Live Block 2008

One of the best times of the year for Vancouver, mark the date on the calendar. Do check out the eS Footwear mini ramp contest and the Freshjive dance off.

Skate Jam

End of summer already? Boooooooo.

Congratulations to Ultimate Boardshop for 10 years!

Ultimate Boardshop celebrated their 10 year anniversary last week with Clinton Sparks. Presented by LRG by eS.
More photos here

Liveblock's Afterparty at Pop Opera

THE OFFICIAL LIVE BLOCK AFTER PARTY
JR.FLO (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
HEDSPIN (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
DJ PUMP (EH! TEAM DJ’S)
DJ MARVEL (THE FRESHEST KIDS)

Sunday, Sept.14 at Pop Opera (686 W.Hastings) 10pm-2am sharp
It’s the Official Live Block After party and the only place to be in the city on this night. Insane line up with Eh! Team DJ’s Jr.Flo, Pump and Hedspin on the mix alongside The Freshest Kids..DJ Marvel. $200 bottle service, drink specials all night! See the info on the Livestock Block party earlier on in the day here.
$12 at door

Etnies Presents Hieroglyphics

With special guests, Blue Scholars. Presented by etnies, Spectrum Events, Underworld, Clubzone, Livestock and Rhek.

Altamont Presents The Clips

Mike Relm

VIA Loco

Our friends at Vancouverisawesome.com are having their first annual picnic at Spanish Banks, Vancouver this Saturday. The person who brings the largest piece of fruit wins a prize!!
See you there.

Altamont presents The Foreigners

For Altamont’s latest trip to Paris, France, they tapped Randy Randall from the band No Age to film and direct their new tour DVD, a short film entitled The Foreigners. In this film, Randy captured an impressionist's view of the Altamont skate team abroad from his unique visual artist's perspective; encapsulating the look, the feel and, of course, the skating to produce this short glimpse of life on the road with Altamont. As an added enticement, the DVD also features a free video for the No Age song "Eraser" off their new album Nouns on Sub Pop records.

View the teaser clip

Bring It To The Streets

"Renting a bus and packing it full of hungry skaters is a good idea, but taking them all over the Greater Vancouver area to skate the cities finest spots with 1000$ to give away is pretty special. We packed 30 skaters and some photographers, filmers and other lurkers in and definitely brought it to the streets. Richmond Bump was the first spot, which lead us to the Richmond banks .. also the perfect Marine Drive manual pad. We spent 30 minutes at each spot, so it gave everyone enough time to try and make those pockets a little fatter. From Richmond, B.C, we headed back into the Downtown Core for some perfect Sunday Spots. The rain crept in at Scotia Bank ledge and so we headed up to the Art Gallery for the final spot/money give away. I don't know what was better though.... watching them skate the 8 set in the rain or the monster chugging/puking/whipping war. MVP awards to Boyd Young, Spencer Hamilton, Mike aka Hashbrown, Jordan Murray, Stacey Gabriel and Desmond Hoostie. I think everyone walked away with some money though. Thanks to everyone else who came and skated, supported and had fun. To all the sponsors and filmers and photographers- thank you. Can't wait to do it again next year. Peace." - JN

Photos here
Video here

Photos: Judah Oakes

LivEStock

These eS X Livestock tee is dropping for 'promo abuse only' at the Vancouver Live Block party on Sept.14. Come down and cop one!

New Episode of Freshjive's Reserve Radio is Up!

Joey Altruda presents "Music To Trip On" -a tongue-in-cheek mind melting
mixture of incredibly strange music known to cause psychosis to the feign of
heart.

Featuring a diverse fluctuation of genres/artisits including Frank Zappa,
Moondog, Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, Phyllis Diller, Sammy Davis Jr. etc.,
Altruda weaves a masterful mix through twenty seven tracks of truly bizarre from the vinyl records cemetery.

Download it here.

