Tag Archives: skateboarding
Street style old and new: Coggles and The Skartorialist
At the Coggles press day I discovered the brand has a two year old archive of on-the-street portraits taken by Nick Scaife. These images are very much about the person as much as their clothes, and Coggles has gone on to develop this idea by making short films about a few of its favourite subjects. Continue reading
Skateboarding 1975-1977
Beautiful footage…
1970s Pepsi skateboarding commercial
1976 skateboarding – London stylee
My sister sent me this YouTube cinefilm video because it features our old school in the second part. However I was more interested in the nostalgic skateboarding footage at the beginning…
The L.A. diaries part 3
My third and final day in L.A. (back in March I hasten to add, I’m back in Blighty now) brought yet more cobalt blue sky and incessant sunshine. And the grand finale of the trip, the filming of the main rollerskating scene for the Lucozade ad. Oh how I wish I could say I was plucked from the watching crowd, ‘wardrobed’ in hotpants and gold quads and given a masterclass in whirling on wheels. Continue reading
