by The Editors on October 4, 2011
While we still don’t believe we’ve ever seen anyone under 45 using an iPad in the wild (fie to you obnoxious moms using iPads to snap photos of your kids at the beach), apparently Vans has. Why else would they put the time and effort into creating their new Off the Wall TV iPad app? Here’s what they say about it:
Off the Wall TV iPad app, delivers Vans’ offthewall.tv video network of exclusive, original action sports, music, art and street culture programming to millions of iPad users around the world. . . [users are] now able to enjoy offthewall.tv anywhere with the easy to use app.
The app (which is free in the iTunes store) features all the content from the offthewall.tv website. So, the next time you’re over at you aunt’s house, grab her iPad and load this thing up. It’s probably pretty cool. Not that we’d know.
[Link: iTunes Store via Shop-Eat-Surf]
by The Editors on October 4, 2011
On Friday, October 14, 2011 (and for one night only) West Hollywood’s Dem Passwords Gallery will host skateboarding filmmaker Greg Hunt’s first solo showing of video and photos from his sixteen years of documenting skateboarding The show, presented by Vans Syndicate, is titled Selective Memory.
As a filmmaker Greg Hunt has created some of skateboarding’s seminal works of the past decade (Sight Unseen: The DC Video and Alien Workshop’s Mind Field). All the while Greg photographed the characters, struggles, and endless travel that define his experience. It was in the mid nineteen nineties when, as professional skateboarder himself, Greg picked up his first camera, a still camera, and began to explore documenting his life and his friends’ lives within their surroundings, in the streets and on the road. Selective Memory encompasses sixteen years, combining over 150 still images with unseen archival film and video to offer a true inside glimpse of this particular outsider world.
Selective memory opens at 7 PM. Dem Passwords Gallery is located at 7914-B Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, California 90046. (The entrance is behind in the alley.) [click to continue…]
by The Editors on October 4, 2011
While in South Africa for the Maloof Money Cup Elliot Sloan landed a tailgrab 900 on the mini-mega ramp and the crowd (and the Twittersphere) goes wild.
@PLGsk8: Congrats to @Elliotsloan for making history by being the first Jew to land a 900!!! Good job buddy!! Haha (alex is half jewish)
@Tonyhawk: Elliot Sloan (@elliotsloan) tailgrab 9 in South Africa! http://say.ly/sOaN9P
@Greenissue79: Gotta give a shout to our hemmi @ElliotSloan for his tail 9 on a “mini-ramp” haha! (See vid title before you comment).
@Buckylasek: I agree! “@btoddrichards: @Elliotsloan is a boss!!! Nice twirl homeslice and the best looking one ever done”
So this is what they’re all talking about.
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
Larry Stevenson’s Makaha Skateboards company was the originator of the kicktail. On the list of skateboarding innovations only the urethane wheel may have had a more important impact. And now, I.E. Distribution (parent company of World Industries) has picked up a “multi-year” license agreement to produce skateboarding prouducts with the brand.
“We’re pleased to be working with the Makaha people,” John Dickinson, i.e. distribution President. “While planning our growth in the longboard and cruiser category we felt it best to work with a brand that has roots in the culture. We feel that no other brand better accomplishes that but the original professional skateboard brand, Makaha.”
A documentory titled Makaha: The Story of the Originator will be released in the spring of 2012. Nice to see an legacy brand continue on as a real skateboarding company. Follow the jump for the official word from I.E. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
On Thursday, October 6, 2011 The Hundreds will launch a “very special capsule collection” designed by Dogtown skater turned LA tattoo artist Eric Dressen.
Comprised of 3 t-shirts, a snap-back cap, and a zip-up hooded sweatshirt — all in black, heather grey, and white to reflect the tattoo artwork of skateboarding legend Eric Dressen — the project is set to release exclusively at our 4 retail locations (The Hundreds LA, The Hundreds SF, The Hundreds NY, and The Hundreds Santa Monica), as well as our most dedicated core skateboarding accounts worldwide.
Go get ’em.
[Link: The Hundreds]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
Skateboarders don’t stand a chance with people like Dr. James G. Corasanti on the road. In July we mentioned that Dr. Corasanti had been charged in the hit-and-run death of 18-year-old skateboarder Alexandra Rice. Forasanti has now been indicted, according to a story on the Buffalonews.com.
The Getzville doctor indicted Thursday on manslaughter charges was texting while driving drunk and speeding when he fatally struck a teenager with his 2010 BMW last July in Amherst, prosecutors say. . . An Erie County grand jury also lodged evidence-tampering charges against Dr. James G. Corasanti, 56, for allegedly removing the victim’s blood and body tissue from his BMW and deleting text messages from his mobile telephone.
Laughably, Corasanti’s defense attorney has described the doctor as “a healer.” Corasanti was given $250,000 bail. If found guilty of second-degree manslaughter he could get 15 years in prison.
[Link: Buffalo News]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
Kids writer and Gummo writer/director Harmony Korine has designed some new skateboards for Supreme. The decks, which features blurry, supernatural looking photos will arrive online and in Supreme stores on Thursday, October 6, 2011.
[Link: Supreme NY via Empire Ave]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
IASC Executive Director Josh Friedberg is “proud” that a new iPhone app that he developed with Element and Medl Mobile is finally out in the wild. And we don’t blame him. The app is called Know Skateboarding and it features a quick and easy way to help new skateboarders learn the fundamental skills they’ll need to become great skateboarders.
Included in the how-to mix are 22 tricks tips (step-by-step video tutorials) with Element pros Mark Appleyard, Levi Brown, Darrell Stanton, and Chad Tim Tim
The app costs $4.99 and is available in the iTunes app store. Click here to check it out.
[Link: Know Skateboarding via @Joshfriedberg]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
Australian Olympic swimmer Kenrick Monk who broke his elbow falling from his skateboard apparently lied to police telling them the injury was the result of a bicycling hit-and-run accident, according to a story in the Herald Sun.
But Swimming Australia said on Saturday that Monk had now changed his version of events, admitting he was not involved in a car accident. . . “The 23-year-old actually broke his elbow in two places falling off a skateboard with no other vehicle involved,” it said in a statement. . . The Commonwealth Games relay gold medallist, who also competed at the Beijing Olympics and the recent world championships in Shanghai, was on his way to training when the accident occurred.
It appears that Monk will never be able to “fully straighten his right arm again.” Well, at least he can still skate.
[Link: Herald Sun]
by The Editors on October 3, 2011
Ishod Wair rolled through David Bachinsky, Jack Curtin, and slipped by Durban born Tommy Flynn to win the first Maloof Money Cup South Africa and take home $100,000. (PLG won the vert)
It was an amazing event, apparently.
“This was absolutely incredible,” said Joe Maloof, creator of Maloof Money Cup and owner of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. “I’ve never seen anything like it. The fans were absolutely incredible. And Tomny just did an incredible job and did his country proud. It just upped the level of excitement for the fans, and you couldn’t even here the announcers over the cheering crowd. The people here in South Africa, and Kimberley welcomed us with open arms and we’ve had the time of our lives. This is an incredible country and we are excited for the future of skateboarding here and I’m confident we’ll see a champion from South Africa emerge very soon.”
Click here for the results or follow the jump for the official word from Maloof. [click to continue…]
While we still don’t believe we’ve ever seen anyone under 45 using an iPad in the wild (fie to you obnoxious moms using iPads to snap photos of your kids at the beach), apparently Vans has. Why else would they put the time and effort into creating their new Off the Wall TV iPad app? Here’s what they say about it:
