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Started with ‘Shit Girls Say’ and becoming a massive viral phenomenon on the Internet, now every day a new ‘Shit… Say’ pops up. Crailtrap presents ‘Shit Skaters Say’. Check it out here above.

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While on the The Big Day Out tour in Australia, Tony Hawk interviews Tyler The Creator, L-Boy, Mike G, Left Brain and Taco of Odd Future for Tony Hawk’s Dissent on Ride Channel.

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Carhartt linked up with with Catalunian audiovisual production house “La Neta Lab” and photographer Roberto Alegria for a dust ad campaign. Check out what the guys put together.

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Huf and Deluxe Distribution recently partnered with Japanese artist, Haroshi, on a sculpture series inspired by professional skateboarders Peter Ramondetta, Tommy Guerrero, Dennis Busenitz and Keith Hufnagel. Haroshi applied his signature sculptural technique to the project using old skateboards and components as his medium for design. Highsnobiety TV checked in with Huf and Haroshi the night before the exhibition’s opening ceremony to get the inside scoop on the project. Luckily there was a Japanese interpreter on hand to help us translate some of the finer details behind Haroshi’s incredible attention to detail and one-of-a-kind craftsmanship.

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RIME of the legendary Seventh Letter crew got together with Zoo York on these pro series skateboard decks. The series pays homage to Zoo York’s graffiti roots with RIME’s dope pieces. Whether you skate these or hang them up, they would be great to own. Check for these at Zoo York retailers now.

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We’ve shared with you some pretty extensive coverage of the whole HUF x Haroshi x DLX project that has been going on and if you have yet to see it, please be sure to check it out. Although each piece created by Haroshi for this project has been stellar, one of the highlights was the “Middle Finger” piece. Real Skateboards felt the same, too, as they have released this extremely limited skateboard deck featuring that wooden sculpture. There’s only 400 of these, so act fast. (Via Radcollector)

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Rob Dyrdek is at it again and this time kick flips a Chevy Sonic over a giant skateboard. Called an ‘astro spiral jump’ in the old days, only three men have previously managed to land the trick properly. Today we can finally show you a good detailed video of the action. Check it out below.

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Lakai enters the new year with a new commercial and as usual it is great. A simple, yet strong message, well communicated. Featuring Raven Tershy, the ad was produced by Ty Evans and Aaron Meza. Check it out!

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Thrasher got together with Wired Magazine to choose the most impressive skateboarding pics of 2011. With over 10′000 pictures posted in the print and online editions of the magazine in the last 12 months, you can imagine that the choice was not easy. We cannot choose our favorite of the bunch, they are all just amazing.

“The magazine runs more than 10,000 photos in its print and online editions each year, and damn near every one of them shows someone doing something bordering on insane. These are the 10 most jaw-dropping photos Thrasher published this year. They aren’t the best, in that the lighting or composition may not be perfect. But this isn’t about photography. It’s about skateboarding.

“It’s really more about the stunt being documented,” said Thrasher magazine creative director Kevin Convertito. “Sort of like shooting photos of car crashes.”

As Thrasher photo editor Michael Burnett would say, these are photos snapped when the skater was at his moment of “maximum rad.” And if every picture says 1,000 words, then the story here is of skaters pushing the limits of their sport in what Convertito calls “progression through focused aggression.”

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Robbyn Magby lands not one but two 720 double flips off the kicker at Riley skatepark in Farmington Hills, MI. Filmed with a Redlake N3 high speed camera at 1,000 frames per second, you can see how the man technically masters the challenge.

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Gravis has produced a nice short clip to introduce their Filter shoe silhouette. Team riders Dylan Rieder and Sammy Winter skate through the streets of Tokyo in the new Filter.

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Music by The Cosmonauts – “Psychic Denim”
Video by RussellHoughten.com

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We get to see part of the new Daisuke Takahashi ‘Subspecies’ film. There is some really impressive freestyle street skating in this two minute clip, something you just have to check out!

