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This Ain’t California On The Big Screen

Jan — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:28:55 +0000

Finally, This Ain’t California, the fantastic (pseudo) documentary on youth, freedom and the big lust for life – with skateboarding in GDR times being the driving force bhind all of it – is now officially coming to the big screen. A whole bunch of international film festival titles and nominations, including Berlinale’s “Perspective Deutsches Kino award”, in the bag, the movie co-starring a bunch of Berlin locals like Lennie Burmeister, Juppie Diens, Valeri Rosomako, Barney Benecker and Kai Hillebrandt, is making its premier tour through German cinemas, with screenings at Bright and an afterparty at the open air cinema infront of Berlin’s Cassiopeia club. If you somehow get the chance, be sure not to miss this one, it’s worth it. Good times galore!

While you wait, here is an interview with the filmmaker, Marten Persiel and some new trailers (in German)…

Death And Rebirth

Jan — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:35:22 +0000

Final session at one of Germany’s most legendary street spots, the plaza infront of the dome of Collogne! Last chance to dance, before the ultimate skate-stoppage. – Tears were shed.

Then, next day, opening of Collognes’s new hot spot, the skate plaza by the river Rhine. – Sure not a match, but looking sick aswell!

Domplatte – Rest In Peace! You will be missed!

Cleptomanicx Premiering “Rollen Aaller 3″

Jan — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:29:24 +0000

Hamburg St-Pauli was the place to be on late Saturday night. Cleptomanicx, Germany’s witty clothing company with a faible for all things nautic, celebrated the premier of its third video installement, “Rollen Aaller 3″. The festivities took place at well-known St-Pauli night life location, the “Übel & Gefährlich”, built into an old WWII bunker. Everyone and their mom came out, to see the action and shake to tunes.

The video itself carries on the legacy of slightly wierd, yet strikingly sick videos put out by clepto since the brand was founded in 1992. All the team – Tjark Thielker, Dennis Laass, David Conrads, Lennie Burmeister and Niklas Speer v. Cappeln – comes out strong, doing some qulity ripping with a lot of unforseen moves and creative skating. Even a few gems of all-time German legend, Jan Waage got captured and thrown into the mix.

Leading through the film is Captain Clepto, Cleptomanicx living mascot and good soul, sailing the Clepto ship through Hamburg’s harbour with the skaters stepping in for cameos – sounds cheese, but comes off legit, especially if you’re German speaking.

Editing in this one is slightly off-standard and it takes a while to get used to. However, who would want the standard stuff…

Good shit, aal(!) the way through!

Check it out if you get the chance to and pay attention to bonus stuff to be dropping somewhere – as I know for a fact, there must be tons of hillarious bits that didn’t make the cut.

Haslam made it!

The captian at his opening speech.

Rollen Aaller!!

Captain in the front, his “smutje”, Tjark, in the back.

Zoo York Mixtape – A Mid-90′s Masterpiece

Jan — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:42:56 +0000

Seems like today it’s retro day on the KP site… here for an all analog flashback to the mid nineties, some OG street skating: Zoo York’s Mixtape! Skating and music so real and raw, it’ll bring tears to your eyes if you’ve been around during those times. If not, you might be shrugging your shoulders in disbelief. Either way. This is a sick testimony of its time. If you’re feeling the vibe and want some more insights to how rad of a piece this really is, have a look at A Visual Sound’s researches on the musical side (from KP 65(?)).

Zoo York Mixtape (FULL) from scottieb on Vimeo.

Just when you thought you knew everything…

Jan — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:28:27 +0000

…about Danny Way, this little (well, actually it’s pretty heavy) treat comes along. A must read, I’d say. Don’t know how you cannot be a fan of the guy if you’ve ever looked at a photo of him skating or watched a Powell/H-Street/Plan B/XYZ/DC vid (wich in case you haven’t, you can do here). One D-Way. The D-Way. In full depth.

What a flashback…!

Jan — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:59 +0000

All entries of Transworld’s Skate & Create are really impressive, most of them going really high-end on the eye. However the Etnies one takes a bit of a different approach and takes us back to the good ol’ early nineties. Have you happened to already been skating then, you’ll even recognise some familiar faces from those days.

While this has already been pretty amazing, what Etnies are doing here, re-creating the 90′s world park, a place where skateboarding was made at the time, and reviving the feel footage that came out of there had, is just genius; if you ask me. Rad idea, guys.

To get the full 90′s experience, the only thing maybe missing is this…