Concrete Wave’s Michael Brooke sent us this little clip this morning. Apparently, the longboard skateboard community is feeling a little heat from the major labels.
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A little retro fuel for Friday fantasy from the 1978 BBC Skateboard Kings documentary on skateboarding staring Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Paul Constantineau, Shogo Kubo and host of cool kids. Silverfish Longboarding has all seven parts in order right here.
[Link via Runamuk Visuals]
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According to a report released by the Magazine Publishers of America magazine advertising pages during the third quarter (July to September 2010) were up 3.6 percent over the same period last year. The biggest gains were in the retail category where pages were up 7.2 percent and revenue was up 13.1 percent.
As we do most quarters we’ve checked in with the only action sports magazines followed in the Publisher Information Bureau (Bonnier Corporation’s Transworld Media) and see that things are mostly looking up. In fact Q3 looked great for all the titles aside from Skateboarding and Wakeboarding:
2010 2009 % Change TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING 221.34 173.67 27.45 TRANSWORLD MOTOCROSS 256.26 220.08 16.44 TRANSWORLD SURF 278.42 244.34 13.95 RIDE BMX 152.59 148.36 2.85 TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING 296.04 337.05 -12.17 WAKEBOARDING 93.67 116.83 -19.82
Maybe those iPad magazine apps were just digital overkill. To see how the rest of the magazine world stacked up click here.
[Link: Magazine Publisher of America]
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Skate legends Torger Johnson, Stacy Peralta, Steve Caballero, Eric Koston, Bob Burnquist and Patti McGee will be inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame during an “invite-only” event in Los Angeles, California’s The Cooper Building. The evening will feature cocktails, appetizers, and a live musical performance. Guests will also get to bit on a large selection of skateboarding memorabilia with proceeds going to the Go Skateboarding Foundation.
“Skateboardings rich culture has been built around iconic heroes that have helped to take skateboarding to another level of progression, inspiration and fun,” said John Bernards IASC executive director. “IASC recognizes the importance of honoring the pros that made skateboarding what it is today” without those icons and legends the tricks skateboarders are doing today would not exist. This year’s inductees represent the best, most progressive skateboarding from 1960 to 2010 and we congratulate each of them on their accomplishments.”
Follow the jump for more details on how you may be able to get invited.
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The mother of all DIY skateboard parks, Portland, Oregon’s Burnside will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this Sunday, October 31, 2010. In preparation for the event there’s been a lot of construction going on under the bridge, according to a post on Skatedaily.net.
. . . co-conspirators and two of several original masterminds of the self-made skate zone, Mark “Red” Scott, and Sage Bolyard have been busy constructing a new addition for the event. The work with many of park’s locals also involved, isn’t so pretty, but in the true renegade spirit of all that Burnside was originally built upon two decades ago, that’s absolutely the way it should be – DIY, dirty, gritty, unique, unrefined, but highly functional…built by skaters.
Jay Meer has reportedly giving the park an all-new paint job and things are set for the Halloween Hellraier. For a full photo breakdown from Bryce Kanights click the link below.
[Link: Skatedaily.net]
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Photographer Glen E. Friedman will open his endlessly touring collection of skateboard, rap, and punk rock photos Fuck You All (including the above image of Jay Adams 1978) at San Francisco’s 941 Geary Gallery on Saturday November 6, 2010. But this time the show will includes “several never before seen collaborations” with Shepard Fairey.
Opening reception is November 6, 2010 from 6 – 9 PM. 941 Geary is located (not surprisingly) at 941 Geary Street in San Francisco.
[Link: 941 Geary via Boing Boing]
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Weezy appears to be doing his part for the action sports economy with few references dropped in his song Bill Gates from the I Am Not A Human Being album.
Vans, Tony Hawk, and Shaun White all get props. Here are just a few select rhymes from different verses:
“Skinny ass pants, Fresh pair of Vans, If you n-ggas keep trippin’ n-gga share an ambulance”
“All day I do it, I do it like Tony, Got a sign on my dick that say “bad bitches only””
“Dress like a skater, ride on you like Shaun White, I’m high all day, you can call that shit a long flight”
Ride on you like Shaun White? What does that even mean? Click here for the entire song (and lyrics).
[Link: Lil Wayne]
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We haven’t heard from former pro snowboarder (and “core sport marketing consultant”) Kris Jamieson for years and then out of nowhere he appears pitching the “newest innovation for your iPhone.” It’s called the Audioglove from Fadigear.
It’s an advanced case that actually increases your iPhone’s volume by 12 decibels (that’s a lot!). Get your order in now and we’ll ship you the first edition Audioglove with the JustUs logo.
The company reportedly has new Audioglove designs coming from Sage Bolyard, Cara-Beth Burnside, Kim Peterson, Dave Duncan and 10 designs from Pearl Jam. Yeah, guess all the elderly skaters need a little more volume and it’s much easier to carry around than this.
[Link: Fadigear via DoubleDDuncan]
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Recycled skateboard jewelry maker MapleXO by Lindsay Holmes has a limited run of 50 iphone 4 cases made from recycled skateboards, according to a post on Skate & Annoy.
The cases are being done in collaboration with bamboo iPhone casemakers Grove and are not yet available for purchase. Sign up on the MapleXO site if you’re into it and hopefully they’ll make enough for everyone.
[Link: MapleXO via Skate & Annoy]
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Thanks to funding by Diesel filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel’s award-winning film Skateistan: To Live and Skate In Kabul has been released and is viewable online here.
Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
For more information on the Skateistan project click the link.
[Link: Skateistan]
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