McCormick Fest

some well filmed stuff at mccormick

Neen and Andy Have a Fun Day 2ge+her

It's Coming

PMS 3 LEAK!!

omgawsshhhh i hope i dont get sued

Cream Leftovers

a few clips if ya still hungyy

Cream City

ooooO yeah

Nate Broussard Has Friends

Here's the proof:

Mini Malto Part

he gon get dat buttery ass wooped by donovan

New Mystery Promo

A bangin' full-length promo from mystery. Durrant kills it.

Full Screen

Edison Tape 1

3 Years ago Me, Jordan, Ehren, AJ G, Jovila, Marc, Vanaro, and some freshmen trim were at edison. Couple of familiar lines and hijinx ensue.

Into the Archives

So Jerry Hsu gave me the idea to dive into the old tapes hidden deep within my computer, and tho the tricks weren't spectacular, it brought back good memories, so ima be comin to ya with old tapes from the crypt periodically now. The first tape is me, rhett, and vanaro skating out in st charles then meeting up with chea to hit up a few spots. You've seen most of the footy but here it is in its entirety.

Silas Baxta

since silas is gonna win soty, heres a vide-o

Gravisss

Dylan and Arto in spain

New Promo

from asmif

Neen Williams

Alas, neen gets a mag minute

Affiliate Edit

found this one on myspace

Berrics Bracket

who'd yall choose?

Go Vote!!

just kidding lol

Remember This?

The very sad retirement letter of the Legend that is Marcell.
(click for his latest trick)

Windows & Doorways Peek

Skate Kitchen has a web bonus of their video w/ some fine filming and editing:

Plan B Promo

Can you say full Ryan Sheckler part? CAN YOU? Can you say he skates to Live and Let Die?? Nah, u just cant. Rhett's just gonna cream when he sees shecklers part. Plan B comes out with another lengthy promo and named it "Super Future"... yeah... I couldn't come up with a gayer name. Great job Plan B! Good tricks but poor use of pink floyd. Best section goes to Pj, he doesnt even try.

Halloweenz

the epic halloween edit from 2 years ago:

Beyond Gnar

The promo youve been waitin for

ARTO.

It must be shown:

One more...

kf bs smith kf out... yea...

The Blind Video Trailer

a whole lotta baggy ass clothes

Ehren's 3X Part

Yet another 3X part complete, taken straight from ez's blog:

The Internet Just Got Exciting Again

Marcell's got a video blog goin on, discussin on topics like the N word and Politics.
Check out this shizz nilla:

Lucas Puig

can do switch big heel tails

Youtube Secret

Did u kno u can watch the high quality ver of any youtube vid, just add:

&fmt=18

to the end of the url and DONE
(some vids still suck with it but watevs cuz)

Dan Zvereff

BTK reppin

Archon fans must know: EZ BLOG v.2
(so gnar it has an advisory warning!)

Extremely Sorry

It Gon B Gnarsome

Hometown Heroes 08

I guess someone wanted me to post this... Thats Andy Seese with the front blunt:

