Skateboarding

Another Skater Gets Run Over Towing

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Sadly, another skateboarder (who was hanging on to the side of his friends car and then leg go) was run over and hospitalized this week. This time it was in Denver.

Authorities believe the victim was holding the driver’s side door of a Ford Mustang while his 16-year-old companion was driving the car westbound on 85th Avenue. . . . Police are investigating how fast the Mustang was going and why the teen let go of the door just before he was struck by the car.

Apparently, the Denver Police don’t know that this scene plays out over and over and over again.

[Update Feb. 26, 2009: 9news.com is reporting that 15-year-old Austin Ayers has now died from his injuries. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.]

[Link: Denver Post]

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Iconoclast LA Pop-Up Until April 11

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

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Get them while you can. The new Iconoclast Pop-Up will be popped up at 451 N. Fairfax, Los Angeles, CA until April 11, 2009 so for the next 35 days it will be the spot to get limited edition art, prints, books, and other stuff from some of our favorite artists:

The Iconoclast Editions pop-up shop features work by David Ellis, Jimmy Baker, Harmony Korine, Neil Farber, Jacob Dyrenforth, Ohad Meromi, Charley Harper, Lisi Raskin, Ryan McGinness, Larry Clark, KAWS, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Chris Johanson, Raymond Pettibon, Shepard Fairey, Todd Cole, Mark Gonzales, Evan Hecox, Jo Jackson, Todd James, Takashi Homma, Os Gemeos, James Jarvis, Andy Jenkins, Spike Jonze, Ari Marcopoulos, Geoff McFetridge, Steve Powers, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell, Terry Richardson, Mark Borthwick, Craig Stecyk, Ed Templeton, Henry Chalfant, Tobin Yelland, Clare Rojas, Antonio Adams, Cynthia Connolly, PAM, Andrew Pommier, KR, Cheryl Dunn and many more.

We were going to say something about Mike Mills and celebrity salad bar designers, but we’ll save that for another time..

[Link: Iconoclast LA]

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Donated Transworld Mags Dumped In Landfill

by The Editors on February 25, 2009

Home-NewsThree years ago Jeff Seymour, of Carlsbad, California wanted to help out the troops. So he started a program called “Magazines and Movies for the Troops.” With donated magazines and movies from Transworld Media and many other Southern California souces Seymour hoped to spread a little love from home, according to a story in the San Diego City Beat.

Now it looks like most of those donations ended up getting dumped straight into a San Diego landfill. According to the paper a supervisor at the Miramar landfill witnessed “a group of Marines dump as many as six pallets full of the donations—magazines, books, DVDs and hygiene products, packed in boxes plainly marked “For Our Troops in Iraq”—into the landfill last summer.”

“Transworld Media donated thousands of magazines, most of them so new they still hadn’t hit the stands yet,” he says. “They donated cases of beanies—like those skullcaps that kids wear—worth about $20 apiece. I asked them, ‘Do you think the troops will wear these?’ And they replied, ‘Hey, do you know how cold it gets over there?’

Guess, we’ll never know. For the rest of the Marine Corp FUBAR follow the jump.

[Link: San Diego City Beat]

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Real New Website Project

by The Editors on February 24, 2009

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[Link: Real Skateboards]

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Active Ride Shop 20th Year Celebrations

by The Editors on February 24, 2009

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[Link: Active Ride Shop]

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Downhill Skateboarding Punched Out At Malibu

by The Editors on February 24, 2009

On February 23, 2009 the City of Malibu, California voted to outlaw downhill skateboarding a.k.a. “speedboarding” according to a story in the LA Times.

Malibu, with its many winding canyon roads, voted to prohibit skateboarding on some of its most twisted streets and passes. . . . “The intent is not to ban skateboarding in the city of Malibu,” said Reva Feldman, the town’s administrative services director. “The intent is to protect the public and also the city.” The city will post signs prohibiting skateboarding on 10 public streets, Feldman said. Violators would be fined between $25 and $100.

When fun is outlawed, only outlaws will have fun.

[Link: LA Times]

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Woman Sues Skateboard Co. For Husband’s Death

by The Editors on February 24, 2009

Waialua, Hawaii resident Clinton Patterson fell from his electric skateboard in July 2008 and died five days later from his injuries. Now his wife Jennifer is suing the “California-based motorized skateboard manufacturer and its Hawai’i distributor,” according to a story in the Honolulu Advertiser.

The lawsuit alleges that the wheels of the board came in contact with Patterson’s feet or the board, causing an abrupt change in speed and direction, effectively throwing him off the skateboard. The suit claims that the board was poorly designed and built. . . .The electric skateboards are manufactured and sold by Chase Boards LLC in Orange County, Calif. The lawsuit also named Bionic Wheels LLC, a Honolulu-based distributor of the product, as a defendant.

Sad story all the way around.

[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]

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Powell About To Have Some Fun

by The Editors on February 23, 2009

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Thrasher Brings Back 1982

by The Editors on February 22, 2009

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SkateDaily.net just reminded us that Thrasher Magazine has put year two up on their website in it’s entirety. They’re just scans (so they don’t Google well) but every page from every mag is there. The kids can laugh and the old guys can re-live the glory days of 1982.

[Link: Thrasher Magazine via SkateDaily.net]

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Simon Evans On Island Time In NYC

by The Editors on February 21, 2009

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Simon Evans is a former pro skateboarder who wrote for the British skateboard mag R.a,D. in the early 90s. Now he is an artist with a new show which opened last night (February 20, 2009) at the James Cohan Gallery in New York City. Here is the logic behind the show:

. . . these days he’s expressing himself in scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white-out. He uses everyday materials to create vivid stories through collages. For a new show at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea, he’s tells the story of Robinson Crusoe, creating the things Caruso used to keep himself alive when stranded on a desert island. Evans said he was hoping to bring text and visual art together.

The show runs through April 4, 2009, but you can check it online right here.

[Link: James Cohan Gallery via WYNC.org]

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