Steve Berra explains the rules in the brand new section called Skate Or Dice, on The Berrics...
So, after you get the rules straight, you have to get your paper...
Your Sk8 Dice...
Shoot the dice... See what you got, and do your trick to win that paper...
Sierra Fellers killed it.
Steve Berra
The iPhone camera flat-out sucks, but there's enough people carrying them around that there's still a pretty penny to be made off of accessorizing said sucky camera. USB Fever is selling detachable magnetic lenses in fish-eye, 2x zoom and wide angle/super macro... This is genius!!!
Amid a sea of foreclosures, advantageous skateboarders in Southern California have discovered a bright side. There is an almost endless concrete wave of abandoned pools.
“Skaters Jump In as Foreclosures Drain The Pool” in today’s New York Times gives an account of a how skaters track new empties, and is accompanied by a few choice images.
Draining pools provides an important service as well, clearing out often bacteria filled still water.
Taking the iconic Nike Dunk as their platform, the Nike Mad Jibe takes a decidedly more sophisticated approach with an all new upper. While 2008 featured a great deal of shoes of the boat variety, Nike looks to hop onto the trend. The usual Swoosh markings are done away, in return comes a debossed Nike logo with all the familiar boat shoe fixings such as leather laces and moc style toeboxes.
Source
As one of the industries most respected skate publications, the Japanese license for Thrasher Magazine has teamed up with Gallery1950 on Porter’s barrel shaped Boston bag. The cylindrical bag includes Thrasher’s logo on the long-side with the Gallery1950 logo on the ends.
Source
Selectism Columnist, Kyle Hackett, turns us onto Hackett of London’s Bespoke Selvedge Denim in his continuing hunt for denim. Details are the charmer on these slim fit jeans made from 13.5oz selvedge - the back pocket has a nice red stitched “H” while the selvedge end shows through on the front coin pocket.
One of this year’s most sought after Countdown Pack releases is readying for a pre-Christmas release with the Air Jordan Countdown pack featuring the XI and XIIs. The two colorways featured include the Black/Red XIs and the Black/White XIIs. Unlike previous pack releases , this one represents two popular models whereas previous releases involved more recent and less popular releases paired with some of Jordan’s earlier shoes. Although some stores have prematurely opened up their stock for sale, UNDFTD are dropping theirs at 12:00 am on Saturday, December 20th.
Source
Comme des Garcons has just released their Series 6 Synthetics line. For those that don’t know, it’s a line of perfumes that are based on several fabrics and materials. Here’s some information that goes into a little more detail from LuckyScent.com: “Comme des Garçons is no stranger to extremes or breaking rules. Synthetic is the sixth and most daring in CdG’s series, traveling once again far outside the mainstream but remaining in the physical world of manmade places and materials of modern daily life. Experimental, socially incorrect and avant-garde, the Synthetic series features five “anti-perfumes” whose names you’ll recognize immediately.
But these are no scratch n’ sniff “gee-I-smell-like-a-garage” fragrance. Each one varies on its name and theme, using an assortment of fully synthetic ingredients to make each one mind-bendingly unusual and wonderfully wearable. These are for the fearless–the rebels and the non-conformists. For those of you who don’t follow trends… you make them.”
DRY CLEAN: Images of a chemical paradise float through our heads like clothes spinning on a rack at a dry cleaner. Dry Clean is a clean scent, but not like soap, shampoo or fabric softener-it’s that metallic freshness of freshly pressed and cleaned clothes. The rose oxide offers a tinge of green floral, and guaiac wood enriches the brew and brings this (almost) down to earth. Dry Clean’s unusual clean feel is a truly unique alternative to all the “”fresh”" scents that have ruled the last several years. If you like to color outside the lines and bury your face in freshly dry cleaned clothes (we bet you liked to sniff the blue ink on the old-school mimeograph paper, too), this one’s for you. NOTES: ozone, aldehydes, nail polish, bay essence, rose oxide, metallic incense, dissolvent vapours, guaiac wood.
GARAGE: Do not make the mistake of judging this book by its cover. Garage brings to mind images grease, oil and rubber, but this is one evocative fragrance that will surprise you. Its uniqueness lies in calling to mind some of the places we loved most as children: Your father’s workbench or your grandpa’s old toolshed. Places steeped in memories and lost in time. It’s like curling up in that old leather recliner with your dad after he’d worked on the car. Not harsh and never sharp, Garage is all the good things about childhood and all the comfort scents you rarely indulge in as an adult. FRAGRANCE NOTES: Laurel aldehyde, traces of kerosene, leather notes, plastic floral notes, vetiver acetate, Chinese cedarwood.
