Last summer (August 15, 2012) the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian Institution invited Rodney Mullen to discuss “the role of invention and innovation” in American Life. As always, Mullen turns out to be as compelling a speaker as he is a skateboarder. Check it.
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Before Instagram announced via their updated terms of service (December 17, 2012) that they may begin using user photos as potential advertising opportunities legendary skate photographers Grant Brittain and Mike Blabac discussed the idea of massively distributed images in the social age. What they have to say is interesting. And that’s why we’ve linked it up here. Or does that go without saying?
[Link: The Skateboard Mag]
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Here’s how the rest of the world is treating Tony Hawk’s Instagram photos of him skateboarding with is daughter. Tony’s response yesterday via Instagram: “One more from yesterday (via @msk8blake). For those that say I endanger my child: it’s more likely that you will fall walking on the side walk than I will skateboarding with my daughter.”
[Link: WTVR.com]
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Skateline with Gary Rogers.
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This Wednesday night (December 19th, 2012) legendary skate photographer Grant Brittain will present a slide show of some of his most classic skateboarding images in The Garage at UNIV, in Encinitas, California.
Grant will be doing an old-time skateboarding slideshow from 7 to 9pm. Featuring narration as well as Q + A. Space is limited, so get there early. The $10 entry goes to the Encinitas Community Resource Center and we will have drinks and popcorn. . . . “This is how we used to show our photos back in the day before the friggin Web and photo exhibits every other weekend,” says Grant. “There’s nothing like a good old fashion slideshow in a cold garage.”
The Garage at UNIV is located at 1053 South Coast Highway 101, in Encinitas, California. For more information, call (760) 942-UNIV or visit www.univ-shop.com
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Sneaker heads with a penchant for the Supra brand now have an epic dream catalog in the 260-page Supra: The Book.
A large portion of the book is dedicated to the limited edition collaborations SUPRA has done with friends and celebrities and features stories and photos with Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Slash, Steve Aoki, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Just Blaze, Deion Sanders, Samantha Ronson, and many more. Also included are rare sneakers that were produced in conjunction with an array of eclectic sources such as the television show Lost, Stubb’s Bar-B-Q . . . and even Dirty Harry. Also are collars, quotes, and thoughts from sneaker industry authorities such as SNS, All Gone, and Sneaker Freaker.
The book is available on the Supra website for $50 and just might be the perfect way to spend some of that extra Christmas cash you might have laying around this month. Follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
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It’s 12.12.12 (if that means anything to you) and that apparently means that Bryan Herman’s new Emerica shoe, the G6 is out in the wild. Check it.
[Link: Emerica]
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Josh Kalis guests this week as the host of the DGK sponsored game show Who’s More Ghetto with contestants Gary Rogers and Derrick Wilson. Kind of reminds us of an old Big Brother interview, but we’ll leave it at that.
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Vert skater, TV host, and photographer Neal Hendrix will present a showing of his images titled Exhibition: Photo at The Garage at UNIV in Encinitas, California on Friday December 14, 2012.
Neal Hendrix has spent the last twenty years living his dream as a professional skateboarder. Over that span, he accumulated a lot of broken bones, a couple million frequent flyer miles, a handful of X-Games medals and a passion to bring home amazing photos from the far-flung lands where skateboarding has taken him. Neal currently skates for Elephant Skateboards and is the Brand Manager at Camp Woodward. . . “Skateboarding has shown me the world. I started out with crappy film cameras, moved to equally crappy digital point-and-shoot cameras, and eventually evolved to respectable tools of the trade,” says Neal. “Throughout that evolution, my creative passion crystalized: looking through a lens is no longer about documenting the places that I’ve skateboarded, but about capturing moments in the lives of people who live so differently from me, who get through their day in unusual ways, and who have never even seen a skateboard.”
The show opens at 7 PM. The Garage at UNIV is located at 1053 South Coast Highway 101, in Encinitas, California. For more info call (760) 942-UNIV.
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You have two days left to bid on one of Tony Hawk’s Boards + Bands memorabilia collab auctions to raise money for the Tony Hawk Foundation and its mission to help build skateparks.
The Boards + Bands fundraising initiative merges the worlds of skateboarding and music to benefit the work of the Tony Hawk Foundation. Hawk invited a select group of professional skateboarders to donate their personally ridden skateboards and submit the name of their favorite songs. Harper then sent those boards on to the appropriate artists with one simple message: “Please write the lyrics to this skater’s favorite song on his skateboard, and we’ll use it to create more skateparks for kids.” . . .The skaters and artists who have collaborated include Bucky Lasek and Adam Yauch, Rodney Mullen and Ben Harper, Jamie Thomas and Bob Dylan, Mike Vallely and Tom Petty, Steve Caballero and Metallica, Bob Burnquist and Ben Harper, Lance Mountain and Jimmy Cliff, and Tony Hawk and Paul McCartney.
The auction ends on Thursday, December 123, 2012 at 7 PM. Click here to bid, or follow the jump for the official word. [click to continue…]
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