tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35053194636559783432024-03-05T23:32:00.960-06:00platinum seagullsplatinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.comBlogger1112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-58360760283928997792020-06-25T15:17:00.001-05:002020-06-25T15:43:24.653-05:00Kill Fee: What if 'everybody's good'?
Though Adrien Bulard did a backside tailslide down a 20-stair rail nearly a year after this piece would have run, there is no better example of everybody being real damn good at skateboarding right now, and how little meaning that can have.
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In the year 2017, that distant time, I tried to tackle something that had become real obvious about 2010s skateboarding: everybody was really good. I platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-86510359784683679382018-08-12T21:03:00.000-05:002018-08-13T12:13:21.801-05:00'Boondoggle' at 10
There hasn't been a better Twin Cities skateboard video since Boondoggle debuted 10 years ago.
The video, a first offering from a new generation of metro area skaters, premiered at Oak Street Cinema on Aug. 23, 2008. In the decade since it came out three skaters with parts in it have gone pro, one has since passed and the makers of it have continued on making things.
Nearly everyone involved platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-8186172238952469782017-12-19T20:28:00.000-06:002017-12-19T20:28:13.495-06:00'17 Platty's
By Pat Smith. Maybe the apostrophe in the award name means Platty is a person?
And so it was that this is the tenth edition of the Platty's, arbitrary local skateboard awards done in the style of the T-Eddy's.
How has a decade passed so fast? Can it even be true? PAST YEARS: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
Trog Lock'd: 3rd Lair
Pop Tart: Tanner VanVark
Man Am, platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-57508948288030308732017-09-06T21:44:00.002-05:002017-09-06T21:44:56.875-05:00NBDs in the postscript
It was strange seeing CJ Tambornino do a regular-old nollie inward heel but here we are -- Tim Fulton and everybody else who helped put together this tribute video did one hell of a job. This isn't a maudlin retrospective but a celebration. Shit -- who else could have had NBDs in their postscript?platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-73636092178283985192017-06-25T07:50:00.001-05:002017-06-28T13:47:49.396-05:00Remembering CJ Tambornino
UPDATE: According to CJ's family, a memorial celebration for CJ is being held July 6 from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Familia HQ, 835 E. Hennepin Ave. in Minneapolis. There won't be skating but it is a chance to celebrate CJ's life.
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CJ Tambornino was an outsize personality and an audacious skater. From the huge red beard he grew once he was able to quit his job at McCormick and Schmick’s and focus platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-46093723209272251312017-03-16T22:37:00.000-05:002017-03-16T22:46:45.937-05:00Chicago notebook
Cropped scan via The Chrome Ball Incident -- Blogger doesn't want to make it a better size.
I wrote a feature about Chicago's place in skateboarding. It was borne out of years of watching smaller cities do their mightiest to be noticed by the wider world for their modest contributions to skateboarding while the big metropolis on Lake Michigan never gave a shit -- at least that was my read on platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-74812298567980718562017-02-27T10:36:00.000-06:002017-02-27T20:03:58.085-06:00Crunching numbers on Minneapolis skateboard tickets
Kevin Romar's infamous encounter with the MPD, as seen here.
Based on personal experience alone, one would assume the Minneapolis Police Department issues a decent number of skateboarding tickets each year. One of the more enjoyable aspects of my day job is writing a police blotter, and between the reams of citations written to people driving with a revoked license in the suburbs I cover and platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-2033793901677160742017-01-18T12:31:00.000-06:002017-01-18T12:33:04.310-06:00Harbor scene
Recently dogged by the notion that familiarity breeds contempt, FACEBOOK! guided me to a short skate video that's been on the internet for two months, and salvation.
Mike Rapaich's Male Talent, set in that strange confluence of hills, college and industrial rot, Duluth, starts out hard with a nice Red Tube allusion and provides new spots and new skaters (yo, I know Justice Simmons, full platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-67331006923681584122016-12-28T15:30:00.000-06:002016-12-28T15:30:35.533-06:00'16 Platty's
By Pat Smith, right?
A great blogger once said, all the random, few and far-between updates from throughout the year are all for naught if you don't handle your annual, end of the year post. And here we are. This blog is paid for through 2017 -- maybe even 2018.
Arbitrary local skateboard awards done in the style of the T-Eddy's. PAST YEARS: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-63900067618584639202016-11-30T22:41:00.001-06:002016-11-30T22:41:51.947-06:00Under the wire
Mark your calendars! Hiatus is premiering Saturday, December 17 at the Capri Theater. A photo posted by Kevin Horn (@kevin_horn) on Nov 28, 2016 at 2:35pm PST
It's premiere season -- Kevin Horn is breaking now ground now that basically all the old first showing venues have been knocked down or vacated with a move to the Capri Theater. When the name of the flick was revealed, way back at Dayplatinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-81102494151047485122016-10-30T15:12:00.001-05:002016-10-30T15:12:25.031-05:00Summer Chronicle
ThümbDrive. from PetertheJones on Vimeo.
There's a lot of local video footage flying around right now -- dig the Peter Jones flick that's essentially an LA/Downtown Minneapolis summer chronicle. platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-55233223252954751732016-09-23T17:52:00.000-05:002016-09-23T18:37:40.263-05:00Memory on screen
Proof that what was discussed in the last post actually happened. Thanks to Kyle Ross, who sent over the clip, which was filmed by Brian McGinnis. Features Rick McCrank, Pat Duffy, Jeremy Wray, Caine Gayle, Matt Hensley, Todd Bratrud, KSTP's Joe Schmit and John Muldoon.platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-63248077373547469452016-09-17T14:04:00.002-05:002016-09-17T14:14:17.815-05:00'In the arms of an angel'
Hailed as the best demo in Minneapolis since Rick McCrank single-handedly did everything at a last gasp Plan B event in 1998 (the line-up also included Pat Duffy and Caine Gayle -- anybody else?), Primitive flew to town and then returned home days later having skated Familia HQ very, very well. It's fairly astounding those dudes flew up here just for a demo. What days we live in.
