SOTI

I’ve already posted a link to this vid I produced in Brasil in 2007, but I uploaded it back when youtube didn’t have the lovely HD option..so, here it is again in stunning almost HD quality but not quite.

Bigup to all the Avuatauba crew, Raphael Buarque and Fabricio Sacramento from Cartel Design, Rio de Janeiro. Fabricio’s making a proper website for SOTI right, thank Buddha, Mohhamed and whatever other deity you can think of.

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Here’s some throwaway of  Grilo at the Galpao Skatepark in Rio. He recently got on the Brazilian Deathwish team, so big up to Grilo for that bizznass. Fits right in with that team…!

This promo is my favourite project that I’ve worked on so far. In 2007 spent 2 months in Rio de Janeiro working/eating rice and beans with the design gurus at Cartel Design. This Avuatauba Skateboards promo turned out exactly how I imagined it. It got played in Brasil  on ESPN, got premiered at a crazy launch party in Lapa, and it’s featured on many websites including Transworld Skateboarding.

I’ve got so many outtakes kicking it on a harddrive somewhere including clips of the following: Solvent sniffing mendigos, angry corrupt military police, the elusive “Praca XV” dancer, and a ton of skatboard shit of course. Unfortunately, I’m in Australia and the tape is heavily guarded at a compound somewhere in Canada. By that I mean it’s in a shoe box at my Mom’s house, so it’s going to take me a minute to get those clips up…..Until then, here’s the first  Avuatauba Skateboards promo! #4 is in production right now, so I’ll link that ish as soon as it’s out.