by The Editors on January 23, 2008
Apparently all those rumors about Shaun White leaving Volcom just might be true if this press release on Transworldsnowboarding.com is correct:
Target today announces the future Shaun White for Target collection. The line will feature clothing for young men and boys and will be available in late July. . . This collection will build on a significant relationship between Target and Shaun, as he has been riding for Target for nearly six years. A professional skateboarder and snowboarder, Shaun is considered by many to be the most recognizable athlete in action sports.
Hell, why not.
[Link: Transworldsnowboarding.com]
by The Editors on January 23, 2008
Skate and Annoy was nice enough to link up everything we need for an overview of Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. It’s about skateboarding and being kids and hopping trains and a death. Check it.
[Link: Skate and Annoy]
by The Editors on January 22, 2008
While the San Francisco Zoo had a tiger break of of his pen, the Hillcrest Park Zoo, in Clovis, New Mexico is having the opposite problem. It appears that some skateboarders broke into the zoo to skate a “culvert” that zoo officials say “is perfect for skateboarding.”
Hillcrest Park Zoo Director Herschel Arnold said Friday when employees discovered a full length cut in the 8-foot perimeter fence on the back side of the zoo, they quickly surmised skateboarders had gone through the fence to get to a concrete culvert on the other side. . . “It’s got a cement ramp that is just perfect for skateboarders and they took advantage of it,” he said.
Officials fixed the fence and were glad that none of the animals were molested.
[Link: CNJ Online]
by The Editors on January 22, 2008
Kevin Connolly was born with no legs. He is three-feet one-inch tall and is a film student at Montana State University. He has a new art show called The Rolling Exhibition featuring photographs he’s taken of people staring down at him as he rolled around on his skateboard.
Connolly feels he’s just as able-bodied as anyone. But he never quite adjusted to people’s stares. . . On a European trip last year he got tired of it. In what he admits to being a passive-aggressive response, Connolly looked the other way, held his camera at hip-level, and snapped a starer’s photo. . . . “I wanted to stare back at that guy, to let him know that, ‘Yeah, I catch you looking,'” he says. “And the way I did that was with my camera.” . . . Afterward when Connolly looked at the photo, blurred from both the movement of the camera and the movement of the man, he was surprised to find he liked what he saw. And the seed was planted for a major creative project.
This Christian Science Monitor story is probably the best one we’ve seen on Kevin and his art project. Check it out.
[Link: Christian Science Monitor and The Rolling Exhitibition]
by The Editors on January 21, 2008
by The Editors on January 21, 2008
Companies who want to extend their eco-cred are hunting far and wide for people who can help them look green even when they aren’t. Enter Eric Ritz. His company Global Inheritance has helped Fuel TV with their Swerve Festival and more impressively, helped the X Games squeeze onto the eco-marketing bandwagon. ESPN’s Chris Stiepock calls him a “solution-based realist.”
In fact, what Ritz says sets him apart is that he and his “Generation Y audience don’t see big business as the enemy.” Convenient, huh? And so commercial.
[Link: LA Times]
by The Editors on January 18, 2008
They guys at Skate and Annoy found a cool little do-it-yerself project that a guy named Jerbearisapimp9 built that allows him to carry a skateboard around in a briefcase like a proper businessman.
Jerbearisapimp9 makes excuses for his ghetto briefcase, but it adds a certain amount of sophistication to his setup. Everyone should show up at a session with a briefcase if they mean business. Check out the Foldable skateboard, BOA.
This would definitely make airline travel with a skateboard much easier. And think what it would do for our image?
[Link: Instructables via Skate and Annoy]
by The Editors on January 18, 2008
For a while this week Vans was getting credit for a new skateboarding game for Apple’s iPhone called Finger Fracture, however, someone pointed out to the editors at the Kotaku video game blog that all the screen shots for the “new game” were simply lifted from Tony Hawk’s Project 8 and Photoshopped on to the iPhone. Aside from being a complete hoax, what this really shows is how much play a skate/snow/surf brand could get in the tech media for launching a solid iPhone action sports game. Anyone listening?
[Link: Kotaku]
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by The Editors on January 18, 2008
Volcom is blaming a “weak retail environment” for causing it to lower it’s 2008 financial outlook.
The apparel company now says 10 percent earnings growth and 18 percent revenue growth “are achievable” in 2008. It previously forecast 20 percent growth for profit and sales. . . . Volcom now expects to report fourth-quarter earnings of 29 cents or 30 cents per-share on revenue of $67 million to $68 million. Volcom earlier estimated profit of 30 cents to 32 cents per share and sales of $70 million to $73 million.
[Link: CNNMoney.com]
by The Editors on January 16, 2008
It’s been rumored forever and denied forever, yet strangely today it was officially announced that Volcom, the big, powerful, publicly traded company has purchased tiny, core, eyewear company Electric Visual for $25.5 million in cash. Wooly is happy about it.
Culturally, Electric is a perfect fit for our company,” Woolcott continued. “We’ve known the Electric team for a long time, and we recognize they share the same passion and love for action sports as we do here at Volcom. Our companies are very much on the same wavelength, sharing similarities in product distribution, marketing efforts and a strong commitment to quality and innovation. Everyone here is stoked to welcome Electric into the Volcom family.”
Bruce Beach, who continually denied any such thing likes the idea as well (not surprisingly).
We believe this partnership will enable us to take the Electric brand to the next level,” said Bruce Beach, co-president and chief executive officer of Electric. “We are very excited about working closely with the Volcom team to grow our existing eyewear business and further expand into new product categories. Additionally, this partnership will enable us to grow our retail relationships and to continue to strengthen our operational capabilities.”
And we’re happy because it means we know at least four more millionaires. . . and they’re good people to know.
[Link: BusinessWire]
