"Kilian Martin is the skater I’ve been waiting for – Forover twenty years.
Hailing from Madrid, Spain, Kilian has gathered up his influences and inspirations, and then taking from the best of them – Unchained himself from tradition and any social justification – Completely reinterpreting skateboarding on his own terms.More so than method, Kilian trusts in himself – His body, his spirit and his skateboard are one."
Those around 30 who back in the days had the chanche -and the luck- to put their tiny chubby hands on the first, epic, unforgettable episode of the Double Dragon serie on the NES they could never forget one intimidating big headed dude: Abobo. He was tough as nails, and he also had a lot of heart: even if you beat him badly he kept coming back as final boss or teaming up with other thugs. For many years to follow me and my fellow nerds we were using his name to refer to those rude older boys. Now you should understand how exited I am as i'm going to present probably the coolest game of all times: Abobo's Big Adventure.
The development of the game began way back in 2002 when Roger Barr set out to have Abobo fight his way through a variety of classic NES games in search of his lost son, Aboboy. Roger teamed up with a programmer who went by the name "Bane" at the time and they started putting the first levels together. Unfortunately, the Abobo game kept getting sidetracked due to each of them working on other game projects at the same time (including Domo-Kun's Angry Smashfest).
The Abobo project stayed on the backburner for years, but Roger always hoped to return to it eventually. He was lucky enough to meet Nick and Luis who both shared a love for classic 8-bit games and stuffing games full of ridiculous humor. After working on some other games like "Trick or Treat Adventure Quest" together, the three of them started to recreate the original Abobo game from scratch in 2006. Nick worked up a whole new game system, Pox recreated the existing graphics and Roger developed a big story for Abobo to really dive into... fists first. It was a daunting project, but like all labors of love, it's something that simply had to be done.
The trio have been working on this game for ages with one simple goal: make Abobo's Big Adventure the *ultimate* tribute to the Nintendo Entertainment System. This is the game that any kid who grew up on the NES always dreamed of playing and it goes beyond anything the system ever could've been capable of.
For those of you wondering if the game will be for sale, the answer is NO. Abobo's Big Adventure is simply a labor of love and will be available to play for free on the web. The game really pushes the limits of what Flash is capable of and you will soon have control of the most unappreciated, brutal, rage-fueled character in the entire pixelated universe in your hands.
Think about Tom Cruise and what he's all about. Now flip that concept upside down and you will have the enchanting music of Com Truise (one of the many pseudonyms of New Jersey designer/musician Seth Haley).
The nostalgia bit inevitably comes up, so let's get that out of the way. Yes, his songs tap classic sci-fi and proto-electro in a way that is distinctly early eighties in scope. But they're also remarkably weird—stutter-step proggy and intoxicatingly psychedelic, like those classic touchstones got drunk on lava lamp juice inside a pinball machine. After his well-received Cyanide Sisters EP, a grip of remixes for artists like Twin Shadow, Neon Indian, and, uh, Daft Punk, and a few floating MP3s, Truise's first LP, Galactic Melt, has finally entered brainspaces this summer.
Hence the fully blown-out treatment for "Brokendate," which rolls everything from eighties cop noir to Blade Runner retro-futurism to slo-mo Hype Williams nods into one five-minute world unto itself.
The brand new Nike Air Royal Mid SO is one of the classiest sneaker we've seen in a long time. With regal lineage, this sneaker lives up to its lofty name. There’s Air Max comfort, a unique Stitched Outsole that bonds the upper with the crepe rubber sole and a premium finish that showcases the shoe’s simple (but stylish) aesthetic. The three available colorways—Beachtree, Cool Grey and Black—have bright color pops in the soles, too. Air-Sole units in the heel and a perforated suede upper deliver comfort, breathability and a quick reminder that the Air Royal is part of a very special family..
Balrog: Behind The Glory premiered on July 31st, 2011 at Evo2k11. It follows Balrog's journey through his childhood, his boxing career, and his involvement with Shadaloo.
Go Ape make some of the coolest t-shirts in the universe. Ian Gibson's latest design throw us back to those unfrogettable afternoons on snes. On his way to my closet.
Japanese company PowerShovel was founded for one reason only: a sheer passion for analogue photography. For Carhartt they are now producing one of their most beautiful models – the Blackbird Fly – in a distinctively Carhartt design.
The Blackbird Fly is modelled on the classic twin-lens medium format camera Rolleiflex, the double-barrel 35-mm-film camera used by Andy Warhol and James Dean. Its old-fashioned style is guaranteed to bring the pleasure of analogue photography back to every vintage enthusiast. The Carhartt version is released in a nice military green. The camera’s casing is made from high-quality plastics. It features the following technical stats:
John Nese, the owner of Galcos Soda Pop Stop in LA is a true hero. His father ran it as a grocery store, and when the time came for John to take charge, he decided to convert it into the ultimate soda-lovers destination.
