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Skateboarding DVD Video Review:Toy Machine's Suffer the Joy
Director: Kevin Barnett & Ed Templeton
Studio:
Released: 2006
Rating: 4 Stars
Staring:
Johnny Laton, Diego Bucchieri, Austin Stephins, Ed Templeton, Billy Marks, Matt Bennett, Nick Trapasso, Josh Harmony.
I found no suffering, just joy in Toy Machine's latest release, Suffer the Joy. With full parts by Johnny Layton, Matt Bennett, Austin Stephens, and Diego Bucchieri you will feel much joy. Ed Templeton makes an appearance further boosting the joy-factor.
The only thing that made me feel suffrage of any sort was seeing this flick end and enduring the entirety of Amber Macomber's art video - WTF?!?
Suffering can come in many forms from emotional to physical. Most things Mel Gibson has done make us suffer, with the exception of Road Warrior. Ok, Lethal Weapon was pretty rad too. But overall, he's a nut job who's only a few paces behind Tom Cruise on the Annoying Moron meter.
People seem to be the prime violators of peace and quiet. People have a knack for generating suffering... usually with little just cause, provocation or rationale. One could almost argue that people suck. I have many compelling facts to back this up, but I'd rather not bore you with them all, but rather inform you to be very careful when dealing with people. They can be very tricky and the ones you think are really cool, actually suck.
Be careful out there...
I dig Ed Templeton - artist, skater, businessman... he seems to do it all. Even the folks at Wikipedia have him dialed in.
Templeton started skateboarding in 1985 in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California, with his friend Jason Lee. He turned pro for New Deal Skateboards in 1990. He left New Deal in 1992 to start the short-lived company "TV" with Mike Vallely. In 1993, Ed founded Toy Machine skateboards. Outside of skateboarding, Ed is an artist and photographer. He began by painting the graphics for Toy Machine. In 2000, Ed's book of photography, Teenage Smokers, placed first in the Search For Art competition in Italy, winning $50,000. In the fall of 2001, Ed's artwork was featured in Juxtapoz magazine. Ed has been a vegan since 1990.
If I chose to be more like Ed, Id probably hone my skating and artistic talents, cuz I could never be a vegetarian, let alone be a vegan. I guess I'm more like Paris Hilton, in that respect.
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Bonus Stuff
- Suffer the Joy trailer
- Suffer the Joy teaser
- Heavy Flow Day - Skating with Rob Straser, Alex Schmidt, Max Chilen.
- Ashley Macober's Art Video
- Kick in the Teeth Tour
- Billy's Balls - Not those balls... this guy has a knack for landing ping pong balls into beer cups with amazing agility, regularity and a certain carny-like persistence.
- Friends
- Cheryl Dunn's Creative Life Store trailer
- Barr music video
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