Yes, I LOVE OPM!

You might wonder what OPM means, well it stands for ORIGINAL PILIPINO MUSIC. Long before I started listen to rap music, all 16 years that I lived in the Philippines I always listened to OPM and other big filipino rock bands. This band that i started getting into is called "Up Dharma Down", google them and definitely listen to their 2 albums "Fragmented" and "Bipolar". Believe it or not, i just found out about them last year. They just dropped a new single titled "Tadhana", check their rehearsal out:

Up Dharma Down - Tadhana from TRageCapone on Vimeo.

We Are The City interview

This is my first interview, and I had alot of fun doing it. Thank you to my folks Bobby, Lamar, Jabari and everyone else from St Louis for showing Dirtbags Anonymous, Reckord and SF so much love. Word

WE ARE THE CITY INTERVIEW WITH CARLO PELAEZ

Do what it DO

I feel like skateboarding is too emo these days. All emotional, and not enough gully shit. That's where we come in.....

If she's not hot, you're a communist

Brendas got a baby

Escort Mk2s are always cars that hold close to my heart. They run deep in my bloodlines as a car that my grandfather passed on to my father who now passed on to me. We can thank this car as to the origins of the modern twin cam design and especially towards the respective cult motor in the Corolla GTS, the 4ag.

When I saw Ken Block let Vaughn Gittin Jr borrow his Mk2 for the Gymkhana I just went gitty like a school girl all over it. Glad to say Speedhunters finally featured this beast of a car

Ken Block's MK2 Ford Escort aka Brenda

Suicide Girls x Belle and Sebastian NSFW

Got shown this clip last night from the homey Snapademics last night and I was like DAMN!

WARNING: NSFW!

George Jadelrab x We Are The City

Our homey Bobby from STL just sent in this interview of our dirtbagger George Jadelrab. Enjoy!

Kansas City gone HAM

Sean Malto lays down the Red and Yellow pride with a little help from the homies.

Hall and Oats x Chromeo

WOW. Illest colaboration of music I've seen in a long time

Bligity Black Friday

Made Black Friday my bitch this year. 2 Westinghouse 40' inch 1080p 60hz for $298 each! God is good.

NSFW: Wooh Da Kid, Lex Luger- No Romance (music video)

Probably one of Brick Squad's slept on artist, Wooh Da Kid along with their in house producer Lex Luger (who also produced last summer's banger BMF)bring you a Tip Drill visualizations along with an ignorance induced beat.

Der Bratwurst Tour

These bastards really got to drive new Porsches on the autobaun.......jerks.

via Crailtap

Losing phones

Lost my phone this weekend. Feels like I lost my son. Oh well, I have the newest Nokia technology featuring Facetime.......in person.

The 2010 & beyond Human Highlight Film

Although the Clippers lost to the Knicks, Clippers "Rookie" Blake Griffin put on highlight clinic with 3 jaw dropping dunks in a following sequence:


1. The Put Back Jam
2. Giving Mozgov the "Groupie Treatment"
3. Gallo's "Kodak Moment"



checkout his statline of the night: 44pts, 15reb, 7ast, 2stl & 1blk. Absolute beast and the front runner for this year's rookie of the year award. if you guys have some free time, check out youtube and look for "Blake Griffin Dunks".

Drink Chocolate Milk, LIKE A BOSH!

The so called "3rd superstar" in south beach stay taking L's this season. Getting dunked on by a point guard, rumors circulating that he might get traded while currently averaging 16.4PPG & 6.0RPG, not bad being a 3rd wheel huh? He did however have his breakout game against the Phoenix Suns, posting 35pts, 4ast & 6reb. 6 REBOUNDS?!?!?! There's only one explanation to this: average 6 rebounds per game, LIKE A BOSH!

TBJ exclusive: Like A Bosh from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.

He's Back!

ELI PORTER and he tells his side of the story. Documentary coming soon.

