We just can’t get enough of Shaun White around here and that’s about to change because Ubisoft, the makers of Shaun White Skateboarding, has just announced that Shaun’s game will soon support stereoscopic displays on 3DTVs, according to a post on Gamasutra.
Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title will use Sensio 3D technology, which Ubisoft last used in last year’s release of Avatar: The Game. . . “The gaming experience is very sensitive to image quality, and we know from past collaboration with Sensio that the company’s Sensio 3D format delivers the highest-quality images,” said Shaun White Skateboarding Executive Producer Patrick Naud.
It will be great to see that rich, thick, forest of red hair flowing right out of the TV as Shaun shreds past. Wonder if Shaun will do some signature Oakley 3-D glasses to go along with it?
Cohl Orebaugh, 14, of Liberty Lake, Washington is reportedly the new Guiness Book of World Records record holder for “most blunt to fakies” in an hour (794), according to The Spokesman-Review.
I thought I did pretty good,” he said. . . Orebaugh said he exceeded his expectations when he completed 794 blunts and fakies in an hour at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake. He expected to do around 500 of them.
It is difficult to believe that it was only a year ago that news began getting out that Transworld Skateboarding Editor Eric Stricker had died. Guess when you miss someone it seems like they’ve been gone so much longer than they actually have.
We didn’t hang out with Eric, travel with him, or spend the kind of time that so many in the skate industry did, but every single time we saw him we left happier and more stoked on skateboarding than when we’d arrived. Whenever we had a stupid skateboarding history question or a “what’s the story behind this guy” query, Stricker always, no matter what deadline he was on, took a minute or ten to give the answer or tell the story. It was almost as if he wasn’t doing it for us, he was doing it for skateboarding. He wanted to make sure the stories all got out correctly. Which is what made him such a great magazine editor.
Today our thoughts are with everyone who had the gift or being close to Eric. Especially his family.
When the bloated former pop singer Britney Spears goes shopping for a new skateboard she heads straight to her local mall and drops in on Zumiez, according to a story on People.com.
Britney Spears had an active afternoon with her boys Preston and Jayden: The trio headed to the Westfield Topanga, the pop star’s neighborhood shopping mall in Canoga Park, Calif., where Spears stopped into Zumiez, a snowboarding and skateboarding shop.
The blingineers at Nixon have created an extremely icy timepiece for the overall winner of Street League which will be named in Las Vegas on September 25, 2010.
The Champion will be awarded a one-of-a-kind Nixon 5130 Ceramic watch adorned with 12.76 carats of diamonds.
For those who believe wearing their fortune on their wrist is the best idea ever, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Broadcast Wheels have released their new FW2010 catalog and placed it on their website. Make no mistake, we’re not really sure we why we even like this stuff. Maybe it’s because their filmer wheels have the words, “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” on them. Go figure.
It’s good to know that even we could give Tony Hawk a run in a game of Skate Nerd. Lance Mountain, on the other hand, is on a whole different level. The guy could be world champion.
We don’t follow and/or watch NBC/MTV’s Dew Tour, but like most of America we follow Shaun White. In Salt Lake City last weekend he whooped all the other vert dogs to win one on the Dew Tour and even landed the armadillo on his last air. The results looked like this:
1. Shaun White 94.75
2. Pierre-Luc Gagnon 90.50
3. Bucky Lasek 88.25
4 . Andy Macdonald 83.50
5 . Bob Burnquist 63.00
In a new solo exhibition of Australian artist Shaun Gladwell’s work a Georgia Scherman Projects the cornerstone piece of the show is a video of Kevin Harris spinning 360’s titled: Portrait of a man: alive and spinning
On entering the darkened gallery, the viewer encounters two new video works. The title work for the exhibition documents Kevin Harris, a Canadian freestyle professional skateboarder, performing 360-degree spins. (This video is complemented by Composite Portrait as Boards, a display of skateboard decks leaning against the gallery wall. . .
Looks great, but when it comes to 360s and art we’re still partial to Stacy Peralta.
