Behind the scenes with director Jon Humphries during the making of Levi’s Skateboarding’s 2014 Spring collection video in downtown Oakland featuring Del The Funky Homosapien and Dan The Automator.
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“Around 1994 I was sent a bunch of raw footage from the Kewday Team – I was to cut my first ever video from that footage. Something that is far too poor an effort to show you here. I recently stumbled across the OG VHS containing golden footage of Dom Kekich, Sid Tapia, Clay White, Mick Yuen and Chad Bartie. Dom’s footage is priceless. He had just shook his Powell prodigy label and graduated as a master of the streets. Most of his footage is shot at Flatlands, which was a silky plaza across from Flinders Station.
Federation Square has long since replaced this flatground mecca. From what I can tell the remainder of the footage was filmed on the Goldy. Sid and Mick lived in Sydney but had gone up there on a wee trip where they logged some serious footy. Both Clay and Chad lived on the Goldy. Chad went on and became a household name, whilst the naturally gifted Clay moved onto other past times. Thanks to Jack Hutchings and Jamie Bartie for filming and of course a big shout out to any mystery filmers involved. Enjoy.”
If you thought entrepreneurship was a scary prospect, imagine balancing a start-up with training to compete in the most prestigious kiteboarding contest in the country. It’s a daily reality for 25-year-old Sensi Graves, a Hood River, Oregon, native in the midst of designing an eponymous swimwear brand while simultaneously preparing for this summer’s Triple S Invitational in Hatteras, North Carolina—arguably the toughest contest for freestyle kiteboarders, in which Graves has placed third overall for the past two years. Short for “surf, slicks, and sliders,” the contest is a three-part event wherein kiteboarders battle it out on a series of obstacles like rails and kickers to score points, all set against the famously windy backdrop of North Carolina’s Outer Banks … More