Nixon hit it out of the park this spring with their genius limited edition Rubber Players. Running a misty campaign that consisted of launching a new color each month from March through June and not announcing the color until just before the release gave the Rubber Player a hype status that led it to sell out almost instantly after each drop. Now Nixon has announced that after blue, red, and green, the final Rubber Player will come in a singing canary yellow. Ready, set, go to your Nixon retailer on June 15th.
anon continues to grow their goggle catalog with the introduction of the Hawkeye for 2010. The Hawkeye gives full peripheral vision in a compact and lightweight frame and since it’s anon, comes in a grip of fresh color and material finishes. Peep the ill cork one above! The Hawkeye will be available at anon retailers starting in August and will retail for $130. Check out some more color ways after the jump.
Objectif Lune is a project that was literally growing out of and with the Berlin skate scene, depicting it in a focus, most skateboard filmmakers tend to forget in times of trick by trick hammers, stunts, rail madness and high tech wizardry. With a great sense of capturing atmospheres, spots, characters and sessions Jonathan Peters took the other road to show the essence of skateboarding: being on the streets, sharing a love with friends, looking for new terrain, building makeshift spots… This all doesn’t mean there’s no great skateboarding involved. Quite the contrary as Lennie Burmeister, Valerie Rosomako, Maxim Rosenbauer, Carsten Beneker & friends bring unique styles, top notch skating and creative spots to the screen in a way that makes it worth watching even for non skaters, giving them an idea on what it’s all about. A very refreshing entry into the skate video universe. The whole video can be seen and bought via www.jonathan-peters.com or in its single parts on Jonathan’s Youtube-channel. Very very enjoyable piece of work!
ESPN just caught up with OG super shredder Bjorn Leines for an interview. Bjorn has a very seasoned philosophy about both the business and lifestyle aspects of snowboarding and doesn’t hesitate to break it down with authority. Check him out as he talks about Rome, Celtek and still hucking himself silly at age 32. The full interview is here.
Ever wondered what a day in the life of living skate legend and artist Mark Gonzales might look like? Fourstar just uploaded this piece to help your imagination. Here’s how he spent just one of those days in the forty years that he’s been on this Earth.
Blast, a lifestyle brand representing Pittsburgh through BMX, skate, snow and music has just dropped a few peaks at their upcoming fall 2009 line. A solid collection of gritty graphic tees that reflect the city’s somewhat dark steez, each one comes, appropriately, in black only. Check out a couple more looks after the jump. Full line imagery coming soon.
Awesome video of australian dirtmaster Corey Bohan (who was one of the first riders to land front flips and barspin to tailwhips on dirt) at a private night session at Heath Pinter’s trails in Lonie Paxton’s backyard. Nice vid.
Garrett Reynolds and Nigel Sylvester were just over in China showing heads how its supposed to be done at the Kia X Games Asia and Nike 6.0 has released this dope little edit to show us how it all went down. Although rain got in the way a bit Reynolds snatched his 7th X Games gold for BMX Park despite having his bike lost by the airline on his way to Shanghai. That’s some focus yo.
Brothers Films have just dropped a bunch of b roll as a teaser for their upcoming film Blood. Shot in Aspen and Idaho, Blood features dudes like Mikkel Bang, John Hemminger, Justin Bartle, Louie Vito, Mitrani, Takahiro Nakai, DTale, Ryan Lougee, and more. As a bonus Blood will come double packaged with Brothers’ 2008 film 31 Days in Alaska. The “Stimulus Pack” will be available this fall. Via Snowboard.
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