Gravis has put together one hell of a skate team headlined by Arto Saari and Dylan Rieder, enough so that the brand has created personal internet videos of two entitled simply, Arto. and Dylan. respectively.

Then there's the supporting lineup consisting of: Sam Winter, Jake Johnson, Steve Forstner, and Dominik Dietrich.

Put the two sets together and you have enough for a Gravis feature filming starring Arto Saari and Dylan Rieder.

That may be further down the road, but to hold us over the modern footwear brand has released video footage of the crew on tour in Europe. There's nothing better than a stylish team skating streets that have substance, and just so much history.

You know what all those artsy hipsters in LA and New York say, "For me to live somewhere there has to be culture." Well, the streets skated in this internet short have existed hundreds of years longer than America. How's that for vintage?

Check out the Gravis skate team on their 2010 European tour:



Europe 2010 from Gravis Footwear on Vimeo.

Last Thursday night, the folks at Skateboarder magazine threw the Sunset Rampage, a mini-ramp bash at the Sunset BLVD. staple, The Standard Hotel (pretend "Standard" is upside down like it is on the hotel sign). If you've never been, The Standard is a creative little "crash spot" right smack in the middle of the Sunset strip in Hollywood, complete with things like "giant hand" chairs and trippy bathrooms. And due to the locale it's also a pricey joint, which makes what Skateboarder successfully pulled so, as Mike Carroll would say "hyphy."

Speaking of Mike Carroll, the Girl skateboards boss was in attendance along with other skate industry bosses like: Lance Mountain, Sal Barbier, Eric Koston and "The Boss," Andrew Reynolds. Others in attendance were Kenny Anderson, Dylan Rieder, Curran Caples and Vincent Alvarez. Translation: Some serious ripping went down on the strip that night, even industry guys like Gravis TM, Mark Oblow, were getting in on the action.

In the end though, the youthful heavyweights of transition skateboarding prevailed:

1. Raven Tershey - $2,500
2. Andrew Langi - $1,500
3. Tom Remilard - $1,000

Photos:

Dylan Rieder blunt to fakie by Owens via Skateboarder Magazine.

The winners by Mehring via Skateboarder Magazine.

For more galleries full of pictures from the night cruise on over to www.skateboardermag.com

Here's a little video Aaron Meza and Roger Bagley put together for Skateboarder:

Part two of Pat O'Dell's four part Epicly Later'd series on Dylan Rieder dropped today. Click here to check it out.

The first part of Dylan Rieder's Epicly Later'd by Pat O'Dell is up and running over on the VBS site. Click here to check it out.

Dylan Rieder, the talk of the skate world at the moment after his mind blowing Gravis video short short by Greg Hunt will be the next subject of Pat O'Dell's Epicly Later'd video series. So, it you want to find out what Dylan's all about check it. In the mean time you can watch the teaser by clicking here.