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Visit the Magenta website and get yourself a copy of their first DVD Microcosme. It’s dope!

David Riollier got together with the Minuit crew to film this edit of evening escapades.

I found this artistic short via Leo Valls’ VHS blog. Definitely reminiscent of some early Thomas Campbell footage. Here is the video description:

a visual essay on human isolation through the prism of skateboarding.

featuring street activists leo valls and yoan taillandier (bordeaux, france) ; magenta skateboards owner vivien feil (paris, france) ; evergoing skateboarders nicolas gallo, aymeric nocus, romain scordino & romain badan (blois, france) ; living space master & polar skateboards owner pontus alv and his young recruit little oski (malmö, sweden). visuals and editing by aymeric nocus, 2011.

soundtrack : eric dolphy ‘alone together’, conversations, 1963 ; john & alice coltrane ‘living space’, living space, 1965.

Magenta frontman Vivien Feil drops his pearls of wisdom for Kingpin. Hopefully we can all take note and push things forward in 2012…