Magic, Slate, Project or whatever you want to call it

The show is best summed up by http://www.thearabparrot.com/. Keep his site on lock

Tail Tapas at Liveblock

Color Magazine, eS Footwear, and Livestock present - 'Tail Tapas"
Mini Ramp Jam and Competition
Sunday, Sept.14 outside of Livestock
239 Abbott St in Gastown
1pm-7pm/3pm contest start

Don’t be confused, it’s an event within an event at the 3rd annual LIVE BLOCK party & BBQ. Enjoy DJ's, complimentary drinks, and Japanese tapas by Guu while skating the 4 foot eS mini ramp for your chance to win some cash.

All ages/Free.

Fresh Radness

DJ Marvel got creative with his Serato box...nice!

Edward Colver

To support the upcoming Edward Colver photo exhibit at the Reserve store, Freshjive has produced a short documentary, directed by Chris Glancy.

Photographs by Edward Colver
Friday August 29, 7-10 PM
Reserve
420 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA

etnies Rider Benoit Milot..

.. blasting over Gastown, Vancouver. Sweet.

RVCA Presents We Are Wolves.

Make Something

I really wish I was in California right now. Make Something is an initiative taken by RVCA, inviting youth to experience creative learning in a non-traditional setting. The classes are taught by artists in the Beautiful Losers film (Aaron Rose, Alex Kopps, Clare Rojas to name a few..) and other creative leaders in the surrounding community. Zine-making, painting, sculpture, photography, music, and animation and more workshops are being offered, all with the same DIY mindset. The walls of each “classroom” display many of the works created on-site, and will hence become an ever-evolving gallery of young ideas in artistic practice.

More info here.

Win Altamont's Goat Collection

Altamont is giving away an Altamont Goat Collection Prize Pack, including The Goat t-shirt , a 10" vinyl record with the Fall 2008 Altamont catalog and a super limited-edition Cannibal Carnival t-shirt by Neck Face. Email your name, full address, phone number and t-shirt size with the subect heading "Win The Goat Collection" to altamontcontests @ gmail .com for a chance to win.

Deadline: September 15, 2008.

Tamara Drybrough Wins girls DC Nationals

Congrats also go's to our etnies girl Canada team rider Tamara Drybrough for taking 1.st along with $1500 cash in the girls division of DC Nationals, it's official and an all around etnies sweep this year, thanks for repping Tamara you rule. 

J-S Lapierre Wins DC Nationals !

Congrats to etnies Canada team rider J-S Lapierre as he storm's the DC Nationals and takes home 1.st place and $8000 which is the largest purse ever for an Am contest, watch out for this kid he's coming up strong and is proving to be a force to be reckoned with, Congrats again J-S, don't spend all that money on nothing.

You Es Eh North American Tour

Canada was able to get a bit of eS love as they rounded the top of the United
States on the East Coast leg of their huge North American tour. We scheduled
them for a stop in Winnipeg for a demo at the Forks Skate Plaza. Unfortunately,
we got rained out of that plan and had to quickly adjust by taking it indoors
to The Edge Skate park. The team made the most of it and put on a show for
the people that endured the rain. We then made our way to Vancouver
for a mini ramp session and bbq at Antisocial Skate Shop before returning back
to the united states to finish off the tour in California. All in all, it had
good turnouts and was successful despite the raindrops. Thanks to everyone at
Sk8 Skates, The Edge Skate Park, Royal Sports, Kings skate snow and surf,
Antisocial Skateshop, Timebomb Trading, Sole Technology , Cyrus Thiedeke for
holding down the mic duties, Mike McKinlay for filming and of course Scuba
Steve and the Es shoe team for making it happen. - Judah Oakes

More photos here
Video here

LRG presented the Empire Anniversary Party at Opera

Thanks to the Empire crew in Quebec for the 9 years!
More photos here.

Timebomb in SBC Business

If you copped an SBC Business Issue at the September Know?Show, be sure to check out Dean Seguin's article on the new Timebomb Trading Inc, office. Gman and Nick Louie break down everything from the custom artist installations to the eco-friendly initiatives taken within the office. You can read the article here.