Chris Silva – LandoZine ‘05 from iccsilva on Vimeo.

A drastic jump of about 20 years from last week’s Throwback Thursday, but this is the ender part from Landozine’s 2005 release Illusion of Man, of our friend Chris Silva. Footage from back in his days of Hyper Bikes and backyard ramps.

Also in Chris Silva news, if you haven’t heard already, he has started his own small clothing brand titled Sour Fever. A small, grass roots effort, where each shirt is hand screened by Chris himself in Toronto.

Our friend Trent Barker has some photos in the BMXFU online zine that his brother Scott put together. You can check it out here and the rest of the bmxfu.com site. Look for more of Trent’s photos in a new issue of Yo, Sick coming out later this winter.

I made a new issue of my zine Yo, Sick.
2.75 x 4.25″
6 pages
b + w photocopied
A few photos, illustrations, and even fewer words
If you would like one, contact me at prashantgopal at gmail dot com and I’ll get one to you (by mail or in person) or I should have a stack of them available at Joe Mamma’s soon.

Through the power of the internet, accompanied by snail mail, I got the chance to become friends with Nick Ferreira who runs Holeshot Zine. He also runs the website In The Gnar, which if you haven’t bookmarked it and check it on the regular, you should. To make a long story short, Nick and I trade zines, and he did a post about zines and their relevance, and even had some nice words to say about mine. Take a look at the post here, and if you haven’t gotten a copy of Yo, Sick Volume 2 I should have some on hand this weekend at the 39C Jam. Just ask me for one and I will gladly give them out. Issue 3 is on the way.

Ten Pack Re-Session Tour Eastern Canada Stops from Presence Bmx on Vimeo.

This has probably already been passed around the BMX inter-web like a hot potato, but it’s too good of a video to pass up. The eastern Canadian portion of the Re-Session Tour ended almost two weeks ago and Jeremy Deme put together this edit of the stops in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.  Check it out and you will even see some local faces in it, as well as the 39C mini ramp.  For more coverage of the tour you can check out amazing photos from David Lang (1, 2, 3) and Harley Haskett.

This isn’t exactly NEW news, but Jeremy Deme, from Montreal, got a new site rolling for his ongoing project Presence. They have finally entered the .com age and registered an official domain name. Check out the site for Montreal related news, upcoming web videos, and photos. There are some photos posted of recent street sessions as it seems Montreal is dry and rid of winter. Corey Dewey says “streets is always talkin’” in Montreal.

Ottawa’s flatland duo, Prasheel Gopal and Alex Poirier, recently started a blog to document their travels, and combined their own individual names to name it. They’ve been traveling consistently over the last year to numerous flatland contests, jams, and demos around North America (New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Toronto, etc.) and have collected photos, videos, and other material to share, and are about to head down to Austin, Texas for a short while. If you like flatland, travel stories, matching tank tops, and other unrelated nonsense, take a look.
pralex-pralex.blogspot.com.

This is already getting passed around the internet pretty fast, but this video was a topic of discussion just last week on the message board. People were wondering what became of any of the footage from when the Micreation team came through Ottawa back in August of 2007. Well Jeff Bedard was right and they edited it in to a video, and now the trailer is up. Lots of spots in Ottawa from the NAC, Rideau roof, Lansdowne, and more with riding from Brad Simms, Tony Neyer, Joe Cox, etc. You can buy in straight from the Micreation shop here.

Chris Chitaroni, Jorden Guth, and Kyle Lafleur all took a trip to England, where they met up with Andrew G-rant, Chris Silva, and Jamie Burke. Chris has a full re-cap of the trip on the Landozine site right here with loads of great photos for you to check out if haven’t already.