A good chunk of the crew were in town for Girl’s 30th anniversary celebration, so we decided to all link up for a classic Weakdays session at Vincent’s new spot he’s been workin’ on.
Girl & Chocolate’s holiday apparel has arrived. Featuring some cooler-weather bangers. Trip on the details and shop at Crailstore.com
The Three Decades of Girl exhibit is now open to the public ⚽️
2130 Violet Street
Los Angeles
12-6pm
Open until October 21st. Free admission
Presenting the Three Decades of Girl Sneaker Box. Featuring shoes by Vans, Adidas, and Lakai. The three pairs of limited edition shoes come in a custom handmade silkscreened box. Available now at the Three Decades of Girl eBay auction benefiting Deckaid. Only 30 sets made. Auction ends October 24th at 7:29am PST.
Head to ebay.com/threedecadesofgirl to bid now.
Video by John Marello
In celebration of Three Decades, Rick Howard and Tim Anderson of Bobshirt dug through the Girl Skateboards archive to specially curate an eBay auction to benefit our friends at Deckaid.
The auction will consist of 30 hand selected original boards, 30 vintage tees, as well as 30 Three Decades of Girl Sneaker Boxes.
Three Decades of Girl auction begins October 14th at 6am PST and ends October 24th at 6am PST. Head to girlskateboards.com/three-decades to get more info on the auction.
Filmed and Edited by: John Marello
The Three Decades of Girl exhibition opens to the public October 15th in Los Angeles. ⚽️
Curated by Deckaid, the show runs daily 12-6 pm and closes October 21st. More info at girlskateboards.com/three-decades
Bobshirt teams up with Eric Swisher from Chromeball for this special interview with Andy Jenkins. Andy talks about being the art director at Girl Skateboards, creating the first Girl series in 1993, getting his first job from a drawing contest, doing early skateboard graphics for bLind, World and 101, drawing crackpipes, Chocolate graphics, 3 decades of Girl skateboards and much more.
Mike Mo went ahead and re-digitized our film reels from Yeah Right in 4K. Sit back, turn on some tunes, and watch the uncut takes to the invisible board montage and more…
“Three decades of this shit. I am grateful and I am tired. I’ve learned the wild duality of anything worth creating. I’ve never been more frustrated with three people and I’ve never loved any three people more. I’ve learned the trials of fate at their most challenging and painful are all still gifts. Learning most everything as you go is so fulfilling and so dangerous. It’s a wonderful thing that you can do that in skateboarding.
Suffice to say as I learned and created alongside these guys, I have felt very fortunate. Thank you to the rad people that worked with us then and now. All the skaters that poured heart and soul into Girl from then and now. And thank you to my family for being the most supportive and loving pack of wolves.” – Megan Baltimore
On this day, 14 years ago, Girl & Anti-Hero teamed up again for Beauty and the Beast 2
“While joining the Girl team in 1993 as an amateur, Tony missed out on the original round of what’s become known as the 93 Til graphics. When Fergs pro model was retired in 2004, Girl hadn’t yet adopted the tradition of revisiting the 93 Til’s each season. We found it extra special to give Tone the 93 Til board he almost missed.
A reissue for Tony Ferguson has long been in the works. With so many classic graphics, picking a favorite was more than half the holdup. When we finally zeroed in on the 1996, Art In America board by Andy Jenkins, we knew it was the one.”
Find the capsule at your local shop or at Crailstore.com.
A Jasper Dohrs and Griffin Gass shared part. This one also gives you a little bit of a backstory on how Jasper and Griffin’s paths crossed at an early age and beautifully cross again as Girl & Preduce Skateboards launch their collaboration.
Filmed & Edited by Anthony Claravall Additional Filming by Janechai Montrelerdrasme, John Marello & Mairo Cano
“We are excited and honored to announce that the next Deckaid show will be a special event with Girl Skateboards in celebration of #3DecadesofGirl . In this spirit, the new Bobshirt interview with Tony Ferguson is now live” – Deckaid
We’re With Rowan! Girl Skateboards tour through Australia this spring featuring, Simon Bannerot, Niels Bennett, Andrew Brophy, Rowan Davis, Griffin Gass, Breana Geering, Sean Malto, Rick McCrank, and Tyler Pacheco.
On this day, 20 years ago, the Girl Skateboards team (plus MJ) made their way up Interstate 5, through the Bay Area, Oregon, Washington and over the boarder in to Vancouver, Canada
Check out more of our archive at http://www.GirlSkateboards.com/Films
Three Canadians, six yanks, and one ex-pat ventured to Australia to join two Aussies, one of whom had a nice surprise in store. 🇦🇺 You can read all about it in our “Aussie State of Mind” article featured in the August 2023 issue of Thrasher 📖 video coming soon! 📲
Photos by Bryce Golder
“Preduce has been friends with Malto and Brophy for years. On the last trip we were all on together pre COVID, Brophy said it would be rad if we could do a Girl and Preduce collab and I remember him hitting up Rick right away about it. I’ve been a fan of Girl from the start and grew up with the brand but I thought there was a very slim chance it could happen. So I was blown away when Rick replied right away and said he wanted to be part of the trip too for when the collab would happen. Griffin Gass grew up skating in Seattle with one of our riders Jasper Dohrs and he’s long overdue for a trip to Thailand. So we thought it made sense to make 4 boards for Brophy, Malto, Rick And Griffin. For the designs, our art director TRK wanted to play around with the OG Girl logo. He’s influenced by traditional Thai art you can find in Thai temples and sacred books that he revisits with a modern twist. He dressed the OG logo as traditional Thai dancers and hill tribe women from different regions of Thailand.”
– Simon Pellaux, Preduce
The Girl Skateboards x Preduce Skateboards collab is now available at skateshops worldwide and Crailstore.com
On This Day, 13 years ago, “The European Vacation” began. Catch more of our archive at http://www.girlskateboards.com/films
“Atiba asked me about a year ago if I’d be into doing a board with his photos of Interpol and myself. Being that we had used their song “Obstacle 1” for my part in the video ‘Yeah Right’ I said of course! Neither Atiba or I thinking about the fact that Yeah Right was coming up on 20yr anniversary this year. Wow!.. I remember bringing the CD “Turn on The Bright Lights” to Ty Evans apartment in Hollywood.
I said to him. “Man I found this song of a great band and I don’t think a lot of people know of them yet. I really want to use this song!” and Ty loved it. He started editing to it right away. I had so much footage and it’s one of the best video parts I’ve had. So thank you Interpol and their management/label for your music. People still tell me to this day Yeah Right is what got them into Interpol and that genre. What an incredible feeling to piece together a video part.
Also I remember being so happy that Ty didn’t show me much of the video. I liked that. I wanted to be almost as surprised as someone who had no involvement. I had helped with a lot of skits so I had a feel for the video but at the premiere I was blown away by everyone’s skate footage. I had only witnessed a handful of my teammates tricks in person. Everyone’s skating was amazing. I am very proud to have skated so hard and worked so hard with our Girl/Chocolate family. Here’s to all the little things that make the big things happen. 🍻 Seasons like that in life are priceless.” – Brian Anderson
Yeah Right x Interpol x Atiba x BA decks and tees now available at skateshops worldwide and Crailstore.com 💚✨
15 years ago today, the Girl and Anti Hero guys team up for an unprecedented good time. Traveling up to the Bay Area and through Oregon, into Washington, over to Orcas Island. Skatepark and camping conditions couldn’t be topped. Magic ensued.
catch more videos on our Girl Films archive page – www.girlskateboards.com/films
