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Aymeric Nocus - 03/07/2003/07/20

Second rite of Passage

The Polish Passage Skate Co., anecdotally strong of quite the quality Norwegian connections we were introducing you to just a few days ago, are back online today with a hit, under the form of the second chapter of their new video offering, by Marcin Jakiel - and this one is dedicated to featuring some impressive talents of the more local origin this time, displayed skating around the cities of Wroclaw, Warsaw and Milan, and what's there to express - but a warning on the next seven minutes slapping you in the face. The combination of a clean production and such a raw style really does function, and even more so that the skateboarding itself is particularly insane. Difficult spots, surprising tricks, style all the way through : one more reason to reflect on how many skateboarders just kill it around the world from a gazillion of places relatively isolated from the industrial hotbeds.

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Aymeric Nocus - 23/06/1923/06/19

The Rocky Aurora Show

"Signal From The Aurora" is a new independent full-length skate video from Poland, handcrafted over the past two years by local duo Jan Mioduchowski and Wojtek Sobecki. As the local tradition suggests, quite a handful of dirty, rugged spots are on the menu (redundant tastes of ours aside, honestly, just watch the intro here), as well as a side dish of grey tint - from the skies to the buildings continuously scrolling past in the backgrounds. A visual style that is commonly exemplified by the popular "Grey Area" productions by Kuba Kaczmarczyk and his younger recruits, that he himself inherited from Pontus Alv - "Strongest Of The Strange"-era, years before Polar. And Pontus originally borrowed his fonts from Woody Allen, too - but now we're only getting sidetracked towards Sweden...

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