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.

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Adidas Skateboarding continues their close relationship with skater and artist Mark Gonzales. For Spring 2009 he worked on a variety of product, some more widely available and others intended for limited release. As usual you find Mark’s art on all his footwear.
We present you today the limited releases that he worked on, both footwear and clothing, available at premium skate doors next year.
Check them all out after the jump.

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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.

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“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.

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This Spring season Vans introduces their new Johnny Layton collection. Instead of giving the professional skateboarder only his own signature shoe, he received right along his own signature apparel line.
Dropping in stores over the next couple of weeks, the collection consists of hoodies, t-shirts, denim, chinos, beanies, New Era caps, belts and of course the A. J-Lay signature shoe, which comes in several tie dye and solid colorways.
Check out the entire collection after the jump.

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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!

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Here you see the Nike Zoom Team Edition that Nike SB will be releasing in February. It comes in a nice mix of brown tones with the contrasting silver swoosh. The warm colors and matching materials work well on this shoe. Check out many more pics after the jump.

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Rick McCrank’s new éS pro model shoe, the Avers, was inspired by his good friend and graffiti artist, Lee Matasi (RIP). It features the Norton upper on a vulcanized outsole. As part of their Fall/Winter 2007 collection éS has also created a Girl Skateboards colorway of the shoe. The brown/black upper is solid and the Girl Skateboards logo was placed on the tongue tag and also the screenprinted on the side. Now available at éS retailers around the globe.

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We continue to present you the latest Nike Skateboarding releases. Here are probably the two most special releases from the Nike SB Premium collection this year – the Dunk Mid Premium “Skate Mental” and the P-Rod x Eric Avar JihRod Boot.
The Dunk Mid  Premium “Skate Mental” comes in a white/black upper with green accents. The white is canvas and on the strap it has the “Heavy Mental” print and some other graphic printed on the side of the sneaker.

The P-Rod x Eric Avar JihRod Boot is probably the most special and at the same time unexpected release from Nike SB. The boot was designed by Eric Avar, the footwear design legend that brought you already the Air Zoom Huarache 2K4 and 2K5 and has played a major role in the Nike Basketball section. The boot comes in all black with a gum sole. It has a mixed upper of mesh and premium leather and features the signature of the designer on the tongue.
Both sneakers have just arrived at Goods Seattle. After the jump detailed pictures of both sneakers.

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Some of the Nike SB December 2007 releases are already getting into stores. In4mation received the first shoes that are part of the Nike SB Premium line – the Nike Blazer Hi and Blazer Lo. The Blazer Lo comes in a khaki colorway, with suede upper and a faux-fur inner lining. The Blazer Hi comes in more colorful with a black/turquoise/orange upper. The new Nike SB Premium line comes in white shoe boxes with a black floral pattern running inside!

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As part of their October 2007 releases, Nike SB will be putting out later this month the Nike Dunk Low Premium SB “Takashi 2″. Collaborating for the second time, Takashi Hosokawa designed this time a black leather, black suede sneaker with metallic silver swoosh and accents. Also the Dunk Low features a lasered floral pattern across the ankle/heel.
Expect the Nike Dunk Low Premium SB “Takashi 2″ to arrive at Nike SB retailers later this month. After the jump detailed pictures.

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Rumors have been floating around for while, these last couple of days lots of teaser images circulated as well, but one could never really see what the Nike SB “What The Dunk?” shoe looked like and incorporated. Crooked Tongues now got their hands on a pair and took some nice detailed shots.
If this was a regular Nike SB release with no story to it, we would have to go on about how horrible the sneaker looks, because what you see here above is actually one pair of sneakers, not four. The Nike SB “What The Dunk?” is being released to commemorate the release of the first Nike SB movie, Nothing But The Truth. To celebrate this movie, which was 3 years in the making, they created the “What The Dunk?” shoe, which mixes patterns, colors, symbols and logos of the most popular Nike SB sneakers made to date. Looking at it from that perspective, it actually makes it a nice collectors item, just please don’t wear them!
After the jump lots of detailed pictures. Try to guess which sneakers went into this one.

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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!

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The other day we presented you the limited edition sneakers out of the Lakai Holiday 2007 collection. Today we give you a look at another special series that will be releasing this season – The Strike Force Series.
World War II planes were often painted by unknown artists or the pilots themselves and became iconic among Air Squadrons. Not only did the paint give the plane more strength it was also a way to camouflage them from visual radar at the time. With the Strike Force Series Lakai wants to pay tribute to the artistic expression of the aviation fathers.
Check out all 4 sneakers that are part of the series in detail after the jump.

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Taka Hayashi grew up skateboarding, and began to draw at a very early age. His talent is undeniable, and his artistic style reflects his unique journey. Born in Japan, and then transplanted to Santa Monica, CA in 1983, he grew up during one of the definitive periods of modern street skateboarding. Taka hung out at a local skate shop on 5th and Broadway, taking inspiration from the Venice pros that were regulars in the shop. The 80s skate culture and vibrant art scene had its impact. For this Vans Holiday Core collection Taka designed an incredibly detailed signature series–each design is inspired by the rider’s unique style. Using a variety of different techniques and materials, his art is strikingly reproduced on the new Rowley “Shambles”, the AV Sk8 Low, the DD-66, and the TNT III Slip-On. This is an exclusive product for style-conscious skateboarders.
Expect the Vans x Taka Hayashi Pack to be available this Holiday 2007 season!

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Here we present you the Supra Fall 2007 footwear collection. As usual the brand presents a strong range of shoes that once again set design standards in the skate industry. Materials and design in general of Supra have not been seen in this form by other skate brands before. Their sneakers have for a performance brand a very upscale look and also the choice of materials, colors and design goes that direction.
After the jump you can have a look at a selection of the Supra Fall 2007 collection. Croc skin, oestrich, premium leathers, suede all found their way into this years collection. Check it out.

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We announced it beginning of the week and today the official Supreme Online Store opened. A first offering included a military parka, plaid shirts, t-shirts, backpack, Maglite, New Era cap and of course the much anticipated Murakami/Mr. skate decks. As you could have guessed a lot of stuff is already sold out, but some is still there so head on over.

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Here we give you a first look at part of the C1rca’s Holiday 2007 footwear collection that will released in a couple of months. The brand offers both performance skate shoes and goes a little more high-end to serve to their core customers, when they are done skating for the day. For Holiday 2007 they have nice colorways in the footwear collection, ranging from nice black/purple mixes to simple premium brown leather sneakers with leather laces as a nice details.
Check out more after the jump.

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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.

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Here we present you another Nike Skateboarding preview for September. The P-Rod 2 Zoom Air comes next month in a dark mocha/safety orange colorway. The different brown and mud tones mixed with each other and the orange accents looks really solid. Also the sneaker has in general many nice details and the gum sole is a perfect match.
Expect this sneaker to drop beginning of September. After the jump many detailed pictures of it!

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