It seems like forever since Michael Bellon started marketing his Ryan Sheckler Omnitec action figure. Now, the 37-year-old inventor has gotten his toy into some major retailers and is looking to expand with more skateboarders, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Bellon is hoping for a huge 2010. With the help of Bellon’s childhood friend and pro skateboarder Darin “Cookiehead” Jenkins, who is the Action Sports Toys ambassador, the toy line will grow to include Bucky Lasek and Steve Caballero, two big names on the pro skateboard tour. . . Jenkins was really excited by the toy’s potential but wanted to feel out his fellow skateboarders first. . . “If you approach them wrong, they will shut you down,” he said. . . When he had the opportunity to show the action figure to Caballero, Jenkins said he told him “everybody needs a Steve Caballero action figure.”
That may be true, but we think we’d have more fun with little Bucky.
Here’s a rad idea: Hot girls as skateboard graphics. Beverly Skates is apparently back (not really sure what their story was last time around) and they’re ready to rock:
Located in Beverly Hills California our small skateboard company strives for perfection. We try to uphold the high standards of our community, at the same time leave an open invitation for you to be a part of it. Beverly Skates was founded upon principals that put our heart and soul into our product as much as you the skater have chosen to put your heart and soul into skateboarding.
“You the skater?” This should fit in nicely at The Crossroads.
This beach house in the Dominican Republic designed by Spanish architecture firm A-cero appears to have more skateable surfaces that your average skatepark.
. . . stunning housing project in La Romana (Dominican Republic) built entirely with the indigenous stone of Coralline that really prospers with the abundance of sunshine. The two blocks that shoot up like waves are fantastic and provide vertical covering. They also look like something Tony Hawk might dream up for his beach house.
With all the domain mistakes we’ve made over the years we’d be the last ones to poke fun at someone forgetting to renew their domain names. That said, it appears that Bryce Kanights and the crew at Skatedaily.netare apparently havingsome issues with Network Solutions. Here’s what Bryce says:
Yeah, the domain registration had expired without a notice. A bit odd, but, the site should be up and online within the hour. Fingers crossed.
We know the feeling. It’s always funny to see what the domain registrars put up when a site is down. But a skier for Skatedaily.net?
Skateistan, the organization that teaches Afghan young people through skateboarding has open its first skateboard park and school on Tuesday December 29, 2009, according to a story in The National Post.
“Skateistan” started two years ago in a dried-up fountain in the heart of the Afghan capital, when two Australians with three skateboards started teaching a small group of fascinated kids. . . Now dozens of boys and girls from across all social classes can mix in a giant indoor park that looks like a cross between a military hangar and an urban hangout, festooned with the names of fashionable skating brands that have sponsored the park.
It is amazing what can be done with some skateboards and a dream. For more on the story click here.
Emily Chivers Yochim, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts, Allegheny College, has a new book out from the University of Michigan Press. The book is titled Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity reportedly uses a group of skateboarders to investigate the status of the young American male.
Skate Life examines how young male skateboarders use skate culture media in the production of their identities. Emily Chivers Yochim offers a comprehensive ethnographic analysis of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, skateboarding community, situating it within a larger historical examination of skateboarding’s portrayal in mainstream media and a critique of mainstream, niche, and locally produced media texts (such as, for example, Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Dogtown and Z-Boys). The book uses these elements to argue that adolescent boys can both critique dominant norms of masculinity and maintain the power that white heterosexual masculinity offers.
And that’s just the description. We have a feeling this isn’t going to be on the best seller list anytime soon, but kind of wish we had a review copy all the same.
etnies isn’t the only shoe company playing Santa this year. Circa delivered shoes to every kid at Camp Pendleton Marine Base’s Santa Margarita School. Their dads and/or moms may be away for Christmas, but these kids are rockin’ new kicks in spite of it all.
It’s easy to think about what we’d do if we had loads of revenue coming in, but now thanks to the The Tony Hawk Foundationwe all can give twice as much as we we thought we could.
In addition to giving away $130,000 to help 14 low-income communities across the U.S. build skateboard parks the Foundation has committed to a “dollar-for-dollar” match on any funds raised via skatewatts.org through January 15, 2010.
Having helped launch it in October, the Tony Hawk Foundation is also featuring the Watts Skatepark project during the Athletes For Hope Who Gives? Racing For A Cause challenge, a widely publicized fundraising event hosted by globalgiving.org/athletes-for-hope/. . . . With few alternatives to crime, gangs, and drugs, youth in the Watts community struggle daily to find healthy pastimes that can keep them engaged and active. Through this effort to build a free-quality public skatepark in Watts, the Tony Hawk Foundation is helping local youth realize their dream of a world-class skatepark. . . Make a contribution during this limited campaign, and the impact of your donation will be DOUBLED.
Now is our chance to make Tony pay. Donate $10 and Tony will make it $20.
We kind of always wondered how Corey Duffel got that rich, luscious, punk rawk hair that looks all raggedy, and yet styled at the same time. Now we know. It’s Paul Mitchell.
It seems like forever since Michael Bellon started marketing his Ryan Sheckler Omnitec action figure. Now, the 37-year-old inventor has gotten his toy into some major retailers and is looking to expand with more skateboarders, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
