Stop by and pay them a visit! And don’t forget that Jason’s wife also has a shop, OddBird Company, right next door.
Stereo x Eagle Rock Camera collaboration in the future?
Logo design by Stereo's Ron Rauto.
Andrey is all smiles and all style! We are proud to release this Field Agent: Los Angeles part in conjunction with Kingswell, and spread some of the positive vibes and smooth skating! Enjoy!
Filmed and Edited by: Frank Pfeifer
Additional Filming: Collin Schwartz
Music: TV Girl - "The Night in Question"
Thumbnail Photo: Ryan Allan
Special Thanks: Kingswell, Los Feliz
Photos by Kealan Shilling
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As we wind down Season 4, with none other than skateboarding LEGEND- Chris “Dune” Pastras. When I tell y’all I got a classic on hand, I’m speaking all facts. You do not want to miss this Part 2. Tune in, as Dune takes us thru his journey onto World Industries in the early 90s. Talks meeting Legendary filmmaker Spike Jones, and his first video part. Skating at the infamous Club Mars in NYC, during the Reagan Era. The mentorship of skateboarding LEGEND- Mike Vallely. We talk Blue Skateboards, shares an insane Steve Rocco story, Hosoi ollieing Brooklyn Banks wall first, and we close it out with a special guest appearance by skateboarding LEGEND- Jason Lee. Season 4 ender is everything you waited for, and more! It’s the mighty, mighty WCRP on Skateboarding.
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Visit their Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@HawkvsWolf/videos
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Recap of Stereo (Jason Lee, Chris Pastras, and Bryce Wettstein) at InnoSkate 2022, this past July in Sioux Falls, SD: Including the screening of A Visual Sound scored to a live jazz orchestra.
Originally aired on PBS, 12/14/22
Host: Apolonia Davalos
levittsiouxfalls.org/innoskate
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In honor of our 30th anniversary, we've compiled an archive of 30 years of Stereo ads!
Special thanks to Thrasher, Chrome Ball Incident, Skately, Vert is Dead, and Transworld for the scans.
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Amazing night! Thank you Kingswell for hosting our video submission contest for Red Bull Skate as well as a big nod to our 30 years of Stereo! Big love to everyone that has been a part our journey & those that came out to show support! Forever grateful!
I can’t believe it’s been 30 years. We launched Stereo in 1992, we mapped it out when I was 19 and Jason was 21. It was unique, but I had no idea it would last three decades and beyond. Thank you to anyone who’s shown us love and support or bought one of our products. We’re still here because of YOU. Boom!
- Chris Pastras
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This stylish cat has been in our mix for years now. He’s a humble kid, that skates creatively and stylish…and we’re proud to finally announce Waldo Diaz’s official “Welcome to Stereo” 🎷🎷part! On Thrasher Mag right now! Hyped to have some new blood that fits the brand on all fronts!
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Many thanks to all involved!
Filmers: @tommypaz @ramsesarroyo @lowgunmathyous Kevin Pariona
Edited by: @markdspencer @tommypaz
Graphics: @derekmichaelbrennan
Music: Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Blow Your Cover
#WaldoDiaz
#30YearsOfStereo
#StereoSince92 🎺🎺
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Join Stereo founders and film-makers, Jason Lee and Chris Pastras, in a screening and discussion of “A Visual Sound” with live orchestration provided by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. (Starts about 21 minutes into this video.)
“A Visual Sound” (1994) is one of the first introductions of experimental art, film, and music in skateboard videos. The video is written, produced and directed by Stereo founders Jason Lee and Chris Pastras. Throughout the video, abstract and eclectic still frames are intermingled with color and black and white footage of skating. The soundtrack is a pure jazz lineup from Ululation and Tommy Guerrero. Going against the grain with the use of 8mm film, black and white still photography and avant-garde music, the film is now revered as a classic within the skateboard community.
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Jason Lee discusses growing up in Southern California, first learning 360 flips in his backyard, meeting Mark Gonzales for the first time, skating Christian Hosoi’s backyard vert ramp, getting on Blind Skateboards, filming for “Video Days”, starting Blue Skateboards with Chris Pastras, why they ended Blue and started Stereo Skateboards, skating with Julien Stranger in San Francisco, how quickly skating was progressing in the early 90’s, why he “retired” from skating and started acting, shooting his first movie, doing voice over work for video games and being in Skate 3 as Coach Frank, getting the lead role in the TV show “My Name Is Earl”, taking up photography, his photography books and much more!
