Does this guy look familiar? On Monday, July 12, 2010 he robbed a Comerica Bank in San Diego and then escaped on a skateboard.
The robber walked into the Comerica Bank on Rosecrans Street near Midway Drive at 4 p.m., approached a teller and displayed a black, semi-automatic handgun that he had in his waistband, FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said. . . He demanded money and ordered the teller to put it into a backpack, then walked out of the bank and skated away.
As one industry pundit told us: “It’s probably a retailer trying to avoid being bought by the Bong…?”
Glenna Evans, 27, an artist and competitive downhill skateboarder died Friday, July 9, 2010 one day before her 28th birthday after colliding with a van on Mount Seymour Road in North Vancouer, according to a stories on Kelowna.com and Vancouverite.
[Evans] was using a longboard, a skateboard more than one metre long, when she failed to complete a turn on to Anne MacDonald Way and collided with a van at about 11 a.m. PT, said RCMP Cpl. Peter DeVries. . . The woman was wearing a helmet, DeVries said.
Evans family issued a statement through the RCMP, according to a story on Vancouverite.
“Glenna Evans was an Honours student at Emily Carr University. She had finished her third year in the Fine Arts Program and was to begin completion of a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree this fall. She earned awards at University and in High School in Victoria,” her family said. . . . “Glenna was a serious longboard skate competitor for several years and has placed well in international competition in the US and Canada. She was practicing in full racing gear at Mount Seymour.”
Los Desperados and Bat Skates are presenting Transition at Hurley in the heart of Velcro Valley tomorrow (July 10, 2010) from 6 to 10 PM titled. The free gathering will feature art, music, and skateboarding with some hot rod flavor. It all goes down at 1945 Placentia Ave. in Costa Mesa, California.
Bring your skateboard, some inked-up friends in Brixton hats, and you’ll fit right in. Follow the jump for all the details. [click to continue…]
We weren’t in Dublin, Ireland last night so we missed this opening for a showing of Glen E. Friedman’s photography at The Lighthouse Cinema. The opening of the show is in conjunction with a screening of Jem Cohen’s Fugazi documentary Instrument.
NYC’s Milk Gallery is hosting a photo show in collaboration with Vice Books’ publication of Full Bleed: New York City Skateboarding Photography that runs July 6 to July 13, 2010. The show includes pretty much anyone who ever shot or appeared in a skateboarding photo in NYC.
An homage to the great ones that have built NYC skateboarding into what it is today, the book and photo show FULL BLEED: New York City Skateboard Photography includes photographs by: Spike Jonze, Giovanni Reda, Tobin Yelland, Thomas Campbell, Larry Clark, Ed Templeton, Atiba Jefferson, Angela Boatwright, Sammy Glucksman, Allen Ying, and more. Skateboarders featured: Steve Olson, Eric Koston, Keith Hufnagel, Harold Hunter,Jerry Hsu, Mike Vallely, Mark Gonzales, Rick Howard, Jason Dill, and more.
If you’re sweating it out in the heat of the city, be sure to roll by.
Owners of the land that housed Memphis, Tennessee’s Al Town DIY skatepark who were worried about the large turn-out for Go Skateboarding Day on June 21, 2010 decided instead to shut the place down, according to a story in the Commercial Appeal.
But on June 21, you didn’t have to be a skateboarder to notice something special about Al Town: the “No Trespassing” signs and police cars that showed up just in time for international Go Skateboarding Day. . . Al Town had been shut down.
The City of Memphis has money set aside for a skatepark, but as happens all over the world, they can’t seem to find the right place for it.
The 2010 Amsterdam Am will be broadcasting live on the Internet Saturday and Sunday July 10 & 11, 2010 beginning at 4 AM PST on the Volcom Europe website. Waking up early and tuning in is a hell of a lot easier than attending live, but no where near as much fun.
Follow the jump for full event schedule and photos of the almost completely redone Skatepark of Amsterdam. It looks pretty amazing all empty and quiet. [click to continue…]
This is one of the few times we actually feel sorry for the security guard. After this video going out to the world he was suspended from his job and hasn’t had steady work since, but we can’t help but laugh as he blasts his golf cart straight into a wall.
For more on the story from Community College of Allegheny County and a few words from the guard click the link.
It is true that Don doesn’t go out much and spends that vast majority of his time hunched over his desk working on something for a client or his own insanely detailed pieces. Over the years his work has become smaller, not in scale but in the finite spaces within each painting. It has become sharper, that’s not to say he has been sloppy; quite the contrary. It is the over all look of his more recent imagery. This mural typifying this new phase of his career. I can’t wait to see what he does next.
