Because sometimes there are accidents. . .
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Matix (which seems like a really new company to us sometimes) is releasing a book to celebrate 10 years in the action sports clothing business. It’s called This Is Progress and features the work of: Daewon Song, Marc Johnson, Rick McCrank, Rudy Johnson, Mikey LeBlanc, Reda, and many more.
The book is being launched to the public on February 12, 2009 at the Hollywood Hennessey + Ingalls location at Space 15 Twenty 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Suite 8 Los Angeles, CA 90028.
The first 25 people to buy a book will receive a free Marc Johnson exclusive Matix tshirt
[Link: Hennessy + Ingalls via Active Ride Shop]
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Skate and Annoy’s Kilwag dug up this great “shell” house from Dezeen Magazine.
The house in Karuizawa, Japan is called Shell, and it was designed by a Japanese architecture firm called Artechnic. . . Approaching the house. Anybody remember the elliptical transition fad on vert ramps?
We’re kind of surprised that Pierre Andre doesn’t have something like this hiding in the hills above Sole Tech.
[Link: Skate and Annoy]
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You just never know the truth these days. According to a video posted on Thrasher Magazine’s website, Editor Jake Phelps says he “was fired yesterday” by High Speed Productions. Here’s what he had to say on the video clip:
Well I guess the who’s hated list that caused a lot of shit. But I got fired yesterday, I guess I’m going to have to keep skating more. . . . I don’t hate anybody. And I love everybody. Let’s all just keep skating. . . . If you have some more questions to ask me maybe I’ll tell you, we’ll go in a van on the road somewhere and I’ll tell you some funny stories and that will keep you occupied. . . . I’ll keep my own opinions to myself. I’m not a jock. I’ve done a lot of drugs. I’m just a regular guy and like I said, “The Truth Hurts.”
Though we know a lot of people who would celebrate Jake Phelp’s firing, we’re not going to start putting our party kit on just yet. . .
[Link: Thrasher Magazine]
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Rick Fork, a.k.a. Rick Froberg was a quiet guy with a devious sense of humor when he worked in the back room at Transworld Media. But all that changed when he got on stage with his bands Drive Like Jehu, Pitchfork and Hot Snakes.
The contrast between the two was shocking and we never could figure out how all those heavy sounds could came out of such a thin, quiet, honestly nice guy.
Froberg’s art shares some of the same qualities as his music—it’s bold, skilled, sinister and primal, yet intelligent, referential and nuanced. He genre-hops with ease; from digital drawings to acrylic paint to heavy ink and back again, creating stark images of character collages, WWII-era comic figures and Dali-esque cartoon landscapes.
Filter magazine checks in with Froberg in an interview about art, music, and the realities of getting paid.
[Link: Filter Magazine]
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NHS management breathed a sign of relief when the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to postpone by one year a new federal law that would have required products made for children 12 and under to be tested for lead starting Feb. 10, 2009.
But that relief came after NHS’s owner Richard Novak had already laid off 17 employees because of sagging sales and worries about the new regulations.
A victory for good sense,” said Tim Piumarta, director of research and new product development at NHS, a Santa Cruz company with sales of $23 million a year. “This untenable legislation, as it was written by non-scientists in Congress, threw the entire global product supply channel into mass confusion.”
NHS and many other companies will now have a year to work out the lead details before complaining about it again next year.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
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This is old and we think we ignored it the first time around but, hey look, an inflatable longboard that rolls up and packs away when it’s deflated. At least it will float when we throw it in the ocean in disgust.
[Link: Ubergizmo]
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Club Mumble’s Bob Kronbauer has decided that there are a few people who have given so much to skateboarding that they deserved a pro model. The Skateboard Mag’s Grant Brittain is the first and it looks like there are a few more coming.
The pro models are for sale in limited editions of 99 available at Skateone.com. Click here to watch the video which explains it all.
[Link: Club Mumble]
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While the idea behind Toms Shoes is pretty cool (for every shoe they sell, they give one away) it seems like an odd thing for Element Skateboards to partner up with them because, we’ll you can’t skate in Tom’s shoes. Can you?
The Toms and Element Skateboards line launches today with a collection of five styles of shoes –three for women and two for men. Also, Element has designed a Toms branded skateboard to push around on while wearing what else? Toms shoes. . . .Element will follow the Toms “one for one” rule — for every skate deck or board bought, Element will give a board away to a child in need of some wheels. . . . The shoes are all $46. Skateboards retail for $150 for a complete long board and $50 for the smaller deck.
Guess you can longboard in pretty much anything.
[Link: LA Times via Blackbook]
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Ever question skateboarding’s ability to heal? First Skateistan and now the Uganda Skateboard Union. If this isn’t a viral video for some corporate interest, it should be. Thank you, Board Master.
[Link: Uganda Skateboard Union via Club Mumble]
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