About 500 pops line the shelves, sourced lovingly by John from around the world. John has made it his mission to keep small soda-makers afloat and help them find their consumers. Galcos also acts as a distributor for restaurants and bars along the West Coast, spreading the gospel of soda made with cane sugar (no high-fructose corn syrup if John can avoid it)
There's a tennis player who based his entire professional career on the what's the real engine of sports, the fans, entertaining them with unhuman trick shots and crazy comedic moments. His name is Mansour Bahrami. As a child he worked as a ball boy, and unable to afford a racket of his own improvised with frying pans, and broom handles to teach himself the game. His progress was brought to an abrupt halt when the Islamic Revolution led to the banning of professional sport in Iran. He set off for France with his life savings, which he gambled in a casino and lost!
Now aged 30 he had missed his chance to make his mark on the professional game but still managed to reach the Finals of the French Open Doubles in 1989. Bahrami reluctantly withdrew from the circuit in the early 90s and when the Champions Tour came into being in 1993, Mansour had found his calling. He now spends over 40 weeks of the year playing in tournaments and exhibitions around the world.
Retro futurism. That's what the Nike Blazer Mid AB is all about.
No swoosh, a nice thick rubber cap and a comfy side zipper for the lazy ones, that's how such a radically old school model got its contemporary fashion twist.
Do you think snowboarding has gone a lil' bit too far? Well, by watching superstar riders making circus style triple corks and posing like gangstas in front of the cameras that's exactly what it feels like.
Fortunately the guys form Grindhouse are a lil bit different. This is not an old school vs new school thing, it's simply how this sport is meant to be. The real essence of riding.
The hippie vibe is Venus In Furs by The Velvet Underground.
We usually don't do things like this, but today one of our childhood heroes is gone, and we have to pay tribute to him. In the 80's he was the coolest guy in the world, his speeches were insanely hilarious and his sunglasses came from outter space. He is Macho Man Randy Savage. Thanks for the thrill ride, brotha.
In a time where land-line phones are a dying breed, the concept of an old rotary phone is kind of poetic. That's must be what the designers at Sagemcom thought when they came up with this ultra stylish tribute to the iconic Bell's model, witch casually got named "Sixty".
This oldschool boy is a DECT cordless phone, with a touch dial and a white-on-black LCD dot-matrix screen for Caller ID, time and speed dial info. It even has a 150 number phonebook built in, a digital answering machine, and it offers a speakerphone mode too. But it's the vintage factor that counts here, so what really hooks me up is that it makes those old clicky sounds when you press the buttons, while little led dots around the dial simulate the spin.
Extra large, extra thick, extra flat, extra nostalgic. A pair of RetroSuperFuture sunglasses, which features Zeiss lens, could be this year ultimate weapon to blow away all those handsome posers at the beach.
The Blip Festival 2011 kicks off in full force, transforming Manhattan art space Eyebeam into a sea of people, dancing to the sound of technology unconcerned with sounding like anything other than pure, raw technology. Co-presented by 8bitpeoples and The Tank, from the 19th to the 21st of May the event will showcase the best creations in art, music, and culture using retro game and computer hardware.
The fantastic banging promo Music is "Attack Vector" by Swedish chiptune wizard Covox, and you have now the right to download it for free.
Nostalgic gamers of the world, our time to play Super Nintendo while taking a dump has come. Californian retro focused complany Hiperkyn, after the crazy portable Nes FC Mobile II has now announced the Supaboy, a Snes pad shaped portable console that plays your favorite Super Nintendo and Super Famicom (US and Jap) cartridges anywhere you are, even at home on your tv set.
Normal details:
Screen size (diagonal): 3.5 inches 5.5 Hours battery life (tested only once without sound) Measures: 8.5 x 4 x 1.5 inches Weight: 11.5 ounces Stereo sound AV Out Headphone jack Adjustable volume control
Key details:
Innovative cartridge lock feature Two seven-pin controller ports Tested compatible original hardware: > Nintendo SNES controller > Nintendo Super Scope > Super Multitap > Nintendo Mario Paint Mouse In short – everything we’ve plugged into the controller ports has worked
After the awful collaboration with Oakley, the Tron franchise now goes 80's with Spy Optic, bringing you a facial shield you can scare people with.
With handset custom metal details on an injection molded epsylon frame and tons of color variations (even some limited ones you can't normally buy in shops), the Spy Tron model make both Terminator X and Africa Bambaata look lame.
The Startech is here again. One of the most unforgivable shoe worn by Nba supertstars in the mid 80's is back in production after 22 years.
To realise how some people could freak out about it, just think about this: last year Converse did a collaboration with Sak, and japanese master craftsman Ryusaku Hiruma designed an immaculate pack of Converse Star Tech hightops, their premium leather construction, fetching $600 for the mere 64 pairs of each colorway, and they went sold out in seconds. Sometimes retro fashion going mainstream is a good thing. You can now have them in the three colors shown underneath directly from Converse.
