We hate digital flip books more than the average “digital print” hater. Our normal mood is: if you want to make a magazine print it. Otherwise, throw up a WordPress install and fill it with good content.
San Jose’s Tiltmode Army doesn’t care what we think about digital media, but they do care about skateboarding. And with a blog already rolling we’re guessing they wanted to do something else. Enter Tilt Mode Zine #1. It’s got a Caswell Berry retrospective, an interview with Jerry Hsu’s girlfriend April and kicks off the cover with a quote from The Dead Kennedys’Holiday in Cambodia.
It doesn’t smell like a Zerox machine, but this little gem is 70 pages of quality zine goodness, all accessed by clicking an arrow to watch the page turn. Really, what else does anyone need?
Last night (March 27, 2010), Nickelodeon held their 2010 Kids Choice Awards. Both Shaun White and Ryan Sheckler were up for Favorite Male Athlete in a list that included basketball greats Kobe Bryant and Lebron James.
Shaun White (who looked remarkably unexhausted) may have presented an award to Taylor Lautner, but he didn’t win. Apparently, the little girls still understand and Ryan rolled away with the win. Had this been the Cougars Choice Awards, there likely would have been a different, more tomatoey, winner.
We don’t really follow longboarding that closely, but we always enjoyed the way Steve Lake and the Sector 9 crew rolled in under the lazy gaze of the skateboard industry and capitalized on their own groove. They didn’t chase the market, they redirected it their way and caught nearly everyone off guard.
The Sector 9 story isn’t really news, but it is cool to hear Steve tell it.
NY Skateboarding interviewed Joe Maloof, Steve Rodriguez, Remy Stratton and Geoff Rowley about the new permanent park being built in Flushing Meadow Park for the Maloof Money Cup NYC. From the course design, it looks it will be good for some skateboarding in the round.
Justin Tomerlin, 27, of La Jolla, California died on March 22, 2010 from injuries he sustained on March 20, 2010 after falling while skateboarding near his home.
Michael Ellano, an investigator with the county medical examiner’s office, said Tomerlin “was skateboarding without a helmet down a hill near his home when he fell and struck his head. Medics responded and transported him to Scripps La Jolla Hospital where he was diagnosed with a closed head (internal bleeding) injury. He was placed on life support, but unfortunately he was declared brain dead on Monday, March 22.
Three stops. Three arenas. Top pros. $1 million in prize money. And Chris Cole, Ryan Sheckler, Greg Lutzka, Torey Pudwill, PJ Ladd, Sean Malto, Mike Mo Capaldi, Mikey Taylor, Billy Marks, Tommy Sandoval, and Paul Rodriguez have all apparently committed “to multi-year contracts” to compete “exclusively” in the Street League. It would seem that Rob Dyrdek is going to pull off his Street League Skateboarding tour.
Street League™ is the culmination of more than five years of development, which began with a professional contest Dyrdek held at the opening of the world’s first skate plaza he built in Kettering, Ohio in 2005. Building on the knowledge gained from this event, Dyrdek and his team began planning for the launch of the league, consulting for and developing several major skateboarding events to serve as additional case studies.
IMG Action Sports, the go-to event production company in the industry, is producing and executing Street League™ in 2010. The worldwide leader in skate park design and construction, California Skateparks™, will provide skate plaza construction. Instant Scoring Experience™ is a partnership between MXi, Dialsmith, and Street League™.
Our question is what exactly does “exclusive” mean? Does this mean P-Rod, Sheckler, Cole et. al will not be doing The Dew or milking the Maloof? We don’t know. Follow the jump for more. [click to continue…]
Yesterday, we finally got to see Walker Ryan skate in person at the St. Helena, California skatepark. Yep, he’s for real. That’s why we’re watching his Berric’s recruited one more time, peeping his Organica commercials, and checking out his Text Yoself. Oh, and have you seen the Shuffl Video trailer? It’s up.
Henry A. Langhaim II, 19, was riding his skateboard down Southwest Autumnview Street in Bull Mountain, Oregon when one of his wheels reportedly came off causing him to crash, according to a story in the Tualatin Times.
Neighbors who witnessed the crash had started CPR immediately, but medical personnel were unable to revive Langhaim after transporting him to Legacy Emanuel Hospital. He died of a head injury sustained from the crash. . . After taking witness statements and examining his skateboard, Sheriff’s deputies determined that Langhaim was riding down Southwest Autumnview Street — which has a steep incline — when a wheel detached from the skateboard he was riding. Deputies figure he most likely struck his head on the sidewalk.
Langhaim was not wearing a helmet. Our thoughts are with Langhaim’s family and friends.
We hate digital flip books more than the average “digital print” hater. Our normal mood is: if you want to make a magazine print it. Otherwise, throw up a WordPress install and fill it with good content. 
