some well filmed stuff at mccormick
Monday, December 29, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Remember This?
The very sad retirement letter of the Legend that is Marcell. 
(click for his latest trick)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
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.![]()
Friday, October 24, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
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:
Saturday, October 11, 2008
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)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Hometown Heroes 08
I guess someone wanted me to post this... Thats Andy Seese with the front blunt:
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Toan's Top 10
Im gonna start doin a countdown of my top favorite skate parts. keep it posted...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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
Monday, August 25, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Marcell Mixtape
Well u wont be seein anymore frequent updates. But what better way to end it then Marcell bitch!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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?
Friday, August 15, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
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
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Post Office Lines
This post was supposed to have been up a while ago. Rhett and Blackfeet trying some lines.
Quicktime Download
Friday, August 8, 2008
Bolingbrook Edit
Spankin new BB Edit wit dat ni**a CHICO and his lover Rhett. TOO FOXY.
Quicktime Download
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Phil's GE Comp Runs
Philthy Bastard gettin robbed at ge comp. His last place runs.
Quicktime Download
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
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
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Vanaro's GE Comp Runs
Vanaro with a breakthrough performance at the GE comp.
Quicktime Download
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
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...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Curb Stompin'
After having no spot ideas, we went to that one curb spot a lil while back. Killed it...
Quicktime Download
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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
Monday, July 21, 2008
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
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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
Saturday, July 19, 2008
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
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The Continuation
What was ehren doing in the woods?
Where was he running to?
What the fuck?
Episode 2 answers your dying questions...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Nillez Interview
We picked up a drunk nilles one night a while back and we just naturally broke into an interview.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
The GE Shredit
a well over-due, over-hyped, ge edit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-dxmOupyQ
Saturday, June 21, 2008
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
Monday, June 9, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
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.

Saturday, June 7, 2008
Time to get Serious
We went to this secret spot by rhetts house and got some business D0NE.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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:
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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...
Friday, May 9, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
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
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
2X Throwaways Part 4
This time we got throwaways from Jovila, mysterious black skater, Craig, Anthony, Vanaro, Spencer, Matt, and Me:

Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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.

Sunday, April 20, 2008
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
Saturday, April 19, 2008
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.

Friday, April 18, 2008
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...






























