If all the product at January Surf Expo show in Orlando, Florida weren’t enough Quiksilver will be holding their All 80s All Day Vert Challenge at Surf Expo. It probably wouldn’t be out of line for us to assume that the event might possibly include a visit by Tony Hawk. He went last year. It’s always good to see his blonde 80s mop haloed in neon.
The event is open to the public, but Surf Expo attendees will get VIP admission which is better than having to travel all the way to Huntington Beach. You going?
SUPERbrand Apparel has hooked up Melbourne, Australia skater Kurt Winter to the team.
“Kurt represents everything we’re trying to do with our brand in general,” said SUPERbrand Creative Director Tony Larson. “He’s young, he rips and he’s got great style. And like the rest of the guys on the team, he’s just a great human. We’re lucky to have him.”
Real Estate expertJason Lee is apparently working on a new TV series for Adult Swim that would have something to do with skateboarding, according to a story on CinemaBlend.com.
Lee wasn’t very specific on the details of the pilot, however he did say that he would be starring and directing in it and that it takes place within the skateboarding world. . . . “It’s very twisted, it’s very out there being that it’s Adult Swim, but I’m very proud that it takes place in the world of skateboarding because not much is done in that world, and so I get to play with that. We’re gearing up to shoot that in a few weeks, so fingers crossed.”
For the record we’ll watch (and even occasionally pay to see) anything Jason Lee appears in.
Stereo’s Jason Lee has apparently sold his Los Feliz LA home at a loss of $300,000, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
Located in the Los Feliz neighborhood, the 2,200-square-foot home has three bedrooms and three baths. Situated on a 1½ acre lot with city views, the home, which was built in 1948, has a separate guest house, gardens and a private office. There’s a hot tub located off the master suite.
Lee reportedly bought the home in 2007 from bluesman Robert Cray for $3.4 million and has just sold it for $3.1. In “these economic times” it could have been much worse.
At what was described as “last night’s small announcement at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, California where some shady karaoke and Jake puking went down!” it appears that Leo Romero has been named 2010 Thrasher Magazine’s SOTY. Congrats, Leo. We don’t know anyone who would argue with this one.
Two men have been arrested for the August 16, 2006 fire that destroyed ramps near the site of Virginia Beach’s world famous Mt. Trashmore Ramp and caused $400,000 in damages, according to a story on The Daily Press.
Battalion chief Tim Riley identified the two suspects as “former Green Run High School students” who are not being identified because they were juveniles at the time of the fire. Riley said the two males, who currently live in Richmond, are charged with unlawful burning of a structure. . . A spokeswoman for the commonwealth’s attorney’s office said no decision has been made about whether to charge the suspects as adults.
Zinio subscriptions are the perfect way to read print magazine content (not that it’s all that necessary). Flipping through the spreads on an iPhone, iPad, or home computer is as easy as swiping a finger, and reading a story only takes simple click on the “text” button to bring up text only mode.
[Editors’ Note: It appears that currently that the digital version of The Skateboard Mag is not available on the iPhone (only on the iPad and PC) but Grant Brittain assures us that the iPhone version will be released in the next few days. We can wait.]
While on the road with Vice co-founded Shane Smith, Girl Skateboards’ Spike Jonze was “detained” in Yemen until the two could come up with the money to be released, according to a story in the New York Post.
. . . while filming their search for al Qaeda for an MTV investigative series that premieres Dec. 6 — “The Vice Guide to Everything.” They avoided jail and retrieved their footage with an $8,000 political bribe.
Compared to some of the location fees paid for the last Jackass movie $8,000 is pretty cheap.
Bound to mimic a phone book, Ari Marcopoulos: Directory presents a collection of approximately 1,200 photographs, with curator and critic Neville Wakefield providing insightful commentary on some of Marcopoulos’s singular images. Co-published with Nieves, each book in this limited-edition series includes a print signed by the artist. . . Influential to both art and fashion, Ari Marcopoulos’s unique style of raw immediacy has made him one of the most important contemporary photographers. For thirty years, photographer Ari Marcopoulos has been pioneering contemporary photography by documenting subcultures such as skateboarders and graffiti artists, as well as landscapes and his own family and friends.
Guess we’ll have to add this to the collection as well.
