The story of how Spike Jonze brought Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are to the silver screen will probably fill a couple books someday, but for now there is the We Love You So blog that was launched last night. Here’s how the site is explained:
In October 2009 Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic story Where The Wild Things Are will hit movie theaters worldwide. . . The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees. . . This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality. . . Keep reading…
The Hawk Family spent a romantic Mother’s Day in the ER room of a local hospital after Tony’s wife Lhotse “crushed her hand in our automatic gate” according to messages on Tony Hawk’s twitter account. And if that wasn’t enough, while they were waiting to have Lhotse’s hand examined two hospital employees came by for autographs. Here’s how Tony put it:
ER: L sitting on bed in pain, me changing K’s diaper behind her. 2 hosp employees come in to ask for autographs and stand waiting. REALLY???
Lhotse’s escaped with “multiple fractures to ring finger,” but her rings wedging in the gate apparently saved the rest of her hand from even more damage. Get well, soon.
Timebomb Trading, Canada’s action distributor of Etnies, Emerica, és, thirty-two, Dragon, LRG and RVCA, has a brand new original art piece in their HQ thanks to Randy Layborne. And it looks pretty nice.
Check out all the details on Randy’s flicker account.
The City of Encinitas California has been hard on Bucky Lasek. They made him go through months of planning and inspections, but it looks like his big ol’ 13.5 foot deep bowl is finally becoming a reality. And it only took one access road and 20 truck loads of cement.
Transworld Business put up some photos of the recently finished skatepark in Windell’s Camp Building Out Back. From the looks of it we’d pay for a week at Windell’s without even getting on snow. [Link: TransWorld Business]
Chris Nieratko and his pregnant wife took a trip to Cuba recently to hand out quality skateboards to the kids who can’t get them thanks to international politics. Here’s what was up:
Recently a crew of 18 friends and I flew to Cuba (via Panama) to give away skateboards to the kids down there who can’t get them because of the embargo. The full stories will appear in Vice and The Skateboard Mag in a few months. You can read the background storyhere. Or watch this inspirational little documentary on the scene down in Havana that prompted us to put the trip together.
Haven’t had the pleasure (and we do mean it) of hanging out with Ben Raybourn and Jaws Homoki lately? Now is your chance. We recommend it. These kids are cool.
We rarely get excited about skateboard magazines anymore. Not sure if it’s because they come out too often or what.
But when former SBC Skateboard’sRyan Stutt, Harry Gils, and Scotty McDonald team up with Big Brother’sDave Carnie and Chris Nieratko to create a magazine guest art directed by Todd Bratrud, well that’s something that gets our old ink-huffing neurons firing again. Even if King Shit is only doing two issues a summer. [click to continue…]
