Complete with Puerto Rican dream sequences, J-Kwon annihilation, and super rad homie vibes, this is 9 minutes of two best friends tag-teaming spots and going absolutely hammer-time in the streets. Welcome to Salt n’ Pepper—an epic journey that Manny describes as, “A skate video meets Space Jam meets R. Kelly.” Shake it like a salt shaker, son!
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The weather didn’t let up, but neither did David Wise.
On Tuesday, the 23-year-old American double-corked his way to the first-ever Olympic gold medal in halfpipe skiing as hundreds of flag-bearing spectators looked on. Close behind Wise, Canadian Mike Riddle earned silver as Frenchman Kevin Rolland rounded out the podium with the bronze on the historic evening in Sochi, Russia.
Blinding snow made it difficult to see the top of the pipe, much less jump out of it, but 12 competitors from five different nations didn’t let that slow their sport’s debut … More
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Matix presents Spring14, a visit to the Salton Sea. What was once a vacation destination for those living in the LA area and beyond, now has a horrid stench and heat that can not be taken for too long. The beaches are lined with thousands of dead fish, buildings have been long forgotten, and the contents picked thru by hundreds of curios visitors. As the buildings emptied and started to deteriorate , the dream started to die, the towns surrounding the Salton Sea disappeared almost over night. What is left is a skeleton of a paradise once had. Couldn’t be a better place for the Matix crew to get together and explore this forgotten oasis.
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