Jadelcrabcakes

Our homie George Jadelrab just got himself a new threads sponsor. Check out his mini interview

Lou Lou Da Milk Man

Today, November 17th 2010, marks a new addition to our already expanding Dirtbag family. I'd like to introduce you to a man looking to bring his brash sense of humor, undeniable mixtape knowledge, impeccable jean selection and carnal sports knowledge to our blog.

Louie Catayano aka Lou Lou everyone.

(The man with the Henny sporting Cigars with our good friend Dwards)

LA LA land

Some memories from my recent bday in LA.

Thanks to George Jadelrab, Drewbyrd, Adam, Ryan, Morgan Cruz, Iza Llorico and all my homies for the memories down there for my bday. Soon enough again fam!

From the Westside With Love

In this day and age, it is a fact that it is getting easier and easier to make better videos based off the accessability and attainable prices that all these HD/DSLR cameras are bringing to the market....

.....one thing that most viral music videos are lacking because we all live in a HD filled world is the real content and flow of a story towards the conclusion. Dom Kennedy, who I am already a big fan of his music, and also my good friend Drewbyrd happens to be his DJ, has come with a good video to already complement his classic LP, From the Westside with Love.

Check it out "Locals Only"

Hello Mr West

Kanye West, how do we know that his music has a impact on popular culture? We know because every album he's come out with whether it be College Dropout all the way to his new album, My Beautiful Twisted Fantasy, has always left so much of an impression, that we can recall the exact situations and times of our lives when they all came out.

Runaway, his short film featuring snippets of songs from My Beautiful Twisted Fantasy

Creative Control/Coodie x L.E.P Bogus Boys

L.E.P flipped La Roux "In For the Kill" so hard, and on top of that put out one of the hardest viral music videos courtesy of Coodie (of Kanye West fame). Good hype leading towards the actually mixtape. Watch out for it OCT 31st!

Ultraspeed at Fatlace Klas:sik

Last weekend I made my way up to good old sunny Vallejo (not to0 far from the crest) and over to Solano Fairgrounds for the Fatlace Klas:sik. Shout outs to Ultraspeed, Todd Posadas, and all the other nor cal drifters making me feel right at home with them!

Gabby Ang REMIX

Did a quick remix of Gabby Ang's part from the Summertime Montage by Lester Legarda. Btw, HAPPY BDAY GABBY!

48 Blocks x Bernardo Bernard

Word to Leiland @ 48blocks for the coverage! Enjoy!

Bernardo Bernard from 48BLOCKS.COM on Vimeo.

Rookie on the 7D

A month ago I finally got my hands on a Canon 7D for D2S hosting DJ Neil Armstrong at Mighty SF. Glad the raw footage went to good use for another great party celebrating D2S 9 years of being on air. Shout out to Ariel! More to come!

Hella Frrruusssh

About a week ago, finally got to check out a Hella Flush event with none other than the good homie iphilms aka 360vm aka I make Hella Flush loook hella tight. Many dope cars, a S2K with a turbo the size of a 747 turbine, fender onsite rolling and good people especially.Check it out, and check out my BGPs (Back Ground Props) I get in 2:03! Thanks Phil!

Photos via Mark Arsenal @ Fatlace

Hella Flush BBQ Coyote Point by Iphilms (360vm)

Summertime!

Just in time to bring more heat to this summer.....more hot footage out of good ol SF!

Summertime Montage presented by Dirtbags Anonymous.

Featured (in order of appearence):
Cesar Rosado
Stephen Serrano
Danny Carvahlo
Duncan Macnaughton
Marek Lueck
Gabby Ang
Randy Catanach
Bernardo Bernard
Larry Lamar
George Jadelrab
Jabari Pendleton

Music: DJ Jazzy Jeff/Fresh Prince-Summertime

Edited by Carlo Pelaez

Filmed by:
Carlo Pelaez
Pauly Harper
Kenji Yonase

Motion Family x The Dream

One of my favorite production companies, Motion Family, has teamed up with The Dream. They bring you not one, but THREE, songs off of Love King to make this Trilogy video. Being that I am one of the biggest The Dream fans, and a Motion Family fan as well, its like a dream made in colobaboration heaven. No pun intended.

