In the new season of the Sundance Channel’s innovative, vodka-sponsored interview show IconoclastsTony Hawk is paired up with Swinger’s and Dinner for Five creator/director John Favreau.
Participants for Season Four are: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson; fashion designer Stella McCartney and artist Edward Ruscha; skateboarder Tony Hawk and filmmaker/actor Jon Favreau; political humorist Bill Maher and music industry executive Clive Davis; tennis champion Venus Williams and musician/producer Wyclef Jean; and actress Cameron Diaz and architect Cameron Sinclair.
The Tony Hawk/Jon Favreau episode airs Oct. 30 at 10 PM ET/PT.
The San Diego law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has “formed an “action sports” practice to provide legal services to surfers, skaters, snowboarders and others who are starting their own companies.
Attorneys in the San Diego firm’s new practice area — many of whom participate in the sports themselves — will work in collaboration with other practice groups, such as business, intellectual property, tax and estate planning, product liability, real estate and labor and employment.
Men’s Fitness recently did a short interview with Shaun White asking probing questions like, “What are the most played songs on your iPod,” and “How do you mentally prepare for contests?” But the funniest part was the photo that ran with the story.
The guy has long red hair, skinny jeans, and Shaun’s Target collection t-shirt, but something just isn’t right. Guess that’s what happens when you let jocks do the photo editing.
We’re hoping the skaters of Perham, Minnesota are just playing some punk rock jokes on their city council because if they are it’s hilarious. After holding a contest to name their new park it came down to their two favorites: “Oompa Loompa Factory” and “Kowabunga, Dude.”
Following a ten-minute discussion the name “Kowabunga, Dude” was chosen and skateboarder Brendan Lauer won a “certificate for a free t-shirt.”
“Atrocious” and “horrible” were the reactions to the name “Kowabunga” by Councilmember Harriet Mattfeld. . . “In the long run, I think they’re going to be sorry they named it that,” said Mattfeld at the August 11 Perham City Council meeting.
This may be the one time we’re going to have to agree with a City Council regarding a skateboard park.
Troubled Utah mom Alicia Blood (who might not look too bad with a little makeup) is in court because she allegedly hit her 16-year-old son in the head with his own skateboard and then tried to run him down with her car.
Witnesses say the mother, Alicia Blood, and her 16-year-old son were arguing at a Tooele skate park last Tuesday when she hit him in the head with his skateboard. . . . They called police when they say the teen tried to leave and the mother got into her car, drove over the curb and chased the boy across the grass. . . . Police say she hit the boy with her car, got out and yelled at him again, then drove away.
She is being charged with “aggravated assault and child abuse.” Looks like the kid won this argument pretty handily.
We know we said we weren’t going to discuss the X Games, but then we saw this on You Will Soon regarding Tony Trujillo’s bronze medal in Super Park.
Personally I’d like to congratulate Tony not so much for a bronze medal in X Games Super Park, but just for being so fucking awesome. You got the rest of the guys in there sucking their energy drink’s sponsors dicks with full print Monster shirts and Red Bull new era hats, and then you got this fucking skid slashing the park in a spray painted t-shirt. Not just that, but he may not have done the sickest tricks of the day, but he was schralping the hardest.
It’s refreshing to hear the simple truth everyone once in a while, isn’t it?
We didn’t watch any of the X Games and had no plans to even mention them, but Danny Way on Late Night with David Letterman is just too good to pass up.
Leave it to the old guys at Concrete Disciples to get all the proper coverage of Quiksilver’s All 80s All Day street contest held last Saturday (August 9, 2008) in the parking lot behind the Quiksilver offices in Huntington Beach.
When I got down to Quik, I was blown away by what Eddie had put together. Jump ramps, big kinked quarter pipes, big banks, kickers to inclined railsliders, the 1/4 to 1/4 wallride transfer setup, a rounded 90 degree corner transfer, wallride banger box, and the big bank to parking block wedge complete with transfer jumps at both ends. Lastly, a jump ramp to minivan roof to jump ramp setup. There were an assortment of period-specific decks set up for everyone to ride as well. In other words, the throwback feel was complete and authentic.
They’ve done as good a job as anyone to spin the fact that the print business model just isn’t working, but Slap Magazine announced last week in a press release that after “several more print issues” they will stop printing a magazine and go 100 percent digital.
SLAP has decided to step up and be the first in skateboarding to make a clean break with the old, and with that sentiment and excitement we announce SLAP will now channel its efforts and creativity 100% into slapmagazine.com. So long paper!
It won’t surprise anyone to see that they’ve also gotten a little loose with the truth with the following statement:
With the most popular skateboard website in the world and an audience 10 times the size of traditional print outlets, our efforts will be directed at the massive international audience at hand.
Either way, it will be interesting to see how advertisers respond, because Slap is most definitely on the right track even if they seem to be a bit confused by their traffic metrics.
