Yaje Popson

George Toland globetrotter

Too hyperactive for us to even get to keep track of his pace, George Toland, the London-based Sony VX-1000 piloting expert who's normally a regular on this website recently dropped not just one, but two remarkable montages of footage collected throughout the Americas - more specifically in Queretaro, Mexico (where he notably skated with Daniel Peña and Adán Belío, whose video "EL OMBLIGO DE LA LUNA" LIVE recently presented, for Milquinientosveintiuno) and in Heredia, Costa Rica (where he wasn't without catching up with Miguel Castro and Francisco Saco, both formerly met at the Croatian Vladimir Film Festival where they had showed their video: "CANASTA"). That's two times short of twenty minutes brimming with colorful spots and organic styles, masterfully captured by a Serious Adult increasingly prone to the itinerant lifestyle.

For more Costa Rica, we may send you back to the recent "GRINGO DIARIES" by Chris Komodromos and, for more Mexico, well, just stay tuned for the next few days...

Homies bigger network

When you want quality street skateboarding with a good smell of concrete and cement, obviously the easiest way is to turn to New York. Between Hotel Blue, Gang corp or Frog there is plenty to do. After the rather remarkable "Homies Network" of Kei Tsuruta, it’s Diego Donival who offers us a magnificent full-lenght of the same ilk "Potluck". This one brings together by its casting a large part of the atmospheres and scenes that we can find in New York with for example an appearance of Brandon James among a whole bunch of skaters of another kind like Kyota Umeki and Yaje Popson. As always when dealing with these people, the tricks are good (not necessarily neat, but sometimes it’s better) the atmosphere is very pleasant and it’s good to see so much diversity and originality. In short, skateboarders meet, videos are made, and the network is getting bigger!

Unknown Artist - Track 04

The fourth installment in "Untitled", Chris Mulhern's series of web clips for Alien Workshop, just came out via TransWorld and consists in ten minutes of skateboarding in and around Philadelphia with notably a full part for Yaje Popson, creatives lines by Mark Del Negro, swift ledge moves from Kevin Liedtke, and more stylish eccentricities authored by Kris Brown and Joey O'Brien. Optimal spot utilization, original maneuvers galore and the type of style that can't be sold!

Romantik Salganik

If the name of Sam Salganik doesn't sound familiar to you, then maybe his work does, as the man is responsible for some of the best Krooked videos, most notably "Gnar Gnar" and "Gnaughty" (both must-haves in the pre-skate rotation). And if that doesn't ring a bell either, well, you're still in for a world of discoveries...

For a few years now, Sam has been working on Becky Factory, and their last video production (to date?) is, quite logically, one more instance of his output. As one should have expected, "Swan Song" is more experimental than your average skate commercial and comes with romance, messages, classic Dinosaur Jr. tracks that could have been very, very easily ruined, and immaculate performances by Yaje Popson, Igor Veyner, Tyler Golden, Eli Reed, Cambryan Sedlick and the homie Pat Hoblin, who runs Pats Pants.

Around Midnight

Yoan Taillandier's visual craftsmanship and sharpest fish-eye skills than most is what you can thank for - amongst many other influential video pieces - the first "Minuit" video, as early as 2011 - the underground hit that shook the world, and made refined street skating presented well a focus in the whole Western skate world again, all the while itself being directly influenced by the minutiae of a sophisticated Japanese skate scene. Word on the street is that whoever it is that the relevancy of the aforementioned film may have flown over the head of at the time, due to being spiritually phagocitized by the hottest Californian trends and accustomed to a religion of wooden skatepark-based podcasts, is still trying their best to recreate that video and instill it with just as impactful long-term significancy to this day, and that's eight years later...

Anyway, even though Yoan, the filmer, never really left anywhere himself (as can be attested by his works for clothing brand Futur), this new edit displays the willpower to bring Minuit altogether back in full force, notably by the means of a new series of web clips this piece is the first installment in, so far; consisting in footage filmed from Paris to Italy, going through Marseille and exploring even the cuttiest spots, then consequently experienced by Pat Hoblin, James Coleman, Yaje Popson, Logan Lewis, Yensi Lama and Evan Kinori - more European than ever for the most part, and even in broad daylight, much to our delight!

Eli alert!

We dig Eli, here, you know it, and just love his skating, a rather refined mix of different eras, styles and techniques that can boil up to nugget like like switch hurricanes on tight natural transitions… And he shows up in great form in this, on top of his game, taming whatever surfaces and shapes the streets have waiting for him.

Meeting… Chris Thiessen!

Chris Thiessen, the man (most notably) behind the latest Transworld videos "Substance" and "Riddles In Mathematics", sat down with us to discuss his background in skate filmmaking, editorial choices, influences, his relationship with the magazine and more.

Voodoo child

Ah, Yaje… He sure has come a long way, the once prodigal and promising son of New York! Now full grown, having been through injury, and even an expatriation to Brazil, he has come back to us still as unpredictable, and strong minded in his choices, as unorthodox as they can be, whether we talk color of pants, music or ways to use a spot. And we just love it!

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They pros!

Not much more to say, apart that this makes us even more anxious for Yaje's part in the up-coming Transworld video, after this short but sweet dose of smooth yet powerful skating!

Extra Yaje

Sure, Yaje's part from Dany, the recent independent project from New-York is being held hostage on Thrasher, but this bonus edit got your covered as it is a little gold mine for mister Popson, but also all his buddies from the full-length. Good, good stuff, some infra bass and even a kiss to the filmer's grandmother. Perfect!

High def'!

This clip despite being filmed on an advanced technology mobile telephone does not suffer from the "let's get this one real quick" syndrome, as the skating is quite up there, while RB Umali, thanks to his OG New York filmer status, can assemble some often too rare old timers, like Akira, and the youth of the moment, like a Yaje in fine form, and one guy named Jarrod Brandeth that –despite being Canadian– is more than at ease in those NYC streets. Let's also note an always versatile Ron Deily!

Yaje!!!

New York's prodigual son really is back, isn't he!? And stomps grounds with the finesse he always had, even on the quirkyest tricks… He even delivers a catch / drop of a falling beanie in the middle of a line that might be NBD!

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