Wamp wamp: B-roll

A little bit of b-roll with a twist.

Featuring:
Bernardo Bernard
Larry Redmon
Jabari Pendleton
Danny Carvalho
Cameron Bohannon
Nick Klein
and Vlad $

Filmed and Edited by Carlo Pelaez

Song: Major Lazer feat MYBZ Cartel-Pon De Floor

Fun day at the Pink Taco

Sounds like a porno right? I wish. A little video at our secret spot in the Brisbane hills. Filmed and Editted by Marek Lueck out of Germany

Congrats Matt!

Been busy for the summer gearing up for more content on here so excuse the late post.....congrats to our homie and Incognito alumni Matt Miller for turning pro on Expedition!

Haven't seen Matt skate? Lets just say if anyone told you that a white boy can't jump, you're lying to yourself. Here is some parts to refresh your mind.

OG Incognito part. Check the friends section and Matt's part at 5:24

DC-Skateboarding is Forever

Taylor Gang mang

Next to Kid Named Frankie, this is my other favorite track off Kush and Orange Juice. If you're not familiar with Wiz Khalifa, you're living in a cave.

Video for Wiz Khalifa- Memorized

Montage #4: Different Montage

Finally knocked this out since I've been lagging on the filming tip. No rest for the wicked!

Different montage presented by Dirtbags Anonymous

Featuring (in order of appearance):
Stephen Serrano
Bobby Taylor
Danny Carvahlo
George Jadelrab
James Ryan
Zach Stow
Bernardo Bernard
Xeno Miller
Cameron Bohannon
Larry Redmon

Music: Emassin-We Could Talk (produced by Write Brothers)
Album-The Beheaded Buddha

Filmed and Edited by Carlo Pelaez

Contributing filmers:
George Jadelrab

Lifted Roots x Jahlectrik @ Octapus Lounge

Here is a little coverage I did with my VX-1000 over at Octapus Lounge a couple weeks ago for my homies band Lifted Roots with another dope band named Jahlectrik opening up. Very fun and irie time. Light em if you got em!

Just another day

Spent yesterday skating with In4mation's own Bernardo Bernard and fellow video friend Phillip Velasco. SF was beautiful to say the least. More pictures via Phillip's blog (www.iphilms.net). Click the picture below for more.

COME ON YOOOOOO

Might need to check this out next week. Don't know who Giovanni Reda is? Let's just say he is one of the more charismatic skate photographers in the industry......

Chad Tim Tim is Filipino

....or at least part Filipino. Maybe that's why he has one of the better skateparts of this year?

Kobe Bryant comes out of the closet

No comment.......

More borderline homoerotic pictures of him here if you dare

Lavar Mcbride: The definition of being OUT HERE

Many copy the style, but their is only one originator. Props to Satva Leung for this dope VIMBY on a SF legend.

VIMBY - Lavar McBride

Full House? Duh

We weren't exaggerating when we said it was going to be a Full House at SOM! It was such a full house, that we had 2 photographers in the house for that night courtesy of:

Suckafreeze
and Tylershoot
and of course, a special farewell to Wild N Krazy's own Mz Fran. I'll be visiting you in LA LA land homey!

Full House

Be there or be.......John Stamos?

Nonstop

A pretty cool split screen short film by my childhood homie SML (Suzette Lee). Filmed by Flipp cam it shows her journey via plane, bike and train. Good job for a first time film maker!

NONSTOP from SML on Vimeo.

iphone 4g? Still begging to differ

So as many of you readers have found these past couple days, someone left a supposedly "iphone 4g" at a bar in Redwood City. Being a former Apple employee and knowing how these product drops operate, I'm 60 percent bought that this is the new iphone, and 40 percent not bought on it completely. Why am I 40 percent not bought on this yet?

-accountability of anyone leaving this in a "bar in RWC". Someone should really look into who got fired over this
-no shots off the iphone 4.0 os despite some plausible reasons

Here is a spec break down via Fatlace

What’s new

• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

What’s changed

• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

The screen
While they couldn’t get it past the connect to iTunes screen for the reasons listed earlier, the USB cable on that screen was so high quality that it was impossible to discern individual pixels. They can’t tell you the exact resolution of this next-generation iPhone, but it’s much higher than the current iPhone 3GS.

