If you’ve been paying attention, camera slider and dolly moves are becoming more in vogue by the moment thanks to the HD DLSR movement. I found this tutorial on Vimeo for by far the most professional DIY solution to build your own camera slider. He even sourced all the parts for you, check out the full tutorial on his website friedhelm-fischer.de. Thanks Friedhelm!
Apparently people in Canada have a lot of spare time on their hands. Dan Watson of You Will Soon trimmed up Flip’s Extremely Sorry video to his specifications and added a new soundtrack to boot. No claymation = fine with me.
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I made it very clear before that I wasn’t really feeling the new Flip video, Extremely Sorry. It had super sick skating in it, but my two biggest problems were the horrible DJ Baron soundtrack, and the superfluous useless clips scattered throughout the entire thing…MORE
Tony Hawk linked this video up on Twitter this morning. I read about the Uganda Skateboard Union a few years ago, I’m glad to see it is still progressing. The story of the USU is amazing. Skateboarding saves lives, don’t ever forget it.
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Looks like something is in the works for FDR The Movie, could be good, it’s definitely got the characters for it.
Build or liberate skate spots and Real Skateboards will give you prizes. It doesn’t get any more win-win than that.
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Known Associates…The world is yours! As long as you’re out there doing things to help build your skate scene and giving skaters in your area more to skate, then we want to see it.
* Get your crew together and make a video of yourself liberating a spot, building a new one, or making the unskateable skateable.
* Post your video on youtube and add the link to the comment section below.
It’s not about how big or expansive or even great it is what you do - just that you DO something. All clips will be judged not on size and scope of project but by effort. Don’t worry if its just you alone. All it takes is 1 to start a revolution. Starting Feb 8th we’ll begin picking winners - and we’ll keep going as long as we can if you will…
..well pick our favorite videos and reward the crews accordingly with Known Associates decks and other REAL goodies.
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Nicaragua’s 1st Cement skate park Petition, 2 seconds of your time.
Here’s some footage of Manny Santiago at the grand opening of the Rob Dyrdek’s new Safe Spot Skate Spot at Hollenbeck Park in Los Angeles last Friday. In the midst of the blown out madness, it’s great to see Rob put his money and time where his heart is, skateboarding thanks you.
Learning to skate a mini ramp is the foundation of solid transition abilities, and a shit ton of fun on top of that. Billy Rohan walks you through the process of building a mini ramp in this 13 minute video from Quiksilver and VBS. Get those tranny skills in check!
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The Skateistan project in Afghanistan had it’s official opening today.
After two years of working towards this goal, the Skateistan team is extremely pleased to announce the official opening of Kabul’s largest indoor sports facility and skate park at 2pm on the 29th of October. This milestone has been achieved through the collaborative efforts of an Afghan and international team. The opening will commence with short greetings from international donors and Afghan dignitaries. Speeches will be followed by a skateboarding demonstration by Afghan girls and boys together with internationally renowned professional skateboarders on the newly built ramps and obstacles.
Check out this article from The Age in Australia. No other words for this but awesome. Congratulations to Oliver Percovich and the Skateistan team! Looking forward to pictures soon. Check it out, buy a shirt, do something good for the world.