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Bryce Wettstein is Pro!!!
“I’ve watched Bryce progress from a ripping grom, into an Olympian, a national treasure, and one of the most creative and prolific skaters I know. With her PMA, her style, her art, her music, and her skating…it all truly pours from her heart. She’s the perfect embodiment of Stereo’s art and music driven ethos, and we’re truly honored to give her her first pro model.” - Chris Pastras
"Bryce brings the good vibes and a unique bag of accessory-aided tricks to California’s bowls and big ramps." - Thrasher
Her debut pro decks, “Arrows” & “Colorwaves” are available now in shops and on the Stereo site. Shops/Distributors contact @syndromedist to carry. Graphics by: @derekmichaelbrennan
Video: Josue Sanchez @ho_sway Music: Bryce Wettstein
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We’re thankful for every customer, everyone who’s skated our boards, every collaborator, everyone who’s laughed at our jokes, everyone who hasn’t, every brand, every demo, every team rider, every videographer, every photographer, every graphic artist, every shipper, every vendor, every skateshop, every distributor, every salesperson, every session, every story and the list goes on and on!
We appreciate you all and look forward to continuing this creative journey with you for another 30 years!
Carl, Chris, Jason, and Mike, 1993. Photograph by Tobin Yelland.
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Stereo has partnered with Norman Roscoe and Stereo artists Mark Penxa and Ron Rauto to create 3 new tee shirts with 100% of profits to be donated to BLM, Harlem Arts Alliance, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The third tee in this post is the first reissue of Stereo’s original early 90s crown art tee, drawn by Chris. This special benefit collaboration expires Monday the 29th.
Available exclusively on normanroscoe.com/stereo
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Jason Lee "Mariposa" deck, Stereo Traveller series
Carl Shipman "Cruise" deck, Stereo Traveller series
Matt Rodriguez "Hola" deck, Stereo Traveller series
]]>Chops and Mr. Sunshine talk hot sauce.
So your loose trucks are the stuff of legend, but before we get into that, I have another set-up related question.... grip over bolts? Why?
(laughs) I don’t know if I saw someone do it or what, but I just like it. And I’ve been doing it for a long time, too. I want to say since right around the time I turned pro. I just like the way it looks and feels.
How so?
It feels smoother, for some reason. And honestly, I just got sick of looking at my bolts. They look lame to me... they’re kinda distracting. This way, it makes my board feel more like a hovercraft. (laughs)
And you’re still cutting your bushings in-half? Just the top one or both bushings?
Both bushings.
Yeah, still doing it. Still making my situation harder than it has to be.
There are pros and cons to it, though. Because with tighter trucks, you definitely have more pop and your tricks level out a lot easier. But you don’t have that instant carve. Looser trucks make me feel like I’m more embellished in my grinds or whatever. It’s definitely harder for flatground tricks, but I love that cruisey, carvey feeling... and the way it rattles. It sounds like it’s fuckin’ broken. It’s a good sound effect.
One thing you gotta remember is that it also makes me feel heavier on my board. Because I’m super light, man. Fucking featherweight with popcorn legs. So when I ride someone else’s board with tighter trucks, I can feel how light I am. I don’t feel like I have the weight to lay into things. Because I’m only a buck 25... I’m the same weight I was when I was seventeen. I got a little beer belly now but that’s about it.
But how did you come up with the idea to cut your bushings?
It just popped into my head one day. Because you can only ride your trucks so loose until the bolt rattles off. And that’s what I did for a while, just tighten it back up with my hand. But shit would come off in mid-air sometimes, you know? It’s no fun landing on your kingpin. So fuck that, I started chiseling my bushings down with a razor blade so I could tighten the bolt better, to where it’s more secure but still dangly as fuck.
But it has to make things harder, why not just try harder tricks?
Everything’s hard! It’s funny because people will tell me that I did something “effortlessly” or whatever. Nah, shit takes work.
