On Friday, November 6, 2009 Jason Adams and Jai Tanju will be opening a show of their collected art offerings at The Uptown in Oakland, California. The show runs through December 31, 2009.
The Uptown, 1928 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, California.
[Link: Tumyeto]
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Stoked Mentoring’s Founder and Executive Director Steve Larosilliere tells the story of his organization on the Huffington Post.
In 5 years, we’ve worked with hundreds of youth in New York and L.A. and taught them valuable life skills in the process. Life skills such as goal-setting, networking, trust, patience, and how to overcome obstacles. What we discovered along the way was the need for at-risk youth to have positive role models and quality life experiences that add value and dimension to their lives. They need to develop their own “Story”. One that isn’t the same as the people in their community. One that is uniquely theirs. Instead of being an inner city high school dropout, they can be a snowboarder from the inner city who wants to work in advertising, has a mentor, and is a high school graduate.
To get involved with Stoked mentoring, click here.
[Link: Huffington Post]
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Keith Hufnagel has strangely tapped into the perfect fashion groove with his skate boutiques and clothing line HUF. We always wonder how anyone can put out some much cool stuff and still be relatively, you know, normal. ESPN Action’s Josh Brooks Interviewed him to find out.
[Link: ESPN Action]
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Former Brighton UK pro skateboarder Steve Brooker, 48, spends a lot of his time these days down on the muddy banks of the Thames River, but he’s not homeless, according to a story in Time Magazine.
Brooker. . . is a member of the Mudlarks, a society of amateur archaeologists who are licensed by the Port of London Authority to scavenge the banks of the Thames for historical artifacts. Because of Brooker’s oversize frame, his talent for major discoveries and his overall awesomeness, he is known by admirers as the Mud God.
Apparently, Steve just loves getting down and dirty.
[Link: Time.com]
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We got word this morning that Sinisa Egelja, the creative mind behind the emergence of the Airwalk skateboarding footwear brand, has died.
Sin, who was always eccentric, had one of the most creative minds in skateboarding. His footwear designs, which seemed delivered from the future, where endlessly boosted, ripped off, and appropriated by employers, competitors, and corporations. That coupled with personal troubles, made things extremely difficult for Sin, and for his family and friends during the past few years.
The last time we spoke Sin was especially hyped on his interview in Sneaker Freaker #10. The magazine, which came out in the summer of 2007, had finally given Sin the opportunity to tell the Airwalk story from his point of view (click the link to download the PDF). It was going to set the record straight once and for all. Sin believed the story would help put his career back into forward motion. Read it, and you’ll understand why. But things didn’t exactly go the way Sin had hoped and his life continued to be plagued with difficulty.
Our thoughts are with Sin’s family and friends who did so much for him over the past few years. Sadly, we don’t have any more details on his death. As soon as we get them, we’ll pass them along.
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Zero Skateboards will be premiering their latest video offering on October 29, 2009 at the World Famous La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas, California on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 7 PM. Spooky
[Link: Zero via World Wide Skateboarding]
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Police in John Cardiel’s home town of Sacramento, California have been increasingly harassing fixed gear bike riders for breaking a state law that requires brakes on bikes. When the Sacramento News & Review did a story on the issue they went to Cardiel for the straight scoop.
John Cardiel dashed down Ninth Street on his fixed-gear bike, tearing southward in the right-hand lane, when he heard yelling, which grew louder and closer. He looked over his shoulder and saw two Sacramento police officers on bikes trailing him, hollering, “Stop!” . . . Cardiel explains that he “skidded to an immediate stop.” Then, he describes that the cops applied their hand brakes and slid past him. “One guy almost fell over. I had more control than they did,” Cardiel remembers.
Cards ended up with a $25 fix-it ticket and the police continued their war on everything that isn’t motorized and gas guzzling.
[Link: Sacramento News & Review]
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Jennifer Stewart, a Willington, Ohio woman who spoke out against the way Wilmington Police were treating a 15-year-old skateboarder during an arrest, is facing misdemeanor charges of obstructing justice and disorderly conduct, according to a story in the Wilmington News Journal.
The disorderly conduct charge appears to be based upon things the police believe Stewart said, according to Daugherty. He said he wants to hear what she did say so he can determine whether he thinks a jury would regard her words as criminal. . . “Speech is one of our most precious liberties. You are allowed to loudly voice your disagreement with public officials in our country. If her words were simply voicing disagreement and made no threat or obscene language, then I don’t understand a criminal charge,” Daugherty said.
We don’t either.
[Link: Wilmington News Journal]
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Join Bruce Logan, Tony Alva, Tony Hawk, and Danny Way as the International Association of Skateboard Companies kicks open The Skateboarding Hall of Fame with a skateboarder from each decade at the Vans Skatepark in The Block in Orange, California on Saturday, October 24, 2009.
IASC and Skatelab are pleased to announce the first ever official inauguration of skateboarders into the skateboarding hall of fame. Industry experts have been polled, you voted, and this is the night it becomes concrete.
The party begins at 6 PM with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, silent auction, and a combi session. Tickets are a $50 donation. Click here to buy tickets online.
[Link: IASC]
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At about 8:50 PM PST on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Kareem Campbell tweeted the above message. That’s about all we know, but we can’t say we’re completely uninterested in where this is all going. . .
[Link: @kareemcampbell]
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