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Designing skate shoes is difficult. Difficult because the features most needed in a skateboarding shoe directly contradict one another. For example cushioning and board feel: Skateboarders need cushioning to protect their feet from impact, but they also need a thin midsole to feel the board beneath them. Another paradox — durability and breathability: Thicker materials help prevent a skateboarding shoe from blowing out at the seams, but more layers mean less breathability. And then there’s the delicate balancing of tradition and progression in shoe design, between respecting skateboarding’s heritage and blazing the future with advancements of technology and materials.

Nike became the leader in designing for sport by accepting challenges like these. A decade ago, Nike signed its first skateboarding athletes and launched Nike SB, a line of skateboarding shoes that would draw from a wealth of athletic shoe innovation, 40 years in the making.

With the video below, on the example of Paul Rodriguez, Nike shows the innovation that has happened over the last years and their inspirations from other footwear innovation, outside of Nike SB.

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While going through the most recent issue of Fricote Magazine, we stumbled across the work of artist Arthur King. In his latest work, I Want To Skate, he presents a series of installations making skating democratic. From the sandwich to apples to books and t-shirts – everbody and everything is allowed to skate.

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For Holiday 2011 UK fashion designer Paul Smith has teamed up with Alien Workshop. Together they present a classic deck with black/white designs on both sides, double branding and most interesting, the classic Paul Smith multicolor stripe design applied to the different layers of the deck.

You can purchase the deck, which is limited to 200 pieces, here.

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Introducing Globe’s latest addition to its cruiser board line up – the Bantam. These may look like the boards of yesteryear, but they definitely are not. With a 30-day guarantee on the board and a lifetime guarantee on the trucks, the Globe Bantam Cruiser is not a toy. The board is stiffer, the trucks are wider and the components last longer than anything in the market.

The brand has produced a recreated fun vintage looking pool skate session for the commercial of the Globe Bantam. (Via Radcollector)

Check it out!

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This week The Guardian published an interesting article on the rise of skateboard brands and clothing to a multimillion dollar business – The Fall and Rise of Skate Chic. They talk about Supreme’s London store opening, Ed Banger Records and Busy P, Jason Dill, Odd Future’s Tyler The Creator and many other topics that we often speak about here. Furthermore they also speak about the sale of Volcom to PPR, the parent company of Gucci and YSL.

In the article they interview Keith Hufnagel of Huf and other tastemakers, designers from the industry. Certainly an interesting read and mainstream take on the trends in our market.

“When Supreme opened its London store this September, the young and well-heeled spilled on to the streets of Soho from a launch party many had queued for hours to get into. Inside, Ed Banger Records label owner and Parisian DJ Busy P rubbed shoulders with legendary skaters such as Jason Dill. This was more than good PR for the New York-based skater brand, recently worn in prolificacy by Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator. This was an event that marked a remarkable change in fortunes for a fashion once largely dismissed as the style concerns of waster teenagers.

Supreme started life in the mid-90s, when New York skating was at an all-time low. Companies were going out of business, skaters couldn’t afford to live off their sponsorship and the sport had developed a reputation for being popular among a nuisance generation of slacker kids. The idea that, a decade down the line, skater fashion would not only occupy a burgeoning corner of the market but also infiltrate high fashion must have seemed absurd. But that is what’s happened.

This spring PPR, the parent company of Gucci and Alexander McQueen, bought the Californian skate company Volcom in a deal worth $607m. The leap in Volcom’s stock to $24.39 from $19.73 when the deal was announced in May even prompted some law firms to take a closer look at it because they claimed shareholders weren’t getting a fair price.”

Read the full article here.

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This weekend Odd Future will release OFWGKTA and Golf Wang skateboard decks. Overall there will be two designs in three different colors, produced in limited quantities. They will release the decks at their 1 month pop-up store on December 3rd, 2011.

Golf Wang Pop-Up Store
410 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA 90036

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Palace Skateboards has released the full length VHS powered film, Tres Trill, this week. Some good old school looking skate action can be found in this 6 minute short film. Check it out!

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