The four dudes above are Greg Nowick, Andy Scott, Josh Young and Jake Collins, aka the Vans team UK that ripped for two days straight the “Vans Off the wall spring classic” miniramp.
Having to kill some time before boarding their flight back to the UK out of Milan, they squeezed in a skate session at the bastard bowl delighthing us with their sweet british style.
Cinetown Skatepark, via Stabilini, Roma
Saturday, 29th May from 3 pm
Entrance ticket 5€
Claudio Sinatti points us out to Cannonball, an overview of this interesting new skate scenario in California.
The short film, produced by California is a place shows the new opportunities in the Valley due to the aftermath of recession… I would have expected to see the great Salba in the video too, but you can’t have everything from life.
America lied to everyone, you can have this, you can have that… People had shitty jobs, they took on stupid loans. If they sat down and thought for fuckin’ two seconds, they would have realized it was out of their budgets. People tryin’ to live out of their means, buyin’ houses taht they couldn’t afford… it’s their bad that they lost’em, i don’t feel bad for’em, i feel glad for me, skatin’ pools, it’s awesome!
The unhappyness of some that stems from their unreal dreams, represents for others a concrete dream that comes true.
During the Résumé photo exhibit opening party, the Cliché team spent a good fun afternoon sessioning the bastard bowl.
Supposedly a Cliché demo, it soon turned into a friendly jam session with Daniel Cardone, Charles Collet, Giò Grazzani, Ricardo Fonseca, Ivan Federico, Flo Mirtain, Marco Lambertucci e Sammy Winter.
Skate, BBQ and music by Pela Selecta at the Sunday Skateboard BBQ.
Sunday May 2nd starting from 1 p.m. at the Bonassodromo.
Los Angeles, second and last stop for my US visit. I’ve been crashing at Nick Trapasso’s and Neen Williams’s house for the fist two days: tipical skater house with plenty of beers and house guests, and a tatoo machine that never stops! Everybody coming through the place might get a tatoo, artwork provided by Nick or Neen.
Finally we go out on a sesh, and what a sesh! Some well known faces in the worldwide skateboarding scene as you can see in the picture above from left to right: Neen Williams, Cole Matthews, Benny Fairfax, Nick Trapasso, Julian Davidson, Andrew Brophy.
For the last two days I stayed at Federico Vitetta’s, a.k.a. Feds, originally from Milano, Italy, then moved to LA. Feds, besides being filming for years along with Ty Evans and Spike Jonze for the Crailtap Fam, couple years ago went Tm for Lakai. There i was roomies with Daniel Espinoza, new am for Lakai and Chocolate, too damn stylish. So we’re out on another mission, i even manage to squeeze in my boy Derrick Wilson, (the other Affiliate Skateboards rider in Cali along with Neen Williams), and little Espinoza takes us to a secret spot where someone (probably Berra?) planted this mimetic ledge, and we proceed with some filming. Raymond Molinar shows up too, and it’s on…
Unfortunately i can’t give you the bangers (not many anyways since you get kicked out so often in Socal), but i can at least share these few images to hopefully give you the gist…
Here I am, dealing with my annual pilgrimage to the States. First stop Chicago, almost a second home to me after having collaborated for years with the local skateboard company Affiliate Skateboards. And i obviously had to pay a visit to Uprise Skateshop, owned by my good friend Uriah Ruta.
Check out the photos that usually speak louder than words! Next stop LA, to visit the californian side of the family, Neen Williams and Derrick Wilson.
Daniele Galli is now a member of the Blast! Krew, riding for Almost. Check out his welcome video filmed and edited by Andreo Lopes.
Now there are two Lazy Riders riding for Blast!; Daniele joined Marco Lambertucci who is riding for Blind skateboards, also distributed by them. Watch him go out loud in the video report of the Blast meeting at the Seregno Skateplaza.
Blast! is also the italian distributor for Warriors Skateboards that realized the collaboration with the bastard Jammin’ Warriors clothing line.
