sexta-feira, janeiro 28, 2011

R.I.P. Toshiharu Ikeda 1951-2010

Toshiharu Ikeda, segundo consta, terá se suicidado.
É o realizador do mítico Evil Dead Trap, dos melhores slashers movies a vir do oriente, bem ao género de clássicos italianos.
Confiram:

Skateistan

uma curta sobre skate na cidade de Kabul, Afeganistão.
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Bones Brigade - reunião

a velha equipa da bones brigade vai começar agora em 2011 a filmar um documentário, a produzir estará Stacy Peralta.


PS: só uma curiosidade, em ambas as fotos falta o mítico Ray Barbee...

Na década de 80 a powel peralta fazia uma pequena zine so dedicada à bones brigade, felizmente guardei uma da época (um dia digitalizo e mostro).
Algumas imagens:

Annika Vrkalan - 6 anos

quinta-feira, janeiro 27, 2011

kick skate

procurei por isto durante algum tempo e finalmente posso mostrar os meus primeiros ténis de skate. Tive os verdes que se vêm na imagem! Eram o orgulho para a época. A kick skate e a moska eram algumas das marcas brasileiras que chegavam a portugal na década de 80, bastante mais baratos que os ténis vision. Ainda hoje tenho o autocolante colado numa janela do meu quarto em casa dos meus pais.
Agora só me falta encontrar os ténis da Bad Billys - vertente skate da billabong...
Orgulhosamente:

Jeff Grosso

além das tábuas clássicas, CRASS!

segunda-feira, janeiro 24, 2011

Inside Cerchio Ghisallo - wood bicycle rims

The makers of legendary Ghisallo wood bicycle rims, Giovanni and Antonio Cermenati, demonstrate how it's done.





sexta-feira, janeiro 21, 2011

Noctural Working Class Heroes

























Riding home at 3 AM (early night in Copenhagen) on a Saturday I cycled past these two working class heroes. The chap in the foreground has been collecting bottles in the busy city on a Saturday night. Denmark has a 65 year old bottle deposit system where glass bottles are re-used up to 7 times and the deposit is quite high. 20 cents for a beer bottle and up to 75 cents for a 2.5 litre soft drink bottle.

Collecting bottles can be lucrative and on weekend nights - or in parks and on beaches in the summer - you don't need to worry about your bottles. People will come and gather them up for you. It's a great system.

Anyway, this guy is heading home with the night's haul. Working hard. Respect.

Ahead of him is a newspaper carrier heading out to deliver papers to the citizens. Most papers are delivered at four or five in the morning - if I get home at a 'normal' hour after a night out, I can manage to catch the bakeries when they open at about 5 AM and then pick up my newspaper off the doormat before stumbling into my flat.

Bicycles, as ever, are instrumental in keeping this city moving. The Germans confiscated the bicycles in the Netherlands during World War 2. When the German High Command in occupied Denmark proposed to do the same, there was a massive discussion. The Germans used Denmark as a bread basket for feeding their troops. One General wanted the bikes to be made illegal because of the Resistance but another understood that the country would grind to a halt without them. The argument went all the way back to Berlin where it was decided to let the Danes keep their bikes.

Anyway... working class heroes in the Copenhagen night have my deepest respect.
Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.


via__copenhagenize

FRIDAY KILLER trailer

The core concept is simple enough. The three films - Friday Killer, Saturday Killer and Sunday Killer - pair an established comedian with a pretty young thing in some sort of hitman-based story. Beyond that the tone diverges wildly.

Friday Killer is the serious one - serious enough that despite being the first completed, the first in order by title, and winning the top prize at the Phuket International Film Festival last year the distributors opted to hold back and release the comedy-oriented Saturday Killer first to establish the series - the story of an aging hitman (Thep Po-ngam, familiar from Yuthlert's Killer Tattoo) released from a lengthy stint in prison to discover that his daughter has become a policewoman and is now gunning for him.

The theatrical trailer for this one is freshly arrived on the scene and it looks to be pretty great. Well shot, well acted, stylish and with heart. Check it out below.


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quarta-feira, janeiro 19, 2011

Luzes avisam automobilistas da presença de peões e bicicletas



podem ler sobre isto aqui
Después de llegar a Sitges llegó la mejor parte. Fuimos al Autódromo de Terramar. Una pista de carreras muy famosa en los años 20 a los 50 y que ahora esta abandonada. Habíamos visto fotos pero no nos imaginábamos esas proporciones. Nos quedamos sin palabras viendo y corriendo por esos peráltes, unos más que otros. Ahora está muy descuidado.

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Rubber (2011) - parte 2

novo trailer para o filme Rubber. Se os trailers anteriores prometiam, este então, supera tudo. Finalmente um filme sobre objectos com vida a fazer lembrar os grandes Christine e MaximumOverdrive