Saturdays Surf NYC has been on a hot streak, opening up a new Tokyo flagship store and scoring a place in GQ‘s Best New Menswear Designers in America 2012 list. Now they’ve teamed up with seminal New York skate shop SHUT, who’ve been making boards in NYC since 1986, to produce 2 skateboard decks. This blend […]
When the Madman was not but a wee Mad Grommet, he stumbled across The Search For Animal Chin VHS tape and the world entered another era. That was my introduction to the Bones Brigade, and the Powell Peralta skate universe in general. Featuring all All Star roster of 80s skating talent — including Steve Caballero, […]
If it’s summer, that means a new crazy sneaker courtesy of Jeremy Scott. These new JS Bones high tops, part of his Fall/Winter 2011 collection for adidas Originals by Originals, takes high tops and gives them the Flinstones makeover — including 3 giant outlandish white bones across the laces. The premium leather sneakers also feature […]
Takayuki Hori’s Oritsunagumono takes Origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, and reshapes it with an environmental-themed collection of translucent skeletal Origami works. Oritsunagumono (“things folded and connected”) is made up of eight endangered species native to Japan’s coast — even more imperiled after the recent earthquakes and tsunamis. They are made of translucent […]
Stacy Peralta, the man behind the films Dogtown and Z-boys and Lords of Dogtown, brings us The History of Skateboarding, a mini documentary for MTV: 40 years in 15 minutes. From surf skating and empty swimming pools to street skating and punk culture, The History of Skateboarding attempts to distill 4 decades of tumultuous history […]
The film Hanna centers around a teenage assassin played by Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Lovely Bones), who has been trained in the killing arts by her father (Eric Bana), an an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland. Apparently her father sends her on a mission and the poop hits the proverbial fan… all set to […]
Vans Syndicate teams up with Tommy Guerrero for its latest collaboration. The minimal shoes strip everything down to a matte black colorway of Vans Old-Skool and Slip-On silhouettes, utilizing a perforated premium leather upper with subtle white contrast stitching for a little pop. A fittingly beautiful shoe for Guerrero — original member of Powell Peralta’s Bones […]
While you’re lamping with your homies — sipping Crystal and snorting coke off expensive hookers’ supple breasts — why not slam the table with bones by Deuce? The Domino Set 5400-M, priced at over $10,000, will really show The Man who’s the man. Also, if you can afford to spend $10,000 on a set of […]