LA SKATE + MUSIC || A Look at LA's Influential Skate and Music Scene

LA SKATE + MUSIC is a short documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at Los Angeles’ globally trendsetting skateboarding and music scene through the eyes of some of LA’s most influential skaters.

Going beyond skateparks and street tricks, this piece highlights the role music plays in cultivating a culture that allows the skate community to break barriers regardless of ethnicity or gender.

Check it out below.

Ice & Palms || (Full Movie)

Ice & Palms [Eis & Palmen] - Bikepacking across the alps and skiing iconic mountains along the way - no motor allowed!

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The documentary follows skiers Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck on their most ambitious ski tour yet. A 100% self powered adventure from southern Germany all the way to the mediterranean sea.

The two friends have traveled the world for many mountainous adventures, but while skiing in distant locations this idea grew in their minds: a ski expedition that starts right on their own doorsteps. Six weeks, 1.800 km, 35.000 vertical meters and a dream come true. After pedaling and skiing through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France, they reached the beach in Nice in early June 2018. The movie premiered at St. Anton Filmfest in August 2018.

Check it out below.

Ice & Palms (Full Movie) from El Flamingo Films on Vimeo.

El Jazzy Chavo || Echoes From Another Cosmogony (Full Album)

'Echoes From Another Cosmogony' is the 5th solo instrumental album by producer El Jazzy Chavo. 

The album contains 14 sample-based tracks with spacey, atmospheric soundscapes and dusty drum breaks.

Enjoy.

Nike || Dream Crazier 

Nike used the 2019 Oscars yesterday as an opportunity to debut its brand new “Dream Crazy” ad campaign, which focusses on female athletes driving various sports forward, despite the pressures placed on them by society. 

In typical Nike style, powerful and dramatic narration is provided by Serena Williams on top of emotional archival footage.

“Winning 23 grand slams, having a baby, and then coming back for more? Crazy,” she says. “So if they wanna call you crazy, fine. Show them what crazy can do.”

Watch the ad spot below.

A Dream of Myanmar || Short Film

Myanmar. A country that has been sleeping for a long time wakes up.

With cameras in hand Marta Trela and Henning Himmelreich try to capture the unique culture and stunning nature of this beautiful country before it changes irreversibly.

On one hand exploring Myanmar feels like stumbling into a living edition of the National Geographic: elephants leading processions of novice monks through dusty towns, a fruit seller carrying a basket of mangoes on her head: a fulfilment of the oriental fantasies of the West.

On the other- a country embracing its newly won identity rushing headlong into the future to catch up with the rest of the world: traditional Burmese sarongs meet singlets and baseball caps. Cheroot cigars become cigarettes.

‘This is Burma', wrote Rudyard Kipling. ‘It will be quite unlike any land you know about.’ Amazingly, over a century later, Myanmar retains the power to surprise and delight. Also for entirely new different reasons.

Hit play.

A Dream of Myanmar from HINDSIGHT on Vimeo.

Lamborghini || Disintegrating Miura by Fabian Oefner

Swiss artist Fabian Oefner, in collaboration with M.A.D. Gallery, exploded a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV by not actually exploding anything.

Instead, while the legendary Italian car was going through a painstaking restoration process, he individually photographed more than 1,500 parts, stitching them together to create one magnificent image.

Check it out below.

HANDODAT || Short Film

HANDODAT is a short film documenting back to back swells that hit Pipeline during the month of January 2019.

Have a peek below.

HANDODAT from Hammah Time on Vimeo.