The Volcom Damn Am wrapped up yesterday in Costa Mesa, California with Oklahoma City’s Kyle Walker on top. David Loy took the best trick according to a post on The Skate Park of Tampa. Here are the rest of the finalists.
1. Kyle Walker
2. Louie Lopez
3. Anthony Estrada
4. Anthony Schultz
5. Alec Majerus
6. Brodie Penrod
7. Tommy Flynn
8. Boo Johnson
9. Tyson Bowderbank
10. Kevin Romar
11. Jack Olson
12. Kechaud Johnson
While we’re pretty sure the Tony Hawk Foundation’sMiki Vuckuvich was at the Stand Up For Skateparks Benefit last weekend in Beverly Hills, California we’ve recently received puzzling evidence suggesting he’s been moonlighting as a French police officer. Then again, Miki would never turn a blind eye as a protesting skateboarder was hauled away. No way. Never.
Photographer Deanna Templeton will be presenting a collection of images in a show titled Scratch Your Name In My Arm at LA’s Paul Kopeikin Gallery. The show, which features mostly girl fans getting their bodies signed, runs from October 30 to December 18, 2010 with an opening party on October 30, 2010 from 6 – 8 PM. A 130-page hardcover catalog of the show will also be available.
Seth Coombes, a Exeter University student who towed behind his friend’s car at 27 MPH without dying or getting injured, has apologized for his crimes against humanity, according to a story in the Cambridge News.
“I apologise to any people I may have endangered with my actions and I would like to say that in the circumstances of my life I act with responsibility and care for others.”
Driver Gordon Pottinger was equally apologetic.
“I would like to say how deeply I regret my actions on the day in question. I was foolish, immature, and I’m ashamed. . . “My behaviour was unprecedented – in my driving career of three years I have not been convicted of any driving offence.”
He’s ashamed. And that’s how they handle towing criminals at Cambridge.
The highlight of the day (aside from a live performance by Jane’s Addiction) was when philanthropist Charles Annenberg announced a special gift of $275,000 fro Explore.com and the Annenberg Foundation to finish the Watts Skatepark Project. Oh, and there were apparently some “celebrity” included on the 1,000 person guest list.
Celebrities including Tony Hawk, Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Johnny Knoxville, Chuck Liddell, Leeza Gibbons, Arsenio Hall, Ben Harper, Patrick Dempsey, BMX legend Mat Hoffman and legendary skaters Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, and Mike Vallely enjoyed the interactive booths while waiting for the stage and vert ramp to be dried by crews.
It’s not a party until Arsenio Hall shows up. Guests said it pretty much rained all day, but that didn’t stop Tony and friends from putting on a demo on the vert ramp or from doing great work for skateboarding.
When we first mentioned Skateistan on our website back in June of 2008 it was just three Australian skateboarders who wanted to help improve he lives of Afghanistan’s children by teaching them to skateboard in an empty Kabul fountain. Since then Skateistan has grown to become an international organization (NGO) with a large indoor skateboard park in Kabul, an award winning documentary film, and a school with nearly 300 Afghan kids (boys and girls) enrolled.
Dvidshub.com checked in with Skateistan recently to cover a skateboard donation by members of the International Security Assistance Force and delivered a story of hope through skateboarding from one of the roughest cities in the world.
“From the very start, kids from many different ethnic and social backgrounds were being brought together through skateboarding, and Oliver had the idea to create a school where education was offered alongside skateboard lessons, with the hope that trust-building and self-confidence would be the result,” Percovich said. . . “It was the motivation from the kids that got Oliver thinking about doing something on a larger scale with skateboarding, through using the activity to bring kids from all different backgrounds together and provide interactive education that would build a mini-community for youth in Kabul,” Bader said. “Those initial skate sessions were the foundations for Skateistan.”
San Diego’s Subtext Gallery will be hosting a “one-night only” showing of recent paintings by Otis B. (a.k.a. O) titled Black and Blue Just Like You on Saturday night October 23, 2010.
Inspired by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock, Otis’ process is to paint (using only a black and blue palette) on transparency film. The original piece is then pressed onto the surface of various recycled surfaces, creating a one of a kind finished piece.
On Saturday October 16, 2010 450 skateboarders made the run down the length of New York City’s Broadway in the Broadway Bomb.
The “world’s most dangerous skateboard race” started at w 116th street by Riverside Park, and ended at the Charging Bull statue at Bowling Green. The race was started by three skaters in 2001 who challenged each other to skate the full length of Broadway to the bull, and not get killed in the process.
Those who doubted that Shaun White wouldn’t take over skateboarding the way he has snowboarding were taught a lesson on Sunday as Mr. White won his third consecutive Dew Tour Vert title.
It wasn’t enough to win the overall (that went to PLG) but it was enough to show that he plans on winning everything he enters from here on out. Thanks for playing, everyone else.
A man wanted in the Edmonton, Alberta homicide of a 20-year-old man apparently ran right out of his DC Shoes and RDS hat as he fled the scene, according to a story on Canoe.com.
Investigators late Friday released photos of the distinctive DC shoes and RDS ballcap found near 15908 98 St., hoping someone who knows the killer will recognized the items and contact police. . . The victim — Scott Shane Brown, 20 — identified by police on Friday, was on the lam in 2008 for parole violations and has a rap sheet that includes Fort McMurray gun crimes as well as a home invasion.
Brown was Edmonton’s 21 homicide of the year. Red Dragons.
