When Dan Wolfe himself uploads "CLOSURE", the legendary full-length video recap of his filmmaking career - between 1993 and 2003, precisely - with the best clips he ever filmed for classic releases such as "EASTERN EXPOSURE" and "REAL TO REEL" paired up with a lot of never-before-seen footage, with a healthy dose of S.F. in the mix as well, in the original quality and even clickable chapters, every man's quarantine is bound to suddenly get a lot smoother!
All right, younglings, if you are getting tired of hearing the old ones pontificating on "having it", well, here is all this talk is based on… With a little luck, this should speak to you… Well, let's hope so!
OK, kids, if you want to see an adult cry on the spot, today, just play them that video… Because all his youth lies there! But, yours also, at the end of it, and mainly our common roots. And this is where the Girl/Choco camp has always been best: respecting the roots of skateboarding, while pushing its ideas a little further… And, right, there, this edit is almost scary in a way! What you think?
A little look back, to the blessed (?) era of the Year 2000, when pants were baggier and with horrible cuts, and the shoes… Ah, the shoes… But let's stay focused on what matters: a time when Girl and Chocolate were at the top of the food chain, and for one reason –and the best of all– a team unduplicable (if that's even a word) for its talent pool of course, but also its styles. And, no, that post is not addressing only to those of us that are trying to hide a burgeoning belly under a hat from the latest drop. No, and this is the true beauty of skateboarding: it can be timeless, like a flatland switch pop shove-it by Stevie Williams. Yes, you read right. Why don't you check for yourself? You could get inspired…
Or how the "feel good movie" of this Sunday has been filmed in one day, using one obsolete camera… As for the return of the Staple, we will let the shoe fetishists give their opinion!
It''s Sunday, let's take our time, and here the time to look back at a times where things were simpler… Then again, if you truly analyze Mike Carroll or Gabriel Rodriguez skating, you will spot nothing "easy". One can also just sit down and enjoy the vast array of flows displayed here!
Wait, so all there is to do is ship Mike to Germany so he gets the spark again!? Let's note a particularly on point Tyler Bledsoe, and as for Lucas and Ishod, well, what to say, what to say!?
Yes, you will be able to see Rick Howard skate, and if this wouldn't be enough for you, Marc Johnson noseslides a mountain, and Rick McCrank murders it all…
A little look back at a time where things might not have been more simple, but they sure looked like it… And, yes, Chocolate is about to turn 20! And no, Paulo Diaz hasn't changed one bit since, since… Forever? You can not buy style: you got it or you don't.
Now this is what gets called a "must see" in media, but this time for obvious reasons: this compilation by Manolo of twenty years of Girl skateboards is a thing of beauty! And, without falling into nostalgia at all, let's invite the younger readers to study the first years of the brand and of the edit, most specifically two interesting cases: Keenan Milton, off course, but also Gabriel Rodriguez. Each of their trick is perfectly executed, but most and before all, completely ahead of its time, while being absolutely stylish. Maybe a lesson to ponder?
