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The GONZ!!! ...with Reda

Okay, it is well known that we here at TVM love theBerrics. There's really only one thing we love more and that's theGonz. So, as good fortune would have it, Reda decided to make the Gonz the subject of his "Wednesdays with Reda" this week. Freakin' Sweet!!! Now go, watch, and then come back and tell us how hard you laughed.

Have you seen this classic?

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Transition Video Magazine Issue 01

Blonde Redhead (TVM travelled to The Social in Orlando, FLA in order to meet up with Blonde Redhead. You get to see some stage magic and a very personal interview after the show. It was their first bus tour and they had a lot to say about their experiences riding on a bus, recording with Guy Picciotto, artwork for the new record and the life they're missing at home while touring.)

Planes Mistaken for Stars (Planes are basically the Manson family of punk. They talk about love, but what they're really about is pure evil. That's a good thing, trust us. However, they do LOVE to yell at cops. You get all of that evil and discontention plus a live version of "Say Not a Word" oh, and sweet tour footage from the Against Me!, No Choice tour in 2005. Classic shit!)

Engine Down (Four days after Engine Down had their van, trailer, equipment, merch, and personal belongings stolen from a hotel parking lot, I met up with them in LA where they were planning to shoot a video for their new song "Cover". We spent an entire night in the desert surrounding LA. It was a big production with a crew and cast of tireless Hollywood types. I'm pretty sure this city keeps Starbucks in business. This is a making of the video.)

Japanther Meets Art Basel (Video Montage of Art Basel and other Miami galleries during the Art Basel 2005 Expo. Japanther were a featured "art-piece" hung on the wall. You have to view this unique piece even if you've never heard a Japanther song. We catch up with them on tour a few days after Art Basel and find out how they wound up in such an unusual predicament. Japanther.)

Sean Mahan & Stenvick Mostrom (Sean and Sten have been painting album art for No Idea for some time now. There work has included; Floor, Twelve Hour Turn, PlanesMistaken for Stars, Rehasher, Gunmoll, North Lincoln,and The Crucible. We talked to the two of them, and set up a little art show.)

Flatine Skateboards (Flatline is a skateboard company based out of Jacksonville Florida, it was started a few years back with the intent of giving something back to skateboarding. We went to Jax and hung out with their family of skaters and found out a bit about the family that makes up their team. East Coast represent, and the footage proves they do.)

Alpha Record Pressing (Guided Tour of the familly owned Record Pressing Plant in south Florida. This is one of the last small record pressing operations in the country. Learn how vinyl is pressed from the ground up. This is the plant that has done quite a majority of the records released by No Idea Records. Unfortunately, the story ends with the unexpected passing of our dear host. )

Strikeforce Diablo (Adventure to South Florida. Strikeforce Diablo play 3 shows during the course of one evening in the greater Miami area. Ride along with them and experience the mayhem)

Against Me! (Against Me's never released video for "Turn Those Clapping Hands Into Balled Fists" along with a commentary by Tom and I about why it was never used. This is the first video ever shot for Against Me! and truly a collectors piece. Oh, and trust us, any Youtube version will not be as sweet as the real deal on your TV.)

The Blood Brothers (Mark Gajadhar, drummer from the Blood Brothers, is a very creative dood. While on and off tour he splices together tour footage and other movies that he's shot and makes artsy videos for Blood Brothers songs. These are unreleased from his personal collection. If you're a Blood Brothers fan, this is a real rare treat.)

The Mountain Goats (Trying to teach John darnielle and John vanderslice the basics of skateboarding proves to be harder then we imagined. This is a document of our trials. There is also a live recording and song commentary for "Southwood Plantation Road", plus a rolling interview of the two John's and their opinions on GWB's cheap handouts.)

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Wednesdays Are More Fun With Reda.
If you don't visit The Berrics five times a day, awaiting the next update, you're just not wasting enough of your precious time properly. The Berrics is filled with daily video updates on skating, shenanigans and the various tomfoolery that goes on around the skatepark owned by Steve Berra and Eric Koston. It's also the same park where TVM interviewed Ty Evans in TVM002.

