Disposed: Nike in San Antonio

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Interview: Edwin De La Rosa

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Disposed: Colony X Vans in Adelaide

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Top 10 Defgrip posts of 2011

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Scrapbook 2011: Nuno Oliveira

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— December, 2011 —

Animal Kenmare Backpack

Animal Kenmare Backpack

December 14, 2011

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 [...]

Ryan Fudger

December 13, 2011

Here’s a cool piece on our boy Fudger . Courtesy of Ryan Scott & The Last People.

Photo Of The Day: Empire BMX

Photo Of The Day: Empire BMX

December 13, 2011

Tom from Empire will be taking over the P.O.T.D. for the next month. Keep an eye on the sidebar. Thanks to Edwin for kicking ass last month.

ALYK for A New York Thing

ALYK for A New York Thing

December 12, 2011

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 [...]

Sense of Flying

December 12, 2011

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: [...]

Mick Bayzand

December 10, 2011

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

TM TALES: John Povah

TM TALES: John Povah

December 10, 2011

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.

The 7 Line

The 7 Line

December 10, 2011

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 [...]

Chester Jones

Chester Jones

December 10, 2011

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.

Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames

December 9, 2011

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!”

Rebel Jam Edit

December 8, 2011

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!

Photogallery: Rebel Jam 2011

Photogallery: Rebel Jam 2011

December 6, 2011

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 [...]

Shadow’s “Keep It Local” Video/Print Ads

Shadow’s “Keep It Local” Video/Print Ads

December 6, 2011

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, [...]

Print Ad: Subrosa

Print Ad: Subrosa

December 6, 2011

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.

Spliff-Triggered Photography

Spliff-Triggered Photography

December 6, 2011

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 [...]

L A N D

L A N D

December 6, 2011

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!

1987

December 6, 2011

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.

Hot Butter Teaser

December 5, 2011

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…

Benji B – Deviation String Quartet

December 2, 2011

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 [...]

ODSY VISION: Aitken & Dugan

December 2, 2011

Mike Aitken and Tom Dugan in a Trans Am. Riding bikes. Filmed & edited by Joe Rich. DO IT!!!

Brandon Means @ Random

Brandon Means @ Random

December 2, 2011
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Print Ad: United

December 2, 2011

For THIS.

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Print Ad: Mutiny

December 2, 2011

Ten Clips: Zac Miner

December 1, 2011

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. [...]