Everyone's favorite Canadian skateboarder, Rick McCrank, is back as Blair Stanley, this time alongside Anthony Amedori in Machotaildrop. It looks like its going to be like Harvey Spannos, the first bizzare Fuel TV skate movie-thing, in which we first met Blair Stanley, Rick McCrank's movie alterego. Looks like it should be interesting, check out the trailer:

Well, he really didn't because this dealie is funny. Check out Girl skateboard's Spike Jonze with Will Arnette and David Cross in The Increasingly Bad Decisions of Todd Magaret.

"...LOST isn't good for people. You send us all around the world, with this image of Wardo and Corey, guys that really rip. And we don't do anything but lose first f--king heat. It's just like Strider said, 'We don't want no contest sections.'"

That was a hammered John Robertson right before his section in ...LOST's 7th (I think, it's all a blur) video The Decline. It's probably not word for word, I still only have that one on VHS, and I don't own a VCR anymore. Anyway, that pretty much sums up a ...LOST movie. The talent's there, but ...LOST is also going to show What's Really Going On and What's Really Going Wrong, which is the titles of their second and third videos, their first being the cult classic Dysfunctional.

It started that way, and even though ...LOST has since blown up as a company, is still that way. They stick to a formula; they show you best surfers in the world, they show you the not-so-best surfers in the world, they show you the best waves in the world, they show Huntington Pier. Then they turn around and show what comes with surfing besides the waves and sand: the parties, the debauchery, the girls, the burn outs, the drugs, the heads on fire, the crackheads, the drunken stair surfing, the fights, the puking, etc. You name it, it's been in one of these videos. ...LOST paints a picture for its video audience of how the other half lives. No golf playing, acoustic jamming millionaires here. Just guys who are barley getting by, but surfing everyday.

That's not to say the big time pros aren't in their videos. I'm pretty sure Slater and Curren have been in almost all of the them. It's just the way these videos are presented is like nothing else those two will be in. Plus, the ...LOST team has has some pretty damn good surfers. At one point, one of the original team riders Chris Ward, was considered California's next hope for a World Title. His surfing as a 15-year-old in those first few videos blew minds. He has always been one of the best free-surfers in the world, but you never know what your going to get with the guy, which isn't a good contest characteristic. Good for the audience though, it's funny watching a hungover, bed-headed mess running down the beach on his way to a heat he's 15 minutes late to, after already outright missing his previous heat, claiming he got confused. ...LOST has even talked of making a Wardo signature alarm clock, complete with the infamous pic of his dazed stare, and fresh out of a stooper hair, on his way to surf in surfing's version of the NFL, NBA or MLB. He survived on that tour for 4 years on pure natural talent.

This whole ...LOST phemonom started in Orange County's most southern town, San Clemente, which is only fitting. In that, the surf industry's most rebellious brand spawned from the town that birthed some of the world's most rebellious surfers: Archy, the Fletchers, the Beschens, Wardo, Joe Crimo, Geoff Brack (who bit some guy's finger off in a bar fight, I had to add that, because that's pretty heavy), etc. It's something in the water down there that makes you question everything, and do what you want. Which is what ...LOST Really Does.

Over the years there have been some impostors, but everyone knows ...LOST was the original. They have always shown WHAT REALLY GOES ON, which brings me to the point of all this. To celebrate the fifteen or so years of all this, ...LOST has released What Really Went On, a greatest hits like DVD that takes you from the first video to the last, with some never-before-seen extras in between.

Here's three teasers:

This past year had some stellar video releases as far as skateboarding goes. Flip finally released the much anticipated Extremely Sorry,which was certainly the biggest release of 2009, but their were a slew of other videos that were dropped. My favorite cinematic experience of the year was Alien Workshop's Mind Field, Greg Hunt killed it as usual. For some reason I thought it was released in 2008, so it
didn't make my rough draft, but after further investigation I came to find it was indeed an 09er. Here's MORINfocus's Top 10 Skate Video Releases of 2009 (now you have something to spend all that X-Mas/Hanuka/Kwanzaa/etc. money on):

1. Alien Workshop's Mind Field
2. Flip's Extremely Sorry
3. Zero's Strange World
4. Tiltmode Army's Bonus Round
5. bLind's The bLind Video
6. Black Label's God Save the Label
7. Baker Boys Distribution's Baker Has A Death Wish Summer Tour
8. Girl and Anti-Hero's Beauty And The Beast 2
9. Thrasher's Under The Bridge
10. Zoo York's State Of Mind