Buttery Ass Vanaro

Video Review: Ride The Sky

Let's do some reviews eh?
I'm pretty sure everyone's seen the new fallen vid but there's been mixed responses to it. Let my expert and righteous opinion be the decide all factor on fallen's ride the sky. Ready?
The video starts off right with a time lapse of the sky and a pretty wicked guitar riff that just gets u super psyched the first time u watch. All of a sudden mad hammers start bustin like a 3flip boardslide on a handrail or slash's pivot fakie at one of the coolest spots i've seen, and at the time I was diggin it, but i've come to a realization that a lot of those tricks should've actually been in their parts. Basically, the intro used too good of tricks. Yea, I fuckin sed it.
As for the video parts, my favorites were Sandoval, Crocket, and Hardy. Slash and Cole ripped too. Everyone had a good part pretty much. Bennet def would had another bangin part but got inured and had to share with Napervillain Harmony. Josh's part isnt particulary good but ive grown to like it a lil more with a few watches. Jamie Thomas on the other hand has a little too long of a part. Around 4.5 mins. I hear a lot of ppl saying its his best part and i can see why they would say that, but no. Youre all fuckin wrong. His parts in dying to live and misled youth was him in his prime. He does have some cool tricks like kf sorta wallride on a dumpsta and his ender, but man he jus made his part too dramatic. The song he used was horrible and his tricks are just subpar these days. I did get a good chuckle when he checked his mailbox. No mail tho, no one likes you chief.
Another big complaint about this video is trick order. I hate seeing 2 or 3 really good tricks followed by a warm up trick. It ruins the flow and makes that last trick obsolete when it could have been used closer to the beginning. Such as a 5-0 on a decent sized handrail when Sandoval just fakie flipped adio gap. wtf is that rubbish!
I'm probably the only person who didn't enjoy billy's part that much. His best trick was kf fs lip the rail he kf boards in good and evil and switch big heel carlsbad was pretty gnar. Everything else was mediocre to me.
Some major highlights for me were gilbert crocket bs smith kf over a rail, a super steezy bs 360 kf a triple flat(360 and you know it!), Sandoval's sprinkled hammers thruought his part: ss hardflip, kf fs lip fakie, or fakie fs flip 12, James hardy fakie 5-0 in a line super good, cervantes fsfeeb a sketchy as rail, slash kf fs board like waaaah, chris coles intro trick got me bug-eyed, and wtf at ss fs 360 kf the double in paris in the middle of his part?
The music was inconsistent. Some of them were good and some were bad. Not a bad soundtrack overall, just a lot of classic rock.
The editing was very clean and so was the filming. One thing people probably won't notice or care that I was impressed with was the slow mo they used. I thought most of the slow mo's were done real well, rampin without the gay, overdone rrrrewwwerrr sound. Slow mo done well is when u dont even notice that its being slow mo'd, it just fits the mood. A good example is tony cervantes 50-50ing the long kinked rail.
All in all, this is becoming one of my favorite flicks. It didn't meet the hype that it had way back when we all found out about it, but no video really meets hype anymore. It was fast, straight to business skateboarding black box style. An enjoyable and easily replayable video.
9.2/10 dead babies

Video Link:
Ride The Sky

Altamont Shortie

if ya borrd

Toan's Top 10

Im gonna start doin a countdown of my top favorite skate parts. keep it posted...

Phil's Latest Rip off

This time its zero.

Rhett Kolbe's 3X Part

Leaking Rhett's part

Middlewestern

Classic film now online

fourstar promos

foahstahrrr
Part 1:

Part 2:

es tour vid tease

bigspin back tail bigspin

Fuckin Chaz

Does a ridiculous kf at the end

Davis Torgerson

New am for Real, dude rips. Wait for his ender...

RIP VAN WASTELL

Kounterfit PROMO

FUCK

YOU

Enjoi Catalog

Online catalog with random videos and a bunch-o-interviews

Rumors Have Been Confirmed

Bust or Bail

Better videos of what went down:

A Trapasso Minute

A super sick mag minute with nick trapasso

AWS Leakage

If you havn't been checking, AWS has been having frequent video leaks of mind field, peep dat. Ima try to find sum time to post sum new vids soon

and now...

Malto etnies commercial

Marcell Mixtape

Well u wont be seein anymore frequent updates. But what better way to end it then Marcell bitch!

Throwback Thursday

An old rail sesh at rhett's house

The Last GE Edit

Maybe...

GH Edit

bustin mad hammers at gh

Rhett 4 ledge trickz

Some filler... got 2 new edits for the next 2 days.

Sundae Treat

Lisle edit featuring, once again, rhetts

Skate & Create

Here's all the videos from Transworld's contest.

1. DVS


2. Emerica


3. Globe


4. Osiris

Rhett Schaumburg Line

Me and rhettatat went up to schaumburg plaza. I had some battery problems but we managed to cop dis line ya fel meh?

Fallen Demo

Toronto Demo for Ride the Sky

Cliche Deja Vu

Throwback Thursdays (+Friday)

I was gonna start this like a month ago but things wasnt workin out...
But here's a double feature:
Super old ass footy

The first 2X Teaser

Rockford Warm-Ups

From earlier days.

Quicktime Download

Austyn and Stefan

This is from a while back but damn its good

Pop that Nolli Nolli

Edit from A Smith, Chico, Rhett, Ryan Bridges and so on...

Dekalb Session

Some tricks from a little dekalb trip a few days ago

(I meant Rail Drop, not Drop In, but either way...)
Quicktime Download

Post Office Lines

This post was supposed to have been up a while ago. Rhett and Blackfeet trying some lines.

Quicktime Download

Bolingbrook Edit

Spankin new BB Edit wit dat ni**a CHICO and his lover Rhett. TOO FOXY.

Quicktime Download

KB's GE Comp Runs

The last GE Comp post. KB messed up some of his stocked tricks but he still takes the cake. Skateshack also rigged the comp, but wateva.

