Will Smith’s latest money making scheme (his son Jaden) puts down a small bit of skateboarding skills in his newest video Pumped up Kicks (Like Me). filmed entirely at The Skatelab in Simi Valley, California. And yes, that was Chris Cole and Theotis Beasley all over the place. Nothing like keeping the family business rolling.
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We’re still laughing thanks to Gary Rogers. . . yep. So is our grandma. For real. “That kid is so funny,” she said in an email.
[Link: Ride Channel]
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With the sales of the company to Sequential Brands Group all contracts were off at DVS Shoes, that’s why they are extra excited to get Daewon Song back on the DVS program for the next three years at least.
“DVS has been family since 1997 and has always had my back 100% and I will always have their’s, 100%!!! Re-signing wasn’t even a question! Just needed to make sure the damn pen worked!” says Song.
For the official word from DVS follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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Dr. James G. Corasanti, the Getzville, New York physician who was driving drunk and reportedly texting when he mowed down (and killed) 18-year-old skateboarder Alexandria M. Rice has been fined $10,000 and put on five years probation by the New York State Department of Health, according to a story in the Buffalo News.
Corasanti, 56, of Getzville, agreed to a consent decree under which he may practice medicine only under the supervision of another licensed physician while he is on probation. He also must be monitored by a therapist and a sobriety monitor. . . The order goes into effect Monday. He may appeal to lift the probation after three years.
Corasanti must also undergo “random sobriety screenings” and enroll in an “ethics program.” We’re still hoping Corasanti gets at least his year in jail. He will be sentenced on August 16, 2012.
[Link: Buffalo News]
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This is the kind of skating required to win the 2012 Converse Coastal Carnage at the US Open of Surfing. Ben Raybourn jams through the finals in this clip from The Skateboard Mag. Aaron “Jaws” Homoki won the best trick. For complete results from SkateDaily.net, click here.
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Lake Forest, California’s Dylan Witkin slayed the first Damn Am on the sand at the 2012 US Open of Surfing. This is how he did it. Sebo Walker took Best trick. For complete results from the Skatepark of Tampa click here.
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We spent the day today (August 3, 2012) at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California and will have a little more to say on that later, but as usual the SPoT Life crew has completely captured the mood of the day and the event. Check it out. For the Damn Am Finals and Coastal Carnage match ups click the link.
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Click here for the complete photo gallery
For the past two days (August 1 – 2, 2012) the Agenda Show has packed buyers, brands, and the media into the Long Beach California Convention Center and dazzled them with a wild array of clothing, accessories, surfboards, and skateboards.
Because of its growing size it seemed like more than a few industry veterans still couldn’t help comparing the Agenda Show to the long defunct ASR Show. With the exception of a small area of tables (the Agenda Cafe) on the South East end of the center, the entire 224,000 square feet of floor space was filled.
Everything felt bigger. We had to park farther away. We walked in large groups from the parking garage. Inside on the Berrics Agenda skateboarding end of the show it was often difficult to walk down an aisle without having to say excuse me several times. It seemed too busy writing orders to even look up. And that played into the feeling of bigness even more.
“It’s really not that much bigger,” Agenda Co-founder Aaron Levant said. “We have about 50 new brands, but we also had a few brands that wanted to increase the size of their booths.”
Even with those increases, however, at least one of the brands who took more space this year believed they could have used even more. “We’ve been writing orders all day,” said a partner at one clothing brand. “And our sales manager came back to me and said if we had more room to show the line we could have written more orders.”
With that kind of thinking Agenda can only get bigger. But one thing is for sure: the Agenda Show is still virtually free of the bikini models that seemed to get so much play back in the day. “We did let one exhibitor have a model,” Levant said. “But that’s because they’re a clothing company that makes bikinis and buyers need to see how they fit.”
To check out the people and products we saw at Agenda click the link for complete photo gallery.
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We keep thinking we’ll eventually reach the point where Gary Rogers stops making us laugh. Each week we expect it to be next week. But the kid keeps on coming up. This episode it was his opinions on girls who skate that got us wheezing. Watch and you’ll see what we mean.
[Link: Ride Channel]
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For the past four years New York Times writer Azam Ahmed and Director Ryan Ferguson have been working on a documentary film showing how skateboarding is changing lives in Chicago’s gang infested streets. Here’s what Ahmed has to say about Skate or Die:
We’ve scraped by with almost no money, compiling more than 100 hours of footage that follows the life of one skater who was shot in gang crossfire while sitting on his mother’s porch. Here’s the original story that was an inspiration for the film. . . Now, we need to cut about 100 hours of footage into a movie. To do that, we need a top-notch editor. While we’ve cut costs in every way imaginable, to professionally cut this film will cost about $35,000.
The filmmakers have have $29,940 already pledged on Kickstarter, but the have only 60 hours to reach their goal of $35,000 or they lose it all. If there is anything you can do to help the project, please click the link and make a donation.
[Link: Skate Or Die]
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