A Band of Thieves || Short Film

The story of a young, western-obsessed girl hell-bent on turning her quiet Texas suburb into the lawless playground of her imagination.

Amazing colors and great story, hit play! 

A Band of Thieves from Fidel Ruiz-Healy on Vimeo.

PRESENTED BY NIKE SB || FIFTEEN YEARS OF SB DUNK || Stories from the Inside Out

In an era where sneakers change hands between collectors for five and even six-figure sums, it's sometimes hard to remember when kicks weren't a 'grail' item for people worldwide. 15 years ago, sneakerheads were a subculture centered in New York, LA, London, Japan and the Internet. Then, in 2002, the Nike SB Dunk was introduced by Nike's fledgling skateboarding division, and an 80s basketball shoe ignited both the world of skateboarding and sneaker culture. 

 VICE Magazine had a front-row seat at the time as one of Nike SB's very first partners. So when the 15th anniversary rolled around they had an immediate thought – let's make a Dunk documentary that delves into the history of the SB Dunk, and charts how we got here.

 We found the story reflects the unique intersection of sneakerhead collectors with the skate community. Riders like Richard Mulder, Reese Forbes, Gino Iannucci, and Danny Supa helped determined the look, feel, approach and tone of the SB Dunk, in partnership with the Nike SB design team. That group quickly built a grassroots movement with skate retailers like Supreme and HUF, the nascent "hype" press of Freshnessmag.com and NikeTalk, and new Nike team riders like Brian Anderson, Wieger van Wagninen and Paul Rodriguez. Informed by the "gotta have them all" mentality of OG Japanese collector/retailers like Hidefumi Hommyo (of Chapter and Atmos), sneaker-specific boutiques like Undefeated popped up, region-specific releases were developed, and the sneaker culture your hypebeast cousin now talks about incessantly was fully established.

 Today the SB Dunk is iconic, but it's easy to forget that it's still a skate shoe first and foremost that guys like Theotis Beasley, Sean Malto and Ishod Wair still rock religiously.

 Watch the inside story of the past 15 years hearing from shop owners, collaborators and skateboarders who helped make the SB Dunk a legend.

FRACTAL || 4k StormLapse

"The more extreme the imbalance, the more extreme the storm." 

 Though terrifying up close, thunderstorms are positively intriguing and beautiful when viewed from a safe distance, something Kansas-based photographer Chad Cowan knows all too well.

 Over the last six years, Cowan has been gathering timelapse footage of supercell thunderstorms all over the Great Plains, traveling over 1,600,000 Kilometres capturing tens of thousands of images to create FRACTAL, a 3 1/2-minute "StormLapse" that gives us a front row seat at "nature's attempt to correct an extreme imbalance."

 Is the weather a little too fair where you are? Seas too still, air too calm? Immerse yourself in magnificent atmospheric turbulence — billowing clouds, dancing bolts of lightning — with these expertly captured 4k time-lapse clips of stormy skies.

FRACTAL - 4k StormLapse from Chad Cowan on Vimeo.

Pixar Did You Know? || Scrapped Film Ideas

Just before Christmas, Pixar shared video via YouTube revealing a bunch of scrapped film ideas from a load of its biggest movies. 

 Some are pretty interesting, and some now seem completely ridiculous… 

 Amongst the treasure trove of ideas which were eventually scrapped include a list of alternative titles for Toy Story that included 'Plastic Buddies', 'Don’t Move' and 'Toys in the Hood', characters who didn’t make the final cut in the likes of Ratatouille and Cars, and initial designs for beloved characters such as Mike Wazowski of Monsters Inc.. 

 Have a peek below! 

INFAMY || A Graffiti Film

INFAMY is an intense journey into the dangerous lives and obsessed minds of six of America's most prolific graffiti artists.

 Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Doug Pray ("Hype!" and "Scratch") who teamed up with writer, publisher, and graffiti guru Roger Gastman, the movie takes you deep into the world of street legends SABER, TOOMER, JASE, CLAW, EARSNOT, and ENEM.

 With brutal honesty, humor and charisma, these artists reveal why they are so willing to risk everything to spray paint their cities with "tags," "throwups," and full-color murals.

 You'll also meet Joe "THE GRAFFITI GUERRILLA" Connolly, a notorious "buffer" who paints out graffiti on his neighborhood's walls with a vengeance matched only by those who vandalized them.

 From the streets of the South Bronx to the solitude of a San Francisco tunnel, from high atop a Hollywood billboard to North Philadelphia for a lesson in "Philly-style tags," from the Mexican border to a Cleveland train yard, INFAMY doesn't analyze or glorify graffiti... it takes you there and brings it to life.

Sit back, hit play and enjoy! 

Dunkirk re-edited as a Silent Film || The Power of Visual Storytelling

A fan of Christopher Nolan's Dunkrik rearranged the instant-classic into a black and white 8-minute silent film and it works flawlessly.

 If you enjoyed the war epic, please treat yourself to this impressive and satisfying reimagining. 

Grey Skate Mag || Island

A film by James Craven for Grey, documenting an epic journey from Land's End to John O'Groats, wild camping and skating rural, out-of-the-way spots along the way.

 Kindly supported by Emerica and Dickies. 

 Starring Tom Day and Zach Riley. Also featuring Josh Arnott, Conor Charleson, Will Creswick, Joe O'Donnell and Keanu Robson. Logos by Pip Seagrave.

Check it out below!