Featuring Brandon Biebel, Vincent Alvarez, Marc Johnson, Justin Eldridge, Sean Malto, Chris Roberts and Johnny Jones. Special Thanks to United Boardshop Santa Ana.
Couple of weeks ago we took a little trip up to SF, did a couple of demos and skated some spots. Simple, but fun. Here’s the vid. Featurning Sean Malto, Stevie Perez, Rick Howard, Vincent Alvarez, Elijah Berle, Chris Roberts, Justin Eldridge, Brandon Biebel, Jerry Hsu, Raven Tershy and Johnny Jones.
Back in ’09 the boys stopped at Stanford as they set sail for one of the first Pretty Sweet film trips. Sean got the clip…and the cover.
Sean read’s your YouTube comments from French Fred’s Pretty Sweet Remix, his Epicly Later’d and his Crail Couch.
Marc Johnson, Jerry Hsu, Justin Eldridge, Kenny Anderson, Chico Brenes and Sean Malto followed the 20 Years of Chocolate art show to Denver and New York City for some meeting, greeting and, of course, some skating. With Special Guest: Richie Rizzo.
After Denver we went to New York for the next art show. We had some time to skate and found ourself over here. Malto with a warm up crook.
We even made it out to Far Rockaway. Normally I wouldn’t post a photo of Eldy kickflipping in his underwear but he was very emphatic that I shoot it.
We spent a bunch of time down at the seaport benches too. Look out for the undercovers down there.
The NY art show was awesome too. DQM helped us put it on, and it was packed.
Matt Bell and Jahmal WIlliams! LI and Boston.
Too many legends. Tag yourselves.
Poorly poached photo of some rad dudes. Lee, Spencer and O’Mealls.
Andy Jenkins and Jeremy Carnahan. These guys busted their asses to make these shows as good as they were.
Get better Strubing!
CRM TECS!! Peter and Jeff!
Anthony Pappalardo, meet Anthony Pappalardo.
#selfie
Matt Milligan and Matt Willigan. 20 years of confusion.
Epic Crew. Gino, Cheeks, Kenny, Pops, Bri and Tone.
Fashion week has nothing on a Chocolate art show.
Trying to explode the message boards with this one. 3 guys who love posing for photos.
Then it was on to the Fish. Seniors and Freshman.
Legendary DJ crew. Atiba and Sergio from Quicksand!
What’s up Mic-e!
The next day the crew met up at Astor to try and fight the hangover with slappies before the demo.
We even had a Brian Brown sighting!
Then it was on to the LES park where we were greeted by a 3 story Malto.
The demo was great until it was invaded by 200 bikers. Thanks for the great time NY.
The Chocolate 20th Anniversary Art Show took a little tour of the US earlier this week. First stop was Evan Hecox’ hometown of Denver.
Our crew plus the man behind all the classic Chocolate graphics, Evan Hecox. (Malto was guest starring).
Adult Eldy, meet Baby Eldy.
We had time to hit the streets in Denver before the demo, so we took it to a park. Kenny with a crail for Crail.
I think Jerry has been making Marc laugh since he was about 5 years old.
The first day we hit this rad spot about 4 minutes before it got dark. (Panera bread jam up). Kenny got in this back lip before we had to call it a day.
The next day we went back before the demo. Kenska couldn’t get enough of this place.
Don’t feed the animals.
Pre-demo excitement. Cheeks and Eldy (and Sam)
Malto can’t skate a demo for like an hour after he gets there. He’s like the pied piper.
More airtime for Kenny.
Eldy flipping out of a switch blunt.
It’s a weird world we live in. #selfie #twostoges
Jerry shut the demo down hard with a bs nollie fakie 5-0 on the hubba.
Time for the family favorite. Product Toss!
Hey Marc, now that you’ve finished having 900 conversations and signed a million autographs, pose for a portrait real quick.
Fourstar’s Tour of Australia, 2014, featuring Eric Koston, Cory Kennedy, Tony Trujillo, Ishod Wair, Shane O’Neill, Tyler Bledsoe, Brian Anderson, Mike Carroll, Andrew Brophy, Sean Malto, Max Schaaf and Rick Howard.
He may be a little young for the Chrome, but we’ll take any Chrome we can get these days. Read on…
Back in June the whole crew went on a good old fashioned demo tour across the US to hype up the Pretty Sweet video. You can read a real article about it in the new Thrasher that’s out now, and there’s gonna be a bunch of video episodes on their site. Here’s a bunch of photos that weren’t in the article. This is our posse when we set sail. Not too shabby.
Professional survival kit. Ready to go.
Our first stop was at Active out in Rancho Cucamonga. The dudes killed the demo but the best trick was Cory stealing the giant skateable shark head and ripping around with it.
The kids loved it.
After the demo we had our first of many 4 hour signings. Here’s Eric with the first Elijah defacing of the tour.
Beebs is down for the fans. Shotgun at the signing? Why not!
Another satisfied customer.
When you have a couple hour demo, followed by a four hour signing that ends around midnight, the van ride ends up feeling kind of like this. For full effect stare at this photo for 5 hours and play Chief Keef on repeat as loud as possible. “I can’t stay sober.”
Before our signing in Vegas we got a couple hours of street skating in. Human knee bone at the spot? No biggie.
Malto has a very eclectic fan base.
Seriously. Everybody loves this guy.
The guys aren’t scared to fan out on each other. Raven got his baby Carroll shirt signed by middle aged Carroll.
Elijah’s having a show at New Image gallery this December. Look out Tempster!
Then it was on to Salt Lake City for more action. Try and figure out who’s wearing this Batman mask.
Cory showing off some pre-signing stretch techniques in Salt Lake. Gotta stay limber for these things.
Pre-signing fishbowl. Mandatory.
The non-smoking guy pretending to smoke thing never gets old. Meza hitting that shit.
I’ll never understand this one.
Demo time. Everybody killed it again. The demos on this trip were really good. Raven blasting.
Malto, small kickflip.
A real life SLC Punk! This jacket rips. More to come next week…
Our hostess with the mostess, Supra Distribution, invited us up and put together an edit of the weekends events; demo, 20 Year’s of Girl Artshow, Leeside session, signing and Rick Howard Day, of course.
In honor of Ed Banger Records turning 10 and Girl Skateboards turning 20, French Fred remixed Sean Malto’s Pretty Sweet part.
Look for the Girl Skateboards x Ed Banger Records boards series available mid August.
Joyeux Fête Nationale!
This Sunday we’ll be premiering a French Fred re edit of Sean Malto’s Pretty Sweet part in celebration of our Girl and Ed Banger collaboration board series coming out this August.
