If it doesn’t work so well as a video game controller, maybe Tony Hawk’s Ride will work as a skateboard. . .
[Link: Kotaku]
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Shaun White’s triumphant return to skateboarding will apparently have to wait until another day according to a report from the Associated Press (Mr. White is big news now). He is out of the Boston Dew Tour Boston event due to injury.
Event spokeswoman Katie Trotsky says White’s representatives report he rolled an ankle while training and won’t be able to participate in the two-day 2010 Dew Tour event. However, he will be in NBC-TV’s broadcast booth for the vert finals Saturday.
Can you image what that’s going to do to the Dew Tour TV ratings? But that’s okay, he was too tired to compete at the US Open of Snowboarding this year, too. Then again, maybe he’s just sitting it out so he can attend the Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere in Hollywood on June 24, 2010. Could that be it?
[Link: Associated Press]
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We mentioned Kevin MIchael Connolly two-and-a-half years ago when his photo show The Rolling Exhibition was touring the country. Born without legs, Connolly has spend the past several years rolling around on a skateboard and taking pictures of people looking down on him. In October 2009 HarperStudio published a memoir titled Double Take. It’s about growing up in a happy Montana family without getting a leg up. the book was just released in paperback and the reviews are still pretty good.
[Link: Kevin Michael Connolly via The Washington Post]
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Skateboarder Jacob Austin Vinson, 30, was found dead in the middle of a steep Bend, Oregon road early this morning (Monday, June 21, 2010) according to a story on My Central Oregon.
Officers responded about 5:00 am to the 700 block of NW Stonepine Dr. regarding a male subject in the middle of the road. . . Upon arrival, Officers determined the male subject was deceased. . . .The investigation revealed Jacob was riding his skateboard downhill on NW Stonepine Dr. sometime during the night, when he lost control of the skateboard and fell to the pavement striking his head. . .
As you may have guessed, Vinson was not wearing a helmet. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
[Link: MyCentralOregon]
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Photographer Grant Brittain (who’s been on an art show terror lately) will be showing some of his portraits and other works in a show with Josh Higgins at San Diego’s Subtext Gallery from July 30 – August 29, 2010.
Friends and fellow artists Grant Brittain and Josh Higgins will grace the walls of Subtext in a joint venture of unrelated themes. Brittain’s portraiture of some of skateboarding’s greatest names through the years features icons and underground heroes. Higgins’ poster-art focuses on his work with punkers, musical heros, and charitable causes. Together, the collective work suggests what it would be like to eavesdrop on these guys hanging out, having a beer, and comparing broken wrists and paper cuts.
It’s a long way off, but you might as well put the opening party in your calendar now: Friday, July 30th, 6-10pm
Subtext Gallery, 2479 Kettner Blvd. San Diego, California 92101
[Link: Subtext Gallery]
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Analog (Burton Corp’s streetwear clothing company) will be hosting the opening reception for a photo gallery showing of images by some of the action sports world’s most creative camera cowboys at the Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Beach, California on June 23, 2010.
Included in the show will be photos from Andy Wright, Atiba Jefferson, Bob Kronbauer, Dave Switft, Grant Brittain, Tobin Yelland and many more. Party goes from 6 PM to 9 PM.
Shorebreak Hotel, 500 Pacific Coast Highway, Huntington Beach, CA 92648.
[Link: Analog via The Skateboard Mag]
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How’s that for a reminder? Shepard Fairy’s version of Grant Brittain’s photo of Tod Swank. For more info on Go Skateboarding Day 2010 click the link.
[Link: Go Skateboarding Day]
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The Transworld Skateboarding Awards were last night (June 15, 2010) in Hollywood, California at the Avalon Theatre. If you missed them, Ben Kelly (or one of his workers) was kind enough to live blog the entire evening. How nice was that? It’s much less painful to follow the awards online, believe us. Scroll through it and you might even be able to figure out who won the awards (or just click here for the entire list).
[Link: Transworld Skateboarding]
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For the duration of the Ron Cameron’s Dismantled Hope art show at the Encinitas, California Library (June 9- July 16, 2010), the Encinitas-based stye shop UNIV will be selling six of Ron’s limited edition t-shirts featuring iconic graphics from throughout his career. We’re thinking about buying one of each. Get ’em while they’re around.
[Link: UNIV]
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Canadian Emerica team rider and Black Russian Skate Shop owner Josh Evin, 29, died early June 13, 2010 after he “failed to negotiate a turn” and “flipped his motorcycle into Kootenay Canal” in Nelson British Columbia, Canada according to a story in the Castlegar News.
“It looks the like the motorcycle was going too fast to negotiate the corner,” says Inspector Henry Paivarinta with the Nelson Police Department. . . The motorcycle’s passenger was able to swim to shore, but an extensive shoreline search by Nelson Police, B.C. Ambulance, Beasley Search and Rescue and representatives from B.C. Hydro failed to locate Evin.
Evin’s body was eventually found and recovered yesterday (Monday, June 14, 2010) by a RCMP dive team. Our thoughts are with Evin’s family and friends.
[Link: Castlegar News]
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