by The Editors on November 28, 2010
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.
[Link: Wall Street Journal]
by The Editors on November 24, 2010
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.
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by The Editors on November 24, 2010
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.
We’re kind of hoping they are charged as adults. (Steve Cabellero, Mt. Trashmore. 1985 Photo: Jim Goodrich via SteveCabellero.com.)
[Link: The Daily Press]
by The Editors on November 24, 2010
by The Editors on November 22, 2010
by The Editors on November 22, 2010
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.
[Link: NY Post]
by The Editors on November 19, 2010
Ari Marcopoulos will be releasing his latest photography book Directory with Rizzoli International Publishers and Nieves in April 2011, according to a post on Slamxhype.com.
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.
[Link: Rizzoli via Slamxhype.com]
by The Editors on November 18, 2010
The surf, snow, skate Ultimate Boarder Championship is moving to San Diego and Mammoth for its fourth run. The week long event will be held April 2-9, 2011 with surfing at Seaside Reef in Cardiff, California; snowboarding at Mammoth Mountain, and skateboarding in the San Diego Sports Arena.
“We are looking for the one athlete in the world that can conquer all three board sports and truly rise above the rest,” said Ultimate Boarder® founder and CEO Tim Hoover. “The physical and mental discipline it takes to be good at even one of these sports is incredible, and to be competitive in all three is especially amazing. I’m excited about our new partnerships with Mammoth Mountain and the San Diego Sports Arena, as well as to be returning to Seaside Reef. We’re bringing the athletes to premiere locations, and we look forward to another year of celebrating the impact, skill and beauty defined by these board sports.”
For more of the details, follow the jump or click here for a photo gallery from last year.
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by The Editors on November 18, 2010
According to our logs several Boardistan.com visitors each day use Apple’s magical and revolutionary iPad device. And to reward them we have created the “Our iBallz Your iPad” contest. iBallz are an ingeniously simple way to protect an iPad (or other tablet device) from damage due to drops, spills, and/or the hazards of daily digital life. They also work great as a stand to prop an iPad up at the perfect angle for doing work.
While we may have been the first action sports company to announce content compatibility with the new device, we still don’t have iPads incorporated into our current Boardistan workflow. That’s why we created a contest especially for those techno trailblazers who do. The rules are simple. Send us a photo of an iPad with the Boardistan.com site up and on screen and if we choose it as the winner we’ll send you a set of iBallz.
The photos can be compelling, ridiculous, outrageous, shocking, silly, or stupid, the only requirements are that the photo features an iPad with Boardistan.com up on the screen. The rest is up to you. Simply click here to email the photo.
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by The Editors on November 17, 2010
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.
