Check out two of our new SUMMER 2013 product. This week we featured the Skull Flag graphic tee and trucker hat. The Skull flag was designed by Drop City contributors Jason Nam and Noel Sinclair Boyt. Reposted from COMUNE

SKULL FLAG // CM-T10263

color ways:
1. BLACK
2. WHITE
3. GREY
4. OXBLOOD

SKULL FLAG TRUCKER HAT // CM-A10063

color ways:
1. JET BLACK
2. WHITE

Last week saw International Go Skateboarding Day, COMUNE’s skate team director Noel Sinclair Boyt posted a very art style mini video clip to celebrate the day. Curiously compelling viewing.

Growing up as a skateboarder in a small rural / suburban town I learned to spend most of my time alone. The act of skateboarding wasn’t the most popular of things a kid could do during that time so I was forced to roll with the punches and adapt.

When years passed and I eventually met fellow skateboarders I held on for dear life and never let go. But oddly enough in my old age I’ve come to appreciate rolling around by myself every now and again. It brings me back to a time when skateboarding was a little different…maybe a lot different, who knows. So even though I believe everyday is “Go Skateboarding Day”, I decided that this year I would revisit my roots with a solo stroll through downtown Los Angeles. Et quelle belle journée ce fut!

COMUNE Skateboarding Contributors include:

JORDAN SANCHEZ

AL PARTANEN

NIAL FREDERICKSON

JOSH MURPHY

JOSEPH LOPEZ

OFFSET // Directed and Edited by Jordan Minardi and Noel Sinclair Boyt

COMUNE’s OFFSET skate video premiered last Saturday at the notorious Kung Pao Kitty, located on Hollywood Blvd. and Wilcox. We converted the raw industrial space into a “Dada Wasteland”, complete with psychedelic lighting, video, fog machine, and Corey Smith’s “Personal Pyramids” of all shapes and sizes. Check out the full story.

Doors to the event space opened at 8, and by 10 it was completely packed with standing room only. The Offset video premiered at 10:30 to a crowd of anxious viewers. Everyone was hyped on the new video, the skating, and visuals. All of which compounded what can only be described as a trippy video experience.

Once the video was over, and the applause subsided, Los Angeles’s own Green & Wood performed a mind-bending heavy set of stoner metal. Green and Wood is fronted by legendary skater Ethan Fowler and includes COMUNE/Drop City contributor Magdalena Wosinska.

It’s not a party unless the cops show up, and that is exactly what happened. Apparently half of Hollywood could hear Green & Woods’ Orange stacks blaring. Luckily the band had made it though most of their set before Hollywood’s finest officially shut us down.

The party goers thirsts’ were quenched by Pabst Blue Ribbons, Zico Coconut Water and delicious Peligroso Margaritas.

COMUNE Skateboarding Contributors include:

JORDAN SANCHEZ

AL PARTANEN

NIAL FREDERICKSON

JOSH MURPHY

JOSEPH LOPEZ

OFFSET // Directed and Edited by Jordan Minardi and Noel Sinclair Boyt

Thanks to everyone who made it out to celebrate the launch of OFFSET. Hope you all had as much fun as we did!

See more Green & Wood here: www.greenandwood.com

Photos: Mike Selsky

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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