We just came across something fantastic. Designer Adam Kimmel chose an unorthodox method to showcase two of his Spring/Summer 2009 suits. He decided to do a downhill skate video. The video is shot by photographer Ari Marcopoulos. Via Men.Style.
Make sure to watch the video here.

Introduced in the 90s as an extension of the “Skate And Create” theme of Transworld SKATEboarding magazine, the monthly Brain Floss feature focused on the artistic talents of skateboarders off their boards. In 2008, the Brain Floss has awoken from its five-year hibernation, and with the help of New Era Cap Company, the artists are being given their choice of hat silhouettes to do as they please—the outcome being a limited run of caps for fans of TWS, New Era, and the featured artist/skateboarder. Number one in a series of six artists is San Francisco’s Benny Gold who chose the classic 59FIFTY and actually did two versions—a black and orange San Francisco version to represent his home, and a brown and gold version to represent San Diego, the home of TWS.
Fitted Hawaii has a limited amount of both styles that Benny Gold created in stock now.
Check out the second cap after the jump.

“Deathbowl To Downtown” is a new movie presenting the evolution of skateboarding in New York City.
“Along with San Francisco and Barcelona, New York is arguably the modern street skating city, both in reality and image. Because of the unique background, experience and perspective of the film’s creators and the decision to “cast” the city of New York as one of the main characters, Deathbowl to Downtown promises to be an unprecedented, seminal film.
Like Rick and Buddy’s other work, Deathbowl to Downtown goes deeper than ‘just’ skating to combine documentary with an incisive and artful exploration of skateboarding and its culture. On one level it’s about street skating, but also an anthropological overview of skating’s epochal shift from the parks and pools of the 70’s, to ramp skating in the 80’s, to the street ascendancy of the 1990’s as seen from a New York-centric perspective.
With interviews covering the oldest school originators to the newest school up steppers, comprehensive and much of it never-before-seen video footage, and present-day film shot by Nichols and Charnoski, ‘Deathbowl to Downtown’ addresses broader issues: How changes in urban planning and design affected skating (and vice versa), the unexpected late 20th century shift of cities from places normal citizens feared to tread, to tourist destinations, and the parallels between the modern history of American cities and skateboarding. That is, the way New York, and skateboarders, went from being ignored and reviled through 70’s and 80’s to being accepted and celebrated. An entertaining, eye opening, thought provoking take on why the action on New York’s dirty, grimy, and hectic streets represents skateboarding to millions of skaters and non-skaters worldwide.”
Definitely a very interesting movie to be looking out for. On their website there are nice photos and clips to check out. Via Keith Hufnagel.

One of New York’s most iconic skateboard companies just opened a new flagship store in NYC. Shut NYC opened Local 158 in the Lower Eastside. The store will carry mostly hard goods and some few select other brands.
158 Orchard Street
Between Stanton & Rivington
NYC
Make sure to check it out!

Three years in the making, Nothing But The Truth, is the story of the Nike SB Team, on and off their skateboards. The team did a world tour in October 2006 and created footage on top of that in the Santa Clarita Valley of Southern California. Skateboarders Paul Rodriguez, Brian Anderson, Gino Ianucci, Stefan Janoski, Omar Salazar, Ched Childress, Reese Forbes, Todd Jordan, Daniel Shimizu, Danny Supa, Wiege Van Wageningen, Lance Mountain and amateurs Grant Taylor, Lewis Marnell, Dan Murphy and Clark Hassler teamed up with Belgian director duo Lionel Goldstein to tell the whole truth, Nothing But The Truth.
Think Skate Film rather than Skate Video. The team was given carte blanche to pitch their story. In the story line skaters would write and direct a “film” about a truth in their lives.
Scheduled for release to authorized Nike SB retailers October 27th, and for general release on November 23rd, Nothing But The Truth, Nike SB’s first full length film, will premier in Los Angeles tonight, at the Kodak Theater, with a world tour to follow, including the European premier in London on October 16th at The Royal Festival Hall.
Here below now a preview of the film and after the jump some more pictures for you to check out!

The skateboarders from the Ready Amongst Willing camp are about to release the second full installment of their 2007 RAW collection. Pictured here are two pieces entitled God Bless Skateboarding and Cut Your Losses. God Bless Skateboarding is a reissued item from the original 2006 collection. Cut Your Losses is a new graphic featuring the fine art work of Ryan Lombardi from Enamel Kingdom. It deals with the importance of discarding people from one’s life who lack the value of loyalty. The new RAW collection will be available at finer retailers such as The Re-Up, Concepts, Concrete, Politics, MIA and FTC. Know the Ledge Volume 2, featuring the skateboarding of Nate Keegan, John Wisdom, Gavin Macmahon-Nolan, Andrew McGraw, Tommy Wisdom and a host of other talent, will be released via readyamongstwilling.com in September.
Check out more pics after the jump.

We already showed you the blue colorway of the DVS x Diamond Supply Co. Jeron Wilson, here now a preview of the green colorway. The blue colorway will finally release this fall and the green one that you see here will be coming Spring 2008. Again there is the matching New Era cap coming along. Via C To The JL.

This fall IPATH is dropping a new shoe from one of their most respected team riders, New Jersey’s own Fred Gall.  Fred’s first pro-model on IPATH, the new mid-top shoe comes in three color-ways (green, black and cream), features a vulcanized outsole and incorporates a mix of sustainable materials into the upper (including a hemp ankle strap) and Fred’s Jersey Devil logo on the tongue. The hemp ankle strap especially on the black one looks great and makes a nice contrast.
Like all IPATH’s, these kicks feature stash pockets underneath the tongues, so you can stash things worth stashing.If you’re not up on Fred, just search YouTube to check out what one of the East Coast’s best skaters has to offer.
Watch for more info on IPATH’s new lines of footwear and sneakers to come soon to finer skate-shops and lifestyle stores. Check out the other two colorways after the jump.