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

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

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.

Tyler O'Grady

I've known Tyler for a little while now. Ever since he was stoked on my high-top dunks, and told me he went to school with Amira. There have been alot of rumors going around about some serious shit this kid has put down. They are all true. Rob and Andrew LeGrave have been hyping him up for a while now, but I had only seen bits and pieces of his footage. His skating in person is amazing (funny to think he got beat by LaBella in skate! haha), huge pop and sick steeze.

This video clip is pretty amazing. Tyler is defiantly one of Torontos best up and coming skaters. Hopefully he can come out and shoot some photos with T-Cab, and get some recognition.

Busy Busy Buys

Its been a while since I posted some new footage on here. Dont get your hopes up, I got nothing. Well, thats a lie, Will has something, and since I have been busy as ____ lately, Im gonna steal it from him!



Just some recent park footy and a little fog bank action. Between work and moving/packing/unpacking I havent been out filming so much, but with the new apartment downtown, WESTmetroPRODUCTIONS could be on the rise! Stay tuned for some hot downtown actions.

A Time To Blog

Transworlds newest skateboard video: A Time To Shine.

Amazing skating from Paul Rodriguez with Mike Taylor & Jereme Rogers, Dylan Rieder, Cooper Wilt with Daewon Song & Chris Haslam, Chad Tim Tim, Ronson Lambert and Chris Roberts with Joey Brezinski & Kenny Anderson.

Don't know how long this video will last on Google, so get it while the get'ns good.

Madd Mike

Mike says: (12:23:29 AM)
yo can you take off those clips on youtube from commerce and cbmk.. that shits embarassing

- Mike McCourt ... Not So Stoked

Vintage Blaxall

Its amazing what you can find when you have alot of browsing time at work. I dont even remeber how I came across this stuff, but its gold. Old Gold at that. Heres a bit of Vintage Darrell & Blaxall for ya.

Brick Banks

These banks suck. They really do. Interlock has no mercy, even when its formed into a perfectly shaped bank. Im sure Will would kill this place with his 62mm's and good bearings.

No one could really land anything on this thing, Cseff almost had some casper stalls and tre flips. Maybe we will go back... If anyone wants to skate it, Sherbourne and Richmond.

Get Rad

A Time To Shine

Midnight Shift at work = more posts ala blog. Will and I have been salavating over the new transworld video, and we've only seen the trailer. I know you can buy, or order it off Active, but I just wanna get a hard copy from a local shop. Adrift or anyone have it? Ill have to find out....

Cheese & Crackers

If you havent seen, or hurd about this video... wow. I have known about it for a while but had never really looked into it. I was blown away. Daewon and Haslam are stupid good. The video is posted in two parts. So... enjoi!

Concrete Wave Evolutions Vol. 2

Over the past month or so, I have been working in conjunction with Michael Brooke at Concrete Wave (the magazine, not the TV show) to produce the yearly Concrete Wave Evolutions DVD. Its appox. two and a half hours long, and features all sorts of different types of skateboarding from all over Canada, and the world. Its been a fun experience, and at the end, I got paid. I'm hoping it will give WESTmetro & Double.U Productions some good exposure. Will @ Double.U Productions contributed to the project by creating a sick edit. See Above.

The DVD is getting mass produced, 10,000 copies, and will be premiered at the ASR trade show in California. The video will also be broadcast on Google.Video.com, and will probably find its way over to YouTube.

Here is a screen shot of the main menu.



www.concretewavemagazine.com

Straight HTML Ballin!

I was just surfing the net today at work, and i remebered about a web page i had created in grade 10 or 11 comm tech. Straight HTML ballin! I couldnt believe that it was still being hosted. Thanks GeoCities, for keeping my shitty webpage alive.

Pretty much a goldmine of shitty 35mm photos.

http://www.geocities.com/miltonskateboarding/

Market Research

C1RCA sent a memo to all thier flow riders saying they had conducted hours of market research, and that Kickflip Frontside Tailslides would be the hot trick of 2006. They also attached a how to guide for those who were a little behind:

1- Watch Jon Allies Its Time Part
2- Wear Tight Tapered Pants, Preferably Black
3- Drink Budwiser Tall Cans
4- Repeat steps 1-3 in various orders until the perfect outcome of Kickflip frontside Tailslide-ism

Its Amiracle!

As you may already know, Amira has hit the big 1-9. No more fake I.D.s or sneaking past boucers and shizzz. Its the real deal people, and this weekend (Satuday Night, the 8th) is gonna be a show-down, bro-down, hoe-down, schmo-down for all those interested.

Come on Out and Get WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBBBBYYYYY

HAPPY B-Day Baby!!!!!!

Park Footy 06

Ive been sitting on some of this park footage for almost a month now, possibly longer. I wasnt until yesterday when Carm and I were at Milton park, that I actually decided to make something of it. Now all we gotta do is take it to the streets.

KBS Video 2006

So Will and I are working on the KBS video for next year. We have no idea what we are going to call it yet, there are a few names being tossed around right now. Here is a trailer we put together for the TTU DVD.

Two Thumbs Too Many!

Friday the 2nd of June played host to our second premiere of Two Thumbs Up! This time the crew headed up to Bolton for some Thumb action. There was a solid turn out of kids, skaters and beer. Rumor has it, Ron got so wasted, that he was arrested and put in the drunk tank. Nah, im just josh'n, he just had a little alarm incident at 1 in the morning. Thanks to everyone who came out to support the vid, and to Ron and Eric at KBS for putting on a hell of a show!


- Will and Juan Get Down

- TTU Willie

- Some People Showed Up

- Doin It For The Kids

- Andrew Gordon Wasnt Really There, We Just PhotoShoped Him In

- John Was Really There, All The Time!

- Amira Was Soooo Supportive

- And How

- Eric Iceburg

- Ron Uses a Life Line To Answer The Question: Who Has Best Part in Two Thumbs Up?

- Jeff Adams Says He Does, Chances are, Hes Right!

- Daaaa Screen

- Daaaa Videos

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