Looks like the makers of The Skateboard Mag, the finest quality skateboarding magazine in print, are getting saddled up for more regular rides through the social media frontier via Twitter.
Click here to follow them at SkateboardMag.
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Bob Burnquist’s new Aero candy bar ad created by the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson (and filmed by Ty Evans) is a nice new remix of the old Nike 6.0 spot, no? Nestlé is going to spend £7 million ($10 million) on the campaign, according to the Guardian UK.
[Link: BrandRepublic]
[Update (3.3.09): Now it looks like Media Bistro is coming to the party copy cat party, thanks Kevin]
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Apparently, the those who couldn’t wait for the sequel to Bam Margera’s Haggard: The Movie, only need to wait six more days as Minghags: The Movie is premieres March 8, 2009 at Philadelphia’s Backseat Film Festival, according to a blurb in the Philadelphia Daily News. Here’s what we can all look forward to:
Trailer trash rockers Lenny (BAM MARGERA) and Ponce (BRANDON DICAMILLO) have vowed revenge, on billionaire scum-bag Rut Ru (also BRANDON DICAMILLO) and his bloated sidekick Dominick (DAVE “LORD” BOTTARO) who have heisted Ponce’s cool invention, the Garbage Juicer! . . . and just when you thought the plot couldn’t be any more contrived, the triteness increases as Lenny and Rut Ru up the ante, culminating in cameos by JIMMY POP and EVIL JARED of the BLOODHOUND GANG, DON VITO, RAKE YOHN, “COMPTON ASS” TERRY KENNEDY, THE DUDESONS, PHIL AND APRIL MARGERA, BRANDON NOVAK, GINA LYNN, JESS MARGERA, CHAD GINSBURG, RYAN GEE, JOE FRANTZ, and a slew of B-listers from the CKY videos!
We’re just sorry we can’t be there to see it in person.
[Link: Minghags via Philly.com] [click to continue…]
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Looks like due to a conflict with an Orioles event, the 2009 Dew Tour will not be returning to Bucky Lasek’s hometown of Baltimore, according to a story in the Baltiore Business Journal.
The five-stop action sports series is replacing its Baltimore and Cleveland multisport events with a single-sport skateboard event and a single-sport BMX event. Those events will be held in Chicago and Boston, respectively, which replace Baltimore and Cleveland as tour stops. . . . Panasonic, the title sponsor of the Baltimore event, also did not renew its partnership for this year’s event.
Single sport events? What, is the whole mainstream multi-action sports fan thing not working out? Click here for the 2009 tour dates.
[Link: Baltimore Business Journal and Allisports]
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Terry Schroeder, the owner of Midwest Skate Park in Rochester, Minnesota says if business doesn’t turn around he’ll have to close the park next year when the sub-lease agreement for the warehous ends.
The 4,000-square-foot park at 1020 Seventh St. N.W. is no longer making enough money from skating fees and merchandise sales to support itself, Schroeder said. Business declined sharply this winter, he added, as the novelty of the park has worn off and a shaky economy has made parents less willing to give kids money for skateboarding. . . “It hurts to think that the kids won’t have a place,” he said recently.
Yes it does.
[Link: Post-Bulletin]
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We met Dirk Vogal, Daniel Schmid, and Jürgen Blumleiu (the guys responsible for Made For Skate; The Illustrated History of Skateboard Footwear) at The Berrics last night. They’d just finished a book singing at HUF LA. And when we said we were bummed we missed it they told us about this signing on March 7, 2009 at the Skatelab in Simi Valley.
Made For Skate is required for any skate book collection. And you can pick up the Mike V. issue of skatebook while you’re there.
[Link: Skatelab]
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A Pensacola Florida skate spot was the scene of a robbery last week when Mark Furches, 20, found himself “looking down the barrel of a shotgun” instead of his video camera, acording to a story in the Pensacola News Journal.
He had been filming some of his friends skateboarding at a makeshift skate park on Massachusetts Avenue, and he didn’t notice when two men, one armed with a shotgun, approached from some nearby woods. . . “By the time I turned around, he already had a gun on me,” Furches said. . . . After a few tense moments, the men made off with Furches’ $3,500 video camera and another skateboarder’s cell phone.
Kind of reminds us of walking back to our car at The Berrics. Okay, not really.
[Link: Pensacola New Journal]
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If you’re wondering where XX Wins The Berrics War story went, here’s the deal: Danny Bickerstaffe wanted us to pull it down saying:
We would greatly appreciate the removal of your Battle At The Berrics winers post since we have not yet posted the video on the site.
Nothing like trying to pound a big, fat, blue Genie back into a bottle, huh? But since we were invited guests plus the fact that easily half the people who saw the results were pissed that we “spoiled the whole thing for them” we have pulled our two sentence post. Danny did say that “The final game will be posting on Monday.” So we can all quit hitting reload on The Berrics site now and give those servers a break.
See what happens when you invite a bunch of wired, social media connected people to your private TF?
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Looks like Op isn’t the only company with Walmart dreams of global domination. The Skatelab in Simi Valley, California and Alantic Beach, Florida has announced that they now have product displays in 450 Walmart stores and by the end of April they will be in 1,750 stores.
Killer T-shirts and hats only $7.50. Support SKATELAB and go get your kids some of the new gear today!
Just wondering. . . will this make Skatelab the world’s largest selling skateboarding T-shirts and hats? If not, it will certainly increase Skatelab’s brand awareness in the all-important “uneducated, foul-mouthed, fat, ugly, and unemployed” demographic.
[Link: Skatelab.com]
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Miss skateboarder Biebel’s Firsthand on Fuel TV last weekend? No worries. The entire show is now up (in HD) on the Fuel.TV website for viewing any old time. Funny how good HD looks and how we’re already starting to take it for granted.
Sadly the Fuel player isn’t embeddable or we would have put it right here. Maybe someday. . .
[Update: Thanks to Rowe, we’ve got the HULU.com version after the jump.
[Link: Fuel.TV]
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