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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As if the X Games weren’t rad enough, they’re now going to be rad times 3-D, thanks to a new ESPN/Disney joint.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Steve Lawrence (Down the Barrel), the film will use groundbreaking digital 3D techniques to immerse sports fans into the world of action sports and its top stars. Iconic action sports personalities chronicled in the film are: Shaun White, Travis Pastrana, Danny Way, Ricky Carmichael and Bob Burnquist.
Luckily for us our interest in 3-D totally overshadows or dread of the X Games so we’re actually looking forward to having Bob Burnquist, Danny Way, and Shawn White thrust their boards right into our faces.
X Games 3D the Movie will be released August 21, 2009 with a limited one-week theatrical release.
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The Newport Beach Film Festival begins on Friday April 24, 2009 and included in the festival is The Action Sports Film Series presented by etnies, Fuel TV, and Surfing Magazine.
Here are just a few of the 20 films and five world premieres: Echo Beach, The Lost Wave, P. Rod’s Street Dreams, Travis Rice’s That’s It, That’s All, and “The Malloys” in Waveriders.
We’d link directly to the show times for the Action Sports Series, but we can’t because the site is in Flash. You’ll have to find it yourself. Flash is rad.
[Link: Newport Beach Film Festival]
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Tony Hawk has signed an army green messenger bag that is now being auctioned off by The Children’s Place to raise money for the Books for Kids foundation.
The mission of the Books for Kids Foundation is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low income and at risk preschool aged children. Books for Kids creates libraries, donates books, and partners with literacy programs to help develop the critical foundation and skills which young children need to be successful in life.
The auction ends on April 24, 2009 and the current bid is only $78. Thanks, Tony.
[Link: Ebay.com]
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New York Times writer Michael Brick gets looks into boardsports triathlon Ultimate Boarder and finds the intersection of marketing, action sports, novelty and a founder who just wants make money doing what he loves.
The Ultimate Boarder organizer, Tim D. Hoover, a 38-year-old amateur surfer and onetime film industry worker, described the contest as his ticket to raising his family in this easygoing beach setting 60 miles north of Los Angeles. . . .“I really wanted to make this a grassroots, bootstrap, organic thing,” he said. “I wanted to do something to inspire and create a format for the next generation of kids that grow up in this lifestyle.”
Wonder how that’s working for him? How many people, aside from the competitors, really care about a competition that is won each year by aging skateboard team managers from surf clothing companies?
[Link: New York Times]
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