News: Book of Broken Dreams: Part 6 (Miami Edition)

1. Rickie Dixon was one of my personal Floridian favorites. Here he is back-tailing a monstrous step-up ledge off Brickell in downtown Miami while you were still pushin mongo on a Toys R’ Us board..

2. Now that I have stared at this photo a few times, I’m pretty sure it actually ran in a Transworld at one point. I remember when Ed Selego was shooting this photo his flipped backward and his board landed on a car in the parking lot below. After an hour of dealing with security, the car owner and police, we somehow walked away unscathed.

3. I first met Andre Lezama through Joel Meinholz somewhere around 1995, on my first trip to Miami. He is still part of the scene, holding it down working at MIA skateshop on the beach. Be careful if you get yourself wrapped up in a game of skate with him though, dude is a flatrgound gangster, and if he doesn’t win he’ll likely bite his skateboard in half knock a car over with his thousand-mile stare. Here is documented proof of Dre’s gangsterism, a switch fs noseslide on a neck high ledge.
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1. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20 at 07:17 PM

Woops!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare

2. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20 at 08:34 PM

I saw the photos from your trip. Were you hooking bert up with a treat for landing a cool trick?

3. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20 at 08:45 PM

Great stuff

4. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20 at 10:39 PM

yikes! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gangsterism

5. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 11:41 AM

You should post that old photo of Nate Jones Front blunting under the bridge in Miami. Did that ever get ran? I remember being so hyped on that photo

6. by Joey P on December 21 at 01:19 PM

http://www.bite.ca/ambition/video/Ambition-Skatecamp-107-Full-Best-Sequence-Skate-Challenge/

7. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 02:57 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgsTU_QZ1_c

8. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 03:31 PM

http://vodpod.com/watch/692502-yaje-popson-new-pollution-segment

9. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 03:53 PM

That backtail is sick. That skate camp video was pretty amazing as well. “We are taking away a letter today because you had the most frun Brody.”

10. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 07:04 PM

fun*

11. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 07:04 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTMDOV7hQY&feature=player_embedded

12. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 07:05 PM

Wow…...wow…........wow.

13. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21 at 10:56 PM

That somehow felt embarrassing watching that shit.

14. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 08:17 AM

sorry to change the topic, but does anyone else feel bad about the direction blueprint skateboards has turned?

15. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 08:19 AM

Which one was embarrassing?

16. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 10:00 AM

Both of them.

17. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 10:03 AM

What “direction” are you referring to Rabbit?

18. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 12:26 PM

Rabbit is referring to (I believe) the upcoming Blueprint “United Nations” feature on the Boreics.com.

Fuck I am a clever little bugger arent I? You see what I did there?

19. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 01:18 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N-nHXvSczw

what now

20. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 04:30 PM

yeah you got it jura… plus i think blueprint was better when they were all british, and skated all british/euro/east coast spots . Dont get me wrong the skaters they added are sick (Kevin Coakley), but the brand just does not seem the same. And if i see a single blown out spot from california in their up coming video i may lose my mind!!!!!

21. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 22 at 05:16 PM

You cannot blame a small company for jumping at the opportunity to be featured on the Berrics. Do you know what percentage of kids probably don’t even know of Blueprint’s existence? In this market, I would guess easily 65%. So although it may be heart breaking to see Brady, Jensen and Shier, some of my personal favorites, up on the world’s most successful skate-marketing tool, you have to realize that it’s a tiny company and it’s, well….the world’s most successful skate-marketing tool.

And to be honest I’d be stoked to see some LA spots in that video, as long as they stay true to Shier’s history of skating new and/or little-seen spots. I was stoked on the LA spots I saw in the first Dango video when Josh Dowd did lines through the streets of downtown LA and ended up at popular spots like the Arco rail. As long as people aren’t just going to the same old token spots to carve a notch in the trick belt, I’ll give it a watch and the benefit of the doubt.

 

I can tell you this much, the Blueprint video is one of the only company videos I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. That and Habitat’s new project with Al Davis and Durante. But, knowing Dan Magee’s video-making talents, I can bet that “Make Friends With The Color Blue” will be among the best of 2010.

22. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 24 at 10:41 AM

Hey guys….sorry about that crash. Apparently all of Wordpress went down, the site that hosts my blog and a few million others.

Thankfully it’s back up and kicking right now. Well, I guess it’s more like a piss-peddle, but hopefully will have some interesting new posts up soon.

23. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 24 at 10:42 AM

point well made…

24. by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 25 at 08:45 AM