Evo TV edit

just a compilation of some fairly decent clips we had left over from the summer to fall of 2008. with an added incentive of seeing some of the other stuff we are working on towards the end of the edit.


Evotek TV_001/2008 from Evotek Media Group on Vimeo.

Ado skates NYC

an edit using new and old clips of Evotek's own Adonis Taylor...


Manhattan from adonai on Vimeo.

Washington Park in Brooklyn 12-6-08

Here's a little skate park built mainly for boarders and its down the block from the well known 51 rail. Pretty good ledge session and warm up before hitting the rail nearby plus the launch on the box is a lot of fun.




Here's the official press release so stay updated and get involved. Hopefully it grows to be more blader friendly but for now it's just a beginners park.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/B111/news

We Are Valo 2.5/3 Premiere 12-5-08

Eric Aguirre with AB Black

The Valo Premiere was nothing less than perfect, as we were widely welcomed and allowed to be ourselves in spite of the intriguing art garnishing the walls. The event ran from 7-11 as the crowd of old and new graced the Haven Arts Gallery to support the still growing community of bladers. Making this all possible was Ray Mendez with help from owner Barry Kostrinsky, Valo Skate Brand, Blades Board n Skate, Matt Andrews, Victor Callender, Ron Hunter and the other sponsors that were also in attendance. NY Valo support including Austin Paz, Franco Cammayo, and Joey Graziano were in attendance with the likes of Bobby Reichel, Trevor Johnson, Billy O'Neill, Nick Riggle, Skeptic Media, Ralphy Herrera, John Stephens, Ariel Suron, Kelly Mathews and many others.



As a p-rail was taking shape behind the screen, an extended version of the Skeptic Connecticut Comp played off the projector which was followed by a trailer of their new dvd expected to drop in time for BCSD '09. From the little I saw, I can say only that rolling owes Franco for his undying love and constant sacrifices. All this aside I was able to treat the crowd and Nick Riggle to portions of "Mushroom Blading" which is out in stores now and I highly recommend it just for the intro. Before the main event, Jon Julio stopped by via live  video conference call only making the night more worthwhile. Somewhere in the middle there was the trailer to the "Truth II" and the Last Man Standing Trailer as well.

JJ via Conference Call

I almost forgot to mention that the fashionably late Brown Brothers and their entourage did make it out in time to show support for the affair. Now to keep things short, I enjoyed "WAV 3" just as much as the previous release but some of you might complain about the swagged out music or the dominant park footage which I found refreshing and properly placed. The editing, videography, and motion graphics were all very professional and complimented each other. With all that said, NYC is winning back its title as the place to be and "We Are Valo 2.5/3" should be in everyone's collection.

For pics follow the link http://photobucket.com/wav3premiere


haven arts gallery
50 bruckner ave, bldg a
bronx ny 10454
info@havenarts.org
www.havenarts.org/

Wall St Session...

so this post is a bit late but i was going through my iphoto pics and figured id but them to use in a post.

this session went down 11/23/08 and went into the night..i remember freezing my ass of that night and having to buy a pair of gloves and a face mask on the street that day.passed the camera off to ado at one point for him to film while i snapped a few photos.








by the end of the night i was begging to go home because i was tired hungry and cold. ado being the mad man he is insisted that we keep filming. even after i left a few hours later he still wanted to go and skate another spot.



the clips from that night will be in a few upcoming edits we're working on.

Last Man Standing Teaser

worked on this for most of the summer. we had the Twisted Trick comp that took place at riverside skatepark, the Battle My Crew comp which took place on the streets of Harlem NYC, and the world famous Last Man Standing comp at the Brooklyn banks.

Shout outs to NoisemakeMedia, Skeptic Media,Ray Mendez, Rah for being the MC/Bouncer at all the events.and Suren for coming together to make this possible. and Mark Carreneja(Noisemaker Media) for having the vision and getting this filming orgainzed. and of course to Victor Callendar for getting the whole Last Man Standing Series off the ground. i look foward to next years comp.

check out the following links for info on those that were involved as well as the comp.

www.wheelsinmotion.com
myspace.com/lastmanstandingnyc
myspace.com/evofilm
www.skepticmedia.com
myspace.com/noisemakermedia

Look back into the posts to check out some photos of the Last Man Standing Comp taken by Ado(evotek) and Craig(i Roll NY).

enjoy the teaser.