SKAI: Fake. Insincere. Imitation. That’s what skai leather is, and where this scent takes its name from. The fragrance notes alone should bring every PVC-lovin’ fetishist and vinyl record lover running, but we also know Skai transcends the pigeon-hole and is for everyone. Ozone and grapefruit give this leather/vinyl fragrance a fresh gin-and-tonic crispness at first, while sandalwood brings familiar warmth. Very easy to wear, Skai straddles the line between kinky and comfortable, between shiny faux and genuine. It’s hardcore without being obvious, sexual but never obscene. FRAGRANCE NOTES: ozone, methyl grapefruit, PVC notes, coal tar, cardamom, white leather, sandalwood, labdanum.
SODA: Fizzy! Uplifting! We can’t help but put exclamation marks because Soda is genuinely happy, enough to make cave-dwelling goth boy or girl crawl out and frolic in the sunshine. Who cares if only a couple of ingredients are recognizable as being from this planet? Soda is a bubbly, effervescent version of limeade with enough base (galaxolide-it’s a light musk, who knew?) to give it a perfect dose of grown-up depth. There’s even a version of lily of the valley in here, which lends Soda a tiny bit of creamy softness. Tell us you don’t smile (and make everyone else grin) when you wear this. We dare you. FRAGRANCE NOTES: aldehydes, lime, citral, pimenal, lilial, iso-eugenol, galaxolide, acetal Rum.
TAR: A speedway on a scorching afternoon. Hot asphalt on a Roman street filled with car exhaust and the scent of fine leather-soled shoes softening on the pavement. Tar is for the brave, for those who find the smell of a crowded, polluted city and all its modern trappings a thing of glory. The earth notes and resinous opoponax lurk quietly, giving Tar a quirk that picks your face off the pavement just for a second. Virile and weirdly familiar, it’s not for the faint of heart. This is man versus the modern world, and the modern world wins. FRAGRANCE NOTES: town gas, vapours of bitumen, bergamot, earth notes, opoponax, styrax, grilled cigarettes, pyrogenic notes
The Comme des Garcons Series 6 Synthetics line is available now at Blackbird.
After an initial preview, we now get a full look into adFunture’s Hiroshi Fujiwara vinyl figure. This black version is the first in a series of 5 figures limited to 250 pieces each. Hiroshi is pictured rocking his fragment designed Levis Fenom gear including a pocket t-shirt and black disco chino trousers. Along with the fashionable garments are a pair of Visvim’s in a polka dot print. The 6″ (13cm) vinyl is scheduled to release December 20th, 2008 at Iconic-1 in Shanghai, retailing for 700RMB (Approx. $102 USD) Iconic-1
Zizhong Road
Shanghai No. 351 (Near the junction Madang)
After a year long stay at their previous Fairfax location, ALIFE take down their now-closed iconic concept space and introduces a full blown retail store. The new space will become a part of the trendsetting Cahuenga Boulevard shopping center, Space 15 Twenty, in the heart of Hollywood. Curated by Urban Outfitters, Space 15 Twenty is a landmark in innovative shopping environments and features a highly-edited selection of national retailers who are leaders in their genre. ALIFE HOLLYWOOD
Source
Los Angeles-based Crooks & Castles will be joining the sneaker game by collaborating with skate shoe giant Vans. Based on the Fremont High model, it will come in white and black colorways with Crooks’ red/green/black strap accents reminiscent of Gucci’s high-end design. These are scheduled to be released early spring of ’09 and will only be sold at the 8021 store. Crooks & Castles
8021 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, California 90046
323.944.0576
Jewelry maker Georg Jensen dips his hand into the world of frame building with his latest work - a bicycle. Prices way up at 5500$US, Mr. Jensen worked with Sögreni of Denmark to build the limited edition eye catching model. The Jensen bicycle is finished in brush steel, comes with the expected Brooks Saddle, Brooks leather grips, and chrome fenders.Oh, and look at that. It’s a fixed gear. Again, the more people that get onto bicycles, the better.
The Active Wheel System
The Michelin Active Wheel inaugurates a new era in road transportation in which a car's road, safety, energy and environmental performance achieve unprecedented levels. This is because of a miniature drive engine and an electrical suspension system incorporated into the wheel. These technologies developed by Michelin have made it possible to completely rethink the car.
Source
As part of Vans’ 2009 collection, this Black Leather pack will be the first of many previews for the massive shoe brand who many should consider the most popular vulcanized brand around. Featuring a mixture of black leather and suede highlights, models include the Chukka, Era and SK8-HI with further detailings seen in the lined portion of the shoe. Releasing in the early parts of January 2009.
Source
