One of Athen’s Greece based architectural firm Archivirus Architecture clients requested a “skatetable habitat,” according to a story on Arplustest.com.
According to architect Athanasia Psaraki, the Ramp House is a project which tries to reconsider and redefine the living space. The result of the client’s request is a curved form interior, which “set the whole house as well as the inhabitant’s life, into motion”. . . .It is intended to be a ‘ramp house’ and not a ‘house with a ramp’. Straight lines are curved and the flat surface becomes a ramp or a bowl. Basic house elements such as the fireplace and storage units are hidden inside the ramp forms.
Okay. Next time we’re in Athens we’re finding this place.
Shaun Hover is spreading the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world with his skateboard, according to a story on Homtownlife.com.
“In L.A., there are so many skateboarders. I skate down the sidewalk and see guys skating and start talking to them. It makes it easy, I guess. Sometimes I feel like I’m cheating,” the Rochester Hills native said with a laugh. “When I have a board, it makes it more comfortable to talk with someone on the street because skateboarding is such a street sport.”. . In Thailand, we were going around to different villages, getting to know people, teaching the kids English,” he said. “When I’d pull out my skateboard, everyone would come and gather around. They were fascinated … it made them more interested in what we were offering.”
Love the passion, but nothing blows a good skate session faster than when someone starts preaching. But then hopefully Shaun is a little stealthier than that.
The bird-napping occurred about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday as Gordo – a green Malaysian parrot from Guatemala – played in his cage on the front porch of his owner’s Bess Street home. . . “My mother was at home and she heard somebody trying to break into the cage,” said Fred Mirales. “When she went out there, the guy was already (running away).” . . .Gordo has become a popular city figure, said Mirales, who has had the 30-year-old parrot for about a decade.
Just one of the downsides of fame, apparently.
[Editors’ Note: We’re having a hard time believing that we just posted this, but shore ’nuff there it is.]
Filmmaker Jared Eberhardt once told us that there are guys of a certain age in this industry who, no matter how hard they try, always end up wearing Vans shoes. They show up at weddings, funerals, and baptisms in suits. . . but on their feet it’s Vans.
Many have had access to ass-loads of free shoes over the years but they always end up throwing on a pair of Vans on their way out of the house. The Vans Off The Wall book seems built especially for them, errr, or us.
Vans Off The Wall tells the multi-generational story of the community that encompasses boards, bikes, art, music, and street culture, as well as the iconic shoes keeping it all together. With oral histories from Tony Alva, Joel Tudor, Steve Caballero, John Cardiel, Geoff Rowley, and others Vans: Off The Wall provides an intimate visually stunning account of how the company had changed the face of pop culture since its founding in 1966.
Self-promotional? Yes. Written by Vans Marketing VP Doug Palladini? Yep, but we’re not going to let either of those things quell our enthusiasm. That’s how much we’re looking forward to it. Vans says the book drops on June 1, 2009 but Amazon says they’re shipping May 1.
Broslist.com mixes the classified ads of Craigslist with user generated content community functionality that seems to be loaded on every site these days. Post a profile, post a video, and then post a listing to sell your old skate deck. It’s all there on the broslist. We don’t know how popular the rest of the site will be, but if the classified section can hit critical mass it could be a great resource for snow, surf, skate gear trading.
Here’s what Mike Piscitelli posted on Club Mumble:
These challenging economic times inspired a few of us to build a classified website that would enable surfers to buy, sell and trade used surf gear, find cheap places to stay all over the world, get rides to the beach, and land work. Over the course of 12 months we worked with a talented group of web programmers to createBroslist.com, a simple but thorough classified website that addresses the needs of surfers on all levels. Unlike craigslist, we are your bros.
The site has only been up for a couple hours, so don’t expect to find much now, but if your garage looks anything like ours, broslist.com may offer some kind of salvation from surf, snow, skate overload.
For the latest in our series The Tony Hawk of we present Javas McMillion of Fergus, Ontario, Canada. He is the Tony Hawk of Fingerboarding, according to a story in The Record.
Fingerboarding is precisely what it sounds like — skateboarding with your fingers — and Javas is Ontario’s fingerboarding equivalent of Tony Hawk. Call him Tiny Hawk. . . “You can do anything you could do on a real skateboard except it’s, like, miniature,” explains Javas, a Fergus kid who’s “almost 13” and something of a local fingerboarding guru.
Indeed. And it might even be cooler than pizza flipping.
Lewis Smith, 45, of Orange City, Florida got so mad at the kids who were skateboarding on some ramps near his house that he burned them down, according to a story on WFTV.com.
The sheriff’s office says the man put the neighborhood near Orange City in danger and forced the county to divert firefighters already battling huge brush fires. The man admit he set the skateboard ramps on fire in the middle of this dirt road on 17th Street (see map), near Orange City, because he was fed up with kids playing on them so close to his home. . . Lewis Smith, 45, was booked into the Volusia County jail, but released Monday morning. He’s charged with criminal mischief, but Volusia County sheriff’s investigators said the minor damage he caused could’ve been far worse.
And we thought the Tampa Pro was the hottest skate event going on in Florida last weekend.
Everyone watched it live and in HD on Fuel TV, but we’re still putting it up just for history sake. Greg Lutzka (click here for profile) wins it. If you missed the finals, or just want to watch it for a second (or third time) it’s already up on Fuel TV. This is how we like to watch skate contests. . . seriously.
Javier Nunez pulls off the Tampa Pro best trick with a nollie half cab heellflip to switch 5-0.
The Skateboard Mag has listed up a great crew of people to follow on Twitter if you want the latest news from the Skate Park of Tampa this weekend (or skateboarding in general) when you’re not watching the live feed in HD.
