A radio-podcast series that features the history, heroes and misadventures of skateboarding. Hosted by, Clyde Singleton. 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...
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
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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
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...
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!
Unbelievable. We’d like to thank everyone who has supported us over the years! 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...
Stereo Traveller Series decks by Ron Rauto 2019
Jason Lee "Mariposa" deck, Stereo Traveller series
Carl Shipman "Cruise" deck, Stereo Traveller series
Matt Rodriguez "Hola" deck, Stereo Traveller series
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...
Video: “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...
"'93/'94 was probably my best period for skateboarding, where I felt the most confident and in control. such a fun, electric time. and so pivotal for me creatively - it was ultimately the co-directing of this stereo skateboards video - 'a visual sound' - that would open up the photography door for me. those early s.f. stereo days were huge for so many of us, and our team was amazing. and to have had guys like tobin yelland and gabe morford there to document it all was incredible. big thanks to chris pastras for your brain, and to deluxe sf and jeff klindt (RIP) for making it all possible. " - Jason Lee "The making of "A Visual Sound" in...
