There was a day when we would have let nothing stand between us and a Christian Hosoi, Steve Caballero & Tony Alva autograph signing in Littleton, Colorado. Sadly, that day was about 20 years ago or we’d be there this Sunday March 15, 2009.
[Link: Vans via The Skateboard Mag]
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Pennsylvania skaters Adam Podlaski and his brother Jason noticed that a lot of perfectly good wood was going to waste when they and their friends would throw away broken skateboards. And that gave them an idea, according to a story on CBS3.com.
Adam said, “I approached Jay, and I was like, can you make me some furniture out of these things?” So Jason created the Deck Stool. “The design was really based on the way skateboards break,” said Jason. “A large percentage breaks at the truck, because they’re weakened by the holes that are drilled there for the truck. And then the rest break in the center. As you can see by the design, the longer ones become the legs, and the shorter pieces become the seats.”
Deckstools cost about $250 each, so at this point they’re a little more art than eco-furniture.
[Link: Deckstools via CBS3.com]
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While in Lima, Peru shooting and filming some tricks in “a seemingly unsketchy area” filmer Mike Mansoori, photographer Oliver Barton got robbed at gun point of $13,000 in camera gear in “about 6 seconds” by the guy pointed out in the above photo, according to a story on the és blog.
While no one else in the crew is watching, the striped shirt lurker creeps up on Manzoori and the kid, pulls a gun, shoves it in Manzoori’s face and grabs the video camera. Like a cartoon…the kid gets up and runs so fast that one of his shoes falls off his foot and is left on the scene. Manzoori lays face down on the ground to get away from the gun. Just at this very moment, a black Toyota Yaris comes down the street toward the thief who’s running away from Manzoori, to the car, brand-new free high def video camera in hand.
It’s a reminder that in many places carrying around expensive camera equipment is like wearing a placard that says “Rob Me.” We’re so glad no one was hurt. Click here for Quicktime video.
[Link: és Footwear]
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It’s a classic California skateboard success story: kid from Brighton, England moves to San Diego at 18 and freestyles his way into the position of skateboard industry titan. It’s the Don Brown true skateboarding story as told by Red Bull in their Red Bulletin.
“I was living in the moment,” he recalls. “I remember going to a contest in Huntington Beach one day, looking in my wallet and realising I only had a dollar to my name.” So, Brown took a warehouse job with Vision Skateboarding. After winning three consecutive amateur contests, Vision became his sponsor, eventually giving him what no other English skater before him had managed – a professional board model named after him.
That was only the beginning. In the early 90s Don joined Pierre Senizergues at Etnies and the skateboard footwear world was never the same again. Then again, neither was any industry event that Don attended, but we’ll keep those stories to ourselves.
[Link: Red Bulletin]
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Quiksilver review their Q1 financials today, March 11, 2009 in a conference call that will be broadcast live over the Internet at 1:30 Pacific Time. The broadcast will be hosted at www.quiksilverinc.com and at www.viavid.net.
This maybe one of those calls we won’t want to miss.
[Link: MarketWatch]
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Kilwag at Skate and Annoy just posted photos of Girl Skateboard’s The Planks series of graphics and he’s right. They’re pretty cool. They kind of remind us of the old Sims Noah Salasnek pro model snowboard.
[Link: Skate And Annoy]
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On Thursday March 12, The Copenhagen Skatepark will hold a fundraiser to help support Project Skateistan the organization that we mentioned back in June of 2008 that is spreading peace in Afghanistan through skateboarding.
Worldfamous Trentemöller and many more music acts are supporting the project by playing for free on this evening. A lot of very talented artists among them Olafsur Eliasson has donated art for our beneficiary art auction. Famous chefs from Gasthaus4Experiment in Germany are coming to cook extraordinary food, skaters are coming from all over Europe to participate in our skatecompetition, where Eastpack has already donated 4 x 1000€ for price money that will go directly to Skateistan!
[Link: Skateistan-CPH09 via Club Mumble]
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In their new book Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time journalists Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton roll out the completely history of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise. Gamasutra has been cool enough to preview the entire THPS section:
What Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, which has now generated $1 billion in sales across the course of the series, added was an extraordinary level of realism to the over-the-top antics that resonated with many players who were turned off by the overly competitive nature of the previous games. By making it about technique over style, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater expanded its audience to far more players than any other game of its type before.
Thanks Gamasutra, we won’t have to buy the book. Click the link for the rest of the five page story.
[Update 2:20 PM: According to a comment from Bill Loguidice the Tony Hawk Pro Skater history isn’t even in the book, it’s a bonus chapter run exclusively on Gamasutra.com Sorry for the mix up, Bill.]
[Link: Gamasutra]
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What up Tyson? Game of S.K.A.T.E?
[Link: San Gabriel Valley Tribune]
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The photography of J. Grant Brittain, Joe Brook, Jon Humphries, Bryce Hanights, and Ryan Flynn opening night Friday, March 13 at Artery in Portland. With sponsors like Nike SB and Red Bull the hors d’œuvre have got to be good.
Artery 4114 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland, Oregon.
[Link: via The Skateboard Mag]
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