Mike V: Do or Die focuses on Mike’s path, passions and career. It will feature an overview of his evolution as an individual and his lifelong accomplishments in the history of skateboarding. Players start from the legendary ‘Bones Brigade’ Powell-Peralta era and can improve their skills while gaining experience to unlock exclusive game content including a selection of over one hundred items to choose from. They can customize their character, board, wheels and car.
Not sure that’s enough to hook us, but we haven’t played it. Click here for Adam Sullivan’s review or check it out for yourself.
Is it any surprise that these apparently S&M inspired Corbus aluminum art boards were created in Seattle? As the blog Rad Collector so eloquently puts it:
Legitimate longboarders have enough to contend with without having to explain why post-apocalyptic aluminum decks for ravers and S&M autoerotic asphyxiation freaks are now hitting the market.
If these design somehow tingle your taint, then please email robin@corbusboards.info or snail mail: Box 2608 #185 2nd Ave, Seattle//WA 98121
Uyehara says he just wants residents, tourists and the homeless to get along. . . “We need to have a better balance if we’re going to keep this an attractive tourist attraction, a destination that’s also located in a residential neighborhood.”
Juliette Lewis says she tired of talking about her relationship with actor Brad Pitt and would rather talk about something else, according to a story on CBS42.com.
She says, “It amazes me that people are still fascinated that we went out for years. I was a teenager at the time. It’s a lifetime away. I was in my high school years and it was a wonderful, loving relationship with a fun, smart guy.Then it was over and he went on to become incredibly famous. The far more significant relationship was my marriage to an incredible pro skateboarder (Steve Berra). But no-one wants to know about that.”
Really? Seems like we know some people who would love to know about that. . .
Seems like everyone was at Ed Templeton’s Seconds Pass show opening at Roberts & Tilton in Los Angeles on Friday night, February 26, 2010. Well, almost everyone. . . check out photos from the event on emerica.
HARVEST by haroshi’sSkate & Destroy exhibition at Tokyo’s PLSMIS Gallery completely refigures the idea of art and skateboard decks and makes simply painting on decks seem like cave drawings. haroshi’s thoughts on the show (via Hypebeast). . .
I looked at these unusable decks every day and thought there must be something I can make with these. I decided to make some accessories with the old decks and this was the birth of Harvest. The works of Harvest are through the perspectives of a skater and as an artist. As a skater, I want to take responsibility of reusing skateboards when they were no longer useable. Also, as an artist I want to explore the possibilities of what can be done with skateboards. We see the care and effort that a skater can have for his/her deck and we also acknowledge the origins of a skateboard. We believe that if the small things we do can connect to sustainability then we’re doing something right. We’d be satisfied in our effort when people look at products and start thinking of ways to recycle.
The artworks are mind-blowing as are the photos of the show by Brandon Shigeta. To view photos of all the pieces in the show visit haroshi.com.
Wall Street Journal writer Conor Dougherty’s latest skateboard story for the business paper of record surveys the world of painting on skateboard decks and asks the age old question: yeah, but is is “wheelie” art? Get it? We are reminded of the old definition of art we learned our first day in art history class: art is what artists do.
As long as there have been skateboards, there have been pictures on them. The early boards in the 1960s tended to have child-friendly graphics such as images of surfers or baseball stars. Artistic styles shifted with the evolution of the skateboarding subculture, moving into images depicting everything from skulls and cartoon cigarettes to children finding their parents having intimate relations. Like skateboarders, the artwork they favor often exudes youthful protest and subversive themes.
We guess the bigger question is this: if an artist who doesn’t skateboard paints on a skateboard deck is it skate art? Our answer is no. Now were are those Jeffery Koons Supreme decks was saw lying around some where. . . ?
Dogtown and Z- Boy legend Bob Biniak (pictured right in one our of favorite Craig Stecyk photos) died on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at approximately 12:51 PM after suffering a massive heart attack on Sunday, February 21, 2010. He was 51 years old.
In an email sent to friends and family by his wife Charlene quoted on Glen E. Friedman’s blog said, “Bobby loves Life and lived more in his short life than many us of can ever imagine to do,” she said.
Friedman remembered Biniak as a “Bad Ass Mother Fucker” in his post.
Back in DogTown’s heyday Biniak was known as one of the toughest, hardest skating dudes out there. Few could match his skills skating the infamous pipes out in Arizona or on the vertical flat wall of Mt. Baldy. In pool skating he was a clear innovator as witnessed by my lens, and Craig Stecyk’s even earlier when he was interviewed in SkateBoarder magazine’s first ever “Pool Riding Symposium.” . . . In my personal experience he was far and away the toughest guy on the original Zephyr skateboard team.. . . Bob waited for no one and was the ruler of every situation I ever saw him in.
Biniak leaves behind his wife Charlene and baby daughter Brie and an innumerable skateboarders whose lives were changed by Bob’s pioneering skating. Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
Not exactly sure what kind of direct connection there is between skateboarding, surfing and coffee, but that hasn’t stopped The Skateboarder’s Journal’s Jack Smith and his friend Adrian Pina from rolling out a new coffee company called Cuppastoke.com. Smith describes it as:
A coffee company for skateboarders, surfers, snowboarders and anyone else who shares the almost indescribable feeling of “STOKE”. . . Skater Joe Dark Roast, Our signature blend. Complex, bright, bold, and rich, this coffee shines through milk in espresso drinks, and tastes amazing in drip or press. An all around winner.
We personally don’t have a problem with the local brew, but for those who want a cup of stoke every morning, then Skater Joe Dark Roast might be just for you. $11.95 will get you 12 ounces. Enter special code “boardistan” and Jack will give you 15% off your order. How cool is that?
Each year, apparently, BusinessWeek magazine creates a Power 100 list of the most powerful athletes in the world. Being an Olympic year, they’ve also created a sister list of the Most Powerful Olympic Athletes. And Shaun White is featured on both. He’s number four on the Olympic list checked in between a couple hockey players and on the athletes list he is all the way down at 51 between golfer Jim Furyk and New York Mets’ third baseman David Wright.
Why he’s on the list: Having dropped the “Flying Tomato” moniker, White has picked up the ability to carve his place in the national consciousness despite competing in a niche sport.
The only other real notable on the list was Ryan Sheckler who just squeaked in at 100 “now that Tony Hawk is retired.”
