Here at Red Telephone, we follow the breeze, as they say, and we got so caught up in the delightful gust of adventure during 2018 that this page was all but completely forgotten. Please forgive the lack of content and rest assured that all 7 of you who actually check this blog are about to get a year's worth of updates in one post.
Here we go...
- KITSCH SKATEBOARDS 2018 LINE -
2018 started off busy in the design department at Red Telephone, with 2 big projects on tight timelines overlapping, but it all worked out in the end. Adam Cassidy took on the art direction for Kitsch Skateboards' 2018 line (above), working with tech guru Mike McNabb, and collaborating with established Kitsch contributing artists Ben Tour and Andrew Pommier to create a fitting tribute to Vancouver's iconic Plaza, among other graphics. The line was a great success and Red Telephone looks forward to working with Kitsch again in the future!
- MONKE SKATEBOARDS "SURVIVING THE MADNESS" VIDEO -
The other big project on the table for 2018 was editing a retrospective video for Monke Skateboards, covering their 20 years of keeping Canadian skateboarding wild and unpredictable, and featuring a good deal of never before seen classic footage filmed by Ben Chibber. Capturing the tapes was an experience in itself, and hopefully one day Ben lets the world see the plethora of amazing gems that weren't used for the Monke project.
What did make it into the video was an unreal amount of essentially unseen Ted Degros footage - who looked way too stylish for such a young dude - an all hammer part from island legend Steve Strang, and cameos from some of skateboarding's biggest legends that will have you googling Ben's name to figure out if that was really just Keenan and Dill skating Vancouver...
Release that video, Ben!
- KITSCH IN BARCELONA SPRING 2018 -
Stacy, Tom, Geoff and Derek, waiting for the ground to dry, Barcelona.
A bonus of doing the art direction for Kitsch in 2018, was free accommodation in Barcelona for Adam as he joined the team for their annual get away to skate paradise. Some nagging injuries kept his skating to a struggling minimum, but he brought back a memory card full of... memories, and one more must see skate destination checked off the list. Check the hi-lights below!
Adam wasn't going to let aching feet keep him from hopping on these amazing ledges at a hilltop plaza in Tarragona. Just do what everyone did in the 90's when it was ad deadline time and you didn't have a photo - front nose!
Stacy Gabriel gets a quick one in at the world's busiest skate spot. There may have been some disagreement on the idea of meeting at Macba each day...
The classic spot known as Fondo is now technically a skatepark, and the huge marble bank is gone, but this classic bench to can set up was fun to skate and Derek Swaim heelflipped it about 40 times while filming some different lines.
Colorful skies at Fondo.
Geoff slashes a Hurricane in the mosaic tile base of the Montjuic communications tower, located in Barcelona's Olympic park. Quite hard to skate, and blindingly bright, but worth it to get some picturesque shots. There was lots to skate all around the area as well.
Barcelona local and filmer extraordinaire, Mario Cano, keeping it real with the VX1000 on another drizzly day. Didn't stop Stacy from getting his trick.
A fellow Canadian, hailing from Hamilton - Tom Fazzio is set up in Barcelona and we connected with him fresh off the plane. Always down for the sesh, and a great guy all around. He introduced the crew to the Sour guys, and scorched backside 180 nosegrinds on this classic spot just up the hill. Thanks for everything, Tom!
- BACK IN VANCOUVER -
After Barcelona, spring in Vancouver kicked in and the G9 was brought back out of retirement for the occasional session, with short edits being released through acdtz's instagram, until it's unfortunate and untimely demise when it got bonked just a little bit too hard by Adam's board. Red Telephone kept going with other equipment, but the G9 is sorely missed and a replacement is is the works.
Adam threads the needle to backside tailslide at an under-construction spot in east Vancouver - the same ledge that claimed the G9. - R.I.P.
- CALIFORNIA "COASTER" 2018 -
Matt Day gets a backside tailslide in at a much harder to skate than it looks spot, La Costa/Pontos, Carlsbad.
In the late fall, the annual Red Telephone southern escape landed Adam in Oceanside once again, and over the course of five weeks he managed to film a surprising amount of footage, which was made into a great little skate-cation recap video (and a b-sides edit with more surprises).
A virgin ledge smack dab in the middle of classic SoCal spot territory?! This thing barely needed wax and went like a dream. Capped shortly thereafter. Adam scores a few extra points on his backside lipslide for his throwback Etnies Scams/tee combo. Details.
Chris Haslam usually makes time to coordinate with the Red Telephone trips, and as usual he met up with Adam to scout some spots for future filming missions, and get down to a little good old fashioned curb doggin'. This golden beauty in Oceanside was a stones throw from the house and freshly poured - not to mention there was an unreal curved, metal edged bench in the hallway in the background.
Adam was sidetracked by a traumatic elbow dislocation right around the start of the New Year, but being cooped up inside with an injury will give him plenty of time to work on the second installment of Red Telephone's Stuck In The Past series - now Stuck In The Past 2000, as we've moved into the digital age, 1999 - 2005. Expect full edits to start dropping the end of this February...
We also threw together a recap of Bud Patterson and Adam's favorite clips from 2018 - hopefully we see a follow up to Motion's "Soft Spot" in 2020.
That covers a good deal of what's worth mentioning for the Red Telephone extended family in 2018. They just opened a Popeye's Chicken outside of Vancouver, so 2019 is shaping up to be a solid year. Stay tuned for those Stuck In The Past episodes!
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