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Getting Nowhere Faster
''Getting Nowhere Faster'' is a 2004 American skate video featuring female skateboarders. The video features skateboarding footage of the world's most prominent female skateboarders, as well as a fiction film called ''The Skatepark Hauntings of Debbie Escalante''. The skateboarding footage is interwoven with scenes from the video. The DVD features an option to watch only the skateboarding footage, or the storyline sections of the feature. The video is considered to be a major influence on the progression of women in skateboarding. Synopsis Debbie Escalante and her partner, the Cowboy, haunt a skate park, until a group of female skaters leave their dance class to combat Debbie. Featured skaters *Amy Caron *Vanessa Torres * Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins * Alex White * Kenna Gallagher * Faye Jaime * Lauren Mollica *Van Nguyen * Elizabeth Nitu * Nugget * Stefanie Thomas * Patiane Frietas *Lauren Perkins Cameos * Elissa Steamer, Cara-Beth Burnside, Jen O'Brien, Monica Shaw, Lisa Whitaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Villa Cola
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the Early Modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most survivals have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside. Roman Roman villas included: * the ''villa urbana'', a suburban or country sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
