DJ Gruff, Sandro O.B.

by GroS 10 February 2010

Last night dj Gruff came visit us and, as he usually does because he is a nice guy, didn’t show up with empty hands. This time no overpriced bottle of sake, but his latest work: Sandro O.B.

15 tracks with a lot of featurings, along with Gruff there are in fact Antonio Tarantino, Clementino, CenZou, Sweden, Marco Lombardo, Esa, 2p, pije Gionson, Walter Buonanno aka Bonnot (Assalti Frontali), Biosci, Dre Love, Daniel Pulimeno , Sawer, Fear, Niko Md, Ekspo, Monom3 and Drug.

The lp is a journey through the places that have marked Gruff’s life, while lyrics are a genial mix between nonsense and pure poetry, and awesome scratches always in the right spot.

What I like about Gruff is that he really is genuine, he does his thing without bothering to wink at the market, he’s not the type of guy that sits there to study what kind of music and sounds one should use, but he’s rather the type that uses music to vent the necessity to fully express himself, he’s always been like that, and I think he always will be.

A real music Taliban, with thousands of contamination from all the places he has lived in but always hardcore, true to himself.

Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy’s movie

by GroS 10 February 2010

Exit Through the Gift Shop is the name of the first feature film directed by Bansky: the movie will be presented at the Sundance, the indipendent film festival of Park City (Utah).
According to the information i was able to collect by blogging around, the movie, which is presented as the first disaster movie about street art,  narrates the story of Tony Guetta, a French filmmaker who loves art and cinema and wants to shoot a documentary about street art, trying to meet Bansky himself. Obviously he will not succeed…

Lupi on Slide Skatestore video

by GroS 10 February 2010

A few days ago Lupi sent me this video as an appetizer to show me what he is doing in Spain.
With the Nomad team they are in fact going to start filming for the next video, a sort of tour that will involve all their riders and see them in the most famous spots in Spain and beyond.
As usual, the soundtrack of the video of Lupi rocks.

Marco Lambertucci indoor session

by GroS 10 February 2010

Winter in Italy, altough quite mellow, for us, spoiled italian skaters, is always a bit of a special season, cold and adverse weather conditions prevent the daily practice. That’s when somebody comes out with the idea of using somebody’s father’s warehouse, that can become a nice spot with everything you need for a fun sesh.
The spot is Andy’s warehouse in Pesaro and the footage is from young filmer Van Khokhlo. Good Job Sbrauser


Lukas on Entry #31

by GroS 10 February 2010

On Entry snowboard magazine #31 you can read a nice interview of Lukas Goller. For once, snowboarding gets left apart in order to explore his artistic attitude.

First of all Lukas is a free minded person who tries to express himself through ways he likes. In fact this three pages interview is more about his way of seeing art than about snowboarding.

Lukas collaborated to the designing of the outerwear for next winter introducing notable innovations. He’s also the author of the “Lubert” graphic, shown here below, for the next bastard collection, Fw 2010, in stores in September.

Ryan Sheckler Omni Tech action figure

by GroS 10 February 2010

I never liked the puppets show, even if i can say that the man who moves it, needs a lot of skills. I think is more about the stories, dragon, princess….With this new one it’s gonna be a pleasure to be a puppeteer, even if you don’t kill no one!
The toy is called omni tech figure and cost 19,95. Ryan Sheckler is the first of the pro series, split in street, vert and legend. Those ones gonna cost a little bit more and you can vote your favorite skater and put him on the team. 

Lukas in: Riding Pow in EU with the pirates

by GroS 10 February 2010

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Here’s some nice powder footy and various impressions on Riding Pow in Eu, the new podcast episode of the Pirates Movie Production. It also features Lukas Goller who, besides riding for the Pirates also expressed his creativity in several graphic illustrations over the last few years.

Corsico mini combi bowl opening party

by GroS 10 February 2010

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Friday 25 september in Corsico park named Parco Travaglia, there will be the mini combi bowl opening party.

Corsico Energy is a three days party starting today in the park and is all about Music, culture and sport.

Un tranquillo week end da paura – skate contest

by GroS 10 February 2010

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This weekend really was scarily fun!

Starting with forecast: all the rumors about rain throughout the whole weekend proved wrong; it was sunny and nice… my god rides a skateboard.

The Concerts: the Punkreas played on friday night. Awesome concert, 3000 people singing under a mild gentle rain… The Punkreas after twenty years of activity still look like kids. Always a great vibe.

Saturday we saw the Ministri, i hadn’t seen’em live yet… This band rocks!

Skate: on Saturday the non sponsored contest where Fabio Ciurli, Lambro local, won. After the contest only Daniel Cardone was representing Quicksilver, since the demo didn’t happen. Supported by Andrea “Stanco” Sudati, Amen and Jimmy they did a great demo anyways.

On Sunday we were blessed by un unbelievable sunny day, and by one of the best contests i’ve recently been to.

Great skaters, great crowd, Daniel won the contest and the miniramp italian finals, and also the “Chicken for Rock’nRoll” contest. Which consisted in hitting the rubber chicken hung up over the extension.

Then was time to hit the fridge, the Gipsy with a bs 5-0, Pietro della Pierre fs nosepick, Jimmy Cantù feeble fakie, Sione Verona hurricane and then Martino Cattaneo shut it down with a fs disaster for a fat check.

Awesome, that’s i guess what we all needed, a weekend with friends, skate and beer, celebrating Daniel Cardone’s and Max Bonassi’s birthdays.

Bravo to the organizers, on of the best events of the year for sure!

Punkreas live @ Usmate 2009

punkreas live @ Usmate 2009

Daniel Cardone Chicken for Rock'n Roll

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Judges

Un tranquillo week end da paura

by GroS 10 February 2010

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Bonassi’s Birthday is getting closer, meaning that bastard and bomboclat will be presenting, as usual in the last five years, the great skate contest at the Bonassodrome (a.k.a. the Usmate ramp): Un tranquillo week end da paura with music, skateboarding and beer at the Usmate sports center.

The program follows as below:

Friday 18th
9:30 PM concert
Punkreas + Goran D Sanchez

Saturday 19th
3 PM
Skateboard contest – CAT B
demo team QUIKSILVER + guests

9:30 PM concert
Ministri + Gang Bangalow

Sunday 20th
Skateboard contest – CAT A
€ 2.000 cash prizes
Sponsored by Vans e Quiksilver.