The Slow Run to No One exibition took over Insight Clothing's LA store in Venice recently and featured 'photographs and things by T. Grady Archbold and Warren Smith'. The store quickly was invaded by the crowds ready to check out the display, enjoy music and live show by TRMRS & Tomorrows Tulips and DJ Geometric, and possibly have a cocktail or two. The art will be available for viewing at the store until October 5th.

Photo recap from SURFER Mag here and video montage below:

The crew over at Insight have a new website up, and have put together a hot video of Jamie Thomas.

Literally, Thomas kills his skate facility with his board in flames. He's always been one up for a stunt from bare foot lipslides to a Leap of Faith. He's on it.

Check out the video below:



UNTITLED - Jamie Thomas from Insight Clothing on Vimeo.

Are You Free? Of course you're not. If you live within the borders of a place that has a system of governing, you're not free. So pretty much, unless you live on Antarctica, or the moon or something; you can't call yourself totally free. Some people of course are more free than others, and I guess that is where it gets tricky. In those terms, I guess the people on Earth who are ruled the least are the ones who are most free.

John Locke said way-back-when, that every person born to this world should be guaranteed his or her "inalienable" or "natural rights", in other words the freedoms every human should possess: Life, Liberty and estate. To most these are obvious, but many on this planet still to this day do not call them their own.

He talks of "social contracts," and that these rights are "self-evident and universal," before getting into the most important part when talking about being governed; your "statutory," or legal rights. This pertains to the purpose of a government. If you are born with these "natural" rights, what's going to make sure that someone else's freedom isn't going impede on yours. And that's why there's government, police etc.

Then, a man named Thomas Jefferson read Locke's writings and was inspired. He practically plagiarized Locke and wrote something called the "Declaration of Independence." Sound familiar all you USA dwellers? He along with Rosseau, Hume, Kant and Paine have a lot to do with how you country was started.

Back to my original question, Are You Free? Well, technically no, but for society to work; Yes! And that brings me to Insight clothing new skate documentary, "Repeat After Me: I Am Free" A documentary of "The Fly On The Beast Tour" of Australia, which is a country that may have started out freer than anywhere, a continent of isolation where Europe's criminals were sent to roam. Here's a list of who roams freely in this video: Jamie Thomas, Daniel Shimizu, Nick Boserio, Tyler Mumma, Bernie Foo, Sam Partiax, Paul Shier, Brian Brown and Ryhs Grogan



Skate Feature: "REPEAT AFTER ME; I AM FREE" - A Fly On The Beast Documentary from Insight Clothing on Vimeo.

A year or so ago INsight clothing became part of the Black Box Distribution family. Translation: Enter The Chief, aka Jamie Thomas. If there's one thing he knows how to do it's skateboard and keep a a skateboard company in the black, in more ways than one.

Thomas started Zero skateboards more than a decade ago, which was followed by Black Box Distribution in 2000, and the rest is history. Fast-forward ten years and the distribution company is going strong with brands such as: Mystery, Fallen, $lave, INsight and most recently, Threat, all under the Black Box umbrella.

To further get his venture with Australian clothing brand, INsight, going he created Overkill. An INsight-ful look into skateboarding that includes: a magazine, a video and a clothing line. Click here to check it out, and you can watch the video below:

Insight recently threw this video up on their vimeo page, of young ripper Jerome Forrest from Margaret River in Western Australia (...which is just up the coast from where a man was killed by a great white shark the other day). Apparently it was compiled in just 2 days by the 19 year old goofyfoot. yew!



Jerome Forrest from Insight Clothing on Vimeo.