List of other platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-16124315570066588012016-07-19T09:47:00.001-05:002016-07-19T09:55:38.577-05:00Don't fear the Kre-per
At the risk of inciting more comparisons between Sheckler and a bygone era of Minneapolis skateboarding, the embedded above is called Hubert's Pack of Lies. More downtown gold from 20-plus years ago. That spot with the two-stair and 9-inch ledge looks like a dream -- where was that?
Davey Torkelson appeared on the The Nine Club podcast -- you can download it in the usual ways one would or you platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-75983973305415378372016-06-29T16:32:00.001-05:002016-06-29T16:32:02.219-05:00Dance of death
A quick clip that explains things -- I've felt the draw of spandex, no lie.
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The comments got hot on the last post.platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-19077515222048871642016-06-24T15:06:00.001-05:002016-06-24T15:06:42.246-05:00Summers past
Footage from 24 or more years ago shouldn't look so familiar -- a good portion of the downtown spots skated in the video above are still skated today, a quarter of a century later. Made tricks/parts kick in around the 2:30 mark -- the video features, roughly in order of appearance, Chad Mohler, Matt Hubert, Judd Prozinski (with some Rob Sissi in there) and Jesse Mohler. Was the parking garage platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-12772982075515454422016-06-21T10:27:00.000-05:002016-06-21T10:29:08.024-05:00Go to sleep
Jerboi Davis Torgerson made a 10-minute-ish video called Naptime, a means of dealing with -- do we remember -- like a broken foot? Naptime isn't exactly Davis' first time around the video-making block; probably about 10 years ago he made a flick called Atosennim that may or may not exist on the internet, and if memory serves he was some sort of consultant on the Myskate project of roughly the platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-12602539496860608712016-05-18T19:36:00.001-05:002016-05-18T19:36:57.234-05:00Community Bulletin Board
Nike Bruin Hyperfeel Wear Test from PetertheJones on Vimeo.
Is Nike SB even controversial right now? Plat faves Philly from Humidity and Matt Nordness appear in both clips above, along with some of the usual and not so usual locs.
Where are the support guys on this one?
A video posted by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on May 18, 2016 at 2:31pm PDT
Snoop and Banks should make an album!
A handfulplatinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-11755003509543811552016-05-02T19:18:00.002-05:002016-05-02T19:18:06.033-05:00Who wore it better? Even though I know @erickoston could have done this trick in 1991, its still pretty rad #skateboarding #timeless #whodiesvids A video posted by Jamiel Nowparvar (@jnowpa) on May 2, 2016 at 2:11pm PDT
platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-51883771723454941242016-04-25T14:18:00.001-05:002016-04-28T10:29:42.638-05:00All seven #purifyyourselfinthewatersoflakeminnetonka #prince #ripprince #mpls A video posted by Benji Meyer (@benji_meyer) on Apr 25, 2016 at 11:39am PDT
I don't have a strong grasp on exactly how long the clip above runs but I've got a feeling Meyer just might make good use of the extra IG running time.
The Burnsville skatepark will be expanded. Per Dean Mulso on FB:
The Burnsville City Council platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-22736811828312987852016-04-11T20:10:00.001-05:002016-04-11T20:10:47.172-05:00Help get better lighting at the St. Cloud plaza
The St. Cloud skate plaza is 69.4 miles from Minneapolis, meaning it's definitely the best park within 70 miles of where Google maps locates the center of the city (likely the landing of the Undercover 5). The plaza was a good story of organizing and funding and all the work that actually makes these things happen; the dudes up I-94 are once again trying to make something happen, though on a platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-24236243056463219892016-03-28T08:21:00.002-05:002016-03-28T08:21:44.275-05:00The Purple One
000P0S0L0Y000 from Paisley Skates on Vimeo.
Spring skating in the garage -- where else? -- tied in with Bratrud's Chemtrail deck from Paisley. Saturday night was the release; it was good. More concerted updates happening?platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-25596308115399237972016-03-09T15:33:00.002-06:002016-03-10T17:47:05.890-06:00Bang -- bang
UPDATE: The above reminded me of what's below:
platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-39461413427969995342016-02-10T21:12:00.001-06:002016-02-11T11:23:30.902-06:00R.I.P. Switch Crooks KittyYou can't always remember the way important questions are asked. The way Steve Nesser remembered it, he and Clint Peterson were hanging out and, pretty much out of nowhere, Clint asked Steve a good one. "How much of Chad's life," talking about Chad Benson, who knows if Clint phrased it like this, "has been spent in crooked grind position?" Steve relayed this story one Saturday noon session at platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505319463655978343.post-76636587467701791012016-02-09T16:07:00.001-06:002016-02-09T16:08:48.473-06:00#MN_classics Happy Birthday @zedmc ! One of the heaviest moves to date. #Minneapolis article in @transworldskate March 1999 #MN_classics #familiaskateshop 📷 @tednewsome A photo posted by Familia Skateboard Shop (@familiask8shop) on Feb 9, 2016 at 8:53am PST
The concept that a magazine would either send a dude to a random American city to shoot an article about it or, even better, that the photog would platinumseagullshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14688503482156563511noreply@blogger.com2