For whatever reason, I’m doing this to myself. Making it harder. Because I don’t want any help. With tighter trucks, you have that tension from rail-to-rail. But when your trucks are this loose, all you really have is the beam going down the middle of the baseplates. You have to be more on-point, but I like the challenge. Like, fuck that, don’t help me. I want my shit fucked. I want to be wondering how I’m even landing this shit... I guess it’s just a suffer mentality. (laughs)
Read More on ChromeBall
http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2019/10/chrome-ball-interview-134-matt-rodriguez.html
Follow Matt Rodriguez on @potion1er_es_la_boom_/
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Conducted July, 2019.
So talk to me about growing up in Huntington Beach as a skateboarder. I feel like the beginning of all this is probably the easiest place to start.
Well, my brother, James, and I got plastic department store skateboards in 1977. We tooled around on those for a bit. But at that age, whenever you get a plastic skateboard, you don’t really consider yourself as much a “skateboarder” as you do a kid with a cool new toy to roll around on. Because we were also into BMX racing and riding dirtbikes, too. A pretty typical Southern California upbringing in the 70’s.
I ended getting another store-bought skateboard a little later on, a Variflex. It had the skidplate, the noseguard… the whole deal. That was when I was around 14. I started skating on that a little more and became much more serious about it over the next year or so.
All of my friends in Huntington Beach were also getting real into skateboarding, too. I met Ed Templeton around this time, who became quite a big influence on me, personally. Ed and I basically hung out together every day. Eating shitty food with too much sugar, playing Nintendo, and learning tricks. And there was Steve Robert, too, who was also great. Just a lot of HB kids.
But that’s when I feel like I actually became a skateboarder. There was a kid in my high school… I was a freshman around this time, but this kid knew Mike Madrid and used to sell me warped Madrid decks for 5 bucks. Those warped Madrid decks, man... That’s when I was hooked.
It’s funny to look back on, because there is only about 4-year period here where I went from becoming serious about skateboarding in high school to actually turning pro.
Wow!
You can’t really do that these days, skateboarding is much more difficult. It was a much simpler time back then, Eric. (laughs)
It was around 1986 when my friends and I discovered Mark Gonzales and everything that he was doing. He was the key to the door, at that particular moment.
Obviously, there’s Mark’s creative approach to everything, but how far along was “street skating” at this point?
Well, we knew of Natas and Gonz. You could obviously see so much potential with what they were doing, because it was so different. And we knew what Rodney Mullen was doing, but that didn’t feel like the same thing somehow. We were focused on ollieing. Grinds and kickflips. Jump ramps were still popular, too.
Because at this age, we are all in on skateboarding. That’s all we did. Pouring over skate magazines and studying videos. But in watching those old vert contests, you see something like Mark’s Oceanside contest footage… where he has the sticker in his hair? It was a thousand years ahead of its time, which was obvious to us. And that was the direction we wanted to head in. Exploring this new space.
Of course, we had seen... Read the full article on chromeballincident.
http://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2019/08/chrome-ball-interview-133-jason-lee.html
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Jason Lee was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame @SkateboardingHallofFame May 2019 and we’d like to extend our congratulations to him and all the other 2019 Inductees on this amazing achievement!!!
Special thanks to all the Stereo filmers and photographers that have contributed for the past 25 years including, but not limited to:
Spike Jonze
Gabe Morford
Tobin Yelland
Eric Noren
Cole Matthews
Matt Williams
Chris Pastras
Otisserre
Aaron Meza
Greg Hunt
Jacob Rosenberg
Mcgrza
Dave Metty
Dlxsf
Mark Spencer
Ron Rauto
and more, we couldn’t have done any of this without you and we appreciate each and every one of you!
Follow Jason on Instagram @JasonLee
Visit the SHoF web site www.SkateboardingHallofFame.org
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New photo boards by Jason Lee
Downtown Los Angeles and Northeast Los Angeles.
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Downtown Los Angeles (rooftop) - 8.625" Shaped board
Stereo / Film Photographic Photography by Jason Lee
Northeast Los Angeles (parking lot) - width 8.25"
"After a longer than expected delay, the most recent photo boards from Stereo Skateboards and Film Photographic are now available.
These two boards mark the first photo boards we've done in the last few years.
The photos were made in September 2017 after a road trip from home in Texas to Los Angeles.
