For the latest installment of the TOA Underground Network, we caught up with Matt Creasy, Alex Rose, and Josh Shupe — better known as the masterminds behind the Threads Idea Vacuum — on the eve of Think & Thank, the group's sixth video in eight years.
Stoked to bring you ANOTHER new episode of Jake Todd's Raw Tapes series, just in time to hide out from the heat and crank up the AC while chilling on the couch. Enjoy!
Jake Todd has a new 'Raw Tapes' series on the TOA Youtube channel, featuring unseen angles and behind the scenes shenanigans from Traffic, Hopps, Theories, Dial Tone and Picture Show projects over the years. Episode 1 is live now.
Magenta's Italian operative, Ruben Spelta, is officially pro! And the Magenta guys brought the heat with a 7 minute edit to celebrate. Check it out now!
After a much too long hiatus, the VS series is back with a wild new Miami episode pitting Dustin Eggeling against Trevor Thompson. 2 men enter, one man leaves. Who will it be?
Mark Del Negro is coming in hot for spring with a scalding hot new video project for Hopps Skateboards entitled "Chipper". With masterful filming and that classic Hopps vibe, you're going to be stoked you clicked ahead to peep this fiery edit
We are stoked to expand our “Underground Network” by linking up with Asheville, NC based filmer Eric Hunt. We were treated to a deep dive of the Asheville skate scene and a rad new video "Aura". Click ahead and enjoy.
Did you know that Japhey Dow had a brother? Neither did we, until filmer Michael Breitmaier dropped this banger of a part on us out of the blue. Click ahead and check out the other half of the Dow family in "Rather Be Workin".
FINALLY! We brought the re-edit contest back to TOA, and this time Jimmy Lannon is at the center, with his new part from the "Hot Plate" video. The winning entry will win a fat Magenta/TOA package! Click ahead for details and to see Jimmy's full part, live now on the TOA Youtube channel!
If a skateboard falls in the midwest and there's no skate media around to capture it, did it really happen? We ponder the esoteric questions of skating off the world's skate radar with Indiana's Nyle Lovett. If you don't know who Nyle is you certainly will after his part drops in the upcoming "Colt" video. So click ahead and meet one of your new favorite skaters.
It seems like once every year or so a truly unique skate video is released that brings us a completely new experience. And it's almost ALWAYS an independent/underground project. This time it is coming from an unexpected corner of the world. Meet Croatia's epic video offering...the world of "Finta"
The tradition of the full length skate video has been kept alive mostly thanks to underground video makers like Ft. Myers, Florida's Marshall Nicholson. Marshall has a new video out and we caught up with him to ask some questions and host Brandon Knowles' bangin' part on the TOA Youtube channel. Check it out!
You can never go wrong with a Hiroki Muraoka video part. And Traffic Skateboards partnered up with Vague Mag to launch a sneak peek at Hiroki's part from Third Shift. And a rad little interview with the video makers, John Valenti and Pat Stiener!
We tracked down the man behind Philly's newest full length video "Content", Andrew Meyer, and strong armed Kevin Liedtke's part out of him. Check out Andrew's interview and Kevin's part now!
The Upstate NY scene has been blowing up over the last few years and we might not know about it if it weren't for filmmakers like Michael Breitmaier. Mike just gifted us the opportunity to host another rad part from his latest opus "Heirloom". Click ahead to check it out!
Were you robbed of getting to enjoy Olly Todd's smooth, sultry part from the Static III video, from 2007? Well, young lad, we are here to educate you in style and creativity.
Our friends down in Tampa, Stephen Buggica and the Busted Mic squad, got together early this year and snuck down to Puerto Rico. Despite getting hit with a 6.5 magnitude earth quake they made it back with a full video piece in tow. Click ahead to peep.
Our friends at Jenkem caught up with our friend Moustafa Abrams, aka Moose. They roamed the streets of Queens with the young Picture Show am and his friends and got us a little glimpse into the his life and approach to things. Check it out here.
For the first few weeks of the quarantine, New York City was a ghost town. But some skaters began to realize the horrors of the pandemic were also opening some opportunities for those willing to seek them out. Click here for more...