The OGs of electronic music Kraftwerk will be hitting the North American road in 2025. To promote the tour our favorite pro skateboarder Tony Hawk created a video. Check it and get your tickets now. This band won’t live forever. . . or maybe they will. They are the robots.
[Link: Kraftwerk Tour]
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We all know the art Stacy Peralta has created on his skateboard, on video, and film, but now he’s creating paintings about skateboarding. In this documentary, Against The Current, he explains it all.
Stacy shares his various inspirations from childhood to present day, and the challenges and lessons learned while working to develop this new visual language in his iterations of these tools of joy from the past. . . The work also explores his temporal and obsessive relationship to the skateboard collection that intrinsically holds the memories of those ephemeral halcyon days. As well as the decay and degradation that entropy and time have on our prized possessions, and even ourselves.
Spend a couple minutes to watch it. Then, roll up the coast to Cambria, California and check out his art show at Cruise Control Contemporary gallery.
[Link: Against The Current]
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We love Don Brown. So this is here for posterity. Know what we mean?
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Jim Jannard, the action sporting genius entrepreneur behind Oakley BMX/motorcycle grips, glasses, and, more recently, Red Digital Cinema has reportedly sold his Malibu, California beach home for $210 million according to a story in the New York Post. This apparently breaks the record for most expensive home sale in California state history: a record formerly held by the Jay-Z/Beyoncé Corporation at $200 million.
This 15,000-square-foot stunner sprawls across 9.5 acres of prime clifftop land, boasting a private 300-foot stretch of ocean near El Pescador State Beach. . . The palatial pad includes eight bedrooms, a staggering 14 bathrooms, a massive courtyard, a gym and two guesthouses. . . Interiors designed by Michael S. Smith — the same guy who revamped the Oval Office at the White House — feature ornate columns, beamed ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling steel and glass windows. . . The backyard includes a lush lawn and a pool with ocean views.
Work hard kids, and all this can be yours.
[Link: New York Post]
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Mr. Rocco talks about why he’s dropping back in on skateboarding. And that’s worth hearing. Not much else to say? Just watch it.
[Link: Jenkem Mag]
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The Tampa Bay Times checks in on the Tampa skateboarding scene from Ryan Clements’ dream driveway to Brian Schaefer’s the SPoT with all the heads, shops, skaters, and manus in between, thanks to some clever reporting by Paul Guzzo.
Tampa Bay is a global hub for the skateboarding industry. It’s where the modern skateboard was designed, where a historic skatepark is located, where a major skateboard competition is held every year.
Click the link and remind yourself that regardless of the current times, Florida still has a few good things going for it.
[Link: Tampa Bay Times]
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Extra happy 60th birthday to Blockhead Skateboard’s Dave B. He’s making 60 look like 30 all over again.
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Regardless of the occasional jokes we have made at his expense, we’ve always enjoyed our time hanging out with Tony Hawk. But for those who don’t there is “Hawk Be Gone.” Thanks, Stephen Colbert.
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Tech Deck is ready for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with new park pieces and signature boards from a whole slew of skaters we’ll see going for the gold. And, they’re the only officially licensed toy line of the Games.
The single pack assortment will roll out in two waves, one 4/1 and one 6/15 in stores at Walmart, featuring boards from these skateboarding Olympians: Felipe Gustavo (Brazil), Kalvin Hoefler (Brazil), Aurélien Giraud (France), Vincent Milou (France), Nyjah Huston (USA), Mariah Duran (USA), Jagger Eaton (USA), Rayssa Leal (Brazil), Shane O’Neill (Australia), Yuto Horigome (Japan), Sora Sharai (Japan), Micky Papa (Canada), and Bryce Wettstein (USA).
You know, collect them all! Look for them where toys are sold!
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Lucas Beaufort spent his downtime during covid putting together a big book of skateboard shops called Heart. We should all check it out, according to a story in Brooklyn Magazine by Colin Kirkland.
“You need a big heart to run a skate shop,” says Lucas Beaufort, a French visual artist, filmmaker and life-long skateboarder who turned his quarantine confinement into a years-long quest to document and celebrate the world’s most iconic skateboarding hubs. . . Across 428 pages, readers will find personal interviews and classic skate-mag photos, which help make the case that amidst an onslaught of digital retail and social media, skate shops remain an essential analog to harnessing the soul of skate communities worldwide.
For more on the book and an interview with Beaufort, click the link.
[Link: Brooklyn Magazine]
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