MACBA Report — Brayan Albarenga’s Hélas Part

Brayan Albarenga is no-doubt one of the first names associated with IG clips at Barcelona’s enduring landmarks: MACBA, Universitat, Para-lel. Those three have endured as fixtures in videos for three decades now, but over time, Barcelona-heavy parts and edits have widened their radius, extending into the city’s less-touristed zones for fresh spots.

And that applies to Mr. Albarenga’s actual video parts as much as it does for any other third-eye-open skaters scouring the outskirts of the city. His last two for Free are filmed everywhere.

This new one for Hélas though, is back on the home turf 📍

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Now is the Winter of Our EuroTech — On Hélas’ “Fellas” Video

Words by Frozen in Carbonite

Winter. A time for contemplation. Way back at the season’s inception, The Hélas Cap Company dropped the most essential EuroTech document since Lordz’ They Don’t Give a Fuck About Us: the double-DVD skate video, Fellas. I, for one, welcome the current Instagram era if it results in fucking immaculate physical media packaging like the aforementioned. The film comes in a double-CD case like a musically bloated late nineties double album, the track listing printed on each gold disc (the same kind on which your grandfather listened to classical music.) If you no longer own a digital video disc player, it’s also available as a USB keychain fabricated like a lil’ soccer uniform. Truth be told, I’d probably pay triple to avoid watching this or the Pass~Port video part-by-part, on a bunch of different web sites, or both.

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