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.
The Broadcast skateboarding brand looks pretty legit, huh?
With the help of pro skateboarders Ethan Fowler, Paul Shier, Shiloh Greathouse, Gareth Stehr, Danny Falla, Aaron Harrison, Joel Meinholz, Eric Gilbert, Kevin Coakley, and Connor Getzlaff, Broadcast Wheel Company has developed a premium street and park urethane formula that is the direct result of feedback and testing from droves of skaters who were disappointed with the mediocre wheels that were currently available from other brands.
You may have missed the party, but there is no reason to miss all the madness that went down in the photo booth at Thrasher Magazine’s20th Annual Skateboarder of the Year Awards Party in San Francisco last Friday night December 11, 2009 at the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason.
Check it out and you might see a couple friendly faces . . . or maybe even a little more if you look very, very closely.
If nothing else it’s a great reminder that today’s digital photo booths aren’t exactly as private as they used to be.
No need to drive all over southern California to get bargains at a warehouse sales when you can just drive to your local warehouse action fashion retailer CostCo for some fashionable Zoo York hoodies for only $19.99. Zoo York’s new corporate parent Iconix knows all about distribution. And just in time for Christmas, too.
Circa is proud to announce the Sierra Fellers shoe release party Saturday, December 12, 2009 at Venice, California’s Air Conditioned Supper Club and we’re proud to have Sierra Fellers taking up so much room on our page because he’s good. And we like him. Doors open at 8 PM.
In his most recent column for Huck magazine surf scribe Jamie Brisick drinks “three-quarters of a bottle of bad red” wine, watches some Jackass clips and then settles down to explaining just why Spike Jonze’s video for The Beastie Boys Sabotage is so amazingly rad.
Spike Jonze’s music videos. . . exude humour, mischief and the refusal to grow up. The first one that comes to mind is ‘Sabotage’ by the Beastie Boys. As a seventies American kid, this is powerful on several levels. I’m reminded of Starsky and Hutch, Baretta, SWAT and Hawaii Five-0. The tone and urgency of the song is pure nineties, but the moustaches and suits and mock screen credits belong to the seventies. It’s an incredibly fun, high-energy video, but for me, and I suspect for many of my contemporaries, it is also nostalgic.
And after approaching bad red wine with high expectations, no one does nostalgia better than Mr. Brisick.
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.
