Filed under: .2 videos,.3 shreddage | Tags: alterna films elektro, vera janssen
Let me tell you a little bit about my friend Vera Janssen. Vera is in my opinion the most underrated pro female snowboarder in the industry. She doesn’t do mainstream contests like X Games or Dew Tour because she’s got more important things to do with her time…such as shredding and filming with a crew of gnarly ass dudes in Whistler, BC backcountry. Vera is hands down the gnarliest chick I know and I think she is better than most of the more well known pro girls out there. Mainly because she goes balls out on her snowboard, lacks this thing called fear and listens to death metal. She also kills it on a skateboard and a wakeboard. WTF! If you’ve never heard of Vera, you will be hearing about her way more soon because she has a part in Alterna Film’s 2009 production “Elektro”. The film is premiering in Cologne, Germany in a couple weeks from now and I’m heading out there to check it out and have myself a little eurotrip….!
thats a huggeee box. photo: julien sallenave
wish i could do this!
yup she's better than you on a skateboard too photo: dan coronado
don't f with vera, she will kick your ass with her boots on
So skateboarding is likely to be in the olympics soon, yet shit like this is still happening? The best part about it is that the kid wasn’t even skateboarding. He was holding is board and walking…WOW.
One time in college I was skating back to my dorm on campus, just cruising along minding my own business trying to get from point A to B a little quicker. A cop rolled up next to me while I was skating and told me to get off the street and take my hands out of my pocket. Really??? It’s almost 2010 people, skateboarding will probably be the best thing to happen in your kids generation.
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Filed under: .9 industry haps | Tags: girls wakeboarding, melissa marquardt
My homie Melissa needed a website so I decided it’d be the perfect opportunity for me to make one since I’ve never built one on my own before. It’s pretty basic but thats kinda what we were going for. Checkkkkk itttt ouutttt!!
ASR aka Action Sports Retailers is a tradeshow that happens twice a year at the San Diego Convention Center downtown. It’s the biggest tradeshow in our industry. To sum it up, brands come to exhibit their newest goods, retailers come to place orders, lots of beer is consumed. But let me take a moment to reminisce about when ASR used to be more fun. I was an intern at Osiris and was 22. This meant I had the energy and motivation to sneak in a backpack full of beer, not to mention the rum and vodka. Interns, take note this is how you score brownie points. Despite the free flowing kegs that roll out at 4pm, having a secret stash is always the way to go. No one wants to waste their time fighting the 15 year old kid in the keg line that snuck into the show. Osiris had a private room at the old booth we used to have and you could pretty much do what you wanted back there. Well, until the security got smart and started patrolling from the rafters above..damnit! Anyway, those were the good ole days. Our boy TDUB was the one who showed us the way. Writing orders while his eyes were closed, I mean that is talent! Nowadays ASR for me is more about saying hi to the homies and checking out new and (hopefully) innovative goods, checking out the fashion show, etc. I didn’t spend a whole lot of time at the show, well mainly because it was small and there wasn’t much to see but here’s what I got for ya:
tubeflops from sanuk. my thoughts are you can only pull this off if you are a cute japanese girl. i'd like to see anyone else try though.
spy shades lookin good
nice work anthony
neff bringin it as always, lovin their new threads
volcom ragin as always
not quite as exciting as the mini mega
vans saving set up costs: mobile mini ramp
ed hardy: always providing excellent shit talking material
team kimreida
one of my fav outfits from the fashion show: aaliyah inspired
And as always, the parties. Biggest bummer about Agenda (streetwear show) moving to Huntington is that means no more Agenda parties during ASR weekend. Usually the highlight of the weekend is rollin’ to Agenda parties with our homie Dante Ross where the music is good and the vibe is chill. Despite no Agenda this year, we still managed to have a good ass time. We cruised to the Alphanumeric party at Confidential and then the Monster party at the Hard Rock after. Oh and we had a little pre party cab ride that started us on a good note.
party cab
best cab ride in san diego
does your cab driver sing with a flashing microphone? didnt' think so. you rock mohammed!
jess, miss and nereida
mel, me and nereida
you got a clean ass face
parenting at its finest: taking your baby out for a stroll at 1am in downtown san diego..really?
standard end to a good night
San Diego bans alcohol on the beaches. 40,000 some population of college and post college kids find a loophole in the law: you can drink if your feet aren’t touching the sand.
Labor Day 2009
Floatopia 2009
CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP
Filed under: .1 random photo,.2 videos,.3 shreddage,.4 fashion | Tags: leticia bufoni secret ad
glamour magazine - leticia killin it and lookin' smokin hot
Bet you didn’t think the two would ever go together. Well guess what you are WRONG. Check out this month’s issue of Glamour Magazine with a Secret deodorant ad in it featuring one of the most bad ass girl street skaters, Leticia Bufoni. I saw Leticia skate for the first time in 2007, fresh off the plane from Brazil competing in X Games at age 15, and she has been killin’ it since then. She was added to the Osiris team by Tony and I worked with her and photographer Ana Paula Negrao who took her under her wing to help her career these past couple of years. I helped Leticia get her work visa last year and now she is going to school at Hollywood High and shreddin’ the streets of LA. Most recently she won the Maloof Money Cup which is one of the biggest skate contests of the year.
So how in the hell did a secret deodorant ad come about? Well, William (Marketing at Osiris Shoes aka my office roommate) got an email from his buddy Dave at iPath who got an email from his buddy that read this:
“A friend is doing casting and they’re looking for a girl who can do tricks down a 5-stair. And she has to be attractive. Does this exist? Do you know of anyone?”
“does this exist?” is my favorite part. Well as a matter of fact yes she does exist and her name is Leticia. So after a handful of emails later, Leticia and Ana were off on a plane to New York and here is the finished product. The ad is of course real, the only thing is the heels are photoshopped. I mean skateboarding in heels is something that is definitely impossible unless you are cool with spraining both your ankles. She is boardsliding a handrail on a 5-stair in a pretty damn short dress with hair and make up intact which is pretty damn impressive. Anyhow, she is also featured on the Secret homepage. Check out what Leticia can do on a skateboard in normal clothes in the video below…
im going to start using secret if it means i can do this...
Dear Insight,
Your flannel colorways for this fall are amazing. That’s all.
Sincerely spending all my unemployment dollars on your flannel,
k. woozy
Filed under: .3 shreddage | Tags: golden ride magazine, osiris girls team
This is from awhile ago but it’s rad so i’m posting it. We got some love for “Shred Day” from a girls snowboarding mag in Germany called “Golden Ride.” Two page spread? Don’t mind if i do. Funny how the only print media coverage we got from this story were international mags – the other one was a Brazilian lifestyle mag called “TPM.” No love from any of the mags we pitched it to here. Oh well what can you do? I guess taking 6 of the best female pros from each sport and going on an adventure where all the girls do all four sports in one day in southern california just isn’t good enough content for any of the mags here.
Golden Ride Magazine - 1
Golden Ride Magazine - 2
a past issue of golden ride - vera's cover shot
Shred Day in TPM Magazine (brazil)
TPM Cover
If you haven’t seen the video yet, check it out here:
