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ODNY: Humble Beginnings

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Having started rolling at the age of 21 (25 now), researching and building a world around skating has been a great passion of mine since. Although I owned skates at the age of 8 and destroyed them– I couldn’t afford actual oxygens or K2’s growing up. Never the less, I still had an itch for the sport on a subliminal level. Occasionally running into skaters like Anthony Soto, Sal Zaso, and Alex Nunez while out on their adventures either filming or casually skating something in the neighborhood of Queens, NY. Finally when being able to afford skates in college, I happened to meet a friend freshman year who was part of an old school crew founded in Queens called 22k which is essentially an elementary school that had a complex backyard with all kinds of unfinished stair cases, ledges, and gaps–essentially an unfinished street park to anyone that had a pair of blades and wax. These guys were around for the high and low times of our sport and were great enough to introduce me to Daily Bread, VG4, and Hoax 2. They helped fill in a major gap that I unfortunately had missed when thinking back to prime time blade history.

 

 
Well for those who aren’t part of the steady fan base, OD has been around since 2006. I’ve had major influences to pursue media in NY. Some of those that stick out to me are: B.Unique’s edits, Angelo Ferrer’s early photography, Old IMYTA’s, and Victor Callendar’s skate comps. Battle my crew and LMS(Last Man Standing) included. The idea behind OD has always been progress and capturing skating of the average roller in our city. Our edits are meant to be fun and give you a glimpse that NY is still doing it’s own thing. Being so, I want to thank the few regular homies that help start the crew which has now really grown to be our entire city. The following edits below were taken down due to quality issues or stupid politics for what ever reason. Either way, I hope you enjoy them and take a look at our hustle from then. Taking a look back though, humble beginnings don’t end bad–you just grow up and get over shit.

 

This edit is the second edit I ever made but the first one to go public. It’s filmed on a GL2 I owned at the time because they were crazy popular back then. Hah! Still a pretty banging camera imo. Featuring long time friends: Patrick McClear and Michael Valenzuela. I have an edit in the works which is essentially suppose to be the very first public edit ODNY was suppose to release but perfectionists always wait or sit on stuff for too long unfortunately. LOL moment we always laugh about: check out Mike V in this edit with the praying mantis arms.

 

This is first edit I dropped after acquiring a Canon XHA1. My circle then was still pretty small so filming friends was a start.

 

This edit is featuring skater John Estrella(Punch Master John) and John Tkaczuk from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. John was always a pretty chill dude who was known for his crazy antics and Mr. Tkaczuk just always reminded us of Fish. Dude was always down to skate anything and everything. Probably the first time featuring new kids that I hadn’t skated with before.

 

This was the first edit I dropped using the Canon 7D. I fell in love with the camera for the way the lenses captured video in low light. Featuring all time friend: Michael Valenzuela at what was back then almost a ritual spot to a good portion of skaters in the Jackson Heights area of Queens, NY.

 
Hope you guys checked out all that and enjoyed some. For the few local heads that are reading this, just hope that you don’t think you need an expensive camera to drop dope material. You just need yourself, some homies, and what ever you have that shoots video. So tired of the misconception that edits need to be highly pretentious and shot by a film crew to produce something that’s fun to watch. Stay up NY!

-Dave
 

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Godzirra Errection

Dope Stuff, NY Scene, OD Crew

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Edit of the OD family part 1. Getting things shaking for the summer. All out fun edit.

All unseen footage I ever shot will be going into this four part series. This is a video exclusive to the OD Daily Grind Blog. It can only be played on Vimeo and on the blog. Hope you flim divas don’t catch a heart attack cause I don’t give a fuck.

Drop a comment on the Daily Grind post and show some god damn support.

Filmed and edited by David Toro

Cameras used: iphone, zumi, canon

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OD Crew: Welcomes Ryan Loewy

Creative Highlight, NY Scene, OD Crew

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I’m happy to welcome Ryan Loewy to the OD Crew. I’ve been trying to build ODNY as a collective of people with aims to achieve quality in the areas of skating, design, photograhpy, video, and apparel since 2006. With my obligations increasing dramatically since then, It’s impossible for me to run all aspects of the brand and site at this point by myself. Especially with my primary focus being apparel and making edits on the OD site. That being said, I couldn’t think of anyone better than Ryan to help out with this large task of capturing our NYC scene. His work is amazing and he’s been a prominent photographer in our scene for some time. Small contributions of his include covering most skate events and shooting photos with locals when ever he can. He also helps out other NYC outlets by spreading the word on the latest NYC content on be-mag.com. He’s been a contributor to be-mag for a while now and has even contributed to I Roll NY and Skatelife which is great. Be on the look out for his photography here on the OD site or his ramblings on the Daily Grind blog! I trust he will bring some killer stuff to the table.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Ryan’s work, I leave you with a few stills of Ryan’s latest project entitled: NY Rollerbladers. His aim is to capture every skater in the city! Gotta catch ’em all!