2008 Last Man Standing Trailer from Noisemaker Media on Vimeo.

Alex Nunez Downtown NYC Mini Edit

a short edit done in one night. armed with a camera and a mission. Alex Nunez skates downtown Manhattan.


Alex Nunez, Nov Night in NY from adonai on Vimeo.

Hector Rodriguez edit

some clips chopped together from this past summer of 3rd eye co-founder Hector Rodriguez.

shout out to hector for always being down to film and to do dangerous shit on camera. hes like the johnny knoxville of rollerblading. much love to co-founder jason swaby (3rdeye). look out for what these guys have planned.


Hector Rodriguez edit from ChristenC on Vimeo.


JASON SWABY


HECTOR RODRIGUEZ

NAGA!!! Again!!!!

So nobody showed up to film on Saturday, so sorry no footy, but I did place 2nd in White belt No Gi! Won 3 out of 4 matches (all wins came by submission). There should be a pic floating around eventually of me with the medal at least, and I'll post it when I finally get my hands on it!!!
-T out

NAGA!!!

So I've been training for this tournament coming up on Saturday (NAGA Brazilian Jujitsu). Basically just training and sleeping. And oh yeah working. Expect something from the Tourney Next week (if I can get some video).
T- out

Danny Figgz

All though Danny Figgz has moved on to bigger and better things, if you were to ask anyone who ever skated with him they would tell you that he was one of the best. we recently put together an edit of all of his old clips filmed between 2005 and 2007.


Danny Figgz Adrenaline Rush from adonai on Vimeo.


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Street Fighter!!!

I forgot how much I love that game. I have a vid of me gettin' my ass whupped propa in SF4, but for now I did a couple of pieces and I figured I'd throw them up for the people who still love Street Fighter!! Holla





Enjoy!
T- out

3rd eye skate comp rain out.(throwback post)

i just wanted to bring this back into the spot light for the moment. i think for myself and anyone else there it would be one of the most memorable events to go down all year. the second attempt at the 3rdeye skate team competition that went down on May 18,2008.

the comp itself started out in a fairly unorthodox way. Since the spot that we were going to for the comp was about an hour or more away from where most people lived and was a spot that only Hector Rodriguez(3rd eye skate team co-founder) knew the location of,it was decided that everyone who was going to the comp would have to meet up on the train platform
on east 180st in the bronx.


about 2 hours later enough of us got there and we all packed into the train and took it to the last stop where we caught a 30 minute ride on a bus. we got off the bus and it started to rain. a crowd of about 50 skaters proceeded to talk for about an hour in the rain to the spot where the comp would be held.


once we got there, the spot was a bit wet and it was still raining but being the tough group of skaters they were, they decided to try to hold the comp anyway......5 minutes after the first skaters' frames touched the rail of the first spot we were kicked out by security...thus ending the second attempt at the comp and starting the long walk back towards civilization. luckily the sun came out on the way back.



the comp was again held a month later in the bronx. shout outs to hector for proving how tough skaters are. and shout outs to all the skaters who didnt bail before we were officially shut down.
check out a short edit from that day.
-chris


3rd eye comp rain out edit from Evotek Media Group on Vimeo.

What's up...

Sup! Haven't been posting for a little while, been training six days a week now (muay thai and brazilian jujitsu), so it's been basically work/train/sleep. It's all good though, gotta bjj tournament in November, so planning to kick ass there. Anyways I'm out.
Peace
T

Dipskates John Stephens Visits Flatline skate shop

Yesterday myself,(chris) and Dipskate pro John Stephens stopped by Flatlines Skateshop on our way out to film, to chill with owner and operator Rob Czajko.




left to right-Rob Czajko, John Stephens

While in the store we talked to Rob about the shop and also his experiences as a young person growing up in New York City back in the day. Honestly after talking to Rob i feel as if the movie of his life could be one of the best movies of all time. New York City was a very very interesting place during the mid to late 80's and early 90's. Especially if you were a teenager. (Footage containing more info on Rob and Flatlines Skateshop will be posted in a future entry).




(John Stephens in front of the very impressive fitted cap collection at Flatlines)

After we left Flatlines me and john met up with a few others and skated Manhattan.(stay tuned for more on John Stephens and Flatlines Skatshop in future posts.)