The operating system
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore because each firmware is device specific—3GS firmware only loads on 3GS devices—and the there are no firmwares available for this unreleased phone. Which is another clue to its authenticity.

It is recognized as an iPhone
This iPhone behaves exactly like an iPhone does when connected to a computer, with the proper boot sequence and “connect to iTunes” restore functionality. Xcode and iTunes both see this as an iPhone. Mac OS X’s System Profiler also reports this as an iPhone in restore mode, which is a natural consequence of remotely wiping the phone, but report different product identifiers (both CPID and CPRV) than either the 3G or the 3GS.

It uses micro-sim
The fact that it uses a micro-sim is a clear indicator that this is a next-generation iPhone. No other cellphone uses this standard at this point in the US.

The hardware specs

The phone measures 4.50 by 2.31 by 0.37 inches. It weighs 140 grams. The 3GS weighs 137 grams on a postal scale (and 135 on Apple’s official measurements). So, in comparison, it’s 3 grams heavier. The battery is 5.25 WHr at 3.7V, compared to the 3GS battery, which is 4.51 WHr at 3.7V. On the back of the phone, it said it was XX GB, but since we were unable to get the phone to a running state, we couldn’t see exactly how large it was.

Carlitotron vs KFC's Double Down combo

A eternal battle between me and saturated fat.

LRG skate video: Gimme my money Chico!

The premier last night at Victoria was for the lack of a better term.....awesome. Click here to check out some photos> iphilms.net

Benny Gold Store

A little look into the Benny Gold store through the homey, Mr 360vm himself Phillip. Store will be opening Saturday, April 17th so check it out!

GT-Raaarrrr (aka GT-2000)

Looks like Mark Arcenal(Fatlace) got a new whip

Ode to my favorite mixtape for 2010 (for now)

This is a little video ode to my favorite current mixtape of 2010. Originally, this mixtape was suppose to come out Christmas, and then New Years. If you can imagine, I literally was in front of the computer every midnight that it was supposedly suppose to "drop".

Ladies and Gents........ Fabolous and DJ Drama- There is No Competition 2: The Funeral Serivce

Fabolous - "I'M RAW" (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from By Any Means T.V. on Vimeo.

Montage #3 : Money is King

Featuring (in order of appearance):
Bernardo Bernard
George Jadelrab
Duncan Macnaughton
Mike Wright
Jorge Coya
Larry Redmon
Mike Sutter
Ian Brunkow
Cameron Bohannon
Angel from NYC
Gabby Ang
Jabari Pendleton
Vlad $
Caesar Rosado
James Ryan
Bobby Taylor
Jason Wussler
Zach Stow

Music : Lee Fields & The Expressions-Money is King

Filmed and Editted by Carlo Pelaez

Contributing Filmers:
Big Pauly Harper
George Jadelrab

Monday party? Kinda Risky!

As of Monday, March 22 2010 our extended family, Wild N Krazy Kids/Risky Bizness, found a new spot with Beauty Bar. Glad to say, it completely blew away their past spot at Triple Crown. All walks of life came out on the first day of the week! A couple pics, and if you're ever out in SF on a Monday.......

KRAZY KIDS MONDAYS @ BEAUTY BAR SF EVERY WEEK FEATURING WNKK/ RISKY BIZNESS DJS:
ANT-1
SIR TIPP
RUBY RED I
EDDIE RASKEL
LO
GELO

Big ups to the homey Big Pauly Harper for the great pictures


Another great thing, about Beauty Bar........ The legendary Taqueria Cancun open till 2am on a Monday right across the street!

Making it in America

The Get By

One of the most inspirational videos I've ever seen. Not just about skateboarding, but life.

Wowsers

Jake Davis Test Shots: Jamie Chung from Jake Davis on Vimeo.

We Gettin' Arab Money