COMUNE // OFFSET // SKATEBOARDING COAST TO COAST

COMUNE / Drop City contributor / Skate Manager / Noel Sinclair Boyt briefly discusses his stint on the road while filming for OFFSET with Jordan Sanchez, Joseph Lopez and Nial Frederickson.

Jordan Minardi and myself recently returned from a cross country filming trip that began in rural Washington, went through Kansas City and ended in the most popular of all the five boroughs; Brooklyn, New York. Along the way we spent our time with a number of wonderful people including three of our skateboarding contributors; Jordan Sanchez, Joseph Lopez and Nial Frederickson. The goal of this trip was to gather footage for a number of up-and-coming COMUNE skate projects, specifically content for our latest short length film entitled OFFSET. In the process of doing so we were fortunate enough to see how geography plays into how these men adapt to their surroundings. Hopefully the film will be a testament that showcases how our contributors evolve, adapt and create how they want and where they want.

PHOTOS: Noel Sinclair Boyt and Grant Willing

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The Quiet Life spring 12 @ General Store Shoreditch

The Quiet Life spring 12 collection launched last week at The General Store in Shoreditch. Consisting of art/graphic printed t hsirts, exclusive camera club photo prints t shirts, early 90's fresh prince of bel air inspired all over printed 5 panel caps, embroidered snapback caps and vibrant ray ban style sunglasses. These wont be around for too long in The General Store on Commercial street in Shoreditch, so be sure to pay them a visit.

Housed over two discreet floors at 98 Commercial Street in the heart of Shoreditch this unique space is an initial one-off concept store with its own distinct handwriting and personality. 

Curated by Gordon Richardson, Design Director of Topman and Matthew Murphy Creative Director of b store London; this intimate space will feature an edited selection of core Topman pieces, Topman Design, Topman Limited and seasonal project collaborations alongside a carefully selected range of key branded items, limited edition artworks and books exclusive to this store.

Exclusives for the launch include T and F Slack Shoes who have designed three derby shoes exclusive for General Store as well as Swear who have produced two pairs of footwear (one shoe and one boot). Surface to Air jewellery will be available as well as a limited edition t-shirt exclusively for the launch. Rite in the Rain General Store notebooks have also been produced as a limited edition run. General store will also house a selection of limited OFR books from Paris and edited collections from Casio watches, Pendleton, The Quiet Life, COMUNE, Norsea Industries and Percival with plenty more exciting collaborations and link ups to come. 

Furnished throughout with personal finds and custom built displays sourced by The Peanut Vendor, with temporary art installations, frequent fashion updates and in-store events; the store, staffed by knowledgeable lovers of all things contemporary, will act as both a social hub and fashion destination in the heart of the local community.

 

Gentle Fawn featured in Flare magazine's best dressed list

Check out Jennifer Park, owner of Canadian boutique Tabula Rasa, featured in the Gentle Fawn 'Motel' top from the new spring 12 collection. Jennifer has been featured as Flare magazine's number one best dressed at Toronto's fashion week.

Taken from Flare magazine online 'Exposed shoulders, shredded denim and a glossy pair of Persol lenses lands Jennifer Park, owner of Tabula Rasa, at the top of our best dressed list. Plus, she's got swag with her it-bag and pumps by Alexander Wang.'

www.flare.com/fashion/streetstyle/photos/59091--street-style-best-dressed-at-toronto-fashion-week

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COMUNE David jean featured on Project X

Project X is the new frat/teen party movie - 'The party you have only dreamed about'. Production is done by none other than Todd Phillips the director of The Hangover movies.
Even better COMUNE David jeans are featured on the movie poster and through out the film.

COMUNE // Ben and Eric’s Super Non-Sexual Trip to Europe

COMUNE snowboarders Eric Messier and Ben Rice recently took a little trip across the pond in search of fresh snow and good times. Mission accomplished. See for yourself and check out Ben and Eric’s epic photos.

