Great overview of urban skateboarding, cops, and specifically Philly’s Love Park in a great story by Catherine Caperello in the Philadelphia Weekly, titled: Enemies of the Skate.
Ever since skateboarding was banned from public places in Philadelphia back in 2002, the rules of the cat-and-mouse game between cops and skaters has been simple: The cops come and the skaters run. In the past, when skaters were apprehended, officers just removed the bolts from the wheels, preventing the owner from riding. Sometimes cops would break the boards or make a kid do a trick to get their board back. Worst-case scenario, skaters were arrested or ticketed or verbally reprimanded.
Nocturnal’sMark Brandstetter weighs in as do Michael Rankine and Jason Klotz. Check it. . .
We’ve got to wonder what NBC/Dew Tour has planned with this latest announcement: Adio Footwear founder Chris Miller has just been named Chief Creative Director of Alli’sdigital, consumer product, and creative functions according to a Tripp Mickle story in Sports Business Daily.
Chris is the perfect person for the job. We just hope he can survive the realities of dealing with television networks and the people who run them. That is one tough crowd.
Just got a message from Felix Arguelles saying that Jereme Rodgers is no longer with the Famous Stars and Straps company.
” Famous stars and straps is releasing Jereme Rogers from their skateboard program. F.S.A.S. would like to thank Jereme for the positive contributions to the brand and wish him luck in his future endeavors. “
Luck in future endeavors? We think he’s going to need a little more than luck.
Looks like all the boys are going to be out pushing their product for this one. June 27, 2009 looks a little like this at the new CCS store at 1416 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA:
From 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM there’ll be an autograph signing from the Emerica team, and loads and loads of giveaways. . . . From 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM they’ll be an all-out CCS Skate Jam featuring a bunch of CCS Team Riders including Rick Howard, Sierra Fellers, Corey Duffel, Jerry Hsu, Heath Kirchart, Brandon Westgate, and Scott Decenzo. In addition to our favorite rippers, they’ll be pros from a bunch of other teams floating around in the mix. Don’t be afraid to work up an appetite because the Vans BBQ will be blazing up burgers and dogs that’ll be free for the taking. Swing through, skate, meet your favorite pros, come up on free stuff and visit the shop for goods like Jerry Hsu’s newest shoe, Justin Eldridge’s Jaw Breaker Deck, Leo Romero’s RVCA jeans and a boatload of other product backed by the best freakin’ riders in skateboarding!
Maybe retail will survive in the hands of the etailers. . .
Phew! Looks like that fight a.k.a. “beef” between Terry Kennedy and Bow Wow regarding Rev. Run’s daughter Angela Simmons is over, according to an interview on Broccoli City TV reported on Ballerstatus. And we are so thankful for that. Here’s what TK had to say about Bow Wow:
“I never known the n****. He was trying to go around and get information from other n****s to see what type of n**** I was,” T.K. explained. “I guess everytime he’d bump into somebody and ask them about me, they’d give him the history on me. After that, he ended up trying to call me saying ‘I ain’t got nothing against you, it’s all love.’ I hate to tackle the situation, but he’s a coward.”
The celebrity blogs are all over a reported rough night out with Rob Dyrdek and John Mayer (which is funny in and of itself). Access Hollywood said:
After partying too hard at LA’s MyHouse, the friends ended up in hospital, where Rob had his stomach pumped. “In triage at Cedars with @robdyrdek. When the contents of his stomach hit that silicon bag and we all saw it, we just broke into appluse,” John Tweeted
The truth maybe else where. Now, PopEater.com says the whole thing was a prank according to People Magazine. Rob certainly knows how to do work.
For $65 a hour Jennifer Willis and her younger brother David will teach anyone in Manhattan (and New Jersey, too) to skateboard. In fact, David claims he can teach a 40 year old to ollie inside an hour with their Uptown Skate School.
In an instructional video he shows students, David explains: “What you’re going to do is you’re going to bend your knees, kick down on the tail with your back foot, and slide your front up simultaneously as you jump. … When you come down, you bend your knees, so that way you have more balance so you can ride it out.” . . The siblings offer lessons covering the basics of riding to perfecting complicated tricks, and give half-day skateboard tours for $200.
In their first year of business the duo reportedly made $7,500. Sounds like they’re going to have to franchise.
If you weren’t at the Transworld Skateboarding Awards tonight at The Avalon in Hollywod you missed Wicked Pictures contract superstars Alektra Blue and Mikayla Mendez, according to a story on Adult Industry News.
With this in mind, it’s all the more fitting that these brunette beauties are kicking off their upcoming Erotica L.A. 2009 appearances by presenting trophies tomorrow evening at the 11th Annual Transworld Skateboarding Awards at the Avalon in Hollywood. 2009 AVN nominated director Van Styles – whose longtime association with the skateboarding community led to the company’s involvement – will be in attendance as well.
Pornstars are cool, but we all know that if Morrissey had been the trophy boy there would have been a lot more skaters fainting in the isles.
Rob Dyrdek’s movie Street Dreams opens today and the LA Times kicks down the back story that we’ve heard before, plus something we didn’t know: that the film was anti-inspired by one of the Baldwin brothers.
“One of my good friends told me that one of the Baldwin brothers had just sold a movie about skateboarding,” Dyrdek says. “I’m like, ‘This is ridiculous. How can someone make a movie about skateboarding who knows nothing about it?'”
Good point. From what we’ve heard Street Dreams is actually pretty good. For the complete list of theaters click the link.
Great overview of urban skateboarding, cops, and specifically Philly’s Love Park in a great story by Catherine Caperello in the Philadelphia Weekly, titled: Enemies of the Skate.
