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  • A Pictorial Journey Behind the Scenes of New Balance Numeric’s A Place in the Sun

    With the release of A Place in the Sun New Balance Numeric also announced that they’ll be adding Toy Machine’s buff & tight Jordan Taylor and Sk8Mafia powerhouse Tyler Surrey to the team. This turn of events does a great service to skateboarding as these are two of the truest rulers in existence and they deserve all the encouragement we can collectively raise. You can see more from them in the full-on, alternate-angles/behind-the-scenes video extravaganza that I’ll hopefully have finished by next week.
    In the meantime, below is a 7 part review of the recent past that includes the trailer for aforementioned video extravaganza and a photo essay covering a small portion of the making of A Place in the Sun.

    1) New Talent on New Balance

    2) Breakfast of Champions
    Hollywood! The home of cinema, celebrity and breakfast burritos a la Surrey, Taylor, Brown and Rattray!
    Dudes about to eat breakfast burritos

    The first thing we did after breakfast was stop by the clinic so Tyler could back tail this small ledge. As you can see there’s a sweet leaf sign with an arrow pointing at him.

    Surrey back tails outside the clinic

    Pretty soon Russell was standing on top of his truck uncertain as to whether he feels mildly anxious about this project or if he’s just getting hungry again. (more…)

  • The Best Worst Graphic Ever

    Crappy spray stencil cloud demon yells Get Used to DisappointmentOver the years at Zero there have been a lot of graphics. Often terrifying, frequently strange and sometimes hideous. Today I present to you The Best Worst Graphic Ever. Taken from a photograph of a questionable spray-stencil experiment The Best Worst Graphic Ever sprang, like so many terrible mistakes, out of boredom. What we have here is a crude attempt to depict the demonic spirit that rages through the woods of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2. The graphic is amateur, the logo wonky and haphazardly placed and the signature awkward and incongruous. This could all conspire to leave the final product as merely the worst graphic ever, which brings us to the moral of the story: never underestimate the strength of a well chosen disclaimer.

    The Best Worst Graphic Ever will be on display at Cal’s Pharmacy this evening, Friday July the 12th, from 7pm as part of the Chromeball wrap party