This is the kind of TF that makes us think taking all that money might be worth the grief Ryan Sheckler has survived all these years. This place is like a cathedral of skateboarding.
[Link: Skateboardworks]
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The December issue of Slap Magazine might just be a collector’s item. It’s the last print issue before High Speed Productions, Inc. takes tall that skateboarding, life, and art and progresses right into the digital world. Can’t say we’ll notice any difference. We never read the print version anyway.
[Link: Emerica]
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Apparently, Saturday afternoon viewers really will watch anything on network TV, especially if it’s got some wild flyin’ extremo sports in it.
We recently joked that ASA Entertainment was putting some of their four-month-old event programming up on CBS saying:
That makes these four shows really old news to the people who care and completely untimely and irrelevant to those who happen to accidentally stumble on to the broadcasts while trying to find something to watch.
Turns out “another view” was right when they posted the following: “The bulk of the TV audience doesn’t care if the event is live or a year old.”
According to Alana Johnson at The Nielsen Company, the LG Action Sports: Cincinnati show which aired November 8, 2008 at 2 PM EST (and was really only one month old, mostly) averaged a .5 rating. That means it was on in 570,000 homes and was watched by 687,000 people over the age of two. For comparison recent summer X Games have been scoring in the 1.0 range (meaning about twice as many people watch them).
For action sports television a .5 is pretty solid. Not a Dancing with the Stars 12 rating solid, but not bad at all. The show’s placement couldn’t have been better for catching random jocks on the couch: it was sandwiched in between two football shows: Varsity Rivals and CBS’s College Football Today. And, if that’s who sponsors want to hit up (and we’re not saying they shouldn’t) then it looks like the LG Action Sports World Tour programming is delivering.
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Obviously, we’re not up on the latest New Hampshire skate fashion, but isn’t that the Caveman from the Geico commercial? Apparently, he’s opened a new skate and snowboard shop called White Mountain Snow and Skate in Plymouth.
[Link: The Clock Online]
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We got an email from Bryce Kanights the other day letting us know that the Sick Boys mini-site has launched and that we should check it out. We did, but Skate and Annoy posted it up super smooth so please go there and check out all the info on the re-release of the seminal 8mm film starring:
Tommy Guerrero, Mickey Reyes, Bryce Kanights, Mike Archimedes, Julien Stranger, Jim Thiebaud, Ron Allen, and Steve Caballero as well as shots of Christian Hosoi, Tony Magnusson, Eric Dressen, Danny Sargent, as well as other less famous names. It’s sounds like the skate video equivalent of unearthing King Tut’s tomb.
[Link: Sick Boys via Skate and Annoy]
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Ed Templeton has a new show opening November 15, 2008 at Roberts & Tilton in Culver City, California.
For Map of the Inner War, Ed Templeton saturates the gallery with over 250 new works including painting, sculpture, photography, and works on paper. Templeton documents his life, and the lives of the people around him, in a rich stream of images – images of himself and his wife, Deanna, in their day-to-day lives, and images of others, at home in Orange County, California or during the many tours he makes as pro-skateboarder and artist.
Ed will be signing books Saturday from 6-7 PM and the opening reception begins at 7 PM. Roberts & Tilton, 5801 Washington Boulevard Culver City, California. (Click for map).
[Link: Roberts & Tilton via Emerica]
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Carleton Curtis and the crew from Transworld Skateboarding went to Rob Dyrdek’s Monster RD 1.5 shoe release party at the DC store on Melrose so we wouldn’t have to. Thanks, Carleton.
[Link: Transworld Skateboarding]
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[Link: Youtube]
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Tony Hawk has endorsed a lot of things: roller coasters, BMX bikes, and video cameras. Now we can add chewable vitamins to the list with the release of Tony Hawk HuckJam Gummies the “multi-vitamin for teens.”
These chewy “gummy” vitamins, shaped like miniature skateboard decks, skateboard wheels and Tony’s signature hawk skull, provide a good source of 11 vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin C, which bolsters the immune system*, and Vitamin B-12, a major factor in energy metabolism*.
Remember to take a couple of these after eating at McDonalds. You’ll need them.
[Link: PR Web]
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Remembering those who died to keep this country free by skating with your military friends. Everything should be celebrated with a skate contest when it really comes down to it.
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