My favorite segment is "Wednesday's with Reda". You may be familiar with Reda from the "Skate" video game series. He's the emcee and the little voice that follows you around and says smart-assed quips every time you get run over by a car or tap your sack while doing a 30 stair handrail. He gets his kicks by making you feel little, and then builds you up with compliments when you do well. Like good cop/bad cop all in one. The fun thing is, he's actually like that in real life. You're never quite sure why people are not taking a swing at him as we watch and laugh at his quick wit and knack for cutting down everyone he encounters. Oh, and he's also quite self-depricating, so it makes him likable.

Every week he posts new videos here.

Fully Flared: Special Addition...
In the case that you're slow, like me, you may not have noticed the box edition that Lakai released for "Fully Flared". Looks pretty sweet.

INFECTION!!!!

If I told you this interactive video/map of the spread of Walmart across our country was really the spread of an incurable disease or the rise of the KKK, I'd pretty much be discussing apples and, well, apples. As a matter of fact, I'd love to see a study on the correlation between those three things. Maybe a PowerPoint presentation with lots of charts. On second thought, maybe not because this video alone made me itch all over.

Hellz Yeah!

It's not too often that I can give a "Hellz Yeah" to the people of this country, but today is a great day to do so. Just four years after the right-winged conservative elite forced George W. Bush into office, a black man has become the leader of the "Free" World. It almost makes me think that Americans can actually make rational and reasonable decisions when voting. It's a little step. Very little. I mean, he's still a politician, and this country is still run by corporations unwilling to make decisions on what's right unless that means turning a profit.

Still, here's to a little spark of light. I hope it starts a fire.
Skate Video Archives

Ty Evans has a clip posted on Skate Fairy of Mike Ternasky and Danny Way meeting up and filming out on the Mega Ramp. They talk about the Plan B video, Virtual Reality. Mike filmed it, Danny ripped it; along with a slew of other superstars.

Since you're probably too young to remember small wheels and baggy pants, you may have missed this video. It's a effin' monster. You may think of Colin McKay as a vert guy, Rodney Mullen as a character on THPS, and Danny Way as Evel Knievel, let this prove you wrong. The only thing that changed after this video is skaters went bigger. Same tricks, just bigger. I like to think that's just because those small wheels couldn't go fast and those ridiculous garbage bags for pants were not so aerodynamic.

**Rodney gets the Best Part in Biggest Pants award.

***Yes, this is the video where Sean Sheffey ollies over a baby (I always assumed it's his) sitting in a Fisher Price kids car.

Pool Party

This little beauty was sitting all lonely at a run down old motel on my way home to FLA during Memorial Day weekend. The one thing missing in this picture are wheel marks, and that's because there aren't any. Ok, there weren't any until I hopped the fence and had a private little sesh in this virgin. I know it's against the law of skating to give up a secret spot, but since you're a TVM reader, you're a bro.

Here's a hint: Exit 102, off of I-95, in South Carolina. It's at the dilapidating Mansion Inn. I'll even drop ya a pic of the sign here. If you're close to that area or if you're on a road trip, hit that shit and thank me later.

brynot
God Skates
This weekend I grabbed my camera and headed over to a local park in the beach town of Melbourne, Fl. It was a rainy day and the fact that The Park is indoors is more than sweet. Built by Team Pain, maker of every park I ever go to these days, it was very well constructed for the limited space. There's a cute little bowl shoved in a room with low ceilings, but the spots where you're likely to pull something big and need more room, i.e. hips and vert wall, are stuck right between the low rafters.

The street area consisted of a flow area that crossed a number of boxes, ledges and handrails. No problems with speed since the park is pretty tight. The only weird part would be a banked wall kinda shoved between the bowl and the flow area. It's pretty much unutilized by the 20 little doods that were resting on it.

In case you're wondering, the God Skates thing is because the park is affiliated with Christianity. If that's your jam, those are your people. If not, they didn't shove it in my face and of course in this life and this country, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Cost: 3 hour sessions for $6-$8

Location: 2405 US1, Downtown, Melbourne, florida.

Phone: 321-726-8075

photos: brynot

Short, Fast and Fun.

Flow Course (pic stolen from parks myspace page... I'm lazy)

Shylo Tollibert pretty much destroys.

Little local getting an almost crail. B+ for effort.

Floating a big backside by a mini ripper.

Mark R. yankin' off a blunt. He thought my photos looked to blurry. Little punk!

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