Quicktime Download

The Hottest Blog Around

No it's not archon blog, it's Craig's bangin' new blog:
KILLINOIS

Phil's GE Comp Runs

Philthy Bastard gettin robbed at ge comp. His last place runs.

Quicktime Download

Bosss's GE Comp Runs

Mad Bosss footage. Kounterfit for life!

Quicktime Download

Ricky's GE Comp Runs

At first there was only one entry for 16+ but I decided to pay the $20 fee for Ricky to enter. He won. Done.

Quicktime Download

Vanaro's GE Comp Runs

Vanaro with a breakthrough performance at the GE comp.

Quicktime Download

Im Backkk

I got a week of ge comp posts fer uz

Quicktime Download

I HAVE NO INTERNETZ

For the past 5 days my internet has been fucked up, and it wont be up anytime soon either. I obviously cant update this shit. I had a couple posts planned but u gotta wait it out fer a while...

Curb Stompin'

After having no spot ideas, we went to that one curb spot a lil while back. Killed it...

Quicktime Download

Armour in Chicago

We were skating back to the train from hemp fest and we decided to hit up all the famous chi spots on the way back. Armour shutdown every single spot first try. Bobby B was there and he shutdown the city.

yea... that's it
Quicktime Download

Dekalb Spot

We went up to the new spot Armour and Co. built in Dekalb and had a lil sesh. Here's a lil vid of some warm up tricks. I made sure there were no repeats.

Quicktime Download

Sick of GE footy?

Well here's another edit of ge footy all from armour's cam.
I havn't been counting, but i'm pretty sure this is ge edit #46.

Quicktime Download

An Announcement

Alright, I just decided to switch to flash vids. I'll still be having quicktime links for every vid, you can also right click that shit to save if yuh want aiiight? If you already watched the party line below then watch again cuz it got revamped! New edit tmrwww...

Party Line!!

Featuring: ehren, rhett, jimmy, jimmy, toan, and biggie

Quicktime Download

A Line for the Blog

Ehren doing a line of that pure and white stuff

4 Tricks at Shiloh

Rhettatat and Ez got some trikkks fer yuh

The Continuation

What was ehren doing in the woods?
Where was he running to?
What the fuck?
Episode 2 answers your dying questions...

Shhhhhhhhh iloh

check the vid to see what we've been up to

A Dance Classic

back up by demand

GE Shrextras

5 mins worth of extras boyyyy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjRsk6rpmg

Nillez Interview

We picked up a drunk nilles one night a while back and we just naturally broke into an interview.

whahAH?

I guess this vids kinda cool...

The GE Shredit

a well over-due, over-hyped, ge edit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-dxmOupyQ

GE Shredit Teaser

A teaser for an edit? DONE. GE shredit will be out tommorrow night. I'm serious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmrEWm5sTo

SKATE

koston vs mike mo at the berrics

Shiloh Shit

We headed out to shiloh ledges on a humid saturday and tricks werent happenin. After maybe 1 or 2 tricks being landed, we just ended up messin around with the bank to ledge. Here's all the throwaways we could get before rainfall.

Time to get Serious

We went to this secret spot by rhetts house and got some business D0NE.

Craig n Steve Bust

a lil 1-2 punch from craig and steve

Nyjah Hustoan

a new full parter from the lil gang banger

Wickedest Edit

Jovila and J dubs at it again with a mini edit at tinley park

Craig at Wilson

Just a short clip of craig skating the rail at wilson

GE Mini Sesh

Mini session with ez, steve, and ricky at GE

Shredit HYPE

Warming up for the Shredit

Crew Battle

If you didn't know, "Archon" was entered into the Yeah! Boardshop Crew Battle comp. Even though im not affiliated with the roster listing nor is the majority of archon, go vote for us on their website, we're doing pretty good on the polls:

New shit soon

sorry for the lack of updates but as soon as i get my firewire ill be postin up sum new footage. GE Shredit will follow...

Torey Puds

DVS dudes dudes dudes

Girl Demo

Rhetts and his Iowa homies were at a girl demo a few days ago. They filmed some goodies.

Brief Hiatus

I'm going into a week of finals now so yer probably gonna see me skimpin on posts, but afterwards ull be seeing some actual updates with the arrival of summer break son!
And if you havnt seen it yet, BAKER HAS A DEATHWISH:


PS: it's my birthday =o

2X Throwaways Part 6

Rhett concludes the throwaway footy from 2X:

2X Throwaways Part 5

extra dubs:

2X Throwaways Part 4

This time we got throwaways from Jovila, mysterious black skater, Craig, Anthony, Vanaro, Spencer, Matt, and Me:

2X Throwaways Part 3

Cutting room floor footy of Armour:

Slideshow

New slideshow thang on the left. Let me kno if it works well. I'll update it with better photos when we get a chance to shoot more pics in the summer, and if you know how to make a slideshow like that without the watermark then hit me back.

