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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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2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the greatest skate shoe of all time, the Vans Half Cab. In celebration of this occasion and skateboarders’ knack for challenging the status quo and making their voices heard, Vans will be dropping one new and exclusive limited edition 20th Anniversary Half Cab colorway every month throughout the course of the year.

Beginning in January, Vans and Supreme take us back to where it all started with a limited edition (20 pairs worldwide!) hand-cut and duct-taped Vans Caballero high top. Each pair individually cut, numbered and signed by Cab himself and available exclusively at select Supreme Stores worldwide while supplies last.

The shoes will be available Saturday January 28, only at Supreme New York, Supreme Los Angeles, Supreme London and Supreme Tokyo Harajuku. 5 pairs per store.

Check out the video below to see the process:

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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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Converse announces the debut of its Spring 2012 skateboarding footwear collection, including the new Form + Function Collection, and the latest collaborative shoes from Team Converse Skate Ambassadors, including the CONS Trapasso Pro, CONS Pappalardo Pro, and the KA-ONE. Available starting February 1, 2012.

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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.”

Check out the rest of the photos after the jump.

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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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LAQ has teamed up with French fashion designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac on their latest furniture creation. The table ‘Mingskatable’ is “born from the clash between the history of the Chinese Ming furniture, the ancien Art of lacquering and the urban culture, the table Mingskatable evokes at the same time, the Golden Age of the Chinese furniture with its sandal red base and the “street culture”.”

Made from 7 layers of maple wood, the table comes in an edition of only 8 pieces.

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NBA’s Rudy Gay and MTV’s Fantasy Factory co-star Drama celebrate the end of the NBA Lockout with a little Back To The Future tribute, skitching Ferraris in Nike Mags.

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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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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.

Check out the entire series after the jump.

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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.”

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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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Street League presents a ‘Best of Paul Rodriguez’ 2011. Check out the year’s recap here above for some solid skateboarding from P-Rod!

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Vans’ classic Era sees a bit of an added modifications for for Holiday 2011 for the brand’s skateboarding line. The Vans Era Pro sees an added a new DURACAP sockliner to the upper and for this season it’s available in a range of six colorways; Navy/Gum, Pewter /Black/Green, Chima Ferguso/Red/Black, Chima Ferguson/STV Navy and a classic black/black. The best thing is that even with the slight improvement on these sneakers, there’s no price difference than before. These are available now from Vans.

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Earlier we reported on the Trasher Magazine 30 Year Anniversary Exhibition presented by Oakley that took place last week in Costa Mesa, CA, and now we present you with an in depth look at the Love & Guts exhibition that went on concurrent with Thrasher’s. Love & Guts featured a lineup comprised of genuine skateboarding legends that have played a huge part in the growth of it. Guys like Steve Caballero, Lance Mountain, Pat Ngoho, Steve Olson, Ray Barbee, Salba, Christian Hosoi and Chris Senn all exhibited some works as part of this special block party put on by Oakley. We were on hand to capture some flicks of the exhibit as well as some portraits with the show’s key players. Unfortunately, the exhibits were one-night only, but we documented everything, so no worrying.

Photos by Highsnobiety.

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Zeppelin Films presents a nice documentary short film on Brazil’s world longboarding championship in Teutonia, where riders often go beyond 70 mph (120 km/h). The short film stars Douglas Rodrigues Da Silva. Check it out here below.

Dalua Downhill – Episode 4 Teutonia (English Version) from Zeppelin Filmes on Vimeo.

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