california lurkin’ with sole tech part 1.
here we go. a live blogcast from orange county, california covering the sole technology media trip that, after a series of unexpected emails from zachariah slack, have quite happily stumbled into. so, for the next few days this blog will be taken over by a series of mostly photo-based updates to document the trip as best possible until a full article with all the glorious, detailed jammy goodness appears on crossfire, sometime next week.
wait, what? i’m going to keep text minimal on these updates, so expect photos to just sporadically appear whenever i have a spare five minutes (read: go for a quick poo) - but to clue you in, here’s a brief description on what the hell this is about. the rarely-so-omnipresent skate-press, from quite literally all around the world, including us internet-heads (after all, ’the internet is the future man’ - James), have gathered in newport beach to get the spiel on the new collections, progressive technology, rider updates; essentially whasgwarning with sole technology and their companies, emerica, éS, etnies, altamont… you know, the good stuff. with lots of raging parties somehow shoved in between. spicy. anyway, you can hear all that shit later. until then, here you can expect snaps of drunk skate-rats and filmbots on boats, skate sessions with the bros (bobby worrest! andrew reynolds! sean malto! HYPEHYPEHYPE), tasty products hot ‘n’ fresh out the kitchen and some serious californina lurkin’. so here we go… memory card is shoved in. get some you slags, warm up your winter days!
straight into the good stuff. soletech know how to live.
pierre andre’s marina lofts have a lovely area of flatland in between that’s great for quick games of SKATE. here is holger von krosigk from Place bragging to Soma’s fred demard about the size of his deck.
angel from uno magazine doing another one of his incredible tourist impressions.
fred contemplated jumping in after remembering that he left his SLR at home and was left to rep the point-and-shoot brigade. he’s also wearing the same sweet kicks as i am right now. trufax: bobby worrest once gave me his pro model shoe, and now i don’t have aids anymore.
this is how the living room looks most of the time. the americans haven’t properly arrived yet so it’s tidy. jeroen smeets from reload getting the blogging in before the shitstorm!
having such smooth floor for walking purposes is a breach of natural law. blas for me. blas for you. blas for fucking everybody.
protip: taxi drivers are useless.
fred couldn’t wait to take advantage of the no ‘no breakdancing’ rule on mary whitehouse’s pier.
right. the yanks have just arrived. and someone has already thrown a chair out of the window and is now using the broken pieces to make a bonfire. shit’s going to be wild.
more soon. peace and love.
