Yep, it’s that time of year when people with too much money party their way across this great nation of ours and hang out with their skeezy celebrity friends in the Gumball Rally 3000. And that’s really all there is to say about that.
[Link: The Mountain And Wave]
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One more little reminder that when compared to pool skaters most everyone else in skateboarding is a plushie.
[Link: Fresno Pools via Skate and Annoy]
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Sometimes we just don’t get it. Gravis, the shoe company the Burton Corporation has been sinking money into for more than a decade, has released a shoe for the most beautiful boy in skateboarding and once again they’ve created something that no one will buy.
How do they do it? You’d think even by simply designing with a magic 8 ball you’d come up with a hit shoe every once in a while. . .but hey, at least they are trying right?
[Link: Gravis via The Skateboard Mag]
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In an effort to remind kids that there is more to life that video games and iPods, the School Library Journal kicked down a list of what they’re calling “The Original Handhelds” a.k.a. magazines. And one of the best of these OG handhelds is apparently Transworld Skateboarding Magazine.
Skateboarding isn’t an activity to be left on the sidewalk. It’s a sport, an art, and a world with a fashion sense all its own. You’ll see more shoe ads in Transworld Skateboarding (TS) than you’ll see in Teen Vogue. TS features interviews with skateboarding professionals, detailed (and often bloody) photos of both graceful and klutzy moments in skateboarding, news, video game reviews, and stunning action photography. The magazine has also produced a series of skateboarding videos, including Sight Unseen and The Reason. Published monthly, plus two special issues. Audience: junior high and high school.
How’s that for a solid description of T-dub skate. And remember, kids. . . magazines are cool.
[Link: School Library Journal]
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For the past four years the Pro-Tec Pool party has snuck up on us so steathily that we’ve missed it every time. This year we’re planning on sneaking back a little. We’re going to the Vans park on May 16, 2009 to catch all that tile cracking action in person. If that plan fails, at least we have a back-up: watch the whole thing in HD on Fuel TV.
[Link: Fuel TV]
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A bank robber dubbed the “Skateboard Bandit” is still free after hitting two Wells Fargo Banks in Sacramento, California last Saturday April 25, 2009.
The suspect was caught on surveillance cameras at both banks. He’s described as an Asian male, 20 to 30 years old, 5’5″ to 5’8″ tall, and weighing between 135 and 145 pounds. He has black hair and was wearing glasses, a black zip-up hooded sweatshirt, a black tee shirt, a black beanie with a brim, and black cotton gloves with the fingers cut off at the knuckles.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department would like help if you recognize this skateboarder. . .
[Link: CBS13.com]
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When students of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California were asked to redesign the school bus and to “improve the efficiency and safety of buses and to imagine at least two other functions for them in addition to transporting students,” Andrew Kang knew exactly what he wanted to do:
Andrew Kang, sponsored by Subaru and DC Shoes, designed a bus that can be converted into a mobile skateboard park, with ramps that unfold. The bus also functions as a portable art classroom whose interior can be repeatedly painted.
A bus like that would make going to school worthwhile.
[Link: New York Times]
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Skate and Annoy’s Kilwag alerted us this morning to a set of photos of mostly naked girls holding skateboards from a British lad mag Front which apparently features “Britain’s fittest girls.” Here’s what he said about it:
The latest issue tells readers to “Put on your kneepads, take out your shiny helmet and do some serious grinding as Rosie and Hettie go skate!” Errr, yeah. Rosie and Hettie seem more interested in other activities actually. I’m going to go out on a limb and call them, ahem, posers! Yes, I am that witty!
As if we needed another reason to look at photos of skateboards and Vans shoes. Click here for the NSFW collection.
[Link: Skate And Annoy and SkatevideosGT]
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A 16-year-old San Francisco skateboarder is dead after hitting a curb on Sunday April 19, 2009 while skating down what the Mercury News calls a “steep hill.”
The San Mateo County Coroner’s office says 16-year-old John Pagobo died of internal injuries Monday, after he was thrown off his skateboard the day before. . . Police say the teen was thrown about 15 feet when he hit a curb while riding down the hill Sunday afternoon.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
[Link: Mercury News]
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The New York Times knows skateboarding is cool. And what better way to show how hip a young couple can be than by profiling Jay Shapiro and Claire Bigbie at their wonderfully skatie pad in San Francisco’s trendy Noe Valley neighborhood. The profile is filled with lines like these:
After Ms. Bigbie graduated in 2001, the couple lived in London for a year. Ms. Bigbie — who had been collecting furniture since she was 14 (about the same time she started skating) and had designed a skateboard clothing line by 16 and graphics for the indie record company Tooth + Nail by 18 — worked at the British furniture design company Precious McBane. . . Mr. Shapiro became an assistant to Richie Hopson, a British photographer. . . .When he was offered a job as a team manager for Think Skateboards in San Francisco, they returned, and Ms. Bigbie became a stylist for the do-it-yourself magazine Ready Made.
And that fellow skateboarders is exactly how you end up with an envelope a&d designed $1 million house in SF. Notice our tone? That’s just us being jealous and petty.
[Link: New York Times and evelope a&d]
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