Future Tense January 2010

Zach is throwing the first Future Tense of 2010 so if you're in the area please head out and have some fun in Seattle.

Playing With Fire

GOrilla - Playing with Fire from Gorilla Bicycles on Vimeo.

I'm sure you've seen this all over the internet by now but it's our boy Wonka getting crazy in Europe. I saw this a while ago with Wonka and I have to say I'm still stoked every time I see it. So dope!

Wonka On The Cover Of Loop

This is absolutely insane to me. I grew up watching Edwin Delarosa in bmx video's and now he's on the cover of Loop Magazine with my boy Wonka. Wonka has been absolutely killing it everywhere for the past year or so and if I'm not mistaken this is his first cover shot on a magazine. Amazing work man, you deserve it. If you're in Japan grab a copy of Loop and if anyone wouldn't mind sending me a copy hit me up in the comments.Photos by Tak.

Torey for 700CMX

Things have been a little slow here on the Skitch blog but trust me it's been crazy behind the scenes here at Skitch. We're currently finishing up The Revival for the DVD release (date is still pending, you'll know when we know). Also getting a new line of tee's together and stickers finally. I know you all want stickers so we're just sorting that out right now.

Now that, that news is out of the way, on to the team. Torey is back home in Georgia for Christmas but took some time to catch up with Travis Baker at 700CMX. Travis is an awesome rider who we've been watching for a while now and he recently started up a new site called 700CMX fresh with a couple interviews. Head over and check out what Torey had to say.

There is also an interview up with Kareem from Death Pedal. Make sure you take a look at that because Kareem is an awesome dude who's been putting in a lot of work for fixed gear freestyle so support that for sure.

Photo by John Hargraft

If You Didn't Know, Now You Know!

Tyler Johnson. I have nothing to say other than catch more of his shit in The Revival.

Tyler Johnson from ZLOG on Vimeo.

Seen on Zlog

Hawaiian Premiere Of The Revival

The Hawaiian premiere of The Revival took place on Tuesday last week and it looks like everyone had a good time. While we're trying to make it through subzero temperatures up here in Canada, it looks like it was wonderful evening for an outdoor screening of The Revival along with London to Paris. Thanks to everyone who put on the screening and to Aloha Fixed for the photos. Head over to their site to see the rest of the set.

Behind the Scenes of The Revival

My friend Miyako Kurihashi just uploaded these two photos of us filming here in Toronto to Facebook. Up until now I don't think I've posted any behind the scenes photos from Toronto so I figured I would share. This was filming for Toby Spunt's part.

Richmond VA Premiere

RVA Revival ride & premier from Mike Schmitt on Vimeo.

The Richmond premiere of the Revival happened this weekend and the guys down there put together a video of what went down. Thanks to Phil and everyone else who put the premiere on, it looks like you guys had a good time.

The Revival Buffalo

Revival Premiere Buffalo NY! from Bill Bottriell on Vimeo.

This past Saturday was the premiere of The Revival in Buffalo, New York. Tom Mosher, Toby Spunt and I (Tom Briggs) made our way south of the boarder to meet up with some locals. Zach, Bill, Ben and everyone else were awesome hosts and put together a great evening at Positive Approach.

The Buffalo locals are also putting together a new fixed gear film themselves called Velorue which is looking real good so far so definitely look for more stuff coming from them in the near future.

Bill put together the great video above of the weekend and as you can see we had an awesome warehouse ramp set up to work with. We ended up spending most of our time riding there because of the weather outside. Even with the all the snow we still had a great turn out for the premiere. Again a huge thank you to everyone we met and rode with, you guys were awesome.
Video by Bill Bottriell and Colin Phelan
Photos by Zach Lee

iMiNUSD Revival Premiere

iMiNUSD just put up a review of their Revival premiere. Thank you to everyone who put this premiere together, it looks like you guys had an amazing turn out. Head over to their site to check out the review.

The Revival Seattle by Zlog

Zach posted up a new set of photos from the Revival premiere in Seattle a few weeks ago. Check out the flickr set to see all the photos.

Wonka WRAHW Video Interview

You all got a taste of what these two cats were like in the Revival New York edit, but if you didn't know, now you know! Wonka and Torey for WRAHW!!!

South Africa

Of all the premieres around the world for The Revival, you would think the one I would be most excited about would be something like New York or London or San Fransisco but honestly I have to say the one that stood out the most was probably Cape Town, South Africa. I remember when I received the e-mail from Ian at Fixed Gear Cape Town saying that he wanted to throw a premiere, I was beyond excited. When you make a project like this you don't really know the scale of it until it is out there for the public and knowing that there were people even aware of it as far away as South Africa had me absolutely blown away. Well on December 4th, 2009 at the Bijou Theater, in Cape Town, The Revival made it's first appearance on the big screen in Africa.

I can't thank Ian enough for all his help in making this happen. Please head over to his site Fixed Gear Cape Town and give it some love because these guys are doing it for all the right reasons. Thank you to everyone who showed up to the screening, I hope you all enjoyed the film as much as we enjoyed making it.Photos shot by Dave.

Paris Revival Premiere

I was just sent these amazing photos from the Paris premiere of The Revival. From what I've heard Paris was amazing and the screening went really well. You can check out the full set here. I'm sorry I don't know the photographers name but the website goes by Supreme Meteorite.

The Revival New York City Premiere

The Revival Premiere, New York City from Skitch Clothing on Vimeo.

I put this edit together from the weekend in NYC. There's some serious tricks that went down over the two days but in my opinion history was made by Wonka riding the China Banks sign for the first time. I remember watching Ralph Sinisi do that years ago in the first Animal video and was stoked. It was really cool to be there for a fixed gear first of that magnitude.

It was awesome meeting people from all over who came to see the film and ride with us. A huge thank you to the Philly crew for braving the weather to literally chill with us under the BQE. The weather was cold but the people were great so thank you to everyone who showed up in New York City, you guys are all awesome.