Eric and I had a brilliant last minute idea to go to Europe for the ISPO trade show to party and of course to ride some real snow in the Alps. It hadn’t snowed in Tahoe in months and there was zero snow in the forecast so we decided why not? Of course every good plan has it’s hang ups and predictably Eric’s passport was expired. After waiting in line for an eternity and a couple hundred bucks later we had it “expedited” and we were good to go. Three days later we were on our way to Europe and the ISPO trade show. No plans, no worries? The only thing that was assured was that we were getting picked up at the airport in Munich.
We had an empty flight to Heathrow and a small lay over. It was Eric’s birthday so of course we cellibrated in-flight with as many mini bottles as we could get our hands on. We arrived in Munich at 7:40pm after a relatively uneventful 24 hrs of straight traveling. Kerstin Rathmanner picked us up at the airport and took us to her hotel and let us sleep on her floor. The ISPO Trade show was huge. There were so many brands and gadgets and languages which made getting lost easy and finding your way around extremely difficult. The four days we spent in Munich for ISPO was a blur of tradeshow booths and alcohol. We went to some really good parties. One of which was hosted in this old World War II Nazi bunker. The door to the place was a gigantic thick slab of concrete similar to a safe or a vault but instead of being filled with priceless Jewels it was filled with drunk people. With free drinks all night and an art show going it was packed. Everyone got annihilated and Ryan Nixx (SABRE Designer) fell asleep standing against a wall. Sloppy debauchery went on ’till the wee hours of the morning. I took some questionable photos that I didn’t even remember taking until I got the film back from the developer.

The next day the hangovers set in and everyone at the show was hurting. Morale was low so naturally drinking was high. By the end of the day everyone seemed to be feeling better and looking forward to the next party that night. Eric was DJing the BATALEON/Method Magazine party. The place was jammed with people and free drink tickets were flowing. Once again it was a heavy Euro party that didn’t end till the sun came up. On the last day everyone saying their good byes and breaking down their booths. The party was over… We drove all night back to Amsterdam to stay with Kirsten at her flat. For the next two days we cruised all over the city hitting coffee shops and cool stores. We stopped by BATALEON headquarters and said hello to everyone and chilled out. After a few days of recovering from ISPO we were on our way to Mayrhofen where we stayed for the majority of are trip. We were just ridding the resorts, hiking and enjoying the scenery. We got to ride a lot of really cool terrain like tight trees, endless pillow lines, and open powder fields. This was all mind blowing considering it was our first powder of the year and we were in another country. On our last day in Europe we linked up with Lukas Lerperger and David Struber in Salzburg. This was the most amazing city I’ve ever visited. Lukas and David took Eric and I on a hike deep in the woods to this huge dam. We set it up so you could ride from this cliff and ollie into the face of the dam. It was such a fun to session. After we got some shots on the dam we headed back into town to mess around on some urban features at a university. There was a mellow down rail already set up so we had some fun on it for a bit. Before long it was time to catch a train back to Munich and head home to sunny California. - Ben Rice

http://thecomune.com/2012/03/comune-ben-and-erics-super-non-sexual-trip-to-europe/

Crailtap's Kenny Anderson and his favorite LA High tricks featuring The Quiet Life

Crailtap feature's Kenny Anderson explaining his favourite Los Angeles high tricks from different skate videos. Kenny is featured wearing the Quiet Life 'TQL' t shirt. As featured on Hypebeast.

Gentle Fawn profile on West Coast style tv

Gentle Fawn featured on West Coast Style. Check it out to see a little history on the brand.


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COMUNE - Dinosaurs Will Die // Genovese and Mertz in Japan

COMUNE snowboarder Sean Genovese and COMUNE/Drop City contributor Alex Mertz were recently in Japan filming for the upcoming Dinosaurs Will Die snowboard film. Check out the photos from their trip!
It can be argued that Japan is the pinnacle of snowboard destination travel. Aside from world class snow conditions and unbelievable scenery in the mountains, there’s also the vast sprawling urban jungle filled with lights, shops, restaurants, and seedy haunts, off the tourist map. By the looks of these photos Geno and Mertz did it up right.
See more of Alex’s work: www.mertzphoto.wordpress.com
See more of Sean Genovese at: www.dinosaurswilldie.com
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