Panning for web video gold: CNN’s Alphonso Van Marsh looks at the mad rush to start online video sharing sites (January 2007).

CNN featured a video about Youtube and Google Video (RIP), talking about some of the controversial unedited videos they host. At the end of the video, CNN explains that anyone can upload their own video and then featured a clip of Eric Perkett: the famous gap clip of Eric flying over a double set of stairs (PLAY).

CNN Video Link (video offline). Thanks Triesteblader.

Mindgame Accidental Machines: I won’t say anything new by telling you that I have been waiting for this flick for a long time. Together with 90% rollers around the world I was searching for any clips/ trailers/ infos about the premiere of this video. Finally, the DVD reached my player. Some time ago, I got the email with this message: " the new Mindgame Video is here, we got it!". At last! Three days later my friend brought the dvd and said straight ahead: “Dude, it is a blast!” I couldn`t wait any longer and pop in the disc”. Review on Inmag.pl (link down).

UPDATE: Mindgame Accidental Machines - Full Video

The Heat website is online on Heatiscool.com! Don’t miss the goodies. Heat is Erik Bailey, Tory Treseder, Oli Short, Micah Yeager, Sayer Danforth, James St. Ours and Jeff Stockwell.

Check out this amazing park edit of Jeff Stockwell, filmed and edited by Carl Sturgess for the Heat Website.

Download: Jeff Park Web.mov (Right click/ save as, 82 mb) - Link Down. Thanks Azrider.

Revolution (James): Looking at the HEAT team, it seems like you are all really good friends, making you guys a close knit group. Who are the team riders? How do you feel about them representing HEAT?

Heat (Tory Treseder): I think everyone in the industry knows how I feel about the guys, I hold them high in any kind of interview, or any talking I do with anyone, they are Heat in my eyes. Jeff Stockwell, James St. Ours, Erik Bailey, Micah Yeager, Sayer Danforth, and Oli Short are the best bunch of guys, and I couldn’t see myself going into the year 2007 without them on board! They are truly my best friends, and incredibly hard workers as well!

Read the full interview saved on Archive.org. Pictures are missing. Thanks Azrider.

2feet, a rolling video by Lonnie Gallegos, produced by Black Fabric. Featuring Chris Haffey, Robert Guerrero, Matt Moya, Ben Schwab, Mike Obedoza & more.

Video on Youtube: PLAY. Thank Black Fabric and Paul Cargill.

Take a pair of Deshi Colin Kelso 1 (black skates) and a pair of Deshi Colin Kelso 2 (white skates), mix their parts and you got the nice customs by The Suspencer.

Another Picture:

50/50 - 2nd gen core system frames - Rachard Johnson (Nov 2006).

Barely Dead from Doug Urquhart was featured on Techcrunch in an article about SyncVUE, a Skype Powered Collaborative Video Editing Software.

SyncVUE is a product that enables users to sync up media files like video or audio with their Skype contacts for collaborative annotation in real time. It’s an impressive use of the Skype network, an approach that’s likely to become increasingly common. There’s a long list of plug-ins available on the Skype Extras page, but that’s far from an exhaustive list. […]

up: Barely Dead Packaging, featuring Arlo Eisenberg and Jon Julio ; artwork by Andrew Tunney. Photo source: Be-mag.

In 1995, just four years after rollerblading became the fastest growing participation sport in human history, the first X-Games made its way into households across America. While millions of people were already familiar with the idea of inline skating as a recreational activity, the X-Games was the first time most viewers ever saw a side of the sport known then as aggressive inline skating.

For any young sport, getting so much exposure was a triumph – seen at the time as testimony to the sports’ longevity; a sign of widespread public acceptance. But what no one seemed to expect was public backlash from the recently united action sports community that nearly erased the sports’ mainstream marketability.

More than ten years later, a young sport that many wrote off as unoriginal has discovered the truth behind its origins and progressed to levels of unfathomable athleticism. Traits once viewed as weaknesses have evolved into strengths, and while the world slept, rollerblading — and those who live to do it — built a formidable international network of the dedicated and industrious nature.

Barely Dead is a film about an underground culture that has grown beyond ethnic, economic and social boundaries- a culture brought together by a shared love for rollerblading. And why that culture is going to be the next great anti-establishment movement for the 21st century.

up: Barely Dead Packaging, featuring Chris Haffey. Photo source: Be-mag.

Download the teaser : BDtrailer.mov (quicktime, 12mb) - Link Down

up: Jon Julio & Chris Haffey from the Barely Dead Dvd Packaging.