School SHIZZZNNNNAAAT

ok so heres a lil video i made for class...its shot w/ a 16mm bolex hand winded camera. basicaly a silent film accept the music of the day in the life of a homeless dude...check it

pepper shaker

ok so last not...home boy kurt offered me 100 dollars if i could eat the entire contents of a pepper shaker in 5 minutes allowing only 2 cups of water. and no throwing up untill after the 5 minutes was up. heres the results....


pepper from dan mele on Vimeo.

lake vista park

so its been awhile since adam has been back on a skateboard due to hurt ankles n no way of getting anywhere, but now hes back n shredding. heres a clip of myself n him doing a lil skating over at the lake vista park.


Untitled from dan mele on Vimeo.

crazy bust

ok so heres some footage of a mess around line right before University of Tampas finest security officers showed up....all in all this was on my top 5 busts ever...even compared to pulaski. 6 skaters...bout 15 security gaurds...telling us they gonna get "NY on our asses" and "fucking up our whole families" ended up gettin written up for skateboarding at my school which must be a first and possibly getting billed w/ damage to the ledges...not like i dont pay enogh to go to this school...ud really have to be there but it was nuts. heres the footage of the line and the 1st security gaurd coming up...


UT sesh from dan mele on Vimeo.

davis island rail

so hit up this rail today w/ literaly half a push or less of runway...heres some of the tricks


davis island rail from dan mele on Vimeo.

throw back

while my daily cruising through youtube, i found this old 411 section of sean o brian for all the dc heads...check it

raw footy

havnt updated in awhile...heres some raw footy



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the blake doty trick tip

heres a funny video mr greg voith made this summer of blake doty giving us his knowledge on switch crooks. thanks blake

weekend

spent the weekend over at mchillens n this morning before heading over to the sox/rays game, did a lil jumping of his house into the pool. check out the stee on my jump



house jump from dan mele on Vimeo.

back to largo ledge

so today started out w/ a sick ass beach sesh over at st pete where we did some gnarley body surfing. after that went back to the 3 stair grinder to get a trick. gotta go back again n re do it though...not tweaked enough...sheeit



fs crook largo from dan mele on Vimeo.

turtle ditch

so tonight we hit up turtle ditch because a new ledge was just built there. shit seemed pretty fresh. heres a lil mess around footage from myself, dan gomez, mchillen, n even wells coming through w/ a line. turned out to be a fun sesh even when this random mist was getting all up on the lens. peep...



turtle ditch from dan mele on Vimeo.

RIP cereal bowls

heres a pic of adam skating the cereal bowls over at HCC before they were filled it with some nice brown cereal with veggies. photo by kyle veegs.



p.s. give adam props for breaking murphs stem.

random kid eating it

so as i was doing my daily look through youtube for funny videos i came across this kid who attempts to kickflip his 7 stair in his backyard prolly when his parents went out to the grocery store or something. anyways this kid totally must have known there was no way in hell he was gonna land this but turned out to be some good bail footage. enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnTHF0ZqcE&NR=1

awesome slam

totally awesome slam when i hit a pebble...sick life dude



slam from dan mele on Vimeo.

random footy

just a bunch of random clips we filmed at a couple new spots over the past few days



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wallride sesh

last night went to airport banks n tried to film some tricks before getting booted by the airport cops...after that went over to HCC to skate these cerel bowl type things which ended up getting chased all over campus by security in a golf cart. ended up at this wallride spot n filmed some fun stuff for n update. check it



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largo ledge

so a few days ago i met a new dude at my school from palm beach who skates n we went out to this familiar looking 3 stair ledge...



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back to tampa

so im leaving again for tampa this thursday n wont be back till prolly thanksgiving. so i thought it was appropriate to post this montage i made awhile ago on the airplane coming home from tampa one time of all tampa spots. featured skaters are myself, wes bell, brandon bristol, jason durbin, and danny gomez. enjoy, n ill see you over thanksgiving break.



tampa montage from dan mele and Vimeo.

gold rail

last night went up to gold rail for some unfinished business. heres a clip dioren and kevin get down on a familiar 4 stair while waiting for smalls to get downtown as well as the warm up shit at gold



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philly

so yesterday myself, kenny, kevin, timbo, n driscol went on a little day trip to philly. got a little footy. heres the mess around stuff...as well as sean getting down on the filmer board.




philly from dan mele and Vimeo.

Derek Gertz

As everyone knows by now. Derek Gertz passed away the other week, and im sure if you knew him or not, it may have affected you in some way. This is a clip of myself and derek skating that feldt made when me him and derek went to the ridge earlier this summer. RIP derek. you will be missed.



Derek Gertz from dan mele and Vimeo.

summer tampa trip

so as many of u already know. myself, kenny, kevin, and adam went on a lil trip to tampa this summer n racked up some footy. i made a lil montage out of it. theres also footage from local spots mixed in as well...some people have been trouble watching the videos but for the most part everyone says they are working.if its not working for you then let me know.



tampa trip from dan mele and Vimeo.

baltimore

went to the ridge yesterday w/ the twins n timbo n racked up a bunch of mess around footy as well as a few good clips. heres a lil clip i put together...all filmed by timbo



baltimore from dan mele and Vimeo.

yup another video blog

so yup ive decided to do something w/ all the footy we film on my cam. expect updates every few days w/ new footy. should be pretty fresh