The November 1st Blowout Warehouse sale was up to 70 percent off. Now the upcoming December Warehouse sale is up to 80 percent off. At this rate by February everything at Active is going to be free.
[Link: Active Ride Shop]
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According to reports ASA Entertainment, the action sports event marketing company, has made at least four staff cuts in recent days.
Their director of marketing, senior producer (who produced all of the events and television for the last three years), athlete coordinator and one sales person out of the Indialantic, Florida office were all laid off. As our source says:
It seems the company is changing direction away from competitive events and more into “customized corporate marketing solutions” or as the rest of the industry calls them . . . demos.
And maybe some of that direction change is showing up at BFD.com.
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We’ll probably hear more about this in the conference call tomorrow, but ASR is reporting that Quiksilver (and all its brands but DC Shoes) will “miss the January event for the first time since ASR was held in Long Beach,” according to a Shop-eat-surf.com.
Today Quiksilver told organizers that the brand will miss the January event for the first time since ASR was held in Long Beach,” the statement said. . . . “ASR continues to look for ways to work with Quiksilver and the industry as a whole through these hard times.”
Anyone want to buy a great surfwear brand?
[Link: Shop-eat-surf]
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Going up against Tony Hawk in the video game world requires an army and EA brings one with this amazing opener to Skate 2, all to the beat of ELO’s Showdown. We want to play it right now.
[Link: Skateboardworks]
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This should be entertaining. This Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 1:30 PST Quiksilver will host a “conference call to review its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter and year-end financial results
The broadcast will be hosted at www.quiksilverinc.com and at www.viavid.net. To listen to the broadcast, your computer must have Windows Media Player installed. If you do not have Windows Media Player, go to the latter site prior to the call, where you can download the software for free.
Get your rig ready and listen up.
[Link: Welt.de]
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One of the biggest reasons we rarely watch Fuel TV is because it was never on our cable system. We always wondered why they couldn’t simply put their shows on their website so we could check them out any time we wanted. Finally, our wonders have been partially answered with Fuel TV’s the new HD web player from Move Networks.
“FUEL TV is the only television network dedicated to action sports,” says Gene Pao, FUEL TV Vice President of New Media and International Development. “Now FUEL TV will be the first place consumers can watch full-length HD action sports shows online. The quality of the viewing experience is really unmatched anywhere online in the action sports world.”
Soon we’ll be able to watch The Standard Snowboard Show, Firsthand, and FUEL TV presents Camp Woodward, but the bummer is that full-length episodes “will only be available on the web site for a limited time.” Huh? Well, at least it’s one step in the right direction. [click to continue…]
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Thrasher Magazine’s SOTY party went off at the Great American Music Hall on Friday night December 12, 2008. And the San Francisco Weekly’s Eric K. Arnold was there to take down all the details. He got in while many skate heads were left standing in the street.
There was a lot of standing and milling around, and not much else to do but imbibe copious amounts of booze for a couple of hours. Hey, that’s what skaters do, brah. The open bar helped in this respect, although any efforts to actually get a drink within a reasonable time frame (say, under half an hour) were rebuffed by an apparently overwhelmed peroxide blonde bartender with a lip ring who became somewhat of a Seinfeld-esque “Beer Nazi,” arbitrarily granting or denying requests to be served based on…well, who knows what was going through that dude’s head.
So you’re saying we didn’t miss anything? We mean aside from Too $hort.
[Link: San Francisco Weekly]
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Forbes Magazine just released its list of the 10 Most Influential Athletes and Tony Hawk weighs in at number three behind Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong and ahead of Peyton Manning, Shaq, and several Nascar drivers. Here’s what they said:
This month, Hawk competed in the All ’80s All Day Vert Challenge, his first competition in eight years. Fittingly, the man who won many times during his storied career came out on top again. Hawk’s influence is evident in the popularity of the videogame franchise named after him. The skater also owns his own film and TV production company.
Congrats, Tony.
[Link: Forbes]
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Iconic skateboarder/film director Stacy Peralta is getting grief from all corners for a recent commercial project commissioned by Burger King via bad-boy advertising agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky in which Peralta traveled the world to find “Whopper Virgins.” Burger King apparently wanted to find out which tastes better the Whopper of McDonald’s Big Mac, according to Crain’s Chicago Business.
The campaign immediately sparked a backlash in the blogosphere and beyond, with critics claiming Burger King is exploiting poverty-stricken regions for marketing. “I don’t think indigenous people should be used in that way to amuse a bored public that wants a sensation at any price,” a commenter wrote on Gothamist.com.
It’s no surprise that Peralta’s footage is extremely well shot, seemingly sincere, funny, and compelling. But working for Burger King on a project that introduces crap fast food to third world cultures seems like an incredible waste of Peralta’s immense talents. Then again we’ve never eaten a hamburger in our lives, so we’re no authority.
[Link: Chicago Business and Fuel.TV]
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