Park Keepers

(27.8MB, quicktime)

Now the video is all done and dusted its time to kick back a little and enjoy the simple things like a Sunday session down the park. No deadlines or final bangers to film just good times with your mates. Featuring Steve, Dave, Gonz, Russ, lil Tom, Adam and Veran.

Filmed last Sunday (25th June 2006) & Edited by Russ, additional filming by Veran.

Note: Quicktime version 7 or above is required

Video Swapshop

Copies of Into the Fall have been flying out left right and centre, including one making it's way down to the southern hemisphere and New Zealand, home of the 09 factory and Dan Kircher, very good friend of the Network. If you didn't know already, Dan is to have his video 'Forays' released in the UK by The Story Store's The Story FilmMakers Guild very very soon. You NEED this video in your life. Check the trailer out and see for yourselves. Dan's currently a good way through working on his latest project and will soon be making a trip up to the UK very soon. The manual pad down by the anchor in Colchester is set to be ripped a proverbial new one...

Wick Wick Not Terribly Wack

On Saturday Gonz dusted off the old DJ skills that didn't and never have paid any bills. Late in the evening playing to next to nobody (lucky as nobody could hear the mistakes and random button pressing on the mixer) he played a bunch of hip hop classics. If you're interested in what you most probably missed on the night of the 'Into the Fall' premiere then a podcast is now up of the set (don't worry, not a live recording, just the set list songs) for you to download! Word.

Subscribe with iTunes or you own favourite podcast player.

DVDs Now Available

Roll up, roll up, we're now in stock of 'Into the Fall' DVDs so if you wish to buy one they are five pounds + one pound p&p and will be sent out first class post the day after order and payment. Payment via PayPal is easiest (click on the button to your right) or email us about cash/cheque payments or any other details.

More Photos

There are some more photos up from the premiere. We should say who took what really, the new photos are by Bobby from Chelmsford, a few are by Gonz, one by Ray and the rest are by Russ. We should be getting some more new ones soon too.

Hangover and Chips

So, it's all done and dusted. The premiere was on Saturday night and everyone was over the moon with the great turnout, thanks to everyone who made the trip up/down/over, we really appreciated the support. LBD was there from New Zealand, some of the Shoes Gentleman's Club were in attendance from London, Romford, Chelmsford and Southend were all heavily represented not to mention all the Colchester skaters old and young showing their faces. A special mention goes to the suprise turn up on the night, Matt Letch, one of the true OG monster network heads making the trip down from the dirty north, seriously stoked everyone the hell out! Anyway, we've put a bunch of boozy digi photos from the night up on the right and will be adding more as we get them in the next few days.

If you are after a copy of the DVD there are some for sale in Chelmsford Hoax for a fiver right now and we'll be gearing up to sell them online via the website/email/paypal over the next few days, five quid plus one quid p&p. From all reports on the night, the video went down well and should be well worth you putting your hand in your pocket...

The premiere on Saturday 17th June 2006 in Colchester was a huge success with loads of friends from near and far making an appearance. We're super happy everyone could make it up. Here are some photos from the night:

Premiere Time!

Finally the day has arrived, all the hard work pretty much over with and the weather seems to be behaving too. We just tested out the projector and thats all good and will be setting up everything this afternoon ready for everyone turning up around 7:30! Alot of the boys are out skating today, which is rad, fuckers...hehe! Anyway, we're looking forward to this evening and seeing all of you there. We have 30+ dvds for sale tonight at a fiver so make sure you grab one at some point. From Monday we'll be selling them in Chelmsford Hoax and from sometime midweek via the website (via email/paypal, etc). OK, see you tonight!

"It's the Final Countdown..."

So...one more day to go and the weather is looking very promising for everyone looking forward to sipping on cold beer in the evening after catching 'Into The Fall'. So this is the last reminder, the Premiere is tomorrow and we'll be kicking things off around 7:30pm at Cabaret Voltaire in Colchester (see here for the map, etc). We're super excited about just having loads of friends from all over all gathered together and having a few drinks on a summer's evening. Can't be bad, eh?

Oh, one last sneaky bit of info on the video, have a guess who might be pulling the proverbial curtains...

El to the Bee to the Dee

LBD is back in (not so) sunny Essex! He'll be at the premiere on Saturday night with his New Zealand ladyfriend so everyone get ready to get him a drink in and see if you can spot his southern hemisphere footage in the vid on the night. Wet cement!

"they're here..."

The first of the DVDs were finished last night! The DVD will consist of the 30 minute main feature plus the following extras:

- Two raw 9 minute+ outtake sections
- Slam section
- Original trailer
- 'Winter Retreat' short
- Music Credits

We'll have around 30 or so available for sale on the night after the first showing for 5 quid each, a bargain no doubt. This is our 10th video production in 12 years and with it taking only 12 months from first filming to premiere we are super proud of all the skating, fun and friendship that went together to produce it. Hope to see you all there Saturday!

Next Generation Chelmsford

One of the main contributors of friends footage for 'Into the Fall' was Mike Parmenter. The footage includes skating by many of the up and coming new generation of Chelmsford skaters such as Macy Peach, Luke Harvey and Mike Stimson killing loads of old and new Chelmsford street spots. The footage is sure to blow serveral pairs of socks off at the premiere! This crew now have a video blog with new footage cropping up every day and it's well worth checking out... Chelmsfordians.

Outtakes...

(13.8MB, quicktime)

Again, sorry for the lack of updates, we've been super busy working on finishing the dvd by this weekend to allow us to get a bunch of dvds ready for the night of the premiere, we're hoping to have a pile of them for sale for only a fiver. More details on the dvd next week! The edit of the final video cut is almost done so we've pulled a few unused tricks out as outtakes for the website (you may need the latest version of Quicktime to view the clip).

We've been lucky to get a mention in this month's Sidewalk magazine and also on the Document website too, check both the magazine websites out for loads of awesome general skate news, photos, clips, etc. Anyway, back to the editing cave away from the glorious weather...

Update: Due to a few technical problems a replacement quicktime clip has been uploaded, hope that works better than the last...sorenson right now seems to have a terrible temper. sorry!