Daewon Song Is Amazing

Daewon Song is a Korean-American professional skateboarder, recognized for his technical street skateboarding. He is a co-owner of Almost Skateboards along with Rodney Mullen, and skates for the company-sponsored team...


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If...

"...I was as talented as the people I know, I'd be riding high - not looking up from below."

The winter has set in here in London and it is really hard to leave the house to do anything productive. Plus I'm broke and it's that month where I add another year onto my life and reflecting on what has been going on since the last time I did it. This time around (since I've not really done much to speak of at all) I have noticed that many of the people I know in the big smoke have really done some great things in the last 12 months. For this reason I am dedicating this post to the achievements of my compadres that are moving past the realms of 'alright' and into the realms of 'really quite fucking amazing'. Some of them you will recognise, some I feel deserve the recognition (so go to their links!!!)

Well done chums, may your success continue long into the future!

Early morning skate in Brixton from Martyn Thomas on Vimeo.

Adam Johns & Martin Thomas




Earth Pain





Wordtomother

Juxtapoz interview





Fybe One Illustration

Fybe One Audio





Tizer One ID

Malcom McLaren's coffin R.I.P.

Skateistan Video

SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a touching & beautifully shot film that
follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.

See our original post in June on Skateistan with amazing black and white photos HERE.

Skull Skate Decks

Beto Janz has created a great set of skulls using old broken skate decks to full effect. The project was for Ultra Series Skate shop who used the art to promote their new shop.




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Freerider Skatecycle

Anyone remember the Snakeboard??
Winner of an International Design Excellence Award, the “Freerider Skatecycle” is a next-gen recreational vehicle that combines the foot control of snowboarding, the balanced turning of skateboarding and the nimble movement of casterboarding in a single device, enhancing the experience of the rider. For the user can switch effortlessly between the three different sporting equipments of the same class.
One of these can be yours for $150 from HERE.

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Rodney Mullen Is The Best Skater Ever

Rodney Mullen will always be, IMHO, the most technically gifted skater to have ever graced this planet. This video is a great compilation of some of his finer moments....
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Burn Ignite Skate Video

Shot on location in Mexico City, Steve Berra (The Berrics) joins Mexican skaters Jesus Gonzalez, Eder Martinez, Mario Saenz, Angel Santiago and American Luis Tolentino for this Burn Ignite film. Features lots and lots of fire, be careful....
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Christopher St Leger Watercolours

Great watercolour paintings of the world of skate and urban scenery by American artist, Christopher St Leger...






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D*Face Skateboards

Available NOW… Set of 3 x 2 Colour screen printed decks by D*Face in collaboration with Real Skateboards, limited edition of 10 sets only. 5 sets available for sale from StolenSpace.

Shaun White Transformation Skate Video

An amazing mix of CG & skate tricks to create a city that literally 'Transforms' into the perfect rideable environment....Has to be seen to be understood. Shaun White's new video game will try and find its place between Skate3 & Tony Hawk's Ride...

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Skating Vidz

Skateistan: Skateboarding In Afghanistan

Photographer Noah Abrams travelled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2009 to document the emerging skateboarding scene there. Check out these incredible photos!

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Raise Hell lV at The Ranch - Bloodwizard

Raise Hell lV at The Ranch from Blood Wizard on Vimeo.

Karmaloop - 20% off

Karmaloop is an online store with so much good merch it's unbelievable. By far the best store I have come across online.

Brands such as Burton, Obey, Analog, Mishka, Crooks & Castles, Rouge Status, KR3W, LRG, Rocksmith, Know1edge and loads more.

Really good prices and shipping takes around 4 days from the US to europe.

Possibility of free shipping in the US.

check out this karmaloop.com link to save 20% off your purchase.

Toy Machine Decks

more here.

Templeton's blog.

Skateboard Animation

Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer.

An amazing animation made from hundreds of cut-outs from skate mags and some really cool budget backdrops....

Thanks to Toybotstudios for the heads up...

Internet shit I'm diggin'

So it's been a while since I last posted anything on ESP, but that's only because I've been radding out all day and definately not because I've been teaching numbskull kids how to design absolute ass on photoshop whilst wanting to cut open my eyeballs with a bread knife......no really, I honestly have been radding out. Anyway, during the rest times between awsoming out, I have been looking at cool shit on the net and here are a few of my finds in no real order:

1. The alien abduction lamp:

I was a little hesitant to post this as I want one and I would rather no one else in the world had one, but then I thought well 'who cares' and 'I'm not going to buy one any more anyway cuz I'm over it already'.

2. A few of the most assome tats ever:

and my personal favourite:

3. The Internet Shack from Thrasher.com:

4. Ultimately assome bands to skate to:

Graves at Sea

Radio Moscow (thanks to Jonners for this hook up)

Eyehategod (because they are the greatest band ever made and they reformed AND they are playing in London next month and I'm going)

Dead Meadow

5. Dope films that should be watched given half a chance:

Trash Humpers by Harmony Korine

Running Stumbled by John Maringouin

6. Style for miles:

Matt Sewell

Style Master Trev

The Raek

Gree & co.

Das RK

Well hopefully that will keep you bedroom dwellers/slackers/stoners/agrophobes something to occupy yourselves with for a few minutes at least. If not go fucking skateboarding! If you don't skate, then I suggest you learn.......it'll be the best thing you ever do.

Hong Kong Gets A Huge Skatepark

Finally HKG skaters/riders can have somewhere decent to hang out. This skate park near Kowloon City was designed by Simon Oxenham, Managing Director of Convic Skatepark Designs, together with Darren White. Simon Oxenham has actually built many top skate parks in the world, especially in Asia, including SMP in Shanghai and the Xtreme park in Singapore.




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