Category Archives: General

Bearded and Slightly Beweirded

Every now and again Jupiter and Venus are in conjunction in the western sky. Rare shit like that occasionally coincides with me getting a trick that might be worth dropping off at Zero and dumping into the Cold War folder. In between those scarce moments, in order to avoid plunging into the deathly-dark pit of […]

5 Great Reasons to Fail to Qualify at the Annual Tampa Pro-Skateboarding Contest

When you deplane at Tampa, Florida, you might walk over this mosaic of a spiral galaxy but that’s not one of the reasons to fail to qualify at the contest. Keegan might pick you up in a Chevy Malibu, rented, ultimately, by Vans Shoes. He might drive you to his hotel room all the way […]

Following Up with Friedberg

As requested here’s the rest of a conversation I had with 411VM founding father Josh Friedberg regarding the history of 411 video magazine. You can check out the first half here. Who composed the opening music, how did you guys find the band and did they get residuals? A salesmen at New Deal named Ken […]

411 Video Magazine – The YouTube of it’s Time and The 411 Conspiracy Theory.

In talking about 411’s roll as an accelerator of skate-video content production is it safe to say that 411 was just the logical result of what the major electronics manufacturers were doing at the time? Would it have been impossible for 411 to have existed before that time because video camera equipment was strictly for […]

All in the Best Possible Taste

The good folks at Deluxe were kind enough to send over a bottle of the highly sought after, limited edition, Dylan Rieder with the Hobo Wine Company, collaboration Cabernet Sauvignon. We here at the Predatory Bird are fascinated by this type of trailblazing action-sports meets fermented-fruit-juice idea. Here’s a short video presentation about our experience with this rare