2X Throwaways Part 2

Extra footy from ez:

Fresh Outta GE

Ricky comes thru with a sick sequence of steezy

2X Throwaways Part 1

Since I got no new footy to post, ill be postin up more extras from the 2X dvd. Here's part 1 of the throwaway footy featuring: Steve, Grottke, Schlaiss, Ricky, and Nilles.

Krush 4

The missing krush edit that was supposed to have been an extra in the 2X DVD. We pretty much abandoned making the dvd, even though everything for it was done, armour just gave up on it. I'm not gonna have time either to make it so yeah. Only a few people have seen this, it's pretty much the best krush promo ever.

I Can't Fathom Your Curiosity

The basic rundown: I got an interview of eze ill be postin up soon, new poll is up, profiles are in the works, I would appreciate more comments, you're all pussies, ill be adding a few other things later. weeeeeeeeeeeeeed

Lurk Fest Street Section

3X Interview

Marcell interviewed me about 3X for his new website. Since you probably don't know his site, here's the interview:

Marcell: The question everyone wants to know is, there going to be a 3X video?
Toan: Aww duuud.. honestly i dont know. I really hope we have enough time to film and everything but ima be working all of summer so it'll be tough. We'll be filming for sure tho over summer.
Marcell: Do you think this video will be bigger and better than 2X?
Toan: If 3X happens, it'll be way sicker. I have visions in my head of this thing and it gets me real psyched. All the stuff I've done in the past seems like shit to what I see 3X to be.
Marcell: Name 3 skaters who's going to be featured in the video?
Toan: 3? well Rhett, Ricky, and Ez for sure if u just wanted 3. They wanna film for 3X the most so I'll name them.
Marcell: Are you guys planing on going out of state to film or just here in IL?
Toan: Well we've already kinda got denver footy so that's sort of taken care of.. umm I can probly see a road trip or sumthin sumtime.
Marcell: What are your expectations for 3X?
Toan: Like what, tricks wise?
Marcell: Yea or filming wise also.
Toan: Well for the skating, everyone's been bustin a whole lot more lately. Tricks will be a lot more progressed than 2X. You can't really ask me who's gonna bust what tho, I just expect sum gnar shit.
Filming wise, i got a lot of new ideas and styles for filming. I've actually been keeping a notepad to write down all my ideas for 3X cuz I keep forgettin em.
Marcell: Are you guys with pms again or going seprate ways?
Toan: Well pms has got their own film as you are aware of. I think it'll be pretty certain you'll see archon dudes in the pms 3 and pms peeps makin cameos in 3x. Whatever works.
Marcell: When is the release date for Archon 3X.
Toan: Originally it was set on 8/8/08 at 8:00pm... it might be later than that tho. It'd be pretty sweet if we made that deadline.
Marcell: Anything you would like IL skaters to know?
Toan: Ummm... no.
Actually one thing tho, is for ppl makin skate vids and edits. I just wanna see some more originality from ppl. Sick of seeing the same old shit.
Marcell: Or just anything they should know or look out for.
Toan: Oh, haha... you should keep a look out for the GE SHREDIT coming soon. It'll be out in a month or so. My homie Steve Varial duz sum crazy trixx.
Marcell: That's it thanks.
Toan: Yep

This is the teaser for the 3X short film that was supposed to come out a while ago. It got scrapped for a full-lengther. It's a lil glitchy from converting to quicktime:

Testing the waters

I'm deciding on how to have video on here. I was inspired by some other blogs with this image click to video business. Here's a sample clip of Herman.

Ticking Away The Moments That Make Up The Dull Day

Remember the days when Archon was only a website? When it turned into a full-blown team and everyone wanted to be on it? When it somehow became influential to a bunch of kids in the area? How it motivated people to start skating again and start filming? Before it slowly died down? Well hey, who really cares. Since I have nothing more to do at college than study, I decided to use some of my time to bring back some of that hype. With summer coming, you'll be sure to see daily posts of skating, edits, tales, photos, mentions, promos, news, and everything in between. Consider this the new archonskate.com ver 4.0.
I'll keep ya posted...