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.
[Link: World Industries]
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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.]
[Link: Vans via SkateDaily] [click to continue…]
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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.
[Link: Rad Collector via @JennGoodman]
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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.
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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.
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éS has just announced the release of their 15 Years of Atiba Jefferson Photography 1995 – 2010 book 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]
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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 every other celebrity media outlet (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.
[Links: Us Weekly, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, etc. . . ]
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Already Been Done mastermind Josh Friedberg is going to be pretty busy next month as he takes over the Executive Director position at the International Association of Skateboard Companies. He and Rob Brink just launched the second “issue” of ABD and now Friedberg will be neck-deep in skateboarding business politics. If anyone can handle this, it’s Friedberg.
“I’m honored to be chosen as Executive Director by such an accomplished group as the IASC Board,” says Friedberg. “It’s a heavyweight room and their support gets me excited to tackle the challenges at hand. I believe IASC truly succeeds when every skateboard company small and large is compelled to join because of both the benefits IASC can provide their business and the work we do as a whole to support skateboarding. With the combined strength of all our members I’m going to do everything I can to make IASC an indispensable resource for the future growth of the skateboard industry.”
Congrats, Josh. Follow the jump for all the official details.
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Looks like Mark “Gator” Rogowski will be spending another seven years in California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo before he gets a second chance at parole, according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune.
Deputy District Attorney Richard Sachs argued that Rogowski remained an “unreasonable risk to society” and should remain imprisoned, according to a news release provided Tuesday by the District Attorney’s Office. . . . One of the victim’s family members appeared at the hearing and made a statement urging the parole board to keep Rogowski incarcerated. . . .Convicted killers in California are rarely granted parole at a first hearing.
Gator is currently serving 31 years to life in the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo for the first-degree murder and rape of Jessica Bergsten in Carlsbad, California in March of 1991.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune via Skatedaily]
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She’s got an amazing voice and tickles the ivories like few women can, but we’ve never actually enjoyed looking at Lady Gaga. That may have changed with Terry Richardson photos of the Lady for Purple Magazine. Who knew that all she needed to look reasonably normal was a Supreme deck and some shades. Click the link for the rest.
[Link: Global Grind]
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