I grew up in the suburbs. In a cultasac that was filled with 80’s skate rats whom aspired to be in the “Bones Brigade”. We rocked the rat tails, Vision Street Wear, launch ramps and ghetto blasters. I still vividly remember my dad buying me my first legit complete at age 8 or so. It was a Lance Mountain Mini with white Cross Bone wheels, black/green Tracker trucks, clear grip tape and blue rails.


I still skate every chance I get and hope to continue as long as my body can take it, or at the very least till my 2 year old son catches on. He’s getting there…


It’s always fun to look back at all the ground breaking skate vid’s of the 80’s that really summed up what skateboarding was all about: your friends, vibes, music, expression and just simply having fun exploring the streets. Here’s a few of my old decks and some of my most memorable skate vid’s. I’m sure you’ll be taken back in time as well.


Enjoy!




Just a few of my old decks.

If you skate, then I’m sure you’ve had a dream at least once in your life that shares many similarities to Mystery’s latest promo spots appropriately called “Dreamspot”. The Dreamspot promo’s feature Mystery’s top skaters skating in a dream-like setting. Everything from the minimal surreal set, music, camera angles, props and effortless skate style. Every trick is mastered, landed with both feet over the bolts; a skater’s dream. Thanks for the link Matt!


Enjoy!




Dreamspot’s 1 - 3

The Berrics is Steve Berra’s and Eric Koston’s private skate sanctuary based in Downtown LA. Here’s the behind the scenes series of the day to day life of the legendary Steve Berra and his creation. Thanks Matt for hookin’ these up!


Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

You would think BBDO would be smarter than this. As if nobody would catch on? If you want to offend the skateboard community go straight to the source “The Berrics“. Further Proof.


BBDO Mexico for Snickers

Ty Evans & Spike Jonze : Fully Flared Intro

Psst. Shake the bad vibes and just skate.

Alien Workshop’s latest skate film, “Mind Field” just started premiering in theaters (Jan 29th - Feb 18th) and by the looks of the intro and the soundtrack it’s bound to be a classic. I get the chills every time I watch the intro…

Mind Field intro/teaser

Soundtrack

intro - J Mascis - A Little Ethnic Song
Omar Salazar opening - J Mascis - Creepies
Omar Salazar title - Growing - Grandmas Drunk Again
Omar Salazar - Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready
Jake Johnson - Animal Collective - My Girls
Arto Saari - Battles - Atlas
Dylan Rieder - Elliott Smith - Coast To Coast
people pushers - Sebadoh - K-Sensa-My
Steve Berra - Songs: Ohia - John Henry Split My Heart
Rob Dyrdek - Steve Winwood and Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
Josh Kalis - BullyMouth - Boom Box
Grant Taylor title - Growing - We Will Never Win
Grant Taylor - Dinosaur Jr. - Grab It
Jason Dill - Animal Collective - In The Flowers
Tyler Bledsoe - Modeselektor - The White Flash (feat. Thom Yorke)
Mikey Taylor title - Growing - Wrong Ride
Mikey Taylor - Dinosaur Jr. - Crumble
Anthony Van Engelen - The Adolescents - Kids Of The Black Hole
flight form - Duane Pitre - Music For Microtonal Guitar And Mallets
Heath Kirchart - Morrissey - Speedway
Heath Kirchart ender - Duane Pitre - Study For “Sun AM”
credits #1 - Black Moth Super Rainbow - Untitled Roadside Demo
credits #2 - Growing - Innit
DVD menu - Duane Pitre - Motorized Music For Electric Guitar No. 1
trailer 1 - M83 - Fields, Shorelines And Hunters
trailer 2 - Dinosaur Jr. - Repulsion

M83 - Fields, Shorelines and Hunters

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Ok I don’t ever remember AM’s being this good back in the day. It’s amazing the progression of talent these days. Anyhow, there are two amazing things going on in this video, one being Helsinki skatepark and the other, Grant Taylor. Grant’s style is untouchable and completely effortless. I’d love to see a video with just him and Chris Senn. Those two skate as if they are in a dream. Also, if you never heard of Helsinki skatepark take a peek. It’s like no other skatepark on earth. It was designed by Janne Sarrio, but looks like it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s totally in harmony with nature as well as the construction materials used. Pure Modernism.

Element in Helsinki, Finland

It’s finally here. My site that is! I’ve been trying to find the time to launch a site for nearly 4 years now. After all the different concepts and designs I had scrapped, I ultimately ended up with customized Wordpress. This solution was great because it really forced me to strengthen my CSS, javascript and simple PHP skills. By no means would I ever think of myself as a developer, but it was fun to pretend during this process. Anyhow, I’ll be updating the blog daily with music, design, skate and all types of other material as well as some last minute projects, but enough is enough, I forced myself to launch this sucker, so enjoy and thank you for stopping by. Don’t be a stranger and feel free to say hello if you like, it’s nice to make new friends.

Email: [email protected]
AIM: Jeffdoe

Transworld had a competition called Skate & Create and invited DVS, Emerica, Osiris to have five team riders spend 9 days in a secret warehouse skating and creating. Though it was a coined a “competition” it ultimately looks like it ended up as an expression session. Does it get any better than skating in a real life art piece?