Flatlines Skateshop is located at 766 Morris Park Avenue 10462. Or you can call 347-398-8970.

Stay tuned and Stay informed.

-chris

Waiting...

So we have to wait to get these test shirts done. I'm working and training 6 days a week, so I'm generally unavailable. And of course my only day off, and the shop is closed! But I've actually got a free slot on Monday, so I'm taking it. Expect photos that night or the next day
-T out

Last Man Standing Finals 2008

Last Man, Trevor Johnson. Photo sucks but winning $500 and being backed by Denial doesn't.

In short, there's too much to say about the comp from the ups and the downs but it still went down with quite a bang. Trevor Johnson was the Last Man Standing and $500.00 richer after throwing several disaster spin tricks on an uncertain down box that held its own amidst the hammers.


Franco; moments before he suffered from head trauma.

Franco Cammayo took an early fall at Spot 1 that devastated the 100+ crowd leaving everyone speechless for several moments. Thanks and much respect to Franco for always giving it his all and never holding back when he skates. Big thanks to Timothy Ramos, fellow skater and EMT who always carries a set of supplies for these situations. Franco did go the hospital eventually and is now recovering nicely in the comfort of his friends and family and says that he should be back at it before long.


Hyper Mike_Bank to Fish to Fakie

Amidst the massive gathering one could find Matt Andrews, Davee Blair, Mike "murda" Johnson, Billy "fish" O'Neill, Alex Nunez, Ramelle Knight, Mikey Cancel, Ray Mendez, Julian Bah, Ralphy Herrera, Rob G, John Stephens, Sam Grimm, Tato Gonzalez, the Brown Brothers, Jon Ortiz, Ryan Jacklone and countless other NYC originators that I have not had the pleasure of meeting. Joey Graziano was also on site handing out free "Casualty Killers" T-shirts, and the ohh so lovely Red Bull Girls made several rounds throughout the afternoon until their little vehicle was cleaned out, so big thanks to these Free Promotions. NYC local and Puerto Rico native, Josh Diaz or Jose also kicked in several free items from his budding clothing line that can be seen at PyskoClothing.com and Craig Benabu was around sporting and hustling the hot new foil "I Roll NY" T's that should be available soon through http://www.myspace.com/irollny.

Craig Benabu, wondering where the ball went?

Host and founder Victor Callender out did himself this time around with help from MC, Rah and go to guy, John "fry guy" Ortiz, not to be confused with Jon Ortiz. Product tosses were held several times throughout the event allowing loads of kids to get their hands on some new threads, wheels, frames, backpacks, and many other items. Heck, a shirt practically flew into my arms during one of these sporadic product tosses.

right to left: Victor w/ his child, Rah, & John.

Though Trevor won all, several skaters deserve notable mention for their efforts & for pulling off some difficult shit. Among these guys I can recall Julian Bah with a deep gap from the ramp to the rail to drop, Robert Guerrero, Tato & Ariel Suron skated extremely fast and clean, Justin Benson had a lofty 'kindgrind from flat' at Spot 2 and Lavelle Wimberly cleared Spot 2 with a massive 180º, mute, i believe. Evan G was also reported to have been getting more than just air by gapping to the ledge at Spot 2 with tricks like fishbrain and sweaty. Some other key skaters were Mike Kazberuk, Will Torres, James Perez, Hyper Mike & a few others who's names I failed to catch, so sorry if I missed you.

Julian Bah, with biggest stunt of the night_Launch from ramp to Royale on rail to Drop.

Thanks to all of the supporters and sponsors including Rollerblade, Razors, Eulogy, & any others that I missed.
Thanks to Victor for putting this together and for all those that made it out.
Thanks to all the skaters that paid to enter and busted their ass to represent Rolling.

Here's a link to more photo's: http://photobucket.com/LastManStanding2008
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http://flickr.com/photos/echohtp/sets/72157607443112101/detail/


Thanks to Craig Benabu for getting the Julian Bah "gap to rail" sequence as well as the Hyper Mike "fish" and countless other shots in my photobucket album.

As well...

It was great hanging out with the RB guys at blades. I haven't been doing anything skate related ('cept shirt designs, of course) for a while and it was cool to be around my old shop spot, reuniting with old friends and making new ones. I finally got to chat with Rob G. who is one of my absolute favorite skaters! I asked him what the hell was going through his mind when he did his Fiziks Masters of Delusion section (showed below), and he gave me some cool insight as to what he was going through while trying to bang out this section in less than a month with no car or camera. Truly a testament to what skating can be if you think outside the box a bit.