Limited numbers of each available.
Many thanks as always to Ron Rauto for the great design work. "
Thanks, Jason
Film Photographic - a community for film.
Follow @FilmPhotographic on Instagram, and visit www.JasonLeeFilm.com
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Windsor Rothchild III makes a very special comeback appearance in E.B The Younger's new music video.
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Windsor Rothchild III ✨🎩✨ makes a very special comeback appearance in E.B The Younger's new music video.
Directed by Jason Lee and @Exploredinary
Filmed and Edited by Sarah Reyes and Daniel Driensky
Styling by Kate Siamro
Hosted by Chris Pastras
BAND
ERIC PULIDO
MCKENZIE SMITH
DANIEL CREAMER
SCOTT LEE
MATT PENCE
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Made in America. Limited Edition Collectible.
The "J.Lee in the Hat” is a modern twist on his 1991 iconic mini graphic, artfully updated by artist Mark Penxa.
Classic 1991 full size shape, adjustable for modern day riding with double truck holes for a shorter wheelbase and longer nose.
The “J.Lee in the Hat” is a limited run of 500 boards.
The shape is a fun ride, and also a must have collectable, so get one before it’s gone!
Width: 9.5”
Length: 31”
Wheelbase: 14.5” or 14.25” (double drilled)
The “Curb Crusher 3” is the 3rd incarnation of Chris “Dune” Pastras’ slappy shape.
This is an update to the classic Dune baby series from 1990, artfully recreated by Mark Penxa and positioned in one of Dune’s classic curb moves, the frontside hurricane.
Get one and go chomp some curbs!
Width: 8.38”
Length: 31.75”
Wheelbase: 14”
Made in USA by Quincy Woodwrights.
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Watch the video for the first single starring Coach Dick Jason Lee @jasonlee . Video directed by @chrisphelps.
Limited edition decks are available on NormanRoscoe.com and coming soon to the Stereo site.
Preorder the album now - http://ebtheyounger.com/
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“Our ILFORD Inspires 'Legends of Skateboarding' series concludes with Jason Lee's ‘THE AMERICAN PHOTO ROADTRIP’. Discover the philosophies behind Jason's signature aesthetic during a journey through rural Texas highway 380 to document the abandoned yet cinematic American landscape. A former Pro Skateboarder, Jason has established himself as a pillar of the film community making him better placed than most to identify the parallels between skateboarding and photography. Filmed and edited by: Exploredinary (Sarah Reyes & Daniel Driensky). Score by Raymond Molinar. End credits song "At The Cathedral" by Jason Lee and Eric Pulido. Image credits copyright Exploredinary. Shot on ILFORD HP5 Plus.” –Ilford
Visit Jason's film photography site www.jasonleefilm.com
Stereo Swingers, Art by Alyasha Owerka-Moore @stackaly
“I grew up in a household full of Jazz. When Dune and J.Lee started Stereo, I was blown away by the concept of a Jazz based skateboard brand. Jazz and skateboarding!? Of course! It’s perfect! You couldn’t get more Punk than this. It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen. The skaters they had on the team, the graphics, the ads, the videos and the photographers and videographers they chose to work with were all brilliant.
It helped me see/define continuity in a brand and the importance of it. (While still being freeform) Stereo in many ways was the bar that was set in my own future work. They proved you could do your own thing and not worry about Status Quo.
A few months back @chrispastras invited me to guest design a set of boards for he and @jasonlee, @stereoskateboards. I am genuinely honored."
- Alyasha Owerka-Moore @stackaly
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"One of the most positive, grateful, and hard-working skateboarders I’ve ever known. And with awe-inspiring talent." - Jason Lee
“Maryland’s Yoshi Tanenbaum worked his way up the ranks to Stereo Pro. A powerhouse who skates hard. We are honored to announce Yoshi as our newest Stereo Pro.” – Chris Pastras
Follow @YoshiTanenbaum on Instagram.com/YoshiTanenbaum
Stereo Pro Yoshi Arrows deck - Frist Pro deck
Stereo Jazz Cut & Paste Yoshi - Art by Charlie Coatney
Stereo Pro Yoshi Arrows deck - Frist Pro deck
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Todays the day. Congrats Yoshi! Watch it now on theBerrics.com
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