Animal just released a new backpack called the “Kenmare” to go along with their ever expanding clothing line. The bag is made in the USA and Animal put together some words and photos to tell the story behind why they chose to make it in the USA as opposed to making it overseas.
Keep reading to check out the feature!
Here’s a cool piece on our boy Fudger .
Courtesy of Ryan Scott & The Last People.
Act Like You Know. for A NEW YORK THING.
aNYthing is one of those brands that continually has some of the best/most obscure references in their clothing, dope cut and sew lines, and an amazing community of people creating work for the brand. ALYK. has always respected and liked aNYthing, so when we had the opportunity to do a look book it was a no-brainer.
Just down the block from Dah Shop and the Manhattan Bridge Skatepark, the aNYthing storefront is a rad place to check out the new gear, peruse the huge collection of zines, watch LES tweakers, eat dollar dumpings, and hang out front on the bench. The GLOB is always updated with parties, galleries, and weird shit to do in the City as well. So, even if you’re an OT cat you’ll be able to find something to do.
If you’re in NYC come through and say what’s up.
A NEW YORK THING. ALYK.
- Torey Kish
Photos by Scott Marceau
The 2 minute mark is wild.
What´s it like flying down a mountain at 250 km/h? Espen Fadnes – The World’s Fastest Flying Human Being 2010 – teamed up with Project Managers Goovinn to communicate the experience of flying. ”SENSE OF FLYING” came out of the collaboration.
Turn up the volume, experience it, share it: SENSE OF FLYING
More leftover footage of Mick Bayzand from the filming for The Colony DVD.
Filmed by: Stewart munro, Clint Millar, Cooper Brownlee and Ryan Navazio.
Edited by: Cooper Brownlee
Here is our second installment of TM TALES. This time with John Povah, who breaks down a certain X-Games “wardrobe malfunction”.
If you missed the first one, click HERE.
Click below to read John Povah’s tale.
My old friend Darren Meenan (of Manmade fame) is doing a cool sports-based line called The 7 Line. I’m not really into sports, but I can tell this stuff is pretty cool in a tongue-in-cheek sports banter kind of way. It feels honest, but maybe that because I know Darren has been a Mets fan forever.
Hit up the store, or The Bullpen Shop right across from Citi Field if you are in New York.
Chester Jones just freshened up his personal site. It’s got a good mix of photos, BMX & design, so be sure to eyeball it.
Also, be sure to bookmark Chester’s photoblog, Mos Bueno.
Here’s a cool piece featuring Ice Cube. If I didn’t know that Ice Cube studied architectural drafting, this would seem like funny money.
Notable quote: “This is going green 1949 style bitch!”
Dominik Wrobel was on hand at this years Rebel Jam and was kind enough to put together this edit of the festivities for us.
Thanks Dom!
Enjoy!
I just returned from a trip to the Netherlands where the world-renowned Vans Rebel Jam went down. It was held in the city of Eindhoven, which is about an hour and change from Amsterdam. This was my first time to this part of the world and from what I could tell, it is a beautiful country.
Rebel Jam is one of those contests that you always hear good things about, so I was more than happy to accept the invitation to come over and cover it for Defgrip. This was my first ever Rebel Jam, and it did not disappoint. From accommodations to the actual event, it all went down as smooth as my eyes could tell. Barring any jet lag or “zombie mode” scenarios, it was a good time. Also, it’s always good when you can make riding history at an event, and Rebel Jam did that.
Thanks to Andy Zeiss and all the Vans staff for a great experience.
Dominik Wrobel is cooking up an edit for us, so check back soon for that.
Be sure to check out Ride BMX, DIG, Ride UK and Rebel Jam sites for action shots, results and more.
Click below to check out my photos from my time in Eindhoven.
Shadow’s edits are always on point–this time Simone Barraco, Seth Kimbrough, Lahsaan Kobza, Ben Hucke, and Trey Jones hop in the van and hit up a few shops in the northeast. You know this is good.
They also have two print ads featuring Simone Barraco and Seth Kimbrough that you can catch in Ride UK, or after the jump.
Here’s the latest print ad from Subrosa. It feature newest Subrosa pro rider Simone Barraco and was shot by the handsome Tristan Afre. The ad also features our 2012 Letum Street and 2012 Tiro complete bikes. Unfortunately there was no way to crop Chadwick out of the photo.
NYC-based photographer and director Timothy Saccenti of Stem has a really interesting article up on PDN explaining how he got the above shot of trip hop artist Tricky. Saccenti’s shots always look really crazy, and usually I assume it’s some post-production madness, but as it turns out the above shot was only colour graded. Really clever use of technology to get a brilliant result. Check out the PDN article here, and to see the rest of the Tricky series, check out Saccenti’s website here.
Our good friend Caleb Everitt has started a new design studio called L A N D with Ryan Rhodes and sent over a link to their new site. We have always been huge fan’s of Caleb’s work and can’t wait to see what those guys do with L A N D!
This video of Nigel Sylvester for G Shock was posted a few weeks back and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since it went up. Definitely one of my favorite video with Nigel and for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth a watch.
This is real dope–Chase Dehart flowing a line to promote the new “On the Move” mixtape that’s dropping soon from his Hot Butter crew. Definitely hyped to see the full mixtape after this…
In October, Red Bull turned the London Eye into a big, spinning club, and filled each pod with a musical act. Benji B was handed a pod and this is the outcome – a unique collaboration with the Deviation String Quartet, all recorded in HD. Strings are expertly arranged over tracks by the likes of Roy Davis Jr. and Lil Wayne to produce a result that sounds pretty amazing. Have been playing this on repeat for days and I think some of you might like this too.
The set’s an hour long so I recommend loading it up on a separate window if you want to let it play uninterrupted.
About a month ago we spent the evening in Canberra where Zac lives riding Woden park. Zac rode really well and mixed it up and hit a bunch of wild lines throughout the park, I don’t think footage does it justice to how fast he was hitting some of these lines but it was amazing.
Filmed by Daniel Johnson and Cooper Brownlee
Edited by Cooper Brownlee.
