On Friday night (February 25, 2011) Bend, Oregon’s Division Street Skatepark Project will hold their third annual PUSH Art Auction at the Old Boomtown Building. It a great evening for art, skateboarding, and inbibing refreshing beverages from the Deschutes Brewery (if you know what we mean).
PUSH features custom skate deck art from over 50 local, regional, and national artists, such as Aaron James Draplin, Kellie Talbot, Quincy Quigg, Wes Youssi, Jesse Lockwood and Dana MacKenzie. . . The PUSH Art Auction is a family friendly event and will feature complementary food and beverages from Deschutes Brewery, Typhoon, Parilla Grill, and Whole Foods. This year’s event will also feature a raffle including a complete skateboard complements of The Skateboard Store, a complete longboard complements of The Longboard Store, a Nitro snowboard, along with other swag from Blood Wizard, Shnar Skateboards, and The Company Skateboards, just to name a few!
A warm, dry place to skate in the OC might not be a bad idea for tomorrow night (February 25, 2011). Ambig is throwing a little party in celebration of the release of Zine 7 with free food, BBQ and Drink. But most importantly the skate park will be open to the public.
Portland, Oregon’s newest indoor concrete skateboarding/art gallery facility Commonwealth of Skateboarding will be celebrating it’s grand opening on Saturday, February 26, 2011 beginning at 3 PM.
The afternoon/evening event will feature a photography show by Jon Humphries, Garric Ray, and Bryce Kanights along with “grinding, spracking, music, friends, beverages,” and “good ol’ conversation.” As they say:
We built this park with our own damn hands so that we and our friends and all Portland skateboarders would have somewhere to go when it was too hot, too cold, too we–didn’t feel like driving to a park or spot. . . Without your contributions this place won’t last too long. . . We are for quality over quantity and creative a kind of community here–so membership has it’s privileges, and doing a drop-in definitely isn’t the cheapest method. . . But we’re down if you’re down.
Memberships in the park are $750 for a year, $80 a month, or $9 for a two hour drop-in. And helmets are not required (if you sign the waiver.
The second installment of World Industries‘ seven-part skateboard video series It’s Your World, launched last night with Timmy Knuth. Knuth’s part follows Anthony Shetler whose video dropped January 20, 2011.
The entire Vans skateboarding carnival of hesh MFers is in Bondi, Australia this week for the big Bowl-A-Rama in Bondi. The show goes down live online today (February 18, 2011) at 4 PM Los Angeles time ( 11 AM February 19 local time). The event rolls for eight straight hours. Not sure we’re going to make it through, but it’s good to know it will be there. Click here for all the pre-roll.
[Update Feb. 19, 2011: Pedro Barros wins Pro and Steve Caballero wins Masters. Follow the jump for full results.]
The Hydrilla’s Cullen Poythress interviews Henry Rollins on the topics of skateboarding, punk rock, the Internet, and kids today. For those old enough to have seen Black Flag play in the summer of 1982, or those young enough to wonder, this is a great interview. Read it and smile.
The youth have been satiated. They have ipads, ipods, iphones, and everything is a point and a click away. The format that used to raise the parents’ ire, it being music or whatever, it’s all kind of okay now. The Internet gives you a great deal of access and a great deal of privacy. You can view your online porn and you can make your own porn with your girlfriend and post it to the delight of all your class mates. There’s not a lot of people saying, “No”, at this point.
Can’t really argue with anything but the privacy thing. Click the link and read the rest.
At the Maloof High Ollie Challenge yesterday (February 15, 2011) in Las Vegas at some fashion trade show ollie magician Aldrin Garcia busted up and over a 45 inch high bar to land a new Guinness World Record for the ollie.
Get a tape measure out right now and pull it to 45 for the full impact of how tall this is. We saw him go 44 inches last August at the 2010 Grind For Life High Ollie and knew he had a couple more inches in him. Look like he still does. Nice pop. For a couple more angles, follow the jump.
Vans’ Doug Palladini appears pretty damn happy to announce today that Vans has successfully hired former Altamont and Emerica Global Brand Marketer Justin Regan as their new skate marketing manager.
“We’re really happy to bring on someone of Justin’s caliber to drive the direction of our skate initiatives,” said Doug Palladini, Vans’ Vice President of Marketing. “Justin’s skill set, experience and stature in the skate industry combine to make him the perfect fit to lead an already strong Vans skate program.”
For his part Regan appears to enjoy the fact that he’s bumped himself up a level or two.
“It’s a total honor for me to join the team behind the world’s #1 skateboard shoe,” said Regan. “And I’m looking forward to the privilege of working together within the skate program to contribute even further to Vans’ continued and phenomenal success in both footwear and apparel.”
Looks like one more person has escaped Lake Forest. Follow the jump for the official release.
éS has just announced the release of their 15 Years of Atiba Jefferson Photography 1995 – 2010book as an iPad app (no, it doesn’t work on an iPhone). Here’s what they’re saying about it:
The unique App features an overview of photos that legendary skateboard photographer Atiba Jefferson shot for éS over the past 15 years. The digital book brings you a vivid interactive consumer experience with features as videos and animated sequences that really bring the contents of the book to life.
But don’t worry kids: it’s a free app. Just have your grandma download it on her iPhone big letter edition iPad and check it out. We’re sure it’s amazing. If your grandma, aunt, or mom’s older, single, woman friend doesn’t have an iPad (they all seem too) then click here to watch a video of how the app works and leave it at that.
[Link: éS]
We really were going to ignore this whole story, but then it got so big that we figured we’d have to put it in the log for posterity sake.
On Friday, February 4, 2010, (ten days before Valentine’s Day) Tony Hawk reportedly filed for divorce in San Diego, California from his third wife Lhotse Merriam, according to US Magazine and nearly everyothercelebritymediaoutlet (except Perez Hilton).
“We have made the difficult decision to file for divorce,” the parents of two-year-old Kadence Clover told UsMagazine.com in a joint statement. “We remain deeply committed and loving parents to our daughter, and out of respect for that responsibility we ask that people honor our family’s privacy during this important time of transition. Thank you for your understanding.”
The couple was married for five years. Without going into all the rumors, we’ll just say something we’ve said several times before: we hope Tony eventually finds what he’s looking for because he certainly seems optimistic about the institution of marriage. Plus, by now he probably has something close to a Massey Prenup all dialed and ready to sign.
On Friday night (February 25, 2011) Bend, Oregon’s Division Street Skatepark Project will hold their third annual PUSH Art Auction at the Old Boomtown Building. It a great evening for art, skateboarding, and inbibing refreshing beverages from the Deschutes Brewery (if you know what we mean).