I spoke to Tom Hyser (Skatepile.com\RB lead skate designer) as well about the fall of Fiziks frames (my favorite frames) and he basically explained it just wasn't financially feasible anymore (most of you should know about this already). They had changed the company responsible for building the parts and though they were told it would just be a month of downtime it ended up being around 8 months! As well the skating industry is not big enough to charge skaters 100+ bucks for a frame (though the frame lasted really long and had swappable/replaceable parts). All in all I still miss Fiziks, and it would be cool if it were resurrected at some point so more skaters could check it out and hopefully love 'em like I did. Much props to Tom

Getting some shirts made tomorrow!! I'll put some pics up when I get back and you guys can check 'em out!

Peace
T out

Team Rollerblade @ Blades 9-19-08

Tom Hyser and Team RB, Rob G & Julian Bah, made they're way into Blades Downtown of NYC to promote the new Estilo skate from Rollerblade. The skate is scheduled to drop sometime within the 1st quarter of 2009 and it looks promising.


New RB Estilo Skate

Thanks to Tom for his undying efforts to create another evolutionary step within the small but diverse world of rollerblading. The skate is truly one for the ages with the extra light shell, the massive 72mm wheels, a spacious frame groove which is "EPOCH" and all the other innovations that can be seen if you follow the link, http://photobucket.com/teamRB-EstiloSk8



Ray Mendez Getting the Word from Julian Bah


Tom Hyser (left), Victor Callender (right)- Founder of the Last Man Standing

Ohh and apparently Rob G loves NYC (see the signed flyer above).

Rob G giving Ray his 2 cents

Additional pics of the RB meet & greet are up as well, http://photobucket.com/teamRB-EstiloSk8
Last Man Standing Competition at the Brooklyn Banks this Sat, Sept 20th, 2008, 12 noon
I'll see you guys there.

good night

Saw n Screw: Preparation for the Comp

I spent about a week of building to prep for our 1st comp which required approx $280.00 in materials and supplies, a rented Uhaul for 2 days w/90 miles, & help from my youngest brother, Yohance, who made a lot of this possible by funding the cash and helping to take these pics.






More of these pre-comp pics can be found at my myspace photo album; www.myspace.com/adonistnt , or you can go there directly, http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=7032984&albumId=2294743



Stay tuned for more updates

Evolve Responsibly®

This was late...

Guh, I feel like crap. I've been sick today and yesterday, and that actually gave me some time to slow down and smell the roses (if I could indeed smell). Evotek threw a skate comp called Why So Serious on September 7th, 2008, and it was a great success! Much respect to Ado for single handedly putting this shit together, and actually getting it DONE. you can see the edit below;




Anyways until the site is done, or started for that matter, the evotek.tv url will send you here (as I'm sure you've figured out). It's easier to keep a blog up to date than a site, so bear with us for now. You should get a close enough peek into our lives to eventually find out that you don't like us!!

This new show "Fringe" is not doing it for me right now. The script is wordy, but that doesn't actually mean smart, or even good in this instance. I might give it one more shot, then forget it.

T out

As the world turns...

Took some pics yesterday. Twas cool. Did some other stuff.





Ok bye.

Oh Shit that never got finished!!!

So, I'm dusting this little gem of a blog off, and that site never got done (evotek.tv). Whatever, look forward to some new shit from me and mines. Stay tuned.

Yeah, for real...

SOOOOOOOOO, I'm working on the designs for the new Evotek Media Group website, which is coming along quite nicely! It's totally NOT flash, so if you want a flash site really go F*** yourself. I'm just playin' but not really. I kinda wanted to intentionally half ass the site, but once I started the initial Graphic design it turned out ok, and then friggin sick! So in the end the site is gonna be an amalgamation of tech and pop art and "half-ass-ness" a new design technique you will find employed very well here. Here are a couple of screen grabs;



So. Yeah, I'll let you know when it's done. And basically you guys can come here for news and edits and updates and stuff, cuz chances are one the code is finished for the site there will be NO modifications until I just pay someone for a flash project. Even though flash is for doodoo puppies.
-T out