October 25, 2006

Two Thumbs Up: The Lost Tapes

Simple Fact: To put together a video, you need to film.... alot. More often than not, you come up with footage that was just for the hell of it, or a "maybe this could work" angle, or just some stupid line that didnt go down. These next few videos will be just that, the unused tapes. Im in the works of putting together all the lost or old footage from the past Two Thumbs... I mean years. Enjoy!


Kris King


Carmine LaBella

October 24, 2006

Harsh Euro Barge



man i have been so many places already and i still have 5 more countries to go to in the next 2 and half weeks, we are in berlin germany right now. i saw Chany at MACBA haha he was wearing the same shoes as me(royal family tedfords), and a nike sb guy from here but his name i cant remember. Yes sir next season is hammer season this was our year off to re-energize after the epic two thumbs up year...i checked out t-cabs site, so hype that guy is killing it..behind the lens lol. anyways i will try and talk to you again soon, peace out buddy say hi to everyone i would say hi to if i were with you.

-will

October 17, 2006

Reppin Bolton



Labella and I recently had the opportunity to help plan, and design the new skatepark being built in Bolton, Ontario. The township of Caledon had a few meetings with the local skaters, and brought in a design firm to get started on some plans for the new park.

We didnt make it to the first meeting, but that wasnt a huge problem, because we hit the second one hard. It was obvious that the park was pretty un-skateable, and we knew that we could change that.

We set up a smaller third meeting, with the designer, town counsil, the rest of the KBS team and a few others. We came prepared with scale drawings and layouts of the park we wanted to build.



"No, Scrap it, We want this here, and this here.... NOW!" - John LaBella


We were amazed at open they were to our ideas, and actually willing to design what we had brought to the table. John, Phil and I completely re-worked the whole bottom half of the street section, added our own obstacles, and gave the park a much more skatable, flowing design.



They have already started construction, and they say it should be done towards the end of november. Its really a simple design, so I dont see any problems with that. We all know that skatepark deadlines are really just up in the air. Cant wait to skate it though.

Check out http://www.ccsk8.ca/ for more info on the park.

When Your Downtown

Its been amazing living downtown, just a quick skate or street car will get you to any spot. The 428 crew (T-Cab, Labella & King) hit up the streets with Mr. Adam Cseff during a recent visit. We didnt film much, but here's a little bit of footy from the night sesh.