary

Supreme is hailed as the coolest streetwear brand in the world.

Many know of its sold-out collaborations with prominent brands, including Louis Vuitton.

And that its resale value can be as high as 1200% above the original price.

But few know the real story behind why the brand skyrocketed and how it all started at a Duracell factory.

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Homologation Specials || 1990 BMW E30 M3 Sport Evolution

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the best touring car racing in the world was happening in Germany.

The Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) was a hotbed for manufacturer money and talented drivers, the racing was at its door-banging finest, and the pursuit of competitive edges on the track produced some of the most iconic homologation specials for the road. The most famous of which was the first-ever BMW M3.

Based on the E30-generation 3-Series, the M3 was comprehensively reworked by the engineers at BMW Motorsport to battle it out with Ford, Audi, and most of all the Bavarian’s opposition from Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz.

Although no single manufacturer can be said to have dominated the DTM during this period, the BMW M3 and Mercedes-Benz 190E were consistent favorites, and the definitive rivals of the series that duked it out for the better part of a decade, each winning titles over the efforts of the other.

Both the Benz and the Bimmer were treated to Evolution models over the course of their careers, and in 1990 the two carmakers arrived with their last major iterations, the winged 190E Evolution II, and the BMW Sport Evolution.

In this Petrolicious film, their host Alain de Cadenet takes the road-going version of the ultimate E30 M3 on a drive in the mountains of Portugal, exploring its development history while putting it to work on the types of roads cars like this were all but built for.

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Sinitus Tempo || Kuroi Yume (Full Album)

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A Brief History of Skateboarding || Short Film

An animated tribute to the history of skateboarding.

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A Brief History of Skateboarding from antonio vicentini on Vimeo.

 

MADE In UK 991 || 20th Anniversary || 

New Balance

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 991, a cult classic of the 99x series crafted in New Balance UK factory in Flimby, Cumbria.

As the predecessor to the 990v2, the 991 was the first of New Balance iconic 99x series shoes to feature an ABZORB window in the forefoot, as well as beneath the heel following a new and improved midsole design.

20 years crafted, 20 years a staple, 20 years of the 991.

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Remulak || Scrambled Eggs 2 (Full Album)

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Rooms || Animated Short Film

Rooms is a print and film project that explores the connections between mental and physical spaces through conversation, illustration, design, and animation.

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Rooms from Rohan McDonald on Vimeo.

 

Unridden || Go Where You Feel Most Alive

Unridden is a Nordic cold water brand founded in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Emerging from the frigid, dark waters, Unridden is all about exploring the raw and unpredictable nature that surrounds us as a means to finding genuine happiness within ourselves. 

Unridden wants to inspire and dress people to go outside and explore. 

People spend most of their time indoors in front of screens. 

Unridden wants to change that. And encourage people to explore the outdoors. 

To go where you feel most alive.

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Unridden - Go Where You Feel Most Alive from Ian Isak on Vimeo.

 

Elijah Nang || Travel EP (Full Album)

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Your Favorite Rapper's Favorite Watch || Behind the HYPE || Patek Philippe Nautilus

Conor McGregor, Drake, Jonah Hill, and Beyonce have all succumbed to the charms of Patek’s octagonal superstar. 

From iced-out overhauls to one-of-a-kind Supercomplications, Patek Philippe is a name every watch collector considers at some point.

This is how the Patek Philippe Nautilus became every celebrity’s favorite watch.

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