The adidas South Africa skateboarding team recently explored the unknown territories of Namibia. They travelled to the capital city of Windhoek and made their way back to Cape Town via Swakopmund, Luderitz, Sossusvlei and small coastal towns.
Hunted is the first single from The Drift’s forthcoming album The Mountain Star.
Picking singles are always a challenge for us. The Drift’s albums work as a full body of work telling one big story – so throwing out one track for public consumption is usually quite tricky. We decided to give you ‘Hunted’, the central chapter of the new album ‘The Mountain Star’. It is a fair representation of what to expect from the new full length effort. There are faster songs, there are slower songs, so this one is a nice middle ground from what to expect from the 3rd chapter in the ‘Deluge’ trilogy. We’ll divulge more on the lyrical context of the song when the album is released. We’ll be shooting the live performance portion of the track’s Music Video on Sunday, the 1st of March at the brand new Mercury Live Johannesburg (at Carfax). We welcome all who want to come round and be a part of it! Much love from your pals!
– The Drift
Cliché presents their next full length video Gypsylife, available on DVD April 8th and iTunes April 13th 2015!
Featuring full parts and the 4th Cliché Gypsy tour… no hotels, 15 euros a day, a true skate road trip across Europe – skate where you want, sleep where you can. A skateboard trip plus way more. A sideways adventure to pillage spots, live in tents, bbq and party with the bro’s. Enter the simpler times. – Adul Skoorc
Lucas Puig, Sammy Winter, JB Gillet, Andrew Brophy, Joey Brezinski, Flo Mirtain, Brad McClain, Lem Villemin, Jeremie Daclin, Daniel Espinoza, Adrien Coillard, Javier Mendizabal, Pete Eldridge, Paul Hart, Kyron Davis, Max Geronzi and guest janitor/Gypsy Life artist Chet Childress.
Filmed and edited by Boris Proust.
Music exclusively for the Gypsylife tour by Busy P.
Jean-Marc Johannes recently put this video up of a local Cape Town skater he’s helping out, James Gibbs. Awesome to see skateboarding openly Continue reading “Meet James Gibbs”
The Deathwish team skate the American east coast in their new tour video, Let It Be Known. Featuring Neen, Kirby, Ellington, Valdez, Slash and Dickson.
World Skateboarding Grand Prix today released the Kimberley Diamond Cup (KDC) presented by Kumba Iron Ore schedule for 2015. Hosted in partnership with the Northern Cape Provincial Government, the Kimberley Diamond Cup will feature three Grand Slam regional qualifying events and fourteen Skateboarding for Hope community outreach initiatives leading up to Continue reading “Kimberley Diamond Cup 2015 Schedule”
Black Math is a Durban based three piece Garage Rock band.
This video documents their tour that occurred early January proudly organised by Psych Night & Vans.
The band tells some unknown tales e.g. why they chose their name etc.
In Pocket Cam #31 Cole Wilson rides a roller coaster, Joey Ragali slides a steep one, Jeremy Leabres pops a rib, Blake Carpenter fucks with it, Nick Merlino is still Nick Merlino, Dakota Servold gets hyped and Leo Romero falls asleep from all Continue reading “Tum Yeto Pocket Cam 31”
Ryan Decenzo, Greg Lutzka, Adam Dyet, Cameo Wilson, and PLG Blast Pro Series decks are made with hardrock maple, resin epoxy, single deck press, and are guaranteed against breakage for 15 days.
The DVS team travels to Detroit’s in search of semi-safe abandoned buildings, the kind of off the radar locations that have become ideal breeding grounds for DIY skate spots. With brooms, a drill, and some concrete, they set about converting the nine floors of the fire damaged Fisher Plant 21 into a skateable spot with a surreal ghostly backdrop.
Featuring: Paul Shier, Jon Nguyen, Luis Tolentino, Daewon Song & Blake Johnson
Ello Xray Eyez is a visual designer from South Africa, living and working in Cape Town. Inspired by comics, animations and people amongst other things, her work is predominantly character-based with an unknown narrative. The viewer is left to find relevant connections within their own iconography and experiences. Stylised and surreal elements are combined to create energetic compositions that are graphic and colourful. Working with themes of memories, fun times, current feels, characters and personal relevance, she is also influenced by the dynamics of organic versus geometric shapes, straight vs curved, balance, composition and texture.
RVCA First Thursdays Presents FRIENDS
‘Zine launch & exhibition
& Performance by Medicine Boy
Introducing the first of 3 nationwide free events, welcoming FRIENDS Occasional into the world. We celebrate with a magazine launch as well as a photographic exhibition.
With DJs:
Hey, no!, Look, The Diabolical Electric Eel, Snakes and Far Out!
**Entrance is limited**
About FRIENDS:
Having been conceived as a brand ‘zine and then developed as a men’s lifestyle publication, FRIENDS is welcomed into the world and born a free-of-charge ‘Occasional’: an ongoing series of publications to be released on a project-to-project basis and not on scheduled release dates. Issue 01 is themed ‘THE MALE DAZE’ and features content from around South Africa, Hong Kong, Seoul, New York and London.
#occasionalfriends