The guys behind the history of skate shoes book Made For Skate have just launched an iPhone app that puts all the content from their book on the iPhone.
See all the classic shoes you have skated in over the past 50 years, together with current shoe lines of participating brands. . .The first iPhone app of its kind, iMade For Skate is based on the world’s largest collection of skateboard footwear, the Made For Skate archive at the Museum of Skateboard History in Stuttgart, Germany.
That means we can get all the info from the 400 page book for $1.99 and it will be continually updated with new infos. [Link: iTunes Store via Skate And Annoy]
We’d like to say that for more info you could go to the Bonfiresnow.com or the Windell’s sites, but we just went there and neither have more information that we could find.
Guess you just have to re-read the graphic above and then show up on Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 9am in front of the WyEast Day Lodge at Timberline, Mt. Hood, Oregon and sign up. Sign up for the skate contest at 6 PM at Windell’s. The snow event is free to anyone with a lift ticket, and the skate event is first come first compete.
Vacaville, California’s The Reporter is pretty proud of 1997 Vacaville High School graduate Stefan Janoski. And they should be.
His skills stood out so much (like the sport’s biggest star Tony Hawk) that Nike even designed a shoe after him — the Zoom Stefan Janoski SB (the shoe launched in May). A member of the Nike skate team, Janoski was there every step of the way and, besides the iconic Nike swoosh, each shoe has a personal tribute to Janoski’s hometown — Vacaville, California is stitched on the tongue of each shoe, along with his name. . . “It’s funny to me. This is where it all started,” the 29-year-old Sacramento resident admitted as he walked around Andrews Park and the front of the Georgie Duke Center. “It’s good to remember that.”
For the next two months Walnut Creek, California’s Bedford Gallery is presenting Carrie Lederer’s art show Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art. The show features more than 400 decks plus other stuff, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.
The rolling canvases, each little more than a few feet long and a half-foot wide, are colorful works of Pop art, graffiti art, cartoon art and even fine art. Each deck tells a story about a pro skater, the company that made it and the artist who created the images on it. They can be silly and fun, like the deck by enjoi showing kittens and rainbows on one side of the gallery, or take on the darker tone of Todd Francis’ environmental works for Element Skateboards.
The opening party is from 6 to 8 PM on Thursday July 9, 2009. Sean Cliver will be there signing copies of his book Disposable. The show runs through September 13, 2009.
Writer Jordan Colinoff uses the Asian X Games and a Chinese street skater named Li Zhixin to make the case that skateboarding is growing in China for a story on GlobalPost.com.
The publicity generated by the X Games and the potential market for sponsor companies are leading to a huge push to attract young Chinese to skateboarding. In addition to the big event in Shanghai, the X Games also goes on an eight-stop road show throughout China. . . Surprisingly, the sport, seeped in a rebel history, has found little resistance from the authoritarian Chinese government. In 2005, officials even allowed American skateboarder Danny Way to make history by becoming the first person to jump over the Great Wall on his board. Perhaps the government sees the potential market value of the sport, or maybe it’s just getting to be too strong a sub-culture to fight.
We’re guessing it’s more the former. If The Party can handle Tiananmen Square we’re pretty sure they stop skateboarding if they wanted to, but then if they’re going to make the world’s skateboards and clothing, they might as well let their people roll.
Seems Dave Bergthold and the crew at Fuel TV’sBuilt To Shred are upping the ante and it looks good. A couple of those Junior Jeff Kings look familiar. . . read an interview with the man behind the madness right here.
Bad day in Tinsel Town. Michael Jackson has reportedly died of cardiac arrest June 25, 2009 just hours after Farrah Fawcett. Jackson was also photographed on a skateboard, though, honestly, he looks like he was having fun on the roll.
Farrah Fawcett died this morning at 9:30 AM. She was 62 years old. No one who didn’t skateboard has ever made skateboarding look cooler than she did. . . Thanks for the memories.
The guys behind the history of skate shoes book Made For Skate have just launched an iPhone app that puts all the content from their book on the iPhone. 