You can view more of these bomb shots on Ryan’s Tumblr. Drop a comment to share your thoughts or email Ryan personally at: loewy@onedayny.com.

-Dave

 

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Lari Del Lago Profile

Dope Stuff, NY Scene

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Peep this dope edit from Lari Del Lago, a Venezuela native who was here in NYC a while back. I’m sure most of NY knows this Lari from the tons of shredding he did all over NY, especially during the Lets Roll NY sessions. I’ll be heading down to Ecuador later in February to cover the scene out there so you will be seeing more of my friend in the near future.
-DT

 

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Sean Grossman 2011 Profile

Creative Highlight, NY Scene, OD Crew

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Check out this sick edit by New York native Sean Grossman. It’s a compilation of clips gathered by: Sal Zaso, Dave Fitz, Austin Sullivan, LaRosa and myself(DT). Sean is one of the coolest bladers I know and he’s always down to gather materials and skate the most unconventional spots. Check out the intro! ODNY! Be-mag edit coming soon!
-Dave Toro


 

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The first NYC Invitational

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A new comp is coming to NYC. We gladly hooked up the flyer for this new comp that’s going to go down. Stay tuned NY!

 

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Sam Williams on Universe Mag

NY Scene, Random Shit

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New York native Sam William was recently interviewed by Universe Magazine, a pop culture mag from Japan. The interview covers Sam’s involvement in skating and at the same time showcases some of his own skating. The website is in Japanese but I’ve provided a link that uses the assistance of google translate to help you read. If you’re too lazy and don’t want to do either, watch the tight little video they put together.

Via Universe Mag


 

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ODNY x I Roll NY winner announced!

Contests, NY Scene

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First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who participated and sent in an entry for the contest. It’s truly an awesome feeling to be able to motivate individuals to get out there and skate something other than the typical local spot. That being said, we were suppose to announce the winner yesterday on April, 5th but I’ve been swamped with work, we have a lot of other collaborations in line for the warmer season.

So I’m sure people already knew but the winner is Anthony Chen with his edit from Shanghai, China which was produced by Paul Imperio. The edit was put together quite impressively and amongst most things, we felt super honored that someone would choose to represent our city a long way from home. That being said, we’re sending you your three shirts ASAP Chen.

On another note though, we do feel awful about Joey Lunger breaking his ankle for the contest so we’re sending him a few shirts as well for putting the time and effort into producing something worth watching. Hope you recover soon dude. To everyone else who participated and supported, thanks a million! Thank you for also doing your best to follow the rules! We truly appreciate it and hopefully we can get more companies to collaborate with I Roll NY and help get the NY scene motivated to build. Be on the lookout for the next contest featuring our new line of shirts. Boom!

Winners:
1. Anthony Chen
2. Joey Lunger

Below are all of the entries from both winners and the rest of the great submissions.

Anthony Chen

Joey Lunger


 

Follow through to the other side for more submissions.
 

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ODNY X I ROLL NY edit contest!

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Hope some people are excited for the least. We teamed up with I Roll NY to hook up some lucky skater w/ some OD shirts. Support the grassroots movement! Can’t wait to see some dope entries. Take care NY! Details below.

LOGO FILES: ODXIROLLNY.zip (both need to be integrated somehow in the edit)

1. 1:00 minute edit.
2. 100% street (no known spots)
3. Throw up the set (logos provided)
4. One winner!
5. Prize: ODNY T-shirts (3)

Open to anyone.

Rules: Must be ONE MINUTE long. Has to be a random spot or a spot never captured on camera. I know some people may be thinking that’s hard but we suggest going to your nearest city or plaza and trying something new. Not hard at all. We highly encourage gaps, handicap rails, or even more creative.. an edit with no grinding at all! Also, NO park, p-rails, or boxes. We know it’s cold. Get out there and get busy please. Get creative!

LOGO FILES: ODXIROLLNY.zip (both need to be integrated somehow in the edit)

Upload to vimeo or youtube. We prefer vimeo because they won’t disable the audio if you break any copyright regulations. Anything rocks though.

MUST EMAIL YOUR SUBMISSION TO IROLLNY@GMAIL.COM
Email should include a link to your edit, your full name, address, and desired t-shirt size.

Submission deadline: March 31, 2011
Winner announced: April 5, 2011

Any questions or concerns contact: toro@onedayny.com

You can view the actual shirts on the Look Book.

FEATURED